Yoga and its connection to mental health | Nikolai Blinow | TEDxSalveReginaU

Fate of India is learning Yoga from foreigners who don’t know nothing about it…

What is Sorcery?? Controlling (natural/external) spirits through imitating physical actions of the spirit in question (Like storm, rain, etc). With the leap in knowledge that there resides an inner spirit within (human) body(the animus hypothesis), Sorcery was directed towards this inner spirit aka mind and viola it became Yoga!!Subsequently Yoga was given a very broad interpretation that virtually appropriated everything under the sun which is not my focus here…..Where I’m going is Yoga{which Comes from the root Yoke(protoIndoEuropean)=>that (object)which reins in} is using the physical/the material, the body to control the non-material/the nonphysical aka the mind!!! You see we(Indians) were the first Marxists(of sorts)!!!
Our tryst with Marxism doesn’t stop there!! Take, for example, Krishna’s grand dictat in Gita “Do your work(action) with no regards to the (fruits of) result “. Here again, the stress is on the work/action!! That is Marxist to the core!! And also the whole Gita is about friction/antagonism in the format of dialogue which is nothing but dialectical!!! Thus the two most dominant themes of our thought are Marxist in nature!!!
[I would go even further to quote another ( Indian)ubiquitous adage of ours “Do not seek the roots of a guru or a sage” implying our wonder about the roots/origins of our gurus aka our educators!! This pertains to another very significant Marxist question. Marx wondered“Who will educate the educators??]. Had Marx asked the same question in his younger days it would have been in his characteristic acerbic style, Who would educate these #%*$!?
Now, why I thought this (going from physical to nonphysical) aspect of the original (Indian)Yoga as important is, as I briefly noted earlier, that later with the passage of time Yoga was prescribed as a (spiritual) remedy to all our problems, without really addressing the underlying material conditions!!! That’s is escapism of the governing class through this easy and cheap (so called) spiritual remedy!!!

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Yoga comes from Indian culture Non Indians do not have the rights to teach yoga

yoga n meditation is the golden techniques to cure your mental health completely and permanently no allopathy medicine will help to cure mental health permanently mark my comment

Brilliant speaker!

been getting into yoga recently (outdoors whilst this belated UK summer lasts!) and enjoyed listening to this analogy. My god does she rock those jeans too <3

Bin doing yoga about 18months now I love it it helps with pain flexibility and camnedss within

Yam , niyam , asan , pranayam , pratyahar, dharna , dhyan , samadhi is ashtang yog . Main creator is shri krishna. "योगसाथ कुरुकर्माणि सम व्यक्त्वा धनजय सिद्धे असिद्धि समो भुक्त्वा समत्वम् योग उच्यते " – shrimadbhagvatgeeta ❤. Know and proud of your ancient Indian history and the blessings gifted to humanity.

My wife stopped me going to yoga sessions because I was always in such a foul mood after a session. I found that yoga just wound me up…without fail. My wife however goes to yoga and plilates and she swears by it. Horses for courses I suppose.

Yogas citta vritti nirodhah: yoga is the cessation of the modifications of mind <3

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