Vedic Yoga: Finding your true self in the oldest form of Yoga.

Yoga is known for one of the most ancient exercises originating from India. It is an exercise not only enhances physical strength but also cultivates mental harmony within practitioners. (Check out what benefits yoga brings.) For most traditional yoga practitioners, yoga is more of a set of spiritual practices designed for people to understand the greater realization of consciousness, that is, our nature. It represents the union, coordination, harmony, and transformation.

Although nowadays some places practice yoga mainly focusing on its physical experiences, we cannot deny that to move forward in this realm, we must get to know our origins and try to experience the ancient spiritual heritage in yoga. Veda, in this form of yoga, is the spiritual wisdom and yoga is the application. The term is mainly used by used by David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) for his yogic approach based upon the Vedas. Here you can find his video introducing the Vedic origin of yoga.

The American Institute of Vedic Studies aims at researching the original Vedic Yoga. It follows the teachings of Ganapati Muni, the chief disciple of the great South Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, and Ganapati’s disciple, Daivarata Vaishvamitra, whom Maharishi Mahesh Yogi once brought to the West and called a great modern Rishi. This Yoga is also connected with the work of the great modern seer-poet Sri Aurobindo, who based his integral Yoga on a Vedic model, and Kapali Shastri, an important disciple not only of Aurobindo but of Ganapati Muni.

The Vedic Yoga was created by numerous Vedic seers of the Angiras and Bhrigu families. Through the vision of the Rishis, the Vedas illustrates all the main possible spiritual paths for humanity, contain a comprehensive key to cosmic evolution as well as to human spiritual unfoldment.

The three basic types of Vedic Yoga: Mantra Yoga, Prana Yoga, and Dhyana Yoga.

The difference between the three lies in awakening different spiritual states, as the names suggest, but the core value is to comprehend the spiritual transformation and find mental harmony.

We Trinity Yoga Cult is holding a special session for Vedic Yoga. Everyone is welcome to join and explore more about this traditional, ancient form of Yoga and refresh yourself :)

Reference:

Vedic Yoga, the Oldest Form of Yoga

THE VEDAS