About Yoga
Yoga is a way of life, the art of harmonious, mindful living.
Yoga is an integrated system which benefits the body, mind and inner spirit. This art originated, was practiced and perfected in India thousands of years ago and has influenced people all over the world. References to yoga are available and can be found in ‘Upanishads’ and ‘Puranas’ writings composed by Indian Aryans in the later Vedic and post – Vedic period. The main credit for systematizing yoga goes to Patanjali who wrote ‘Yoga Sutra’, two thousand years ago. He described the principles of the full eight fold yogic discipline. He composed the treatise in brief code words known as ‘Sutras’. ‘Yoga Sutra’ is the most important basic text on Yoga. It is through this basic treatise that the essential message of yoga spread throughout the world.
"The mind becomes clear and serene when the qualities of the heart are cultivated: friendliness toward the joyful, compassion toward the suffering,
happiness toward the pure, and impartiality toward the impure."
~The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 1:33~
