Understanding Anusara Yoga

What is Anusara Yoga?

Anusara Yoga

Founded in 1997 by the American Yogi John Friend, Anusara (which means "flowing with grace") is very popular in the United States and increasingly in Europe and Asia. Anusara is based in The Woodlands, Texas, in suburban Houston, but a friend of extensive travel throughout the world, giving workshops and Anusara teachers. Ami has studied and taught yoga to the Anusara method development, with emphasis on alignment of Anusara.



The main aspects of Anusara define:

• a philosophy of Tantra, that all beings are inherently good.
• A Vinyasa style practice that the heart of the openness and universal principles of alignment, the buddy system to illustrate the correct position for each yoga posture said.
• Planning lessons in yoga class taught in the whole of everyday life.
• The new school focuses on a series of "universal principles of alignment, based on all positions," open heart "poses and meditative and spiritual benefits of hatha yoga.
• Anusara is a Sanskrit word tantra Kularnava as "flowing with grace", "with the flow" or "Contents of the heart" can be translated.
• If a community organization, Anusara Yoga is a well organized network, but there is a strong emphasis on creative freedom and individuality. Anusara yoga is combined with an implicit alliance of the spiritual principles of Anusara Yoga philosophy, such as celebrating beauty in all its diversity, honesty and honor of the creative freedom of the divine place in all beings.
• Without a rigid dogma, the system is open to change and the restructuring. Self-examination, discovery, and receptivity to new ideas are essential to the dynamics of the system.
• Currently, Anusara Yoga is one of the most popular styles of yoga fastest growing in the world, over 1200 affiliated teachers and 100,000 students worldwide.
• Global media attention has a 2004 Yoga Journal cover, CBS News, a national history in the United States, and contains numerous newspapers and magazines in North America and Europe.


Philosophy

The Anusara Yoga philosophy is Tantric in nature. The observable universe is perceived through our senses and mind as a manifestation of divine will, that is pure joy to behold.
All that is the supreme consciousness and nothing is not the highest consciousness.
Body, mind and soul - Each person is considered divine in all aspects. Each of us is fundamentally sound, the acceptance by the condemnation of all differences and changes that we can, and approval of the world and ourselves, as we then respond with love.
We just opened our hearts to love in the time without pressure.

Practice

Anusara

The main intention of practicing Anusara Yoga is to align with the flow of grace from the truth that our essential nature is part of this divine power, and full of love and joy to serve this market.
Anusara yoga postures are "heart-oriented" and said that "within." Instead of trying to keep body and the mind of the external audit, is the product of the sense of depth. The emphasis is on remembering the spiritual purpose of hatha yoga, our innate goodness, power and beauty of reconnection, and expresses the divine place.
Our practice is seen as a co-investment with the highest level in a healthy and balanced, not as a practice of control or domination of nature.
Possibilities and limitations of each student are low, it is through these constraints that we discover our true nature is consciousness, and through our own body and mind we experience the greatest sense of freedom. Anusara Yoga seeks the good of all.

Traditionally, an Anusara Yoga class might open by singing the following mantra:

Om Namah Shivaya-gurave
Saccidananda-Murtaye
Nischprapanchaya-Shantay
Niralambaya-Texas

Bow to the goodness in me, as Shiva, the true master knows.
These form the essence of truth, consciousness and happiness.
Always present and full of peace, this essence inside is completely free throws and a divine light.