Altai yoga - what is it?

Really - Altai? Are we witnessing the emergence of a new direction in the diverse and great practice Yoga? Or maybe, Altai Yoga has nothing to do with the Vedic tradition, which is based on well-known to us today practice Yoga? Or it may be worth re-read Nicholas Roerich about the connections of the Altai and the Himalayas? What do you think - what is the Altai Yoga?

Wise practice based on ancient philosophies, these ancient, it seems - the eternal, checked by centuries-old experience of hundreds and thousands of generations - a priceless gift to us from our ancestors. Do not take into account the experience in the construction of their life concept means to move without guidance, random, random, at random. The notion of "at random", by the way, exists only in Russian ... I am a philologist by basic education, fitness trainer vocation and Yogini in outlook, I suggest you today a journey into the wonderful and mysterious world called Yoga.

The word Yoga comes to us from the East and, according to some researchers, is it the "connection" and "Unity", according to others, the word is decomposed into two components: the "yo" or "da" and "ga", which consequently means "I" and "doing." This is the second meaning of the word Yoga can be heard from the followers of the Vedic tradition of yoga. I, in particular, that he learned about the meaning of the Himalayan yogis. Being interested in such language collisions, I confess that I was quite surprised to learn about the opinion of some linguists that Sanskrit "ha" is directly related to the Slavic root "ha" that came when some of the Turkic family of languages, and means "the way". Hence, in the Russian language words such as Doro-ha, but of God, for example. Is not it, in such a connection becomes very interesting, where the "grow legs" in yoga?

Currently, there are many types of yoga. At that time, in the era of the birth of the tradition of physical and spiritual practice, now known under the name Yoga, this separation does not exist. I do not put the task in a short essay develop the theme of the origin of such things as yoga or investigate the origin of practices having as its basis a single source, lurking somewhere in the mists of time, and eventually dispersed the world under different names and under the shadow of the different philosophies . I focus only on the fact that the concept of Yoga has perhaps a wider and deeper meaning than the one that we put into it today. In this perspective, it seems to me an interesting review of practices that have their source in the ground, not so far away as India and Nepal. I mean the practice that came to us from Siberia. One of the practices of its followers and the keepers are called - " Altai Yoga ".

Altai Yoga   Yoga is also called Equilibrium, where "Balance" - the Turkish translation of the concept " Itu-Tai ". There is a suggestion that the word "yoga" in this context, is nothing else and nothing more than a linguistic adaptation of the word "yoga" for practices that are not their homeland on the Indian subcontinent and in Siberia. More exact birthplace of philosophy Itu-Tai - Altai region, recently returning deserved the attention of tourists and anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, linguists and other researchers.

Such an interest in close to us historically and inherently practices we owe the general tendency to try to create more sballansirovannyh relationship with the world and with itself. Agree that in such a rapidly changing and often aggressivnoy medium formed of technological progress with all the attendant consequences and side effects, we are increasingly difficult to maintain composure. The search for peace of mind, coupled with the physical health and longevity lead us to a variety of ancient philosophy and practice, opening the way for a special miroponimayu in which himself and technological progress can put us on the rails of a more humane and less harmful to ourselves for the future generations, for our planet as a whole.

It is widely known the opinion that the Western world is a source of civilized, rational, logical, active, revolutionary method of attitude. While the conservative East preserving and maintaining the centuries-old tradition, it is a stronghold of the spiritual foundations of society. East and West need each other as the two polarities, the two equilibria needed to look at the world. This is the essence and the cause of view of Western man to the East in search of sballansirovanno stable outlook associated with historical and ancestral roots of the inhabitants of the land.

We rushed our eyes to the East in search of answers, in search of help in finding a balance within yourself. That's what this equilibrium is it one of the Eastern philosophies - Altai Yoga Itu-Tai . And this philosophy offers practices aimed at establishing deep imennno true inner balance.

Our thirst for knowledge and experience stored in the East, is essentially determined by the very human physiology. How? East provides us with a completely different, different from the Western rational and logical way of thinking attitude. In the depths of Eastern philosophies stored knowledge necessary for full-fledged and harmonious self-awareness, because the East does not deal with the rational, but sensual, intuitive experience. It is as well as the left hemisphere of the human, in a broad examination, is responsible for the logic, and the right - for the senses. Imagine the left hemisphere - as a rational West, and the right - as an intuitive East, and then understand why the Western world now seek to learn from the East.

Once the hostages pressure everyday incredibly vast amount of information that we have in connection with the rationalization of tasks forced to digest all the time, we intuitively feel the need to balance the potential created in our brains .  The left hemisphere is simply unable to withstand such intensive work, especially since the possibility of its significantly lower than that of the right hemisphere of the brain .  Did you know that the left hemisphere is able to handle the flow of information at 10 bits per second, and the right - at 10 degrees in the ninth bit \ sec? The difference is obvious, even a person not versed in the intricacies of information technology .   These data are not a secret for anybody .  Just imagine - all his life we ​​are trying to "live to the fullest," without using half of what nature gave us .  We just "to the fullest" overload one part of himself, at a time when other more powerful and capable remains unused somewhere in the vaults .   Is this not what we mean when they say that we are using your brain is not more than 10% of its power? Is this not what Einstein said: "Life - it's like driving a bicycle .  In order to live you need to move? " The move not to fall .   Judging by how we often easy to get depressed, nervous "fall in his own eyes" fall victim to the estimated left hemisphere style of thinking and "drop out of life" because of the neuroses, neurasthenia, physical ailments due to nervous exhaustion - we can say that we just do not know how to use her body as intended .

It is reasonable to think my sports coaching experience, of which I am very familiar with all sorts of imbalances at the level of the musculoskeletal system. It skoleozy, congenital and acquired (anamnesis in nature and result - does not matter); dysfunction of organs and systems in connection with the violation of the innervation of specific motor segment of the spine that is causing razballansirovannosti in the muscular system.

The human body - a wonderful mechanism! Are you surprised how your body having a height and weight, is located in the space in such a way that the foot-long average of ca. .  38 cm manages to hold this structure and not to overwhelm her? In the process of maintaining the body in an upright position involves dozens of muscles, nervous system works extremely intensely .  The imbalance at the level of the central nervous system, which manifests itself in the left hemisphere overvoltage directly affects the body, creating an irregular patterns of movement, such as hunched back under the influence of shipping problems or skoleoz overvoltage one side of the spine and relaxation on the other hand .  Muscle tension of feedback corresponding overtaxed brain, and thus closes the circle of problems .  So you understand now why the work to create a balance must be maintained both on the mental and physical level .  Because that "healthy body, healthy mind", and vice versa .

The practice is based on the philosophy Altai Yoga Itu-Tai   in this context, creates prerequisites for balance, because It is working with the physical body at the level of the deep muscles - the so-called stabilizers and analyzers: the muscles of the foot, lower leg, deep stabilizing muscles of the spine. For analyzers are also the eyes and the cerebellum, so this practice is often used execution of movements with his eyes closed. To some extent, Altai Yoga is similar to the principles of functional training, which is used to increase the intensity of the "off" analyzers and reducing footprint to reduce participation and reduce the involved muscles stabilizers.

Practice Yoga Altai Itu-Tai works on a psychological level, equalizing the potentials of the cerebral hemispheres, working to increase the electric potential of the right hemisphere. This is achieved through meditation, practice relaxation, breathing exercises, giving rest to the left hemisphere, and apply the right. And also through the development of intuitive way of understanding the world through the implementation of sense and so-called "Supersensible" perception, employs only the right hemisphere. I put in quotes "extrasensory" because there is nothing "super" in a knowledge of the world is not. Just a few regular diligently develops these abilities, rather, we all do the opposite, overtaxing the left hemisphere.

But what we call "extrasensory" always lying and is available for use in our right hemisphere. We only need to do this. This I say to you as a coach. I, as a coach, I can only show you the path and walk it to be yourself. I do this in my every post say and will repeat ...

Just love yourself.

Yours faithfully,

Natalya

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