Author: Issabayeva Madina
Yoga came from human experience. The technique of a healthy, happy, and spiritually conscious life has evolved over millennia by many generations and civilizations. It is said that the science of yoga was first brought into the system and began to be practiced in its expanded form more than 40 thousand years ago. She was taught openly integrating into everyday life. This system was not something mystical. The work of early yogis was based on real observations of energies and the impact of various factors, physical and mental, on the balance of these energies in man.
All forms of yoga direct their attention to the awakening and regulation of human energy, which is the very essence of consciousness. This energy is called kundalini. During the early development of yoga, each student was engaged in comprehensive work on himself. He performed physical exercises, disciplined the mind, analyzed and discussed the world around him, etc. Yoga has a holistic approach, penetrating every level of human existence. Over time, the technique of yoga was divided and lost its uniqueness. Possessing various needs and attitudes, each person paid more attention and practiced some of the individual components of a holistic yoga system. Some preferred just exercises, not paying attention to mantras; others performed mantra meditation without breath control. Once such a division led to the ultimate recognition of 22 different schools of yoga. Of these 22 schools, less than twelve are currently widely practiced.
A number of scientists attribute the origin of yoga to the civilization of Mohenjodaro and Kharalpa (III – II millennium BC) based on the fact that during excavations in the Indus Valley seals were found depicting people who were sitting in yoga poses. In the future, separate sets of physical exercises (asanas) gradually appear, which have been tested for thousands of years and are tested in different conditions by different people.
In India, as in the East in general, there is a tradition according to which yoga can be transmitted only from a teacher (guru) directly to a student (chel), following the strict rules of yogis: from simple to complex. This direct transfer of knowledge allows you to keep the teaching intact and protect it from distortion. A teacher who has experienced yoga methods from his own experience, strictly followed his student as he mastered this teaching and monitored its moral improvement. It was a long, painstaking path on which physical strengthening of health was inextricably intertwined with the upbringing of moral and ethical purity.
Yoga has gained great recognition and distribution in other countries of the world. Almost all of them have created societies, sections, clubs, institutes of yogic therapy and yoga-culture or laboratories where, using modern medical equipment and apparatus, they are studied in order to provide a scientific basis for the achievement of Indian yogis, and practical classes in Hatha Yoga are also held. Specialists from India are often invited there.
In 1965, India itself adopted a government decree introducing the study of yoga in the army, police and educational institutions of the country. Many athletes and astronauts often successfully use yoga methods in their training. Practical complexes of Hatha Yoga are regularly broadcast on television in a number of countries. The International World Yoga Union is headquartered in Stockholm (Sweden) and the European Yoga Association is headquartered in Budapest (Hungary).
Such a huge interest in yoga can be explained by the vast arsenal of means that it has in terms of maintaining excellent health, as well as the prevention and treatment of many diseases. The recommendations of yogis on breathing, nutrition, work, rest, hygiene, physical training are becoming relevant in our time, as they contribute to a healthy lifestyle. The mental balance that yoga gives in our age of stress and psychological overload cannot be overestimated.
Everyone who wants to achieve success in yoga must strictly observe the methodological rules of classes, tips and recommendations on this system, which will be given in this work, gradually master them practically, because yoga does not endure in a hurry. Indeed, the assimilation of a huge number of exercises in a short time can only bring harm to a person, as this eliminates the translational physiological effect on the body as a whole.
