Yoga has been brought to all parts of the world from distant places, from a secret practice to a public health method. These masters have illuminated future generations with eternal brilliance. They are the stars that will never fall in the long history of yoga!
1, the earliest disseminator of Harlang Yaga Yoga
Brahma, also known as Golden Fetus, is a legend. Although we don't know his identity or the time of his existence, we must start with him when it comes to the history of yoga. In the Vedas, Upanishads and other documents, different philosophers claim that Harangyaga was the first person to create yoga practice methods. He was the first teacher of yoga and inspired all philosophers who later preached or described yoga. India's most famous epic story? In Mahabharata, Harangyage is said to be the oldest yoga advocate.
2. The earliest disseminator of Moruma Hadada Yoga in Svata.
Svata Swatamarama's contribution to the history of yoga is mainly in two aspects: First, Hadaha yoga is the beginning of yoga posture practice. Svata Moruma is widely regarded as the master of Hada Yoga, and he began to spread Hada Yoga widely. Secondly, Svata Moruma pioneered yoga therapy.
Svata Moruma has a profound influence on the development of modern yoga. Beyond Indian culture, yoga? It is usually narrowly understood as. Hada yoga? . After the Bhagavad-gita and Yoga Sutra, the most important yoga classic can be said to be Hatha yoga Pradie, written by Svata Moruma, whose main content is the body posture, pranayama, harmony and beam method that yoga students are familiar with today. This book also includes Kundalini Yoga and Nada Yoga.
Svata Moruma is a member of Nada Sect and worships Shiva. Historical records record that he was poor all his life and traveled around to promote Hada yoga. Svata Moruma was deeply influenced by patanjali and Indian tantric thoughts. He believes that every life has two sides. The balance of these two aspects of energy is very important for the smooth life, which is why he named Hada Yoga. Day? (Ha), what else? Month? (Da), representing two relative energies: cold and heat, male and female, positive and negative, and yin and yang. Hada Yoga tries to balance two relative energies through physical exercise and pranayama, and to calm the mind through relaxation and meditation.
Svata Moruma's Yoga Theory scientifically balances two kinds of energy flows by controlling different stages of the human body? It is usually called the left vein (Ida) and the right vein (Pingala) to elevate Sushumna and open different chakras (from the bottom of the spine to the energy center on the top of the head) until it reaches the top of the head, resulting in? Supreme consciousness? . The correct pulse is the same as. Day? Left pulse ratio? Month? The two meet in the midvein, that is? Sun and Moon Yoga? The combination of left and right energy. Hada yoga is actually an exercise method that effectively restricts and guides the flow of body energy in the center of the body and triggers the sacred consciousness through physical and mental exercise.
Svata Moruma is pragmatic. He teaches different body postures, pranayama, fitness methods and beam closing methods with easy-to-understand methods and techniques. Taking yoga as an exercise method to regulate and purify breathing is a special contribution of Svata Moruma. He said that there are generally eight kinds of changes in breathing methods, and he even emphasized the nostril alternate breathing method (the ninth method), thinking that practicing pranayama can clean the body and remove impurities, so it is also called dredging meridians and pranayama. On the other hand, Kria refers to various cleaning methods. The yogi mentioned six methods of purification, with more emphasis on pranayama (spiritual purification). He said that other cleaning methods are the best way to prepare your body for pranayama.
Before Moruma in Svata, no one ever looked at yoga from the perspective of treatment, and Moruma Yoga Master in Svata was a pioneer in this field. He suggested that yoga, combined with Ayurveda (a traditional Indian medical system), can control some common diseases and further cure them.
3. Swami? Vivekananda was the first person to bring yoga to the western world.
Swami? Swami Vivekananda, whose name is Dharma Differentiation, may be the first Indian philosopher to teach yoga communication outside India. 1976 On National Day, Premier Kerry called Swami in Washington, D.C.? What is Vivekananda? Out of America: An Explorer of a New Country? Pay tribute to this great man who has had a profound influence on the American spirit.
It is generally believed that it was 1893' s trip to the United States that spread the Indian yoga tradition to the western world. Distinguishing music is a pioneer and an important figure in the history of human culture, and plays a key role in the cultural exchange between the East and the West. 1899, he founded the Vedanta Association of new york in the United States, which is still a vibrant organization dedicated to four aspects of yoga practice: dedication, service, knowledge and meditation.
4. Swami? Sivananda combines Ayurveda with yoga.
Swami? Swami Sivananda is one of the greatest yoga instructors in the 20th century, and he has written more than 200 books full of passion and insight.
As a doctor, Swami? Sivananda thinks it is necessary to use Ayurveda to serve people. So, 1945, he founded Sivananda Ayurveda Pharmaceutical Company to extract medicines from rare Himalayan herbs. Now the company's products are in short supply.
Swami? Shiva Nanda is full of energy. He planted it on the Ganges River in 1936? Holy community? The seeds were put in an abandoned collapsed cowshed? Holy community? Now this organization has expanded to all parts of the world. 1945 65438+February 28th, he also organized? World Religious Association? ,1February 29th, 947? World Association of Practitioners? . Swami? Sivananda established the Yoga-Vedanta Forest College in 1948 to provide systematic spiritual training for local residents and benefit foreign seekers. Sivananda's devout disciples come from all religious sects in the world, and his great works spread his lofty sacred beliefs to the whole world: service, meditation and understanding of God.
5. Swami? Pioneer of scientific yoga in Kuvalleyang.
Swami, to be exact Swami Kuwarayananda's exploration and research on yoga science has made yoga widely spread all over the world. He made the ancient teachings of yoga more easily accepted by modern thoughts and made yoga get scientific and reasonable training. Because of his scientific work, yoga has been more widely accepted and applied in the field of health treatment.
Swami? Kuwaleyang was born in an era of national rejuvenation and slowly awakening the spirit of Indian mothers. When he was growing up, he had close contact with the tortured Indian public. He realized that the great function of education is to wake them up. With the help of Rajaratna Manikrao, a great pioneer of Indian material culture, he realized the natural connection of various cultures including yoga. The exploration of yoga opened a new horizon for him. His keen interest in sensitive thinking about the material and spiritual aspects of yoga led him to embark on the road of spiritual exploration.
Under the guidance of the great yogi Madhavdasji, Swami Kuvalayananda had a deeper understanding of the nature of yoga, which also brought great changes to his career and he entered a brand-new field. From 1920 to 192 1 year, he tried to study the influence of yoga practice on human body. He was the first person to bring yoga into the laboratory. The combination of his objective research and excellent scientific experiment results convinced him that if it is feasible to study yoga with modern scientific experiments, then the ancient yoga system will be of great help to the spiritual and material recovery of human society.
In his later years, Kuvalayananda carried out this mission. He set up a special research institute dedicated to the scientific view of yoga. He said: I don't care about nothing, but yoga should not be despised. In the mid-1960s, in order to spread yoga all over the world, he founded the Yoga University to train teachers. At first, it was a two-year training, and later it was changed to a one-year training. Since 1957, this institution has been holding short-term and long-term training, all of which have scientific basis.
6. Krishnamaka, the revival of modern Hada yoga
Krishnamacharya (T, Krishnamacharya) is the most important figure in the study of the revival and development of modern Hada yoga. With his own experience, he expanded many yoga forms. It has become the undisputed father of modern hatha yoga.
In the early 1960s, Krishnamaka challenged the perfection and benefits of yoga postures. Combining his experience and literary research, he created a series of different postures. He fully combined traditional yoga posture, breathing, Indian wrestling and British fitness, and formed his own Hada yoga system. He broke the traditional practice method of yoga since Upanishads.
In 1930s, in order to introduce the power of yoga to as many students as possible, he began to take classes in the gymnasium of Sanskrit University. However, like many yoga students today, Krishnamaka's students are mostly young people with good physical condition and health. They are more interested in becoming strong and shaping their bodies, and tend to try almost impossible skills rather than advanced spiritual exercises. Krishnamacha created a series of sports-centered movements. These movements control breathing and meditation with a series of dynamic postures called "meditation", using all the pillars and rules in his teaching. In order to make his students feel challenged and focused, Krishnamacha has developed more and more difficult movements, so that his students can learn the next level only after mastering the previous movement. Once he developed and perfected his movements, he performed on the road. He and his students show yoga postures to please audiences all over India and promote yoga to the Indian public. Krishnamaka adapts his yoga to all faiths and lifestyles, because he knows that his audience comes from all kinds of backgrounds, just as western yoga teachers do today. Krishnamaka's four most famous students appeared when he lived in Mysore. Is Pattabhi continuing to develop the Eight Yoga Systems? Joyce is called. First lady of yoga? Indira. Defieh is famous for his body application and extensive tools, and has created his own unique training methods B, K, S and Iyengar. In his later years, he devoted himself to the research and exploration of Vinyoga, which was inherited and developed by his son TKV· Desikachar and has now become the most widely used yoga method in yoga therapy.
Krishnamaka's yoga completely presents the rich tradition of natural evolution in the 20th century. The book Sritattvanidhi mentioned by Krishna Mocha was recently discovered in a private library in India, where Krishna Mocha once lived and taught. This/kloc-book in the early 9th century is the first book to introduce yoga exercise completely. Sritattvanidhi's annotation and naming of 122 posture enriches many yoga postures, including handstand, arm balance, feet behind your head and even rope hanging exercises that we have always liked? This proves that a mature asana exercise that yogis are looking for began to appear and prevail before the 20th century. These well-developed exercises are the further development of traditional poses.
7.Pattabhi? Joyce Ashtanga Yoga is the successor and main promoter.
When is Pattabhi? Pattabhi Jois was a little boy when he met Krishnamacha in a yoga exhibition. Joyce studied with Krishnamaka for many years. At first, he was a college student at Mysore Sanskrit University. He is a loyal follower of Krishnamaka's practice method. Joyce's contribution is to improve the Ashtanga yoga system, which he said comes from classic works such as Yoga Sutra, Bhagavad gita and Hada Yoga Lamp Theory.
Just like Krishna Mocha did in Mysore, Pattabhi? Joyce and his teachings still teach a series of postures (connected by breathing) to generate heat and purify the body, so as to achieve the purpose of cleaning and detoxification. Many American and European teachers are inspired and guided by Joyce and often go to India to study with him.
Each series of Ashtanga courses is very different. The first series is only the level of practice, mainly focusing on forward bending. At grades 2, 3 and 4, the difficulty of backward flexion, standing posture, torsion and arm balance will gradually increase. All the sequences include the connection between Surya Namaskar and vinyasa. In this series of postures, students jump from one posture to another and connect different postures through breathing. Just like the practice of patanjali's Yoga Sutra, it combines body movements with attention to breathing, making the spirit better aware and the mind more open.
8. Iyengar, a pioneer of modern assisted yoga.
? Iron man? It was given to him by westerners. Iyengar (B, K, S, Iyengar)' s Hada Yoga teaching style is widely loved by western countries. How to use different instruments to enhance energy and reduce energy consumption is the main style of this school, especially for those who are extremely stiff and want to benefit from yoga quickly. Iyengar has developed modern assisted yoga.
Although he has always been in awe of his mentor, unlike Joyce, Indira and Defei, Iyengar did not accurately respect Krishnamaka as a teacher, nor did he look back on his schooldays with emotion. As a brother-in-law, Iyengar lived in Krishnamaka's home for several years. As a sick child, he has little chance of becoming a yogi. On the contrary, his duty at that time was to take care of the garden and handle the chores assigned to him by Krishna Maka. When Krishnamaka's favorite student suddenly disappeared before an important pose performance, Krishnamaka had no choice but to teach his weak and young brother-in-law, hoping that he could cope with the scene. He did it! Iyengar not only performed a difficult position admirably in the exhibition, but also continued to assist in teaching in the classroom in Krishnamaka and performed in various regions. Iyengar didn't finish his handyman job until he accepted Krishnamaka's request to teach courses only for local women in the northern province.
Since then, Iyengar has left his mentor for hundreds of kilometers. Partly because of this distance, Iyengar had to explore Krishnamaka's posture by himself. He regards his body as a laboratory, focusing on the accuracy of internal and external postures. He tries to understand how a posture affects the muscles, internal organs and skeletal system. Once Iyengar understands the principle of one of the poses, he will modify it to suit the health of his students. Just as Krishnamaka modified his posture for his young and strong students, Iyengar is also tailoring his posture, even providing methods and tools for the old and inflexible students.
As the elderly and infirm among the students began to seek help for their diseases, Iyengar raised his challenge standard and began to create postures for treatment and rehabilitation. Paying attention to the body has become the characteristic of Iyengar yoga. He regards the body as a well-coordinated sensitive instrument. What is the fluctuation of this instrument? Express inner harmony or disharmony? . He believes that asana helps the body to create and recreate the original harmony of the body. Correct asana exercises make the rhythm of physical, psychological and spiritual factors of the body coordinated. With Krishnamacha? Pattabhi? Joyce and Indira? Unlike Defei, Iyengar will let practitioners master asana first, and then combine breathing control exercises. He won't connect asanas in the same way. He will focus on how they are physically balanced, not how they are connected.
Iyengar, his daughter Jita and his son Plassen have been teaching yoga at his teaching center in Pune. His followers spread Iyengar yoga all over the world and created the most famous style in the world. Even those who teach other schools of yoga agree that Iyengar's method instills in them the understanding of the body, the carving of posture and the method of adjusting posture when necessary.
9. Swami? Rama initiated the combination of yoga practice and modern scientific experiments.
Swami? Rama is undoubtedly the best messenger of Himalayan yoga to modern people, because he was born in the Himalayas. He practiced with many masters in ancient caves on the mountain for many years, taught in key universities, and lived at home with his wife and children after joining the WTO to show the achievements of yoga to modern scientists.
Swami? Rama initiated the combination of yoga practice and modern science. He studied western psychology and philosophy in several universities in Europe, and demonstrated the precise control of the autonomic nervous system and brain (such as stopping the heartbeat at will and cooling a finger) in the American laboratory from 65438 to 0969. The discovery of this study greatly increased the scientific understanding of human control of the autonomic nervous system and gained an unprecedented level of understanding. Therefore, he also initiated the combination of yoga practice and modern science, which provided a strong basis for the scientific research of yoga.
Swami? Rama used his own experience to prove that a yoga master who has achieved positive results can integrate all science and art: he is a philosopher and has written 45 books; He is a poet, translating epics for three months; As a scientist, he did human experiments at the American Foundation in 1970s. A medical expert and a samurai. Swami? Rama worked in the United States for 23 years, during which he established Himalayan international institutions. His model of preventive medicine, holistic health and stress management has become the mainstream of western medicine.
10, Swami? Landford, the pioneer of breathing yoga therapy.
Create with breath? A disease-free society and a drug-free world? Is this Swami? Swami Ramdev's ambitions and goals. Don't be surprised if you see a person on a plane or train using holy light to regulate breath or dredge meridians. This awareness gained through yoga comes from Swami? Landford. Landford will become an important figure in the history of world health. He advocated the use of readily available oxygen as medicine, and has cured thousands of patients with diabetes, pharyngitis, arteriosclerosis, obesity, asthma, bronchitis and other diseases, even in some diseases that are still challenging in modern medicine, such as depression, Parkinson's disease, cancer, AIDS and other fields. Landford's experiment also confirmed that this ancient science is effective for these.
Swami? Landford is a master of yoga and ayurveda. He is proficient in Sanskrit, Ayurveda and Vedic philosophy. His pragmatic yoga method has won millions of followers all over India. 1995 began to promote yoga and set up institutions such as Divya yoga Mandir. His unremitting efforts in promoting oxygen as a medical value will bring new horizons to modern medical circles.
After the treatment of millions of Indians and more than ten years of research, Swami? Landford announced that yoga pranayama can cure many diseases without antagonistic therapy or surgery. He said that breathing yoga is a complete ancient Indian therapy and life science. It is a self-healing science, which can cure physical and psychological diseases without any side effects. He confirmed that breathing yoga is a natural therapy for all physical and mental diseases. ?
Not only Indians, but also western countries recognize the venerable sir very much. In July 2006, when Swami? When Landford arrived in London, Queen Elizabeth II invited him to a tea party and listened to him explain how yoga breathing regimen can help everyone stay healthy. Recently, Swami? Landford was also awarded the Yoga Master Award by the British government.
It is said that Swami? Landford currently has the largest number of followers in the world.
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