Health Sciences 3025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
14 Dec 2016
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Class 7 3025A – September 30, 2016
Yoga and Ayugada
Yoga
• Indo European language
• You see how certain things that have developed in Europe are similar in certain
things in India
• Yoga- yoka – join together, union
• Juduya Christian and Islamic?
• Meditative, not so much spiritual
• Ashtinga (page 333)
o Talking about 8 limbs of yoga
o 1. Discipline (Yoma)
o 2. Restraint (Niyama) – not stealing
o 3. Posture (Asana) – physical posture
o Breath control – Pranayama
o Sense withdrawal
o Concentration
o Meditation
o Ecstasy
o Yoga master follows all of these in order
o Few are able to achieve the transcendence
• OM gave rise to knowledge
• Thre are veda’s, and there are sub vedas and there are lims and subordinate
limbs which one of them is Yoga
• Riga is about 8-10 thousand year old book
• Yoga was taught to the scholarly and rich upper class
• Yoga is union of body mind spirit
• Realizing the connection between fininte and the unfitnite, the manifest and the un-
manisfast
• Thought, word, deed
• Ashtang Yoga 8 limbs of yoga
• Somehow today has been associtated with only physical
• If you are doing something out of joy and love, you are a yogi, if you are doing
something without love it is not the same
• Equinimity of the mind is yoga
• Joy
• Harmony
• Take the mind deep within
• Brings concept with an infant and baby – they are very flexible and not need much
effort in movement (between ages 1 and 2)
Schools of Yoga
• Hatha – physical aspect of yoga, prepares the body for life and transcendence
• Raja – adherence to Ashtanga, focus on meditation
• Bhakli – worship, monks monistaries – this is the type of yoga that they practice
• Jnana – less relhiions, more philosophical aspect of Yoga
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• Karma – action and behaviour – it is how we interact with the world and ppl around
us – like rewards like
• More can be found on page 333 – know them all – what they are
Energy anatomy
• Prana – lie force, energy
• It moves through channels, concept of Qi but here its called Nadis
• Prana centers are called chakras
Hatha Yoga – posture and exercise
• There are many different styles and it is very popular, like Shtanga, Anada, Bikram,
etc.
• (ot yoga isn’t really this, it just stimulates the heat and humidity as in )ndia
Asana Types
• Trend of practicing yoga has increased in professional sports because they find
tangible benefits
Pranayama Yoga
• It is about awareness
• Focus on breathe control
o 3 main types of breathing
▪ Long Deep Breathing
• Chemoreflex receptors: activates to prevent you from over
exerting yourself
▪ Individual or Alternating nostril breathing
• Left or right nostril breathing
▪ Fast breathing
▪ Studies show that breathing has an effect on brain activity
• Qi gong also focuses on breathing – energy manipulation (stuff like this is going to
be on the exam)
• We see that left side of brain is controlling right side of body and vice versa
Meditation
• 2 types of meditation
o Focus Attention
▪ Inhibiting everything else by focusing everything on one object
▪ Like hypnosis
o Open monitoring
▪ Thought to be more difficult to di
▪ Being aware on everything without focusing on one single object
▪ But have nothing pull your attention
• Mantra – Utterance
o Yogic mantra vs. Ave Maria praise Mary
o As you chant and breathe – your speech has an effect on your breathing
o It does not matter what you chant, as long as you chant
Yoga Therapy
• Novel health discipline
• See page 340 – Table 21-1
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Document Summary
Yoga: yoga- yoka join together, union, meditative, not so much spiritual, ashtinga (page 333) You see how certain things that have developed in europe are similar in certain things in india: talking about 8 limbs of yoga, 1. If you are doing something out of joy and love, you are a yogi, if you are doing something without love it is not the same. Joy: equinimity of the mind is yoga, harmony, take the mind deep within. Jnana less relhiions, more philosophical aspect of yoga. It moves through channels, concept of qi but here its called nadis etc. It is about awareness: focus on breathe control, 3 main types of breathing, long deep breathing, chemoreflex receptors: activates to prevent you from over exerting yourself. Meditation: 2 types of meditation, focus attention. India has a similar medical system to china where their medicine . Ayurveda is also brought into modern medicine equally availb.
