A holistic approach These days most people feel that their lives are spinning out of control as they struggle to keep up with the pace of modern living. It s not considered abnormal to have a heart condition at 35 and blood pressure checks are routine. Everybody says that stress, sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy living in general are the culprits. It s time we considered a more holistic approach. This is where yoga comes in.
Yoga means union.
In the words of Godfrey Devereaux, student and teacher of yoga, it means union of the individual with the universal, the self with other, inner with outer, finite with infinite. The practice of yoga aims at unifying the human body and mind with the ultimate aim of creating a mental state of deep meditation and concentration. In a state of perfect harmony of the human mind and body and other states of consciousness, an individual may achieve spiritual union with the universal reality, or God. In it there is neither suffering, nor attachment, nor illusion. There is only the bliss of freedom from limitation and identification of the finite self with the infinite reality.