Earth connection Guest teachers from the Jivanmukti Center were in Manila recently to clarify the misconception of yoga. Fitness magazines have trivialized it as an Oriental exercise when, in fact, it is a lifestyle. Life explains that yoga is the need of the times. Our relationships to the earth, water, air, soil, to each other, with the animals are at risk. Yoga emerges in order to perfect those relationships.
Yoga means union.
Yoga is popular again because people are unconsciously awakening to the fact that they have to refine their relationship to this planet. Because of the heavy meat consumption all over the world, we are quickly depleting our resources, most of the water and grain. Forty-five percent of the earth s land mass is used to raise animals for slaughter. Chanting Yoga class begins with chanting. The goal of yoga is to hear the subtle sound called nadam .