What is Intensive Yoga?
Every one of us passionately aspires to have real and durable happiness. The path through which we find this happiness varies depending on the individual level of spiritual evolution. An authentic and efficient spiritual path offers the opportunity to develop all aspects of our being. Real happiness is possible by working on these physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual facets of our personality.
In the Yogic point of view, the body, mind and intellect should be developed to an optimum level. They should be fully functional and in perfect health and harmony with each other. Only when this is achieved can man truly live a happy life. He can use these aspects of his being as a springboard to transcend human limitations and to experience fusion with the Divine.
All spiritual traditions of the world state that true and lasting happiness can only be gained by understanding what is eternal. In other words, it is by knowing the Divine, who is the Supreme essence of all beings and the source of Life. Across time, this reality has been refered to as the Self, ultimate Nature, Brahman, Cosmic Consciousness, Infinity, Nirvana, etc.
Integral Yoga is an intelligent combination of specific traditional methods that harmoniously develop all aspects of the being. It is a scientific system that integrates different forms of Yoga in order to achieve complete development of all the superior but latent aspects of man. Ultimately this leads to genuine self-knowledge; that is, fusion with God.
The main objectives of INTENSIVE YOGA are:
- a perfect body that is completely healthy and vigourous;
- a clear, powerful and controlled mind;
- a refined, awakened and sharp intellect;
- a will-power as hard as steel;
- a heart that is full of love and compassion, and able to identify with elevated experiences;
- a will that is full of sublime aspiration, dedicated to the welfare and happiness of others and where the yearning for inner, immortal Self Realization prevails.
Therefore INTENSIVE YOGA is a synthesis of all forms of Yoga.
In the millenary Yogic tradition one can distinguish between several forms of Yoga, which nevertheless aspire to the same essential goal – that of reaching the Absolute and perfection of the human being.
Among these forms are:
- HATHA YOGA - the most well known form of Yoga in the West. It is based on balancing the fundamental polarities in man, of the solar (""ha"", positive) and lunar (""tha"", negative) energies. It aims to master and perfect the physical body, to regain and maintain health, and to gain full control over the vital energies
- KARMA YOGA - Yoga of resonance with the Supreme Absolute, where the results or fruits of the action are totally consecrated to the Divine.
- BHAKTI YOGA - Yoga of Universal love, abnegation and unconditional submission to God.
- RAJA YOGA - Yoga of fusion with the Cosmic mind, aiming at amplification of the mental powers, at awakening of the third eye (AJNA CHAKRA).
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- JNANA YOGA - Yoga of supramental knowledge of the Universe.
- MANTRA YOGA - Yoga of resonance through the subtle sound with the sublime energies of the Universe.
- TANTRA YOGA - Yoga of extreme expansion of the limits of consciousness which integrates a complex range of procedures and techniques. Some of these techniques involves utilising sexuality with the aim of accelerating spiritual evolution. This is through transmutation and sublimation of the creative sexual potential, both for men and women.
- KUNDALINI YOGA - Yoga of awakening and control of the huge force which is the fundamental energy of the human species. This exists in a latent form at the base of the spinal column in MULADHARA CHAKRA, and is called Kundalini Shakti.
- YANTRA YOGA - Yoga of telepathic fusion with certain energies of the Universe by means of specific geometrical figures.
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