Holistic Yoga

It’s been called “the most de facto integral yoga in the world today.” It is also the cutting edge in religious technology.

Truths that are always true

Some five to seven thousand years ago there seems to have existed a central yoga or religion.1 Then it diffused all over the world. As it spread, it took on different aspects according to the climate, economics and genetics of the people.2

Vastu Purusha
Vastu Purusha

The ancient wise men came up with certain principles, all of which still apply today. They are eternal, universal principles, that is, they are always true, everywhere, for everybody—regardless of the time, regardless of the circumstances, and regardless of who you are. Holistic Yoga is based on these principles. “As above, so below.”

What was it you wanted?

People want four things: pleasure, worldly success (with its three prongs of wealth, fame and power), justice, and freedom; and you can have what you want. But to get what you want, you need to be integrated, balanced and centered—healthy on all counts. Holistic Yoga not only teaches you the principles and methods, but also trains and enables you to achieve what you want, namely health, wealth, happiness, and liberation.

Getting your life together

In terms of yoga, around each of us is our subtle body. This subtle body has thirty-two attributes3 which are represented by the thirty-two squares4 of the Holistic Yoga mandala (that is, the thirty-two main subjects of Holistic Yoga that deal with different aspects of life—the things that matter most). The early sages discovered that, in order to get and stay healthy, happy and whole, we’ve got to take into account all of these attributes, and—in actual fact—they did work out quite a few principles in some detail.

Another way of looking at this would be to say that there are four “faces” of you: body, mind, senses, and interaction, and that you have to keep a balance between these four opposing sides. Working in only one of these areas—body for example—or trying hard to improve just one segment of your life—by exercising or dieting for instance—though it no doubt produces results, the being is pulled off center, and the subtle body is pushed out of balance (especially when we overdo it, something we are more than prone to in the craze of the so-called self-improvement). Trying harder doesn’t help. It slows down progress as a matter of fact. We need to do something from the other three sides to bring us back into balance. Working on four aspects of our life at a time—one square from each side of the mandala—for seven weeks, leads to steady, balanced growth.

The facts and what have you

In short, it’s a question of balance. Holistic Yoga is the most balanced approach to growth available anywhere. And that is—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual growth. As it turns out, it brings one’s whole life into balance, order and harmony. Lasting wellbeing is the side-effect: a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous.

It combines the wisdom and proven methods of both Eastern and Western sources, age-old and avant-garde. And it’s flowering once more.5

Unlike other systems out there, it avoids a common pitfall of personal growth—that of overworking to improve one aspect of our life while neglecting the others. What is more, nothing is left out. It’s the largest, most comprehensive study into human potential ever done, anywhere.

If you want to change but don’t know how

It gives you an opportunity to choose various areas of your life to work on in a way that requires a relatively low commitment in time, money and discipline, and yet actually helps you.

Happy, healthy, and wealthy!

If you want to succeed, have your desires fulfilled, get rich and be respected, and eventually attain liberation, then look no more—this is the girl for you. In the words of the Sufi mystic Jelal-ud-din Rumi, “What a bargain. Let’s buy it!” Or as Kabir says, “Fantastic! Don’t let a chance like this go by!” Contact us. Yeh, “You can only have one king to a kingdom,” but we did get “twelve dervishes under a blanket.”

Notes

1
That’s the same thing, you know—yoga (Skt.), as in “yoke,” with the meaning of both “to unite” and “to put a yoke on”; and religâre (Lat.), to “tie back,” “bind,” essentially to “unite again,” “form a chemical bond with.”

2
Hence the differences among religions.

3
These attributes or characteristics, freely translated from Sanskrit, are: (1) glow, (2) grace, (3) final victory, (4) power, (5) shining, (6) truth, (7) desire, (8) space, (9) burning, (10) prosperity, (11) disorder, (12) bad news, (13) guilt, (14) discord, (15) separated, (16) low point, (17) consumed, (18) door-keeper, (19) lawgiver, (20) energy, (21) hidden influences, (22) eclipse, (23) dryer, (24) evil spirit, (25) disease, (26) shedding, (27) form maker, (28) rays of life, (29) nectar, (30) purified, (31) infinite expanse, and (32) bounded.

4
The squares are based upon the actual sections that the great yogis came upon in their state of union, as depicted in the Vastu Purusha mandala and elsewhere.

5
That we are not doing any kind of propaganda is a factual argument. We are not propagating any point of view, any particular ideology. We are not trying to convince you of anything. We are not setting up a new cult, or persuading you to join a particular sect.

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