{"id":19220,"date":"2017-12-01T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=19220"},"modified":"2017-12-07T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:35:00","slug":"per-yoga-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/healthy-living\/per-yoga-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Populized Sun Salutation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just FYI:) And so I may do them for fitness but this may be also why I am drawn more to softer, “real” side of yoga … My “theory” is that as Yoga traveled and spread to the East (as opposed to West), certain parts of Yoga meshed with Taoism in China (maybe … just a theory)… and the physical aspects with Marshal Art forms in China (shao-lin kung fu, qui-gong, Tai-chi), Korea and Japan (Judo, Karate, Aikido, even Kendo… maybe) … and in Japan, certain, aspects (the 7 out 8 Limbs of Patanjali Yoga) meshed with Shinto-ish beliefs, Buddhism and the emergence of Zen school of Buddhism, Zen Buddhism. It’s just a hypothesis and I am not a scholar to dig into historical archives to research – that would definitely be a lifetime work and I rather experience yoga than study it as theory. I rather … practice… the fusion, the integration of all.<\/p>\n

Anyway … what was it ?<\/p>\n

“Yoga is 99 percent practice, 1 percent theory.” <\/p>\n

But when there’s not even a 1 percent, that 99% is probably not yoga. Body building is a fine intention too – we want that too – in moderation:) As with anything we undertake, it’s informed and defined by our intention.
\nA pursuit to find relief and more freedom in our body; to recognize our body to be a safe home … that is … enough. It’s simple. Ultimately we want to optimize our health, body, mind and spirit to live fully with joy. It’s all good. 100%:)<\/p>\n

This is the world of muscles … if hardened and rigid, needs a good way to stretch and release … the coiled tension.<\/p>\n

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Then there’s the rest of the body …and deeper inside, more and more. Then, there’s the mind, the psyche … all connected and presents itself as One. Or does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just FYI:) And so I may do them for fitness but this may be also why I am drawn more to softer, “real” side of yoga … My “theory” is that as Yoga traveled and spread to the East (as opposed to West), certain parts of Yoga meshed with Taoism in China (maybe … just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19220"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19252,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220\/revisions\/19252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}