WELCOME TO ANAHATA YOGA

In Anahata Yoga, we intend to introduce the internal magic and creativity of ancient Yoga practices into a modern Yoga teaching practice that can be explained by the name Hatha Yoga. The words HaTha Yoga are a combination of three words: Ha meaning the sun, Tha meaning the moon and Yoga meaning the yoke. This combined becomes the yoking or joining of the sun and the moon.

The sun is the symbol for Shiva who represents the conscious awareness of the mind that resides in Sahasrara Chakra in the crown of the head and the moon that is the symbol of Shakti who represents Kundalini Shakti energy that resides in Muladhara Chakra in the base of the body.

Another intention of Anahata Yoga is the practicing of the joining together of the consciousness of Shiva and the Kundalini energy of Shakti coiled three times like a snake at the base of Sushumna Nadi in Muladhara Chakra in all the Yoga practices including Asana.

This will facilitate the personal movement of Shakti, the moon, into the embrace of Shiva, the sun, known as the Dance of Shiva and Shakti, where conscious awareness of the mind and the physical energy of the body would dance together, creating the potential for unlimited creativity using this combination of the mind’s conscious awareness and the body’s Kundalini energy.

Anahata Yoga philosophy is the Yoga practice of opening your heart to transcend the physical body and the mind’s limited consciousness and to love yourself, exactly as you are. This is considered one of the most important things to achieve in your Yoga life, to allow your personal conscious development and evolution of divine spirit.

To choose to love yourself exactly as you are and be compassionate about the things that you would like to change, knowing that with the gift of free will you have the ability to choose to change and create whatever you can imagine.

The choice of opening the heart is a powerful personal mental image, a symbol for the mind that regards the heart as the centre of love, passion, courage, bravery and compassion. The mind then chooses thoughts that flow from the energy of the heart rather than from the judgment, comparison and criticism of the intellectual critical mind.

The ancient tradition of Anahata Yoga created a style of Yoga that follows the principles of heart opening and the style of Asana known as the Dance of Shiva and Shakti that is expressed in the name Ha Tha Yoga, the union of the Sun and Moon where the sun represents Shiva, the consciousness of the mind residing in Sahasrara Chakra, and the moon represents Shakti Kundalini energy residing in Muladhara Chakra that are united with the practice of Yoga.

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