It’s unusual yet amazing when they could mastering their body so easily. It was like magic, and mystical when yogini can lift their body just with their hand, or standing on their head. At the time, inversion and arm balance pose was not as popular as nowadays when yoga poses is become instagram-able. With it’s powerful chanting, it’s sweaty movement flow and it’s ‘magical’ pose. I guessed, maybe because Ashtanga was a popular yoga style at the time.

Yoga and breathing exercises are purely for the sake of health is mubah (allowed).

Yoga in which contain spiritual meditation and mantras or rituals of other religions is haram, as a preventive measure (sadd al-dzari’ah).

Yoga in which contain pure spiritual rituals of other religions, is haram.

Remain that most of Indonesian are Muslim, the declaration was reaping a lot of questions at the time, though actually, MUI issued three decisions (fatwa): At the time, yoga suddenly became more ‘popular’ exercise because Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) ever declared that yoga is haram. Seven years ago, when I’ve still become a news reporter, I’ve been assigned to write about yoga. This is a revised edition of The Heart of Yoga.Before I describe my personal understanding about this book, I would like to tell a short story about my personal introduction with yoga. Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga-poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy-and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle. In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of his father’s system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as “a program for the spine at every level-physical, mental, and spiritual.” This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga.

Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya’s fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual’s changing needs to achieve the maximum therapeutic value. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya’s yoga. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Elements of Krishnamacharya’s teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings.A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher.“The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga-yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.

The heart of yoga desikachar