The development and spread of modern yoga
1, modern yoga
In modern, yoga in India has been rapidly spread and development, the rich Yoga works with a variety of practicing law branch, the differentiation of Hatha Yoga and other yoga branches and derived many yoga as a whole view of the school.
Early in the Indian national capitalism rising period, yoga philosophy has become advanced thought tool of social change, and traditional yoga also in the new era of absorption new thinking and a new culture, new development. In the 19th century the & ldquo; G must Guantanamo, but that & rdquo; known as the father of modern yoga in India. Subsequently the & ldquo; IEN plus & rdquo; and & ldquo; Disikejia '; also become new yoga movement leader.
In the areas of the Sikh in India, there has been a heavy slim & ldquo; Kundalini Yoga & rdquo; and rebuilt heart & ldquo; and Shiva Aranda & rdquo; new yoga schools.
Gandhi is the leader of the India national liberation movement. His social and political thought also has something to do with yoga, Gandhi's philosophy thought in three main principles of truth and non violence and penance, these ideas of contemporary Indian yoga, influence and role in promoting.
Now in India, yoga is indispensable in people's lives, is India's popularity of physical fitness and expand the movement of spiritual wisdom. Currently in India in addition to traditional yoga and a lot of secular yoga, namely to abandon religious mystery, to self-cultivation, prevent and cure diseases, and prolong life as the goal of Yoga practicing activities, which is west of modern yoga prototype. In India and many devoted to the study of Yoga institutions and training school of professional yoga talents, more and more yogi across the seas went to Europe and the United States Shoutu Shouyi, yoga to all over the world are widely spread.
2, yoga in the West spread
Yoga is recognized as the world's most diverse health movement. It spans many cultures, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, western philosophy; also widely involved in various languages, including the Indian language, Tibetan, Bengali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and so on.
In the past, the western world is almost unknown to yoga. Until the twentieth century, Westerners began to develop an interest in Eastern religion and philosophy culture that was popular in Western cultural icons such as & ldquo; Beatles & rdquo; first of Yoga Jia fuzuo posture performance out of interest, so as to promote the Western understanding of yoga as a healthy form of exercise and acceptance, Westerners gradually realize that yoga is a in the calm of the world to seek effective ways to peace of mind.
The beginning of the 19th century, the Indian yoga guru Rama Krishna and his successor Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo et al to yoga and modern science, organic combination of the medicine, the creation of the modern yoga, the yoga is more widely spread all over the world to.
Another famous yoga master Swami & middot; Sivananda and his followers. In the 1960s and 1970s. In the Americas and Europe to promote the cause of yoga, they run schools of yoga, will also summarize the modern yoga for the Five Principles & mdash; & mdash; right to rest, right to practice, correct breathing, proper diet, correct thought and meditation. And the establishment of the international Sivananda Yoga Center of wetan, carry forward their claims.
The modern yoga in the west is mainly “ modern yoga ”.
