Yoga and Meditation

Meditation at the fundamental level is all about achieving the perfect mind and body connection. Once someone is able to attain the perfect state of meditation, he or she reaches a level that is beyond the realms of the regular human world. While that is the ultimate goal of meditation, very few actually achieve to reach that stage. Meditation has gone through numerous changes over a period of four thousand years. And meditation as a discipline continues to evolve. However, it must be remembered that no style is superior to the other.

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Yoga Styles

The various styles of yoga that we have come to know about are rather recent developments. If we have a look at the root of yoga we will discover that they have all evolved from one single form. In fact the three proponents of the most popular styles of yoga – Iyengar, Astanga, and Viniyoga – had the same person as their teacher, Krishnamacharya. Similarly, the other two major styles of yoga – Sivananda and Integral were again developed by student of another teacher Sivananda.

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