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Astanka Yoga Mandir

Sukshma Vyayama is an ancient component of yoga. It is so sensitive, so powerful, scientific and deep yet so simple that even a child after crossing the age of ten can easily practice it and derive benefits.

The other beautiful and more important aspect of Yogic Sukshma Vyayama is, that it is the only system of exercises in the world where each and every part of the body including each organ, each joint and each muscle is taken into consideration, and a particular exercise or set of exercises associated with a specific type of breathing in a specific type of position with a specific point of mental concentration is prescribed.

So, starting with the top that is the head, we cover:

various parts of the brain, the eyes, nose, ears, and neck, the shoulders, arms and arm joints, finger joints and even fingertips the upper chest , middle chest and abdomen and trunk in different aspects the thighs and buttocks, even organs like rectum/anus and the bladder (for which exercises are very rarely prescribed) the knees, ankles, foot, foot muscle and joints, toes and finally the big toe.

So, literally “from top to toe” is the coverage in the above mentioned sequence which is something very unique in the entire world, in the past, present and p

So, literally “from top to toe” is the coverage in the above mentioned sequence which is something very unique in the entire world, in the past, present and possibly the future too.

So the Yogic Sukshma Vyayamaa as is implied by the name, is meant for the subtle body or Sukshma Sarira. It is not meant for the gross body or Sthula Sarira. There is a separate set of exercises for the gross body – Sthula Vyayamaa which succeeds Sukshma Vyayamaa but it is just about half a dozen exercises of gross nature similar to other gross exercises such as swimming and running or various physical and cultural exercises. Yogic Sukshma Vyayamaa, however, is on a different footing. It is meant for the subtle body of the human being, as per the Indian traditional philosophy. As per the yogic philosophical tradition there are five bodies for every individual – the physical and the subtle: the annamaya sarira, pranamaya sareera, manomaya sareera, vigyanamaya sareera and anandamaya sareera. So, Sukshma Vyayamaa deals with the second level, that is the subtle body or the pranamaya sareera.

The main features or components of Sukshma Vyayamaa are (1) breathing (2) concentration point (3) actual exercise – which involves motion most of the times though not always. Breathing of different types: very light or very fast or very deep, sometimes through the mouth although mostly through the nose.

Duration :25 hours