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Health & Fitness Yoga

Transitioning to the Inner (Antar) Yoga of the Ancient Sages

Integrating Modern Postural Yoga with Traditional Inner (Antar) Yoga
Rating: 5.0 out of 55.0 (113 ratings)
4,433 students
Created by Abhyasa Ashram, Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati
Last updated 12/2017
English
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What you'll learn

  • Whether you are new to Yoga, or have already been practicing some aspect of Yoga, you will gain confidence to be able to choose and pursue the approach to traditional Yoga that is just right for you.

Requirements

  • You have an active curiosity about traditional Yoga practices coming from the ancient sages.
  • You have some background in any of the faces of modern postural yoga.

Description

*******Over 4,000  students are enrolled in this course*******

This course is designed to be an aid to the millions of people who have been exposed to modern yoga, which has become predominantly focused on physical postures and exercises. Our journey in this course is to introduce ways of transitioning from those approaches into the more traditional principles and practices as systematized and taught by the ancient sages of Yoga, without being opposed to what you are already doing. This is a process of blending in with your current practices, not merely replacing yours with the ours. 

We will extensively draw upon the yogic wisdom of the Yoga Sutras, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, as well as a few of the traditional Hatha Yoga texts. We will also review some of the more modern resources and teachers, which focus on these more traditional approaches. Please note that we are not trying to recruit you into any particular tradition or lineage. We come from a specific lineage or tradition, but attempt to keep the perspective very broad, so that you can apply the principles to your own life in your own way.

There are three major reasons you may find this course to be useful:

  • First: You are already practicing and/or teaching any version of modern, postural Yoga, and have come to see that there is more to Yoga than postures.. You would like to begin the process of transitioning into the traditional Yoga of the ancient sages.

  • Second: You are already practicing both modern, postural Yoga, and one of the many faces of traditional Yoga of the ancient sages. For your personal growth, you would like some added suggestions about how to expand your practices of traditional Yoga.

  • Third: You would like to increasingly be able to teach or share with others (students or friends) some of the subtler, deeper, traditional perspectives of the Yoga of the sages, and help them know where to start. In this course, you will gain some tips that you can share with others.


The transition to traditional Yoga is an extremely exciting journey, and I hope you will enjoy being together with us.

In loving service,

Swami Jnaneshvara (Swami J)

Who this course is for:

  • This course has been created for those who already have some exposure to any of the modern faces of Yoga, but wish to explore the breadth and depth of the more traditional practices.

Course content

6 sections • 64 lectures • 7h 20m total length

  • Preview02:52
  • Preview02:17
  • Preview04:13
  • Encountering a Book or a Person
    04:13
  • Preview03:27
  • Intuition as a Child
    02:28
  • Opposition to the word "Yoga"
    03:35
  • Conviction, Virya, or Sankalpa
    04:42
  • Preview06:28
  • Respecting modern Yoga
    03:14
  • Both modern and traditional Yoga take a lot of time
    10:02
  • Being a Student or a Teacher
    03:20
  • Preview12:19
  • Preview07:14
  • Yoga is a Whole Life process, not just Body or Books
    06:40
  • Preview08:37
  • Yoga is not merely "philosophy"
    06:42
  • The phrases "Traditional Yoga" or "Classical Yoga"
    08:20
  • The crucible of Yoga (is inside, not in a building)
    07:30
  • Preview07:45
  • Preview06:04

  • Preview03:52
  • Preview07:12
  • Bhagavad Gita
    11:37
  • Preview12:25
  • Tripura Rahasya
    07:08
  • Yoga Vashishta
    07:11
  • Hatha Yoga Pradipika
    Preview09:06
  • Gheranda Samhita
    06:01
  • Shiva Samhita
    06:17

  • Preview08:10
  • The Deeper Dimensions of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
    05:55
  • Preview06:57
  • Preview06:23
  • The Science of Yoga by William Broad
    10:22
  • The Spiritual Roots of Yoga by Ravi Ravindra
    05:54
  • A History of Modern Yoga by Elizabeth De Michelis
    05:58

  • Preview04:21
  • Preview06:08
  • Play of Consciousness by Swami Muktananda
    05:50
  • Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba
    04:58
  • The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma by Alexander Lipski
    06:50

  • Preview12:40
  • Theistic or Monistic Perspectives
    04:09
  • Preview09:05
  • What is a Tradition?
    Preview09:16
  • Cups and Yoga
    07:27
  • Om Mantra: The Heart of Yoga
    11:18

  • Dominant and Complementary faces of the one Yoga
    10:57
  • Institution, Lineage, or Independent
    04:57
  • With or Without Deities (superheroes)
    07:42
  • With or Without Rituals
    05:54
  • Staying Home or Traveling
    04:56
  • Family or Monastic Life
    08:31
  • Fitness, Religion, Philosophy, Psychology
    05:07
  • Science, Religion, Atheism, and Yoga
    07:09
  • Certificate or No Certificate
    06:24
  • Your concept of Guru (part 1)
    15:03
  • Your concept of Guru (part 2)
    10:27
  • Multiple paths up the one Mountain of Yoga
    03:53
  • Choosing your Keyword as a Goal
    09:49
  • Find and Follow your Heart
    04:04
  • Preview03:39
  • Preview07:52

Instructors

Abhyasa Ashram
Traditional Yoga (11 courses, 74,000+ enrollments)
Abhyasa Ashram
  • 4.8 Instructor Rating
  • 2,741 Reviews
  • 43,632 Students
  • 11 Courses

YOGA  is a WHOLE LIFE process. Although each of our courses has an individual emphasis, they go hand-in-hand with the others as one process of Yoga. We presently have 11 online courses published through Udemy. Swami Jnaneshvara is the presenter, and the language is English.

Abhyasa Ashram is a place of the heart rather than a physical place. It has the feel of an internal monastery and yoga meditation center, which practices universal meditation and contemplation as taught by the ancient tradition of yogis of the cave monasteries of the Himalayas, especially as transmitted through the lineage of Swami Rama. The tradition has no name, and is not affiliated with any of the institutions or religions of the plains of India or other countries surrounding the Himalayas, although individual meditators may personally align themselves with a wide variety of religions or institutions. We may refer to the tradition as "the tradition of the Himalayan masters" or "the Himalayan tradition", but that is for the sake of convenience, and is not a style or brand name as is popular these days.

Our methods of meditation and contemplation involve systematic awareness of all levels of our being, including actions/senses, body, breath, mind, finally resting in the awareness of the Self (atman) which is one with the universal Self (brahman). Our approach is that of aspirant training, not teacher training. Our approach to training is mostly individual or group coaching, as Yoga meditation and contemplation has been traditionally taught for thousands of years. Aspirants with various degrees of experience naturally teach others within the context of their own lives and modes of service.

From the perspective of our meditation tradition, each person is perfect, pure consciousness (atman, purusha, shakti) at the core of her or his being. The entire process of yoga sadhana (meditation and contemplation practices) is to reduce the colorings of attractions, aversions, and fears that usually veil that realization (often called Self-realization). This is done by systematically receding inward through senses, body, breath, conscious and unconscious mind. The final barrier is removed through a transmission of grace, which is known as shaktipata, the bestowing of the pure consciousness of shakti. It is also known as guru kripa, grace of guru. In our tradition guru is a force field of consciousness, and is not any person, although that grace of guru can flow through a person.

At Abhyasa Ashram the word "Yoga" is used in its traditional meaning, rather than the revisionist meaning of Yoga as merely a gymnastic or physical fitness program. Yoga means “union" of the individual consciousness and universal consciousness, Atman and Brahman, Jivatman and Paramatman, as well as Shiva and Shakti. It is pure consciousness (Purusha) standing alone from primal manifestation (Prakriti).

Yoga is traditionally taught, practiced and learned through close relationships in a community of noble friends, known as kalyana-mitra. Guru is a stream of knowledge of direct experience which, though it may operate through a person, is itself not a person. While some participants in ashram activities have a theistic (god) orientation and others a non-theistic orientation, we virtually all intuit that there is only one, nondual (advaita), absolute reality even though it may appear to be dualistic.

Our purpose is to share with people who have an interest in the principles and practices of the Himalayan masters, including traditional Yoga Meditation, Vedanta, and internal, meditative Tantra. Our community of meditation and contemplation is devoted to serving those who deeply long for the direct experience of union with the eternal, pure center of consciousness, the bliss of being that is one with the absolute reality, as the wave who seeks to remember it is one with the ocean. One word for that union is "Yoga."

The word "Abhyasa" means "practices." Abhyasa is purposefully choosing to do that which leads to "sthitau," which is a stable, steady, undisturbed inner calmness or tranquility. Abhyasa is one of the twin foundations of Yoga, along with Vairagya, the mental stance of non-attachment (Yoga Sutras 1.12-1.16). The root of the word Ashram is "shrama," which means "effort" or "striving." The hermitage, home, or training center of a swami or other person serving people in their efforts towards inner peace and awakening of consciousness is often called an Ashram. Thus, our community of meditation, contemplation and learning is known as Abhyasa Ashram. More than any physical location, it is really a place of the heart, an inner sanctuary of silence. Thus, the ideal ashram is your own home.

In loving Service,

Swami Jnaneshvara  (Swamiji, Swami J, Baba)

Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati
Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati
  • 4.8 Instructor Rating
  • 2,741 Reviews
  • 43,632 Students
  • 11 Courses

Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati was born in 1948 in Ohio, USA, spent most of his youth in Florida, and later lived in several other states, including California, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Texas. His education includes a BS in Management from Florida State University and an MA in Consciousness, with emphasis in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, in California. He previously worked in advertising, retail store management, counseling and psychiatric social work. He was never married and has no children.

Spontaneously practicing meditation and other yogic practices from early childhood, Swami Jnaneshvara has been a student of the Himalayan Tradition of yoga meditation since 1986 when initiated in meditation by Swami Rama (10 years to the day prior to Swami Rama leaving the body). Several months later he met Pandit Usharbudh Arya, through whom supplemental training was given from time to time during the next few years. Swami Jnaneshvara was given novice monastic initiation in 1990, was ordained as a monk (swami) of the Himalayan tradition and the order of Shankaracharya in 1993 by Swami Rama, and was given one of the highest yogic initiations of direct experience in 1996, with final teachings and instructions being imparted shortly before Swami Rama left the body in November, 1996.

In 1998 and 1999 Swami Jnaneshvara received training, practices and grace from the venerated sage Naga Swami Hanuman Giri at the cave hermitages in the high Himalayas beyond Badrinath and Mana (He left the body in 2002). In 1999, initiation as Dandi Swami (a most honorific swami initiation in the Shankara tradition, in which a Danda, or staff is bestowed) was given at the bank of the Ganges in Haridwar, India by a highly revered Acharya (teacher) of Dandi Swamis, Acharya Dandi Swami Indradev Ashram. In 2000, the sage Vratti Baba of Kalimath, Himalayas passed on his initiatory transmissions at the time of his dropping the body (Vratti Baba was a long time friend and spiritual brother of Swami Rama). Swami Jnaneshvara has also been invited to be initiated as Mahamandaleshwar, said to be one of the highest leadership posts within the swami orders. The invitation has been respectfully declined so as to remain focused on the service work at hand.

From 1996-2012 Swami Jnaneshvara fascilitated month-long retreats at Swami Rama's Rishikesh, India ashram. Currently he resides at his Abhyasa Ashram in Florida USA, with far less travel than previous years. He has a significant presence in spreading traditional Yoga practices through internet, while serving a small number of visitors to the ashram.

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