Bikram yoga competition and missing essence of yoga

Dec. 8, 2011 - PRLog -- Yoga system, an ancient step by step eight fold path towards spiritual enlightment has been turned into a joke by recent days Hatha yoga gurus says Subodh Gupta.

"Hatha Yoga competition by Bikram Choudhury is an prominent example where the whole essense of yoga system is lost. Bikram has twisted the whole concept present in ancient Indian scripture confused people into believing as if competition in yoga is fully justified.

"Yoga system is a step by step process of dissolving one's personal ego and merging with the supreme consciousness and what Mr Choudhury is doing; exactly the opposite by organising and promoting Hatha yoga competition, in the name of yoga.

"Yoga is not only about acrobatic Hatha yoga posture. Ideally the whole objective of Hatha yoga is to respect one's body and practice as per one's fitness level so one can have a healthy body and mind and one can sit for longer duration for meditation.

"According to Subodh Gupta by organising Hatha Yoga competition, Mr Choudhury, is confusing and misleading people on various aspect of Yoga.
(a) First people started misunderstanding Hatha Yoga (a very small aspect of yoga) as yoga.
(b) People start wondering and start believing as if Yoga is only about acrobatic yoga pose which is certainly not the case.
(c) Competition develops people ego as one is able to perform better than others while in reality the whole objective of yoga system is to dissolve the ego.

"Hot yoga (unauthenticated Hatha yoga by Bikram) is sold well with the help of misleading facts in America by Mr.Choudhury however the whole concept of Hot Yoga and Hatha Yoga competiton lacks the essence of original yoga system."

Issued in public interest by celebrity yoga trainer Subodh Gupta based in London.
http://www.subodhgupta.com

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