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Why Indians say Americans are doing yoga wrong
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2024
- India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a campaign to revitalize yoga in the land where it was born, and that starts with his soldiers who take yoga to improve mind and body control. Major Garrett reports on how some Americans say Indian yoga simply would not translate in the U.S.
Main difference is the mindset
Indians - do it for mind body spirit
Americans - do it for body
Americans don’t even know why they do it.
$$$$
Punit Modi well said. Very clear point
Endorphin increase also. Which will not allow the mind to rest.
Well you just proved you dont have a mind.
Punit, that's so typically Indian of you! Just put up a generalising statement and think you're wise enough and all Americans are nothing. They'd drop that mail which says you've been given the green card and you'd catch the first flight to America. So stop being "wise" here
Yoga is not just doing exercise it is about getting connected to the nature of life and this universe.
Yoga is not about exercises at all. Its not a workouts, it do nothing for a better look of your body. It mostly only about your mind.
@@oleksiychekin1257 lol it increases your mobility and helps you get rid of chronic aches.
Rather than calling it “American yoga” why don’t they just call it flexibility and mobility training and acknowledge that takes inspiration from yoga movements?
Yes!!!! I love doing “yoga” fitness classes for physical mobility and mental health but I wish it would be called exactly what you wrote.
Great!! That's exactly how identity theft works👍🏼. And Americans are great at it. They are already doing this with a lot of asanas. 100 yrs later, they will argue that Yoga was given by Christ.
They really should just call it "asanas" because that is the practice of learning only the yoga postures
Just call it yoga
I don’t do yoga yet, but this made me very embarrassed to be an American
haha i’m always embarrassed to be an american
Stop being embarrassed.
@@ASMRyouVEGANyet why? being an american isn’t something to be proud of lol
@@SpazzHobo please explain
@yitzhak rafaeli shekkelsteingoldmanberg trust me I am very grateful. I thank God everyday for my wonderful life and all that i have, it doesn’t change the fact that the Americans in this particular film, did not come across as cultured or worldly
I am so happy to see that the majority of comments reject this BS of "American Yoga"
@Morhevr nothing wrong. Just dont call it yoga. Just call it exercise.
Seema S What a grave injustice!!!!
@Morhevr if you take out if you take out carbonated water, proprietary flavouring agents, and sugar....and start selling a black liquid in the name of COCA-COLA ....I imagine what would happen....?
Same goes for yoga...if you rip yoga of its main characteristics and present stretches on the name of yoga...you are not only indulging in a fraud of highest degree...but doing a great disservice to your people for making money.
there is no African Yoga though, remember that too. And be happy.
I'm an American who studied the philosophy of Yoga by listening to countless hours of lectures by Yogis long before I tried the 'exercise' at the gym. Sure, the classes were nice to go to once a week, but they didn't understand anything about the actual philosophy of it. I love the various types of Yoga because they help me reconnect with my body when I find myself trying to dissociate from it all day long. It helps me relax and become more centered. It helps me get a handle on my emotions. I love it. I've studied Yoga Nidra a lot and have listened to Swami Niranjananda for hours on end. I'm amazed at how much wisdom there is in it. It seems like Amercians are more interested in using "namaste" as a Narcissistic manipulation tactic than anything meaningful. The other day I tried to do some Western Yoga with my wife by watching a CZcams video, and she started going off about how dangerous the moves were. She'd taken Karate and all the bouncing in stretches and launching forward off of a stretched muscle freaked her out. She refuses to continue. So yeah, American "Yoga" is BS. Totally agree. I actually found this video because I was doing a search for "real yoga". I'm looking for something like the Eastern Chinese Tai Chi my former boss used to teach after work. You know -- legit moves that you can't learn from some preppy 20-something selling Doterra oils and other MLM 'health' crap on the side after class. A class where the instructor doesn't constantly call the moves "yummy" every two minutes. Legit yoga. If anyone has any links, I'd really appreciate them.
Stupidity that I encounter everyday in US.. there is nothing as Amercian Yoga.. "freedom of expression", you guys take this thing too far and distort everything you touch.. I wonder if you want the surgeon who operates on you to know his or her stuff and stick to it, or improvise and express his freedom of expression on you
Ah well I would say let the doctor improvise if it is going to be better for me. I don't think "american yoga" is trying to say do whatever you want. It's saying find what feels good. There are some yoga positions that might be painful to some people, do you really think if its painful that they should be practicing it?
@@juliaschwender404 yoga is of different levels.. if its difficult then one can choose the suitable level. In India, physical part of yoga is not important as long as one is able to stay in 1 posture for long and meditate(real yoga). however, hot/beer/dog/goat/american yoga is not yoga.. one can as well do some swimming..
@@juliaschwender404 Yoga is inner science that was discovered by sages who saw the movements of energy when body take certain poses and they mastered this art so that it will help you become enlightened. Making body flexible is not the aim of Yoga, it's just a side effect.
Yoga is a spiritual process that can be modified only by the people who understands how the energy system (Prana) works in human body. If Yogic poses are painful for you then you can skip those poses instead of modifying them because modifications will cause more damage to you.
do simple yoga like Surya Namaskar that are easier and beneficial for everyone. Don't try modify something when you are not aware of intricacies.
@@juliaschwender404 America doesn't have anything of their own, they took kungfu from China, calisthenics from Greece, yoga from India and are now trying to claim that these originated from America, not sure about India but china will definitely not let the do that
@@juliaschwender404 and if they say do whatever feels good to you, then don't call it yoga
Did that white lady state one of the negatives of traditional Indian yoga is its lack of fashion?? Yes, apprently Lululemon wasn't on the minds of the gurus who invented yoga.. Also she talks about being self-conscious...maybe true yoga isn't about wearing skimpy tight fitting outfits? Maybe have some modesty?
#lululemon is for anorexic white women with flat butts who pretend to be enlightened.
@gypsy lab at the same time..maybe it reveals who people are on the inside. If you are vain, self-conscious, only care about exercise etc...it will show outwardly as you connect mind and soul to body?
The male yogis wear next to nothing
Cut the "modesty" then i agree with all you say
@@bajkhan1874 why body shaming her? Is being anorexic an insult? Your comment is disgusting. I agree she and most americans who practise yoga are in wrong to think it's just streching, but to star insulting for how she looks like is really low, doesn't help in any way
"Yoga is now as Americanized as pizza and sushi." This is like how others de-Catholicize Noche Buena, fiestas and Christmas.
Thanks for your Comment , it's very useful.
Haha u have a point. We all celebrate chrismas without thanking jesus or anything
Christmas is not catholic
Christmas is of pagan origins, fiesta just means party in spanish
She seems completely unaware of the fact that there are, in effect, two streams of yoga: Traditional, where you do the exact pose, and Krishnamacharya's revival of yoga, which allows for adaptation of postures according to the practitioners' abilities. NEITHER of these has ANYTHING to do with "personal expression/"
"yoga fashion" is apparently more important to that woman than the true essence of yoga being taught in the country where it originated. I think i just threw up a little.
Americans are obsessed with their #image. That's why she said that.
Too true.
My stomach churned at that as well
india has also NO yoga... even the yoga 'associations' in india teach in stretch clothing... most indians made yoga a business. go to rishikesh (the worst) but anywhere else in India indians dont know yoga...... ooopsy and forgot to mention the sexual and other scandals of those famous indian yogis.. so what r u talking about??
@@mindsoulpower @Do You MIND? POWER so you turn argument away. Is this how you want to feel important. By putting the blame on other people and not contributing to the current theme. This about an American lady being an idiot. And how they are churning out "teachers" when they cant even teach your kids how to talk or contribute to conversations.
That moment when you realise Narendra Modi is talking about the elections and not Yoga because you understand Hindi.
American media is pathetic!
Chirag K C 🤔
Not just American media, worldwide mainstream media.
india? india is the most corrupt country in asia??? indian media is no better
sinha our ancestors didn't do anything, are you high ??
@@mindsoulpower Nope, not at all lol. www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2184066/china-vietnam-seen-more-corrupt-while-indonesia-philippines-clean-their China and Vietnam are the most corrupt countries in Asia.
"there's no yoga fashion..." Good lord. 🤦♀️
Americans change things, that's what we do. That's why we have goat, cat, and beer yoga, and that's why we are dying spiritually, because yoga is not about the self centered ideas that America embodies. Most Americans don't even know what yoga is, in it's true sense. It's not about exercise or freedom of expression.
Bend your Ego Bend Your Body. That's yoga.
U just nailed it bro...jai hind
Nice
Right you said👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Nice
Lol American yoga.b.s.. western society thinks it knows it all..
We get a lot of things right
John Wick and a lot wrong as well
Such as ? 95% of you cannot even pronounce the word yoga right or any single shloka from it yet you doing something right ? By whose standards. White backslapping white for yoga which has nothing to do with white ! ?
Yup, like eating meat and only doing the elephant tail. They can keep their godless hinduism (of many fake gods hinduism), we'll do the exercise.
America is all bs
The development of yoga can be traced back to over 5,000 years ago, but some researchers think that yoga may be up to 10,000 years old old. Yoga's long rich history can be divided into four main periods of innovation, practice and development.
There is no such thing as American yoga. Yoga is an ancient indian sacred practice.
"Good for flexibility"... that sentence sums up western understanding of yoga very well.
There is nothing like American yoga 😂...
Yoga is ancient sacred practice of Indian Hindus
I practiced the modern day Yoga for 5 years. But then I found Ashtanga Mysore the most traditional form of yoga and well Indians are right I had been practicing yoga wrong for 5 years compared to the mental and physical discipline traditional mysore yoga requires.
American yoga has unfortunately been capitalized on and is now considered to be a "excercise program".
The masses here don't want anything 'creeping in' that hinders the support of Christianity, everything else is simply 'occult' or a form of 'idolatry' in some way. Most are totally ignorant that God exists in Hindu culture, as well.
It is an exercise program, nothing spiritual in it. They just make such a big fuss out of it.
Or could you tell what is so spiritual when you reach your feet with the hands?
@@ruzickaw if you don't think there is nothing spiritual why do it. Tell your fellow Muricans to not do it.
@@ruzickaw don't do it if you cannot connect to nature by YOG, better go to gym dude
it's an ego issue some people do not want to accept that they learned from others and they manipulate the original practice.
Yoga in America is a fad to help lazy people feel like they're exercising, whereas in India, it's a way of life and actually seems to provide benefits, spiritually and physically.
...and it's getting less and less popular in India, so your point is?
Uh you idiot it is exercise and people benefit.
actually WE ARE exercising.
the key is it seems to, but it doesn't, we'll do the exercise, you keep the paganism
Perhaps many Indians that practice Yoga become so in touch with themselves, it helps them become experienced within STEM majors
Firstly its not Yoga its Yog. So you are calling something with a wrong name & you think you are right in itself is ridiculous. Secondly, Yog is a life style. If you are focusing on the exercise or stretching part you are probably concentrating on the tail of an elephant. Yog philosophy says you should be a Vegan, avoid alcohol, non vegetarian food, wear simple, loose cotton clothes and lead a simple life. Reduce your belongings, reuse and recycle things. Thats the way Indian Yogis live. I haven't seen any American not drinking or smoking or a pure veg. There may be but the percentage is very low. In short, Yog for Americans is like the story - six blind men and an elephant. But, i appreciate the interest generated in the mind of Americans regarding Yog. All the best.
श्रीरंग अत्रे The confusion arises because of the Hindi language influence. In Sanskrit, all syllables are pronounced and the ‘ga’ must be spoken at the end of the word, so it is transliterated as yoga. In the South of India, those language speakers (Kannada, Malayalam) modify Sanskrit by adding -am at the end. This is also a mispronunciation of Sanskrit.
Thankyou, we'll do the exercise and the tail of the elephant, you can keep the godless hinduism, and it'll leave more meat for us carnivores, thanks.
👍like.
john cummins godless, because only you’re sky daddy is the real one?
Well, I have to eat meat because of food allergies that damage my health. Does that mean I can't do Yog?
they dont even know the meaning of namaste
Absolutely !
this triggers me so much, when people say they know yoga and don't know anything about it.
So that's why Britishers didn't introduced cricket to them ...
Another words Americans wouldn't make money off of it if they kept the depth and rituals in yoga. I've seen some yoga practices like Jillian Michaels video, which literally makes me want to vomit it's such a deterioration of a ten thousand year old tradition for money, and mediocre minds buy it without question.
yoga is not only exercise, but to relief from stress, and to generate intellectual ideas.
Most Yoga teachers are not very intelligent, just simple minded people who learned some poses, and that is all. Maybe a mantra also.
@@ruzickaw came to my place bihar munger in which many western cane just to learn yoga...real yoga..
AMERICAN YOGA ? Are u funking kidding me..what's that
@Siobhan Fogarty wdym
"That's probably the biggest difference. The freedom of expression, in each pose."
"Well that would be a classically American innovation. The freedom of expression."
"Yes. True. Yes. Where as here, it's more one way to do it, and you do it the right way."
So basically America invented the freedom of expression so therefore we can take ancient practices from even more ancient cultures and you know, like, do it American style. I mean after all, what's yoga without a cute outfit, a little mat and a whole lot of white people?
What a joke. I can't believe people are watching this main stream media crap. Throw away your TV!
Forever MGTOW thank you
Forever MGTOW Says the sexless virgin who's watching it.
I’m not watching this on my tv, 🤔
I'm new to yoga and have just learned about pranayama... I'm puzzled as to how little yoga instructors incorporate it... from what I gather it's essential to yoga... classic American short cutting
Larry Mack I don't think it's intended as short cutting. American culture is different. I believe most American yoga instructors have good intentions and try to bring people to yoga with what most Americans want and need - exercise. And for those who become invested in it, then they teach them further with pranayama and meditation. Different cultures approach things in different ways, but it's all leading to the same thing eventually, even if the path there is different.
yes pranayama is not given importance
every asana goes with his breathing like in the sun salutation. 3 things have to go together: 1 asana 2. breath 3. mind.
Search for "Sadhguru yoga" on youtube and you will find everything in ENGLISH about yoga with real knowledge
american teachers are fooling you and looting your money by making you do wrong yoga......
Commercializing yoga in america..pretty woman in fancy outfit and AC room..I happy to learn from India sadhu
American Yoga......LOFL
The whole so called power yoga or flow yoga is made around a single sun salutation.Other components are just added to make it more varied.
And the actual word is Yog a sanskrit word means addition. Yog is the addition of soul and body.Bodily movement will only provide bodily benifits.
+Suraj Kumar The meaning of the word Yoga is Union. Union with Brahman. This is the definition of indias grand master HH Swami Sivananda Guru, Sage and Saint
Then probably he was talking about the ultimate goal of doing yoga.You can't connect with the universe without connecting with your body first.
american yoga?omg..this is beyond ridiculous
Morhevr another 14yr edgy atheist. Things which you don't understand, doesn't make them superstitious.
A scientologist commenting about "superstitious crap"! That is inherently hilarious. Follow your own advice Morhevr, and don't assume 'superstition' when you just don't understand.
@Morhevr hmm do you even know about yoga?
@Mai ek angel hu aur main aasman se aaya hu BC username 😂👌
@Morhevr superstitions? Lol Hinduism is not like Christianity where you believe things blindly. It's scientific and experiential.
I loathe Modi, but I'm with India on this. Western yoga is too watered down and not in touch with the cultural aspects that yoga such a profound practice. That instructor who teaches 'American yoga' is talking out of her ass, there may be yoga in America but there is no American yoga--it is simply americanized, and being colonized for that matter by instructors like that woman. No thanks, I'll stick to some desi-discipline and feel spiritually rooted :)
Michael Singh I have a question for you. Granted, it seems unlikely that yoga would take the same form in America as it did in India, but what types of changes would you hope or want to see in the practice and teaching of yoga in America?
Michael Singh I have a question for you. Granted, it seems unlikely that yoga would take the same form in America as it did in India, but what types of changes would you hope or want to see in the practice and teaching of yoga in America?
I am from india and i know yoga doesn't belong to just indians or hindus, like gravity doesn't belong to the british. American do it in american style and chinese are doing it in the china model. *There is no yoga police to catch you if you do it wrong* .
If you do it wrong, you wont get the benifits, like in a breathing asana (xcercise) if you don't push and pull air as asked from the lungs, the lungs wont get exercised properly. This is very important for soldiers and sports people. If you do an asana to improve flexibility and circulation but you are lazy and don't want to stretch, you just wont get the benefits. That is plain common sense.
Also, mass yoga classes like of baba ramdev are much more relaxed and people do it as much as they can. Many just sit out the difficult poses. But if you are serious, like you want to be a yoga teacher or enter some yoga competition then you go to strict yoga school run by some yogacharya.
Michael,
Let's let people be. After all everything has a + or - consequence. We are nobody to judge!
+Akshay Chandrashekar As someone who has wandered in and out of a consistent Yoga practice over a number of years, I can see that the acceptance of Yoga as a form of physical exercise which can help with mindfulness and other health issues has increased. But it's a rare experience to hear a Yoga instructor go into any of the history of the poses and the sense of knowledge and history that Yoga is borne out of, even if the instructor is just referring to the poses in their Sanskrit names. The intent of my question was to find out if the way Yoga is taught in the West or even thought of in the US can be changed to stoke the same interest that many practitioners have for the spiritual benefits of Yoga as they do for the physical benefits.
So if somethings hard...its wrong??
It's simple. Yoga is practiced in India while Hoega is practiced in the west.
Lol😂
I am a practitioner of yoga over almost 40 years. I was extremely surprised by this US TV emission about US yoga. The indians are right. Yoga is not just the physical exercises. The physical exercises prepare the body for the meditation session. This is the aim of the physical exercises. The meditation session is the most important part of yoga. A "classical" yoga session must include: a) body warm exercises; b) breathing exercises; c) physical exercises; d) relaxation; e) meditation. It usually takes 2 h a complete yoga session.
American yoga is a fashion... just a trend. You will see them carrying their rubber yoga mat with pride at Central Park...
Hatah Yoga it's a lifestyle. Aligning the geometry of the body with the geometry of the universe, the Moon and the Sun. Cleansing the elements on the body. Distancing your essential nature from your body and mind...
It's not the same carrying a rubber yoga mat just because "today is my yoga day". Taking your essence to a place when there is no suffering of any kind. The ultimate Union. That's yoga.
Just to clarify; yoga have almost 15,000 year of History.
Yoga to be exact gives you a stable body which will lead you to go on next level which is mental peace and being one with parampita Brambh.
Americans are doing right yoga(gymnastics) for their needs(commercialized version). But Indians are doing right yoga way of living(a non commercialized true science of yoga)both are beneficial.
We are all one. I started as a young girl to practice yoga. I was able to heal, connect to my higher self, develope intuition or inner truth.Yoga is the way to integrate, activate our dormant DNA. Heal the emotional traumas of he body. The body feels, the heart opens or closes. Yoga is self healing and a door to discover our true vibration. We were first sound and then light and then body. Now we are in process to discover the original true self. SA TA NA MA
nroeds great comments from you both. i dont understand her about "pose and stop pose and stop..." what was the point for the real yoga?
And here we have another educator defining not just the intricacies but the boundaries, the qualifiers for those boundaries and the standards. Who would have known that it was barely 50 - 70 years that yoga reached the banks of the west for the predators to bare its fangs and start digesting the whole thing into western universalism.
A new comer to the planet earth (if that ever happened) would feel you guys were right there describing this to patanjali a couple of MILLENIA ( yeah read that word again, it is neither decades nor centuries) ago but didn't need such distortions to get into it for it to be validated.
Also even if Leave the the above two, most important pointers aside what you say doesn't make sense. What you say effectively is - If I like the Screensaver for windows 10 I can reverse engineer it or perhaps go work at microsoft for a couple of years and take it and IT WORKS for me while the rest of the windows works for you so I can take.
Try it and bill gates will personally have your hide. Just because we Hindus don't assert it is why we see such high level of irrational regurgation
well said
The New Age train is boarding, woo woo
The main difference between Indian yoga and our style is all we're doing is Asana. Which is just the stretches, and movement. Yoga is the spiritual manifestation of ones self through movement. So when they say we are doing it wrong- we are doing it wrong.
@@Optimistic_mind441 Here how about this. "The main difference between yoga practiced in India...."
Don't call Yoga in India, Indian Yoga. Respect where it came from by addressing it as simply Yoga. It's Westernized Yoga that needs two words or hyphenation. We in the West has made it into an industry based on looks, not spiritual development towards enlightenment.
Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Karate, Meditation, Kung Fu all take deep discipline to master and understand since it combines body, mind, and soul. They strive to discipline the body of it's physical limits, the mind of it's thoughts, and the soul of its connection. All of these, when done correctly provides the real balance all humans need. This is one of the many benefits of having gone through the true discipline.
Benefits for what ails us and keeps us tethered do not come easy. So if you're just looking to feel and look nice, fine, go Western. But if you're looking for enlightenment, get ready to get schooled. That's when the real work begins.
As Krishnamacharyan said:
Let the message not be lost
Indians: doing yoga properly
Americans: WAhhH I’LL Do IT HowEveR I wAnT
There is nothing called American yoga if you want to learn yoga I would say people to learn it from Indian.
I've been doing Yoga since the 70's and now teach it in America. I stick to what I learned throughout these decades. Yoga is definitely a comprehensive and broad discipline with fitness and health being a pleasant byproduct of its practice. Most people love my classes but I can tell a lot of other people would rather attend a stretch class - and they have my blessings to leave the room!! There's no such thing as American Yoga and I hope there will never be, since the predominant tendency of this country is to turn everything into a highly profitable business. With all that being said, I'm still happy that more people are turning to Yoga. Hopefully the milenar wisdom will remain and Yoga will conquer new and sincere adepts. Peace!
A couple of years ago I told a friend of mine that the Yoga he was doing was just physical exercise, and then explained to him that REAL Yoga is a lot more than just a work out. There is a deeply spiritual part within Yoga. This is a very interesting video, so thank you for confirming my thoughts and views.
American yoga is about being flexible, while the real yoga is about being mentally at peace
Not just mental. The body too
There is no such thing as American yoga, call it stretching.
@ 2:32 "there is no yoga fashion", she says. unbelievable. as if fashion has anything whatsoever to do with building a better mind and body. something very important about yoga has passed right over Lestova's head. i taught myself yoga in the 80s, from a book, when i was a teenager. i practiced in jeans, and a plain cotton t-shirt, on a hardwood floor, in a old-fashioned New England building with no air conditioning, overhead fans. no water bottle, no yoga mat, no Lulumon. "american" yoga and the people who teach it, are a joke. Thanks, Madonna. Before Madonna showed off her mad yoga skills in the 90s, inspiring the millions of people who do yoga and turned a self-improvement system into a billion-dollar industry, i was the only person i knew, who did yoga, for years. pose. stop. pose. stop. that is the instruction from the Hatha yoga books of the 80s. "freedom of expression", good grief. yoga is not interpretive dance.
This whole article smacks of western smugness. The little ways that they’re belittling Indian yoga. They really don’t know what they’re talking about.
I think it really depends on the teacher you have. I'm in America and my yoga instructor focuses on meditation and breathing more than anything. We also hold the poses unless we're doing the vinyasa flow style that is supposed to correspond to our breathing.
I enjoy yoga because it helps me to set aside time to turn inwards and focus on my mind, body, and soul. Maybe many Americans only see it as a workout but I assure you that there are also many Americans that see it as much more.
that's nice. A teacher who only focuses on asanas and say it's yoga should be avoided.
holding the poses for too long is bad.
@@ruzickaw stfu old man
Poses lol it's called aasana
"there's no yoga fashion" 😂🤣🤣
"Namaste"...bet you don't even know the meaning of that word...( Without googling)
At this point don’t even call it Americanized, just call it appropriation lol
I would go with India yoga because America kinda mess up yoga
@Morhevr Be a little humble when you dont know things. Nasika pana (cleansing of the nasal passage) is needed to ensure a clean nasal passage and it has its benefits when you do pranayama.
What I've seen in Unites States is a regular practice of some yogic posing routine, something like a a professional body builder does for competition. If you want freedom of expression, go practice dance or some other cocky form of art. Yoga is a broader subject with a spiritual sense than just expressing yourself.
I find it funny that americans think they do a thousands yrs old system better than the inventors
"India's so called yoga minister " ...how rude is this
Yoga is a beautiful ancient practice that's about mastering the mind. And discipline.
Some West people like them thinks yoga is about twisting body party and am sure they not even know the word "Yoga" means 😒
To make students learn a teacher need to discipline them.Think of a class where all students add something of their own in name of just freedom of speech to the original style.Than the Original Form Of Yoga will vanish completely.
Love you too
I was lucky enough to do my first yoga class in Kolkata in 2005 and two immersive teacher training courses in India in the last seven years, which opened my eyes to the traditional Hatha practice and the history and philosophy of yoga too. That said, I really only got the tip of the iceberg!
As has been said in the comments, what we call yoga in the West is like one small piece of a very big puzzle. I love the traditional approach. It completely changed the way I practice and gave me a chance to fully understand each pose. In many ways, I feel Westerners like to keep moving in a yoga class to keep themselves busy. Many experienced practitioners really struggle when it's time to sit still for 20 mins, including many teachers. If it's a traditional Hatha class they will sneak in a few extra poses while everybody else is holding one pose.
My Indian teacher told me they would be hit with sticks if they were losing concentration in the pose and that they had to hold some poses for 60 mins without moving. I think traditionally it's much more like Samurai culture. Many Indian yogis felt inspired or were instructed by their teachers to actively export yoga to the Western World. And obviously, a lot of this happened via the US. Whatever it is these days at least it brings benefits to many millions of people who probably wouldn't be open to it in its original form. It's sad that it's watered down but great that it has reached so many people.
I always like the simple definition from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; 'Yoga is the ceasing of the fluctuations of the mind', the poses, breathing techniques, and many other practices are the tools to achieve this.
Because yoga is literally the way HINDUS worship within their religion. It's an insult to actual Hindus. Yoga is not exercise, it's also not for some hipster New Yorker going on a health kick etc...they're prayers and a deep way Hindus worship and connect to their god or Brahma.
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Not insulting my friend. Yoga has multitudes of benifits depending how you do it. If your goal is spiritual strength then yoga has to be done with greater understanding, while normally it strengthens your body anyhow.
Morhevr Not GODS but One GOD.
Finally someone said the truth behind Yoga, its part of Hinduism and that's ok. I know 5 women who do yoga and all 5 suffer from depression and anxiety and have been doing yoga for years, one is a yoga teacher too! I don't get it why they seek yoga to help with their mental problems, clearly it is not helping. Then they say they do it to work out but all but one are over weight! What the!?!?
@Singh Bhardwaj I didn't give much context but they have been depressed many years before finding yoga....I just was wondering why many people with depression seek yoga.
It's YOG n not YOGA to begin with.
The pronunciation just has to do with the phonetics. In Sanskrit, words are generally pronounced with the 'a' in the end, hence Yoga. That's not the case in Hindi. So, the pronunciation Yoga is not really wrong.
@@bhuvanaprakash3029 in sanskrit it's ah not a
poor humans we are living in such an era that we have to pay heavily for yoga to yoga teacher who actually not an inventor.real inventor of yoga who practiced this for thousand year and given to humans for free how great they.now I realize why at that time people set him position similar to God.because this chapter teaches me sacrifice is not an easy thing. namaste
You don't have to pay any Yoga teacher. Asanas are so simple that you can learn them from CZcams. Only lazy people are looking for a teacher.
Westerners are doing some good flexibility exercises, but not Yoga
"American Yoga"???Next thing you know there will be "American Indian food" , "American holi" ........
It's about freedom and choice. Nobody forces you to buy overpriced crap from lululemon or follow fads. But it's kinda nice they are there and that people are experimenting and innovating if you're curious. Whereas in authoritarian mindset there is one true way and everything else is a blasphemy and should be rejected or even prohibited. See? The difference between Western/modern and Eastern/backward world.
clray123 And don't forget to add that western women wear pants up their ass, adding to the appeal of Yoga for the west...
Temptuous2112 yea some even don't wear any pants - which is most comfortable and looks best tbh
Honestly yoga is just a way of mental rest and getting in touch with mind and body. The New Age yoga practiced in the west probably don't have a lot to do with traditional yoga. So why call it that and to be honest christian yoga isn't to far fetched. Because most cultures had some kind of "yoga". We just called it worship and now we are bringing it back, just with a new and fancy word. Since we outlawed that kind of stuff in the west.
Just look at how they pray in Islam etc. call it getting in touch with your god or what ever you want the purpose is the same as yoga and it is probably pretty important for mental health, since no culture on earth didn't have some kind of worship before "the rise of science". That is probably also the reason why the modern medical institution have so many problems despite being able to cure pretty much any disease at this point.
Yeas just like "indian english" in language selection
I'm sensing a lot of ego in this discussion. "My yoga is better than your yoga"... Maybe everybody is missing the point.
Yoga was discovered by Hindu which is a gift to the world and everyone should do it for their body mind and soul
I went to a yoga class a while ago and it was like the “CrossFit” edition. The moves were fast, no coordination with breathing and everyone was just jumping into moves... I told the instructor.... “this isn’t yoga”..... at all
You must have taken a power Yoga class in the Mysore style.
Being an Indian I would say its totally fine with what Americans like to do. What good is a science if it can't bring benefits to the general people. Many in India in the 80s never practiced Yoga because the teachers made it look so hard to them. Now we do have lot of Yoga Teachers who encourage people and make it easy to understand. The depiction of Yoga practice in India is not 100 percent accurate. Yes there is a pre-conceived notion that there is a right way to do Yoga and doing it wrong can sometimes cause problems for example a Pregnant lady better not do ab exercises, similar goes with Yoga. A good Yoga teacher will guide you with exceptions. But thats not to say that we should just keep worrying about the method. I myself practice Fat loss Yogic exercises and can see its benefits. Yoga simply is untiring workout + meditation = healthy mind + body. :)
The best comment on here. This is what being free looks like. I took a 200hr Yoga Training and got delivered from so many things that were blocking me. I have not had an anxiety since. I learned how to manage the attacks to none. I also let my mom go who I had held on to since 2005. I am still working on clearing the clutter in my house but letting go of old baggage will soon come. Thanks for the nice comment.
They'll do it wrong...they'll have complications.....they'll blame yoga....claiming its trash..be like japan...save your traditions
@@entropymusicoriginals true!
Stfu. It's our traditional practice. Don't try to whitewash yoga.
Man you are smoking something😂🙏🙏🙏
Yoga originally started in Kemet 10,000 years ago why no one speaks about this
Its not wrong. Its just not yoga at all. Most vinyasa style or hot yoga classes are just fitness classes with yoga poses
Who cares if you learn American style yoga or Indian ? You have to start somewhere.
And if you like yoga and stick with it, then you can study it further and learn it from an Indian purist.
You should not discourage people from improving their lives.
Everywhere they teach you the same boring old fashioned Yoga asanas like the sun salutation with its limited effects. So it does not matter where you learn these few postures, in India or the West. You can even learn it from CZcams.
Improve your life, but do not call it Yoga. You begin to disrespect history there.
People can improve their lives without having to steal a religious practice and calling it their own.
@Dustin scruggs there is boundary which keeps you separated from rest of the universe. that is your physical body. and yoga actually means 'union' of those two entities by blurring this boundary.... yoga has more spiritual meaning . its much more than a workout or exercise.'fluctuations of the mind to stillness.' this description only says about a pretty primary benefit of yoga... do it right with deeper understanding and it will completely change your life...
Until you break out of the western mindset, you'll never understand this. I didn't before. People who call this evil are either extremely ignorant, stupid, or a combination of both. Yoga truly shows you how to control your emotions. It increases your confidence. Unbalanced breathing is the cause of anxiety, fear, procrastination, etc but again most just won't get it.
American yoga?!?😂😂😂😂😂 stop
American Yoga?????? WTF
"Yoga fashion"....UGHHHHH. This is embarrassing to watch.
they have everything....fashion yoga, beer yoga, christian yoga, american yoga are some classic examples
American yoga lol😂
I am from India.
And daily 1 hour do the yoga .
It helps for peace and mind memory
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Yoga is a 3000 years old Indian practice,Americans do it for 20yrs and claim it as their invention 😂😂
Yoga means Union, if Yoga is done properly you'll experience a Union with the Universe.
Right now you experience only your body, but with Yoga one can experience whole city or planet as a part of himself
"There is no yoga fashion" - oh lawd.... "American yoga" majorly isn't yoga. It is Asana. The Sutras only mention Asana once! Yoga developed from the Samkhya philosophy as a method of direct experience of consciousness. But I guess people need to start somewhere
Modi's first term was so fascinating! All of us, and I mean all of us, left, right, centre were enraptured by his aura and personality. Look how badly he has fallen from grace these days!
This is so very TRUE I would love to visit India a nd have a proper yoga
Yoga is from India, and as it mentioned in the video, it's at least 4,000 years old. There's more of a spiritual aspect involved in the real yoga in India, it isn't just exercise. I feel like American yoga is disrespectful to the real yoga and the attitude toward the strictness of Indian yoga is like a slap in the face and invalidating, and all that we focus on in America is the physical appearance of our body that we'll get from our form of yoga. We should be focusing a lot more on the spiritual side of it and do it the way they do in India, do that, and the rest will fall into place. So what if the real yoga is hard, it's the correct form of it, it isn't something that we're supposed to be able to do overnight or in a few weeks, it's a long process that involves mind, body, and spirit.
@chandan sinha It's disappointing because as an American and wanting to learn the real type of Yoga, it's very hard, if not impossible to find a place that teaches the true form and purpose of Yoga the way they do in India.
Notice how Star Wars even highlighted similar aspects? The Jedi became so disconnected and transformed into more of a political group and war strategists than Jedi. They lost touch with the spirituality and connection to the force. Interesting how that works...
Yoga in West is more sexualized and women specifically wear tight clothing like they do in other sports or gym. Whereas, in Yoga you are supposed to feel relaxed and open with loose light clothing and fresh air not closed rooms.
Yes
wtf is american yoga?
@Morhevr You use words like "borrow" and "modify" instead of "steal" and "commodify."
I started doing yoga and the first breathing exercise that involved breathing out for a long time than breathing in..made me tremble like anything.. yoga is powerful..some breathing exercises increased my heart rate even though I was just sitting in one place. Sadguru is a great teacher.
There is no American yoga. It is yoga which came from India. Yoga is an Indian word. I love doing yoga which came from India to the west. It’s for everyone but we must remember where it came from.
Conclusion is what is Yog?
Yes it’s not Yoga.... it’s Yog.
Yog Sanskrit word it’s meaning is joining. Now what we join...it’s answer is join our soul to ultimate God Soul or united our soul with God. There is a Doha or verse Sither sukhum asanam ....means sit in a pose that is stable for long time by which it stable mind this result in feelings no pain no disturbance and this is the starting level of exploring ourselves toward united with God. Yog is trained our body and mind. There is eight limbs of father of Yog Guru Patanjali . Hope I little bit explain what is Yog......
There is no soul, there is no god. So hat will you join with what?
Spartan yoga! lol they clearly didn't understand what yoga really is!
It's sad that most Americans only know one thing... take from others and make it theirs. As an indigenous person who sees this happen with my culture here in America it just devalues and is a dishonor to my heritage and culture.
Only India yoga is real yoga, test of all forms of ‘yoga’ is just BS.
Seems Americans left out that becoming one with yourself thing, it shows...