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Studio (707) 827-3886 |
Westside Yoga Studio, 7385 Healdsburg Ave. Suite 102 Sebastopol, CA 95473 |
The studio is a small, very clean and special room, where we offer classes to help people to move toward yoga. Our interest is in serving the people, and supporting dynamic health on all levels. We are willing to help anyone of sincere interest to develop in the 8 limbs of yoga to the best of our ability.
Please check out our various offerings, and come take classes at the studio. We are very thankful to be part of the community, and are passionate about the wonderful benefits that this ancient healing system has to offer us all. Hope to see you in the studio soon!
Above is the image of Sage Patanjali, who is credited with compiling and synthesizing several transcendental accomplishments, among them a treatise on ancient medicine(Ayurveda), a treatise on ancient grammar(Sanskrit), and his culminative work on human conciousness and transcendent psychology, The Yoga Sutra. In the Yoga Sutra, he defines and delineates the technical, metapsychological, and meditative premises that underlie all of the traditions of the philosophical and practical fields of Yoga. He describes a systematic approach to the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind-stuff(yoga by definition) by way of the 8-limbed path. The word ashtanga being Sanskrit for 8(asto) limb(anga). The limbs are as follows:
1) yama-ethical disciplines, seen as universal ethics
2) niyama-rules of conduct that apply to individual discipline
3)asana-seat, posture
4)pranayama-control of the prana
5)pratyahara-bringing the out-going senses inward
6)dharana-one-pointedness, deep concentration
7)dhyana-meditation, absorption of the conciousness
8)samadhi-absorption in the state of union, serenity; dissolution of duality of the conciousness. Samadhi is said to occur in different stages, and is impossible to define accurately with words.