How to Do Raja Yoga

Raja yoga tries to control thoughts through meditation and yoga poses. Learn how to practice Raja yoga in this video lesson.

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Control focus
Distinguish real & unreal
Quiet thought-waves

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry, and in this clip we're going to discuss raja yoga. The word, raja, in Sanskrit means royal, so raja yoga means royal union. It's the yoga of the kings. It's one of oldest known type of yoga, one of patanjali styles of yoga, and raja yoga combines karma yoga, ashtanga yoga and Kundalini yoga all into one. It seeks to master the discovery of distinguishing between the real and the unreal, how you could have joy without sorrow, sorrow without joy. It seeks to quiet the thought waves in the mind. So through meditation and pointed concentration, focusing, we learn to focus on just one thing, your breath, rather than allowing your mind to wander to different places. So raja yoga is yoga of the kings. It combines several different styles of yoga together using asanas to slow down the thought waves in the mind.

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