What is Svaroopa® Yoga
Svaroopa® Yoga is a compassionate and gentle approach to the body. Whether a novice or experienced yoga student, physically fit, or struggling with health challenges, Svaroopa®
Yoga offers profound changes in every lifestyle. Svaroopa®
Yoga can be practiced by all, it uses classical yoga asanas (poses) to create a deep opening in the muscles around the spine, helping the whole body to relax and move more freely. In each class, your body is supported in poses that carefully and gradually release the deepest layers of tension in the body. The emphasis is on core opening, resulting in an overall feeling of well being, a reduction in muscular tension, and an openness and ease that permeates the whole body. By using precise alignments and meticulous placement of props, you experience calmness in your body and openness in your heart.
Benefits of a regular Svaroopa® Yoga practice may include (but are not limited to)
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Healing on all levels
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Increased Strength and Energy
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Relief from stress & anxiety
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Reduction of Chronic Pain
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Improved Respiration and Circulation
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Strengthened immune system.
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Peace of mind
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"This style of yoga teaches different ways of doing familiar poses, emphasizing the opening of the spine by beginning at the tailbone and progressing through each spinal area. Every pose integrates the foundational principles of asana, anatomy, and yoga philosophy, and emphasizes the development of transcendent inner experience, which is called Svaroopa® by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra. This is a consciousness-oriented yoga that also promotes healing and transformation."
Svaroopa® Yoga was developed by Rama Birch, who founded and directs the Master Yoga Academy and created the yoga program for Dr. Deepak Chopra's Center for Well Being, both located in La Jolla, California. Birch says teaching asanas became increasingly frustrating, because the students seemed to be trying to "impose the pose upon their body rather than unfolding it from within." She began looking for ways to guide her students to the deeper effects of each asana, speaking of them as "angles that provide opening, rather than poses to be learned." New students find this a very approachable style, often beginning in chair poses that are comfortable and have a deep healing effect in the spine.
For more information or to find out if there is a teacher in your area, visit www.masteryoga.org.
Yoga Journal (Winter, 2000)
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