Valentine’s Day is still fresh in our minds, there are signs of spring in the air, and the quintessential symbol of this season is love. Couples yoga is no different.
Couple yoga, or partner yoga, is a new concept originating from the West, where yoga experts organize classes using “couple poses”. These poses aim to increase flexibility and strength while having fun, and obviously also promote communication, trust, and relationship satisfaction.
Couple poses can be difficult. If you choose such a course, we recommend that you first learn the poses individually so that your body and mind acquire sufficient stability and endurance. Once completed, try out some poses.
Also, make sure your yoga instructor has a long-term plan for relationship satisfaction and compatibility. The chemistry and connections need to last long after the course ends.
yoga of love and compassion
“Love is not just looking at each other; it’s looking in the same direction,” said Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, but this requires a more nuanced approach to couples yoga. Become.
For some perspective, we spoke to yoga guru Dr. Hansaji from the Yoga Institute in Santacruz, Mumbai. Couples yoga classes, which combine yoga practice and counseling, have been a regular course at the institute since 1973. Initially, it was carried out jointly by Dr. Hansaji and her husband, Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra, who was the institute’s director at the time.
“Couples yoga emphasizes that you both need to trust each other and function together. Love should grow, and that love should manifest in compassion,” she says.
Through regular yoga practice, couples learn to share, build trust, build intimacy, deepen their bond with each other, and function as a team. Conflict resolution becomes easier when both partners relax and develop a new understanding. They now agree on the best way to care for children and the elderly, manage finances, manage expectations, and other important issues.
Partner Yoga ~ Life Partner Yoga
Attending yoga classes together helps support and correct each other’s concepts, as well as postures, breathing techniques, meditation, etc.
Through the first steps of yoga, Yamasu and Niyamasuor social and personal equations – couples renew their understanding and self-reflection. ahimsa It means that we should not hurt each other. Sathya That means if they aren’t true, the entire relationship is at risk. Asteya — Not only stealing material things, but also not giving credit where credit is due is a form of theft. Brahmacharya It is important to control the senses, and mutual respect, selflessness, purity of thought and action are the key here. As a family member, it is important to share and be considerate rather than hoarding things. Aparigraha.
Doing yoga together helps you stay on the same page about your lifestyle and way of life.
Couple Yoga ~ Soulmate Yoga
By definition, yoga is more than just physical exercise. The poses are simply a means of gaining a healthy body and a focused mind in order to move towards peace and freedom from misery.
Growth is the purpose of life and marriage is the best opportunity for self-improvement and a very powerful medium for learning to let go of yourself. A person progresses only when there is complete surrender. In a live-in arrangement, you are still holding your own. It’s like a comfortable spirituality. People have to flow together and adjust even if they don’t know what the other person has done for them.
“Whenever Dr. Jayadeva was asked, “Who is your guru?” he said, “My wife is my guru.” And I always said, “My husband is my guru.” says Dr. Hansaji. , I didn’t have much life experience. I enjoy everything in life and when I conveyed these thoughts to him he was happy to learn. I learned that people who are quiet and gentle are more expressive. And I will be patient, have no expectations and not be influenced by other people’s opinions. ”
Hansaji and Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra traveled extensively in India and abroad, selflessly sharing their knowledge of yoga. In 1989, the couple helped design a yoga education syllabus for schools, which was implemented across the country by NCERT, BMC schools, and the University of Mumbai.
Indian traditional yoga couple
Yogendra and Sitadevi: Yogendra, the founder of the Yoga Institute in Santacruz, was a disciple of Paramahansa Madhavdas and a “family yogi”. He married Sitadevi in his 1927 year. Sitadevi soon thereafter studied yoga intensely for four years, after which he offered honorary service to the institute. First, she was trusted with the command of the women’s department, and then she was given the responsibility of the institute’s secretary. She has treated over 5,000 of her cases. In 1934, her work was the first in the modern history of yoga to be published as a textbook for teaching practical yoga to women. This unique contribution to public health earned her an invitation to be a delegate to the Health and Welfare Conference at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Both books are preserved in the “Cemetery of Civilization” to be read 6,000 years after her death.
T Krishnamacharya and Namagiamma: Wife of the “father of modern yoga” Thirumalai Krishnamacharya, Namagiamma was his devoted partner in life and in his mission to preserve and spread the teachings of yoga. She married in 1925 at the age of 12 and later became a student of Krishnamacharya. There is a video from 1938 of Namajiamma wearing a sari and performing reverse yoga asanas such as ‘Padma Saramba Sirsana’. Take a look here.
BKS Iyengar and Rama Mani: Renowned yoga guru BKS Iyengar, in his eulogy to his wife Ramamani, said that she did not know about yoga when she married him in 1943, but that she practiced it every day. He said that he became deeply interested in him and became his disciple. He taught her to help improve her own ways. This made her an excellent teacher and allowed her to teach female students independently. She sacrificed her own interests for his practice. “Slowly we understood each other, lived happily in spirit, devoted to each other… We lived without conflict, as if we were one soul,” he said. Ta.
Yajmvalkya and Maitreya Bodhisattva: Historically, Bodhisattva Maitreya was initiated into yoga by her yogi husband Yajvalkya.
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The author is a journalist, cancer survivor, and certified yoga teacher. She can be reached at swatikamal@gmail.com.
First published: February 16, 2024, 12:46 IST
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