Philosophy or a means?
Yoga is a discipline that leads to spiritual self-realisation, helps to keep us healthy and makes a conscious change of the state of mind, body and spirit possible.
Yoga is a means of harmonising body, mind, emotions and energy. Yoga is not a philosophy, not something to be only thought about. Yoga is a practice that is lived. It deals with our whole being: our body, our existence, our origin, our sources. True yoga is free of any dogma and is not a religion.
Yoga is a practice thousands of years old and a science of the inner being, which serves humanity without any additional message.
The most important aspects of yoga
Universal moral commandments, self-purification through discipline, body postures, rhythmic controlled breathing, freeing the mind from the influence of the environment, concentration, meditation and union with the subject of meditation.
Postures
The path to follow consists in making our body and all its functions conscious: through attention and consistent practice we learn to notice and direct even what used to pass unnoticed.
Read about asanas
Breathing
Modern people often do not breathe properly. Our suppressed spiritual life, the constant swinging between passion and fear, tightens our throat, so we do not breathe with full lungs.
Read about breathing
Awareness
Unpleasant states such as fear, anger and despair burden the organism, while good feelings, happiness, joy and love give us strength to cope better with life.
Read about awareness
Instructors from Loznica
Work, order and peace, discipline and strength, endurance and persistence, dedication and effort – yoga practice.
Ivana Tomić
Yoga instructor
„It’s impossible,“ said pride. „It’s risky,“ said experience. „It’s pointless,“ said reason. „Give it a try,“ whispered the heart.
Drago Katić
Yoga instructor
Nothing can be forced. Slowly, with understanding and love for yourself.
Marijana Milutinović
Yoga instructor
There is no influence of the environment. In the bliss of peace and tranquillity we live love for people and all living beings.
Gallery
Photographs from trips, from nature and our instructors.
Yoga Loznica articles
Read a little more about yoga, healthy ways of living, breathing, nutrition… The articles are available in English and in Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic script); the Serbian ones also as PDF documents.
Breathing exercises
Learn pranayama: complete breathing step by step and breathing exercises for every day, explained simply
Body postures
Asana yoga: body postures that strengthen muscles, calm breath and heart and balance hormones. How to practise them
Every movement, breath and thought
What yoga practice looks like: asanas, pranayama and relaxation in one short, regular session. Tips for getting started in Loznica
What we think about while we think
Nothing without awareness: how attention, thoughts and breath change body and mind. Yoga teaches focus and mental commitment
Swimming and correct breathing
Swimming and correct breathing: how the rhythm of strokes and breath becomes pranayama in the water. Tips for breaststroke
Asanas for a healthy back and good posture
Yoga for the spine: stretching, strengthening, relaxation and complete breathing, with tips for good posture. Eight-class course
Yoga and mental balance
Yoga and mental balance: how postures, breathing and attention calm the nervous system and stress hormones. Eight-class course
Introspection
The self-observation module: an eight-class course of stretching and complete yoga breathing with contemplation and meditation
Motivation for yoga: how to start and not give up
Motivation for yoga: five simple steps to start, keep the habit and not give up. Small steps, breath and patience
They said
These quotations are our English rendering of texts known to us in Serbian; the wording of the originals may differ.
“The powers of the mind are like rays of light that scatter; when they are concentrated, they illuminate. That is our only way of knowing.”
“Man, you are your own only secret! Who can open your door but you? And no one can enter but you!”
“Trust your true essence and you will be able to rely on your strengths. Act rightly, and life will be just to you. Be moderate in every part of your life, and you will have a long and healthy life. Be calm like the morning stillness, look to the future with confidence, as you trust in tomorrow’s sunrise, look at the world with cheerful calm. The strength that holds the world holds you too, for you are a part of it.”
“Avoid two things, traveller: useless desires and excessive restraint of the body.”
“A person should turn their eyes towards themselves, in order to set out on the most wondrous path of discovering the world.”
“If matter is powerful, thought is all-powerful. The salvation of the world lies in a cultured humanity.”
“Pleasure is short, like a flash of lightning; why then do I follow only the path of pleasure?”
“Let the individual live without doing harm, free of care, like an elephant in a forest of elephants.”
“Peace and its attainment in all directions is the goal of the world.”
“Strength that asks for no justification and love that asks for no proof.”
“And he who cannot live in a community, or who needs nothing … is either a beast or a god.”
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