What is Amrit Yoga?
Developed by Yogi Amrit Desai, Amrit Yoga is meditation in motion, transforming the philosophy of yoga into experiential reality-transcending every aspect of your being. This practice integrates joyful inner stillness with effortless outer action in the world.
Amrit Yoga cultivates inward focus and meditative awareness along with the practice of asanas (postured) postures and pranayams (breathing). This internal focus is the single most powerful tool to prevent chronic, stress-producing, mental dialogues and emotional reactions. These unconscious habits accompany us through every activity; the yoga mat is not an exception.
The practice of Amrit Yoga has the power to engage you totally, absorb you completely, and integrate you fully in your body, mind, heart and soul. It empowers you to enter the experience of unity, which is integral to the experience of yoga.
Amrit Yoga is a metaphor for life. The skills of mindful attention and meditative awareness you develop on the yoga mat extend to challenges you encounter in life. Painful transition periods, relationships and crises can become opportunities and openings for personal transformation.
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The Mantras:
Asatoma Mantra
Asatoma Sad Gamaya
Tamasoma Jyotir Gamaya
Mrityorma Amritam Gamaya
(Translation)
Lead me from the unreal to the real
Lead me from darkness to light
Lead me from time-bound consciousness; to a timeless state of Being.
Guru Mantra
Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu
Guru Devo Maheswara
Guru Saaksaat Param Brahma
Tasmai Shri Guruve Namaha
(Translation)
Guru (teacher) is Brahma (who plants the qualities of goodness)
Guru is Vishnu (Who nurtures and fosters the qualities of goodness)
Guru is Maheswara – Shiva (Who weeds out the bad quality)
Guru is Supreme Brahman itself
I bow unto that Guru
