yogah cittavritti niridhah
yoga is the cessation of movement in the conciuosness
yoga membuat keheningan dalam bathin dan pikiran
yoga is the cessation of movement in the conciuosness
yoga membuat keheningan dalam bathin dan pikiran
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| Wednesday, 18 March 2009 14:27 |
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Social Yoga Club Jakarta A Club for Young at Heart Independent - Open - Tolerant - Cultural Life in a metropolitan city like Jakarta is like a two-storey house, with the first floor in the basement. The building on top is clearly seen, good taken care of, while other rooms underneath the surface are dark and murky, unattended. Physical developments are competing with each other to reach the sky of the capital: housing complex, apartments, malls and entertainment, and religious houses. That is the analogy of the top floor. Meanwhile, the social development is like the basement, dark and murky. We often see disagreements end up with violence. The big gap between the haves and the haves-not is unavoidable. Greed and egocentricity are still controlling the mind of most of the residents, who are claimed to be the role-model of the country. Added with some parties who insist their claimed-truth to others, the difficulty of getting the access for education and health, the unbearable pollution and traffic jam, living in Jakarta is complicated. Public places for residents to interact are getting crowded and smaller. There is a lot of effort from the government and other private companies to build infrastructure and create activities to increase the welfare of the people. For example, providing yoga classes as believed to increase the awareness to live a healthy life, physically, mentally and spiritually. By doing yoga, you can explore yourself to maximize your potentials. Doing yoga will free yourself from all pressures: tension and fatigue, negative thoughts or violence act. Yoga sequence will boost your energy, concentration and memory, increase your confidence and sensitivity and bring your mind and body wellness. With elegant methods, yoga has evolved over 3000 years ago and spread out from its origin, India . In time, many people have experienced the benefit of yoga. In this modern life, yoga has turned into sophisticated form with the impression of exclusivity for the haves. Another development of yoga is the increase of fanaticism on the yoga tradition by its followers. There is a view from a tradition and its gurus that combined with certain needs and motives based on personal ego. This view on the sacredness of yoga has increased curiosity of a certain religion so that it forbids its people to practice yoga. This ban of yoga has damaged the relationship within yoga practitioners and has impacted negatively to yoga globally, where people has doubts to practice yoga. The idea to establish this club is to get rid of the impression of yoga being exclusive and difficult. In fact, yoga can be practiced with fun to increase the brotherhood/sisterhood, celebrate togetherness and diversity, and create a positive bond of all residents. Social Yoga Club Jakarta is not a rigid organization with tight hierarchy. This club is only a collective individual who wants to practice yoga without being involved in yoga politics, to gain additional value of happiness and to participate in increasing the quality of life for Jakarta residents. We have routinely held the event of Yoga Gembira, once a week at weekend. This is a yoga class with affordable fee in the housing area. Each event is held openly like a family recreation. To avoid fanaticism on a guru or a yoga tradition, the role of yoga teacher is only to teach yoga. There will be no knowledge hidden as all can be referenced. As Karl Popper (Austrian scientist and philosopher) said, a good knowledge is one that can be verified and with a room for improvement. There is no supra-natural activity practiced in this club. We also invite other presenter or moderator outside yoga discipline to complement yoga by sharing the knowledge. In addition, 20% of the yoga fee will be donated to health and education for children in need. So our principles are: Yoga, Fun, Knowledge and Charity. Social Yoga Club Jakarta has establish its platform simply as: Independent: no affiliation to ideology, political party, religion, individual, group or other tradition. Funds obtained from owned members. Open : all activities are decided democratically. Discussion to obtain consensus. Open for ideas or inputs from members or other parties align with group improvement. Tolerant : uphold the humanity in diversity. Respect individual rights. Cultural : implement yoga in Indonesian climate. Respect and utilize the diversity of Indonesian culture in running its activities. |
| Last Updated on Sunday, 19 April 2009 17:34 |
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