Just move the body with the intention and get the result!🔗

On some days, Raghupati Yogi would ask me to sit still and be very peaceful, to meditate on stillness, peace and tranquility. Then after ten minutes, he would suddenly tell me to stand up and run around the entire temple as fast as I could!

He would make me bend this way and that way. In the temple where he would teach me yoga, there were twenty to thirty pillars. He would make me climb every stone pillar and come down. And I had to use only one hand to climb the pillars and come down!

I would ask him why he was making me climb all the pillars, because I couldn't find any books or any sutras⁴ saying climbing pillars was a part of yoga!

He said a beautiful thing, ‘For whatever purpose you bend your body or move your body, that memory and idea will become completely inserted or completely recorded in your body and mind.’

It was a very shocking revelation! He said, with any intention that you move your body, bend your body, or make your body active, and that intention, that purpose, will be recorded into your body, that samskara will start expressing in your body.

Today, especially in the West, there has been too much connection of disease and asanas¹ as in for this disease, you have to do that asana, for this problem you have to do that technique. Understand, doing asanas for solving a disease is not the purpose of yoga! When you think of a disease and do yoga with that thought in your mind, you are actually pushing the imprint of the thought of that disease into your system!

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Raghupati Yogi says, any asana practiced, or any physical movement practiced for some purpose or with some intention, will create that effect in your body. He says that this is possible even with ordinary sitting. If you strongly believe that by sitting you will have health and you just sit for health, you will see health simply happening in you.

Understand, your body itself is made out of your memory. Your mind, what you think of as you, makes up the building blocks of your body.

Every memory is recorded in your muscles. So when you change the memories, you can simply change your system also. Your system can and will respond to the memory you create. This is how the transformation in the body-mind happens through Nithya Yoga. The inner space is cleaned first so the mind falls in tune. Then the body follows as the physical movement is done with the intention. The intention gets inserted into the very muscle memory and cellular intelligence.

‘We are what our perceptions are. As are our perceptions, so become our actions. As are our actions, so becomes our destiny.’ This is not a quote from the Upanishad, but from ‘The Biology of Belief’, a recent book by Dr Bruce Lipton^\*, a cellular biologist who has presented a new theory on how cells behave. We have all been taught that we behave the way our genes are designed. Dr Lipton*, after his research, says the opposite - our genes are designed the way we behave!

There have been many recorded incidents of the ability of intention and visualization actually resulting in the intention becoming physical reality itself! For example, people have cured their own fatal diseases like cancer or overcome tremendous physical handicaps by pushing their limits and going beyond what they thought was their capacity. These things have happened through the power of intention which transforms basic cellular memory.

This ancient truth is now being proven with the support of modern scientific findings. It has been found that whatever we think deeply and continuously has a profound effect on us physically, mentally and spiritually.

Nithya Yoga is my offering to the world. It is the science, the formula, that will give others the same experience of enlightenment which happened in me.

The purpose of Nithya Yoga is simple - to experience and express bliss. With Nithya Yoga, the capacity to experience bliss will just explode in your inner space. The capacity to radiate bliss will start happening in your body.

As of now, your system may not be prepared to stay in that enlightened space, to radiate that same experience continuously. Nithya Yoga prepares your body to experience and stay in and radiate the inner bliss, the eternal bliss.

Through Nithya Yoga, I am training seekers not only to experience the bliss, but also to stabilize the experience in them, and to radiate that experience continuously in their life. The purpose of Nithya Yoga is to help people unclutch and experience eternal bliss. People may also find that physical healing results as a byproduct or side-effect. But, be clear that yoga is for much more than physical health, which is just one benefit of yoga. The emotional benefits are also tremendous but these are also more like byproducts!

In the same way, meditation is not just for mental well being. Mental well-being is just one side-effect happening through meditation. The goal of Nithya Yoga is making your whole life, every activity and every movement transformed into yoga, into bliss.

Nithya Yoga is conducted today worldwide. Every session of Nithya Yoga deepens the uniting of the body-mind-spirit by bringing together all the eight limbs of Patanjali's Ashtanga yoga, by including all the elements like asana, pranayama, mudra etc.

Nithya Yoga is not about adding more movements to your life. It is about adding more life to your movements.

If you are present, if you are aware, and if you are totally in the moment while doing anything, it is yoga – Nithya Yoga.

Ashtanga yoga - Eight limbs or paths of Patanjali's Yoga: yama (discipline), niyama (rules), asana (body postures), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawal of senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (bliss).

Pranayama - Breath control, one of the eight limbs of the Ashtanga yoga of Patanjali.

Mudra - Signs formed with hands during yoga practices, especially meditation, to distribute and seal energy within the body.