Every time I am invited to talk about yoga at a meeting and it doesn’t matter in which country, I am always asked the same question: what kind of yoga is Yogadharma?

This morning I have been asked to clarify what is Yogadharma for the umpteenth time and my answer is every time the same: ‘Yogadharma is Yoga’.

At the very beginning Yoga was just Yoga without all those different schools  that we know nowadays; Yoga was Yoga, the only one. Only later it has began to split into dozens of disciplines, schools and a wide variety of  movements.

Yogadharma is the Yoga of its origins, its points of references, besides all the Masters from all schools of every period, are the Yoga’s sacred scriptures and more precisely the Tantra Shastra.

Wherever the Master’s teachings are in tune with the teachings in the scriptures, only there is Yogadharma.

Every time I am invited to talk about yoga at a meeting and it doesn’t matter in which country, I am always asked the same question: what kind of yoga is Yogadharma?

This morning I have been asked to clarify what is Yogadharma for the umpteenth time and my answer is every time the same: ‘Yogadharma is Yoga’.

At the very beginning Yoga was just Yoga without all those different schools  that we know nowadays; Yoga was Yoga, the only one. Only later it has began to split into dozens of disciplines, schools and a wide variety of  movements.

Yogadharma is the Yoga of its origins, its points of references, besides all the Masters from all schools of every period, are the Yoga’s sacred scriptures and more precisely the Tantra Shastra.

Wherever the Master’s teachings are in tune with the teachings in the scriptures, only there is Yogadharma.

Yogadharma is the original path that today can be entirely understood, finally. This is thanks to all those schools which have been preparing the coming of the new era of awareness. For the last 2160 years the many yoga’s currents of thoughts have been preparing the coming of the Acquarian Age which will officially begin on Friday, 21st December 2011 and now, eventually,  it is possible to fully grasp the various teachings from different yoga schools enabling us to return to the origins.

Our limited standard of awareness as human beings in the Pisces Era has allowed only to few enlightened beings to grasp the whole meaning of the yoga message but due to the spiritual obscurity of that period, they were forced to teach only a partial knowledge.

Now with the coming of the new era, Yogadharma will be understood in its whole by everybody.

Yogadharma is the path that leads to the Dharma through the discipline of Yoga; it is the mystic track that leads from Karma to Dharma and let us achieve Yoga.

Yogadharma uses the whole yoga knowledge and applies different methods to the specific  needs of each student, fully respecting  the tradition as taught by the former Masters, who had always been putting the student at the centre of their teachings and had been following him individually in his own spiritual growth. It’s true, in fact, that yoga has to be practised following the psychological-physical- spiritual attitude of who practises it.

Yogadharma is absolutely not a new method of yoga, but it is a criteria aiming to put every student into the optimal condition to practise.

As every person is different from each other, so every student differs from the others and the same it is for her/his physical, spiritual, energetic characteristics and even in the same person it is possible to find significant changes when referring to different moments of her/his life.

In Yogadharma those ones and other elements are evaluated in order to offer the best approach to yoga.

A Yogadharma teacher applies the most suitable yoga methodology to his student, only after having analysed in details her/his personality.

As stated by Patanjali in Yoga Sutra (III-6): “TASYA BHUMISHU VINIYOGAH” (“its application based on phases”), even though this sutra was referred to Samyama ( term used by Patanjali which joins dharana,dhyana and Samadhi), it may be easily extended  to the entire yoga practice and it highlights the grading approach to yoga that has to take into consideration both student’s needs and abilities.

Furthermore, following the ancient tradition, in Yogadharma everybody may practise the same class jointly with students of different levels, because even if the class is the same, the level of energetic stimulation remains based on each individual, anyway.

It has also to be emphasised that Yoga is a discipline that encourages our body’s mind’s and spirit’s health and harmony, and that an inaccurate practise may bring energetic disharmonies which may cause diseases and sickness.

A practise that doesn’t fit the student may cause unpleasant consequences and that can only be avoided by a well trained teacher who has got a very deep knowledge of the yoga methodologies.

Every student is unique and very special and his/her yoga teacher must be prepared to guide him through the yoga path with his/her own skills and professionalism; nevertheless the teacher should always bear in mind that the approach to yoga has to be graded and progressive and that at the beginning it is the method that has to be adapted to the student and not vice versa. Later on the student will be able to master the practise, gradually.

In few words, Yogadharma is the practise of yoga as taught since the very beginning.

Yogadharma is the original path that today can be entirely understood, finally. This is thanks to all those schools which have been preparing the coming of the new era of awareness. For the last 2160 years the many yoga’s currents of thoughts have been preparing the coming of the Acquarian Age which will officially begin on Friday, 21st December 2011 and now, eventually,  it is possible to fully grasp the various teachings from different yoga schools enabling us to return to the origins.

Our limited standard of awareness as human beings in the Pisces Era has allowed only to few enlightened beings to grasp the whole meaning of the yoga message but due to the spiritual obscurity of that period, they were forced to teach only a partial knowledge.

Now with the coming of the new era, Yogadharma will be understood in its whole by everybody.

Yogadharma is the path that leads to the Dharma through the discipline of Yoga; it is the mystic track that leads from Karma to Dharma and let us achieve Yoga.

Yogadharma uses the whole yoga knowledge and applies different methods to the specific  needs of each student, fully respecting  the tradition as taught by the former Masters, who had always been putting the student at the centre of their teachings and had been following him individually in his own spiritual growth. It’s true, in fact, that yoga has to be practised following the psychological-physical- spiritual attitude of who practises it.

Yogadharma is absolutely not a new method of yoga, but it is a criteria aiming to put every student into the optimal condition to practise.

As every person is different from each other, so every student differs from the others and the same it is for her/his physical, spiritual, energetic characteristics and even in the same person it is possible to find significant changes when referring to different moments of her/his life.

In Yogadharma those ones and other elements are evaluated in order to offer the best approach to yoga.

A Yogadharma teacher applies the most suitable yoga methodology to his student, only after having analysed in details her/his personality.

As stated by Patanjali in Yoga Sutra (III-6): “TASYA BHUMISHU VINIYOGAH” (“its application based on phases”), even though this sutra was referred to Samyama ( term used by Patanjali which joins dharana,dhyana and Samadhi), it may be easily extended  to the entire yoga practice and it highlights the grading approach to yoga that has to take into consideration both student’s needs and abilities.

Furthermore, following the ancient tradition, in Yogadharma everybody may practise the same class jointly with students of different levels, because even if the class is the same, the level of energetic stimulation remains based on each individual, anyway.

It has also to be emphasised that Yoga is a discipline that encourages our body’s mind’s and spirit’s health and harmony, and that an inaccurate practise may bring energetic disharmonies which may cause diseases and sickness.

A practise that doesn’t fit the student may cause unpleasant consequences and that can only be avoided by a well trained teacher who has got a very deep knowledge of the yoga methodologies.

Every student is unique and very special and his/her yoga teacher must be prepared to guide him through the yoga path with his/her own skills and professionalism; nevertheless the teacher should always bear in mind that the approach to yoga has to be graded and progressive and that at the beginning it is the method that has to be adapted to the student and not vice versa. Later on the student will be able to master the practise, gradually.

In few words, Yogadharma is the practise of yoga as taught since the very beginning.