SADHANA YOGA CHI

The true definition of Sadhana Yoga Chi
"The practice quest, a union of vital life force energy with your own body mind and spirit."

Symbolically, golden sunbeams touch the vision of the white swan drifting effortless, across a quite pond, within the heart of a lotus flower. The sunbeams represent knowledge; the white swan represents purity, the water as endless time and the petals of the lotus flower representing different branches of yoga.

Throwing a pebble onto the pond…you create ripples; eventually touching the distant shores long after the pebble is gone. Symbolically your existence in life creates ripples in time, touching those in future generations, long after you are gone. You can leave a message of kindness, intelligence, compassion and ecological preservation, or one of selfish greed, destruction, violence and mass confusion.

The Goal of Sadhana Yoga Chi
Striving to create a holistic balance between strength and softness, intellect and fitness.

Creating a body of perfect health and strength, a mind with all clarity, intellect and focus, coupled with a heart full of peace and harmony. Striving for a balance between your own physical mental and spiritual self. At the same time keeping your sense of humor and touching the hearts of others in a positive way.

The Sadhana Yoga Chi program is centered around a holistic approach:
1. Combining both hard and soft Yoga techniques
2. Moderate other physical fitness
3. Personal meditation
4. Positive motivation and self respect
5. Enhanced diet and nutrition
6. Bonding with nature and respect for ecology
7. Truth and communication, with a humble soul
8. Retaining your own sense of humor and creativity
9. Random acts of kindness - with friends, lovers, family, and strangers
10. Believe – we are all created equal
11. Quest for knowledge and expansion, knowing we are all students and teachers

Sadhana Yoga Chi is comparable to all other existing yoga practices. It uses many of the same postures and familiar techniques of breathing. Yet with most of the yoga styles mentioned, each of the postures is completed by holding the pose for a specific amount of time, followed by a moment of rest. This creates a segmented energy pattern and ultimately, a loss of energy: each time you end a yoga posture you are breaking the current of energy, and much of the prana created is lost.

In order to derive the maximum energy from your yoga practice, you need to connect the yoga postures together, this is called a vinyasa. The Sadhana Yoga Chi system is based on new innovative connective links that continue the flow of energy from one asana to the next. These energy compatible flowing links are called vinyasas, and serve as the "electrical wiring" that connects the energy from posture to posture.

There are other yoga practices that include some generic linking connections between postures; all these systems were directly or indirectly derived from Ashtanga Yoga. From this introduction of linking postures together other similar styles have emerged, including the now-popular Power Yoga. While Power Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga use a few generic transitional movements throughout the practice that connect various yoga postures, this method does not take into account the energy flow of each individual yoga posture. Power Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga link postures together through repetition rather than creating a new link between different postures. Sadhana Yoga Chi teaches many separate connecting movements for individual yoga postures, taking into consideration the energy flow of each separate posture.

In Sadhana Yoga Chi the variety of connecting movements are strength building, very smooth, circular in motion, graceful, and flow like a soft poetic dance. These connecting movements are safe, easy on the body, and okay for any level of fitness. Sadhana Yoga Chi uses a variety of different vinyasas, each based on the energy flow of the individual yoga postures.

The most exciting aspect of developing Sadhana Yoga Chi is that it was created to be a universal vinyasa system, which means that you can use these concepts with any other style of practice. No matter what type of yoga you already do, Sadhana Yoga Chi can enhance its performance. What's more, it caters to all levels of yoga practice, from beginners through advanced students. It can be very challenging to even the most advanced yoga student.

The Sadhana Yoga Chi system is designed to affect every area of your body, with nothing left untouched. It combines the best of both the hard form and soft form worlds as it reflects softness as strength. Sadhana Yoga Chi embraces proper diet and body cleansing techniques with additional teachings on how yoga can help to influence your whole life in a positive way. Finally, this style also endorses the use of yoga adjustments to enhance the comfort and energy of each yoga posture.

Outwardly the vinyasa creates a beautiful flow of continuous energy. Your yoga practice between postures will resemble a continuous soft flowing dance that will in time become graceful and effortless. After just a few weeks of practicing Sadhana Yoga Chi, you will notice improvements in all your physical activities: everything will become a more fluid for you in all areas of sports, games, recreation, and hobbies.

Your mind is a reflection of your physical actions therefore changes in your body also affect your emotional state. Once you have embraced Sadhana Yoga Chi, you will experience a more focused mind and feel a direct connection with the natural flow of the vital life force. As you notice more physical energy, you will also notice an increase in mental energy as well, whether you are reading books, organizing your thoughts, working, or just relaxing with a friend or loved one. You will develop a sense of well-being, greater self-confidence, and find yourself in tune with positive thoughts. Everyone will love to be around you as you find it easier to communicate and touch the hearts of others.