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    viniyoga

    Root: yuj Devanāgarī: विनियोग Translation: employment, use, application Similar words:yoga Related concepts:asat, sat, viyoga, śakti, adhyātmika, cikitsā

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 3: 6

    Yoga Rahasya:

    Chapter 2: title


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    Commentaries around

    “People come to study Yoga for many reasons,
    however it comes into two groups.
    1. They come to learn or study (Śikṣaṇa).
    2. They come to us for support rather than to study (Rakṣaṇa).
    So the Yoga we offer to the person who is inquiring
    is not the Yoga we offer to the person seeking protection.
    Therefore one can give the wrong advice (Asat Viniyoga) to the right person
    and vice versa (Asat Viniyoga).
    This can do more harm than if the person had not come.
    The intention must be right as must be the execution.”
    – TKV Desikachar Switzerland 1978

    “This is what Patañjali says in that everything must be given step by step.
    Yoga Sūtra Chapter Three verse 6 reflects this idea.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “The Ācārya has to examine the Sat Viniyoga or Asat Viniyoga,
    the right offering or the wrong offering.
    If the teacher is able to solve this problem
    and establish that the students are serious,
    then this is Sat Viniyoga.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “To give the right thing to the right person
    at the right time is Sat Viniyoga.
    Don’t look at the file, look at the student!”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Sometimes we try to transmit
    what we cherish.
    This is not Viniyoga.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Even in the case of Śikṣaṇa Krama the ancient teachers had steps in the teaching:

    • Yukta Śikṣaṇa
      The teaching must be appropriate to the intelligence of the individual.
    • Grahaṇa Śikṣaṇa
      Also able to absorb correctly what you have understood.
      You must test them, confuse them to see if they have.
    • Yukta Smaraṇa
      The teacher should find out how much the person remembers
      what they have understood.
    • Yukta Abhyāsa
      Is how much a person practices what he is given.
      To see if he has learnt, understood and practiced.
    • Yukta Anu Bhāva
      Even practice can be mechanical, even if it is regular.
      So how much you have learnt from the practice.
      What it has taught you.
    • Yukta Pracāram (skilful spreading)
      Finally, you ask the person to transmit what they have received.

    The transmission shows the Siddhi of the Sādhana.
    This is viniyoga.
    These outlines are valid whether Śikṣaṇa or Rakṣaṇa Krama.
    If what is given is mechanical it is not viniyoga.
    That is why the Viniyoga spirit is very important these days.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Even with my students they teach a posture
    because it has been taught to them.
    Like a rubber stamp.
    This is not Viniyoga.
    People have rigid ideas.
    For example, why Cakravākāsana for this lady
    after Śīrṣāsana, whereas something else,
    say Mahāmudrā for somebody else.
    So it does not follow what is good for me
    is good for everybody.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Viniyoga is an offering.
    Every offering presents two aspects:
    what is offered and the way it is offered.
    Each of these aspects has two sides:
    to give and to receive.
    When there is harmony between these two sides,
    the offering is perfect; it becomes Viniyoga,
    like the Viniyoga of Prasādam in a modest temple in India.”
    – TKV Desikachar 1983

    “It is not possible for everyone to reach the same level of meditation (Dhyānam),
    even meditation should be taught or presented in stages (Viniyoga).
    It should be used at a level suitable to the student and gradually increased,
    start simply and increase in complexity.
    This is dependant on the growth of the student and according to the purpose.”
    – From study notes with TKV Desikachar England 1992

    “The spirit of Viniyoga is starting from where one finds oneself.
    As everybody is different and changes from time to time,
    there can be no common starting point,
    and ready-made answers are useless.
    The present situation must be examined
    and the habitually established status must be re-examined.”
    – TKV Desikachar

    “We should never forget what Patañjali has said –
    Teach according to the strength, resources and weakness of the individual”.
    – TKV Desikachar

    “It is very sad that the style
    has become more important
    than the individual”.
    – TKV Desikachar

    “One of the key concepts in the Viniyoga of Āsana
    is how to facilitate movement in the spine
    rather than just movement of the spine.”
    – 108 Yoga Practice Pointers

    “The ABC of the Viniyoga of Yoga
    is the bespoke long term cultivation of
    a personalised, pertinent and progressive
    Āsana Practice as a foundation for a separate
    Breathing Practice with its own identity alongside a
    Chanting Practice to honour teachings and transmission.
    Dhyānam is the fabric that time weaves from these related threads.”
    – 108 Yoga Practice Pointers

    “TKV Desikachar did not teach different people different things.
    Nor did he just teach the same thing to different people.
    He taught different people the same thing in different ways.
    The same could be said of T Krishnamacharya’s teaching.
    Hence the context of the phrase the Viniyoga of Yoga.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    TKV Desikachar taught the Viniyoga of Yoga,
    or application of Yoga according
    to state of life, place, time and circumstance
    to optimise the student’s potential within
    that situation as seen from his
    own, forever evolving, innovating and
    maturing, developmental teaching thread.
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “The art of Viniyoga presumes that
    the five application principles of
    what is being taught,
    why it is being taught,
    when it is being taught
    where it is being taught and especially
    how it is being taught,
    are personally applicable and
    socially relevant to
    who is being taught.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “The Viniyoga of Yoga is about a system to teach to a student,
    rather than about students to teach a system to.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “The Viniyoga of Yoga is the art of
    learning how to practice,
    rather than what to practice.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “Viniyoga is not a term that can be
    applied to group class teaching.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “The Viniyoga of Yoga perspective is that the role of Śavāsana is
    its use as a recovery from the fatigue of the Āsana,
    not its use as a recovery from the fatigue of life.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “The Commercialised in-Corporation of Viniyoga
    is in danger of becoming a parody of
    the Personalised incorporation of Viniyoga.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “It is ironic when a collective term used to describe
    an approach to teaching an individual,
    becomes an individual term used to describe
    an approach to teaching a collective.”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

    “Sat Viniyoga
    is about learning to do more with less.
    Asat Viniyoga
    is about learning to do less with more.
    Whether Āsana or Students!!”
    – 108 Teaching Path Pointers

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