What is Yoga – Yuj – Union?

The word yoga is derived from the word “Yuj” in Sanskrit. It means union. It can be opened as mind-body-spirit unity.

Considering that the word soul is connected to the subconscious in the Jungian approach, Joseph Campbell defined the word yoga as a state in which the subconscious and our conscious state begin to intertwine.

In the simplest way, we can say that yoga is the union of mind and body.

mind

• The mind desires.
• It works within dualities such as right-left, front-back, hot-cold.
• Names life by dividing it into parts
• It creates the past and the future, that is, time, on the logical plane within the cause-effect (before-after) relationships of these parts with each other.
• Creates stories by making inferences from cause-effect relationships.

body

• The body produces sensations.
• It has an indivisible integrity. Left and right, front and back, up and down are actually a single whole.
• All body parts work in interaction with each other. When you lift your arm up, your waist curve is affected. There is a connection between the way you put your foot on the ground and the slight forward angle of the upper front end of our hip bone.
• The body is always interacting with what is happening in the present moment, in the present moment.
• It is life itself.

union

In summary, we can look at yoga practice as the coming together of the goal-oriented (masculine) nature of the mind with the feeling-producing (feminine) nature of the body.

So why do we need to do Yoga?

Your mind is actually a great friend. It is a wonderful system that guides us on the logical plane and enables us to survive. Thanks to him, we know that fire burns and water is wet.

However, when we identify with the way it works and keep ourselves too busy (I think, therefore I am! + Think positive! etc.), we can disconnect from the body’s feelings, intuitions and instincts.

When we occupy ourselves too much with the “before and after”, our connection with the body, that is, with whatever we are experiencing at that moment, weakens. However, when we leave the mind in its own free working mode and reconnect with our body, the state of yoga begins to emerge. At the same time, our life energy also increases. Then the mind can perform its functions more easily.

Yoga is about establishing this connection. In summary, we can look at yoga as the system of the mind, which works with cause-effect (before-after) connections, begins to see and feel the body that is always in the moment.

If you would like to experience the establishment of this bond within the application, you can join our online yoga classes. Thus, what you read begins to come into being as experience itself.

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