FITNESS Bharat Thakur is a yoga guru and founder of Artistic Yoga
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CENTRE OF BEING The samadhi of yoga is achieved when you start seeing and living in more heart-aware ways
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heart is an area that isn’t fully understood. When we are moved to tears, feel joy, anguish or grief ... where do these feelings come from? When we are inspired or moved to creativity, where does this come from? Genius, skill and ability are nothing if we don’t have the urge to perform and achieve. These feelings come from the heart. The ancient yogis saw the heart as the centre of
emotions and consciousness. The yoga sutras say: “Hridaya chittasamvit” (merging with the heart, you gain full knowledge of the mind). Merging means getting closer to your core self or samadhi, a state of pure being, joy and happiness. This is the ultimate aim of yoga. So, there isn’t just the physical dimension of the heart but also the more subtle dimensions that we haven’t understood. The size of a fist, the heart, lies at the centre of
EXOTICA [58] MARCH 2021
