亞歷山大技巧瑜珈以「小班制」為原則，每班不超過6人，以確保每位學員皆能用正確的關節和肌肉群作出瑜珈的各種動作以及體位法，由淺入深、循序漸進，可避免運動傷害，任何人在此課程中皆可享受練習瑜珈對身心帶來的益處。

本課程的學習目標在於讓瑜珈生活化，結合亞歷山大技巧的原則和練習方法，了解如何將瑜珈動作融入日常生活當中，使瑜珈不再只是比賽高難度動作的運動，練習後不但能感到神清氣爽，並可養成在從事日常活動時維持更佳姿勢及動作的習慣。

課程特色：
1. 上課前後，皆以亞歷山大技巧徒手放鬆法進行放鬆調整，以達身心最佳狀態。
2. 小班制，老師會對每一位學員的動作進行調整。
3. 可應用至日常生活中。
4. 不強調動作難度，而是強調正確度。
5. 練習後有神清氣爽的效果，而非肌肉酸痛的疲倦感。
6. 不會產生運動傷害，無論身體柔軟度狀況為何皆可練習。
7. 課程由合格之亞歷山大技巧教師及治療師設計、指導。

 

簡單瑜珈歷史介紹

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice or discipline. There is a broad variety of schools, practices and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism (including Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism and Jainism. The best-known are Hatha yoga and Raja yoga.

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The origins of Yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions, but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India’s ascetic circles, which are also credited with the early sramana movements. The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads and Buddhist Pāli Canon, probably of third century BCE or later. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali from first half of 1st millennium CE is one of a key surviving major texts on Yoga. Hatha yoga texts emerged around 11th century CE, and in its origins was related to Tantrism.

Yoga gurus from India later introduced yoga to the west,following the success of Swami Vivekananda in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world.Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is more than physical exercise, it has a meditative and spiritual core.One of the six major orthodox schools of Hinduism is also called Yoga, which has its own epistemology and metaphysics, and is closely related to Hindu Samkhya philosophy.

Many studies have tried to determine the effectiveness of yoga as a complementary intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, asthma, and heart disease. The results of these studies have been mixed and inconclusive, with cancer studies suggesting none to unclear effectiveness, and others suggesting yoga may reduce risk factors and aid in a patient’s psychological healing process.

The ultimate goal of Yoga is moksha though the exact definition of what form this takes depends on the philosophical or theological system with which it is conjugated.

According to Jacobsen, “Yoga has five principal meanings:

• Yoga as a disciplined method for attaining a goal;
• Yoga as techniques of controlling the body and the mind;
• Yoga as a name of one of the schools or systems of philosophy (darśana);
• Yoga in connection with other words, such as “hatha-, mantra-, and laya-,” referring to traditions specialising in particular techniques of yoga;
• Yoga as the goal of Yoga practice.”

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Yoga came to the attention of an educated western public in the mid-19th century along with other topics of Indian philosophy. In the context of this budding interest, N. C. Paul published his Treatise on Yoga Philosophy in 1851.

The first Hindu teacher to actively advocate and disseminate aspects of yoga to a western audience, Swami Vivekananda, toured Europe and the United States in the 1890s. The reception which Swami Vivekananda received built on the active interest of intellectuals, in particular the New England Transcendentalists, among them R. W. Emerson, who drew on German Romanticism and the interest of philosophers and scholars like G. F. W. Hegel  the brothers August Wilhelm Schlegel and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel  Max Mueller, A. Schopenhauer and others who had interests in things Indian.

Source: Wikipedia