Purna Yoga is an alignment-based yoga system that uses heart-centered meditation and healthy living practices to help you feel truly alive! Purna Yoga helps remind us how good it feels – and how easy it can be – to welcome your Spirit back into your body and life. Purna Yoga is a beautiful system of exercise, meditation, and nutrition, with a focus on feeling alive which helps you calm your mind, gather your energy back into your body, and connect with your highest intelligence.
Purna Yoga is based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the Vedas,
Patanjali, B.K.S. Iyengar, and the systems of Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Western nutrition, synthesized by the personal experience of Aadil Palkhivala and Savitri.
Sri Aurobindo wrote about and taught integral yoga* or purna yoga, sometimes also called supramental yoga. It refers to the union of all the parts of one’s being with the Divine and the transmutation for all their jarring elements into a state of higher Divine consciousness and existence.
It is a yoga of synthesis, intended to harmonize the paths of karma, jnana and bhakti yoga. Sri Aurobindo defined Integral Yoga as ‘a path of integral seeking of the Divine by which all that we are in the end is liberated out of ignorance and its undivine formations into a truth beyond the Mind, a truth not only of the highest spiritual status but of a dynamic spiritual self-manifestation in the Universe.' In his view, the aim of this type of yoga is the transformation of one's entire being.
*Note that in the United States the term "Integral Yoga" is trademarked by Swami Satchitananda - see the separate description for Internal Yoga.
