Yoga Samskrutham: Vāk-Yoga: Applied Yoga Solutions for Thought Stressors (Paperback)

Vak-yoga is secret, mystic vedic yoga tradition of ancient India. Vak-yoga is the vedic name of language Sanskrit. Vak-yoga unlocks the reason for use of Sanskrit -chants for healing in ayur-veda, use of beeja-sounds in chakra healing and meditations and kundalini awakening to explore higher states of consciousness. Vak is technical name for the total process cycle of 'thought to talk and talk to thought'. Vak yoga is applied yoga solutions for thought stressors. Vak-yoga is technique to use this human process involving body- mind-psyche interaction, using 'sound as a starting point', to explore inner consciousness and tap inner healing energy. The benefit sought is mind-body health, total wellness, and stress free communication for peaceful fulfilling togetherness. The seeker is trained to make conscious, neutral, observational togetherness with vak elements and processes, in the waking active state. Body is yoga-mat for practicing vak-yoga. Vak-yoga techniques are applied yoga solutions to address remedial measures for thought-stressors sourced stresses and ailments at body-mind interface and processes. Thought stressors are the mother seed of psycho-somatic disorders (aadhi), which manifest in several modes as emotional imbalances, physiological diseases (vyaadhi) and relational problems due to language-communication stress.Vak-yoga teaching and techniques are authenticated in the tradition of vedic studies and ritual practices, Gita related yoga studies and Panini and Patanjali traditions of sanskrit language studies and applications. Vak-yoga teaching tradition lay dormant in India for past three hundred years, holding its secret journey under the wraps religion worship ritual with practicing masters and esoteric traditionalists of sri-vidya-yoga-vedanta unified tradition, in south India. The mantra, techniques, teaching and practices are closely guarded secret, passed on only to spiritual seekers, after due initiation. It is a living tradition. The deep philosophy, history and mystica of vak-yoga is embedded in wraps of 'yoga-samskrutham'-the vedanga-yogaanga pedagogy of sanskrit language for yoga-applications. Vak-yoga has stayed out of sanskrit language study systems at academia which aim primarily for classical language scholarship. The yoga way of learning-using human language as 'thought-articulation for stress free communication' needs revival for yoga practice progress from body breath focus to vak. The unlocking key of vedic vak-yoga is provided in seventeenth chapter of bhagavad-gita, the book of vedic yoga's, an interactive dialogue and discourse of two great yogi's documented in language sanskrit. The key to decode language of yoga dialogue, namely sanskrit is given by Panini, master of language. The key to connect yoga to language: sanskrit is given by Patanjali, master of yoga. Vak-yoga is the unification of teaching of Panini and Patanjali for health and total wellness, technically called ayur-yoga. Vak-yoga directive is the reason for preferred use of language: Sanskrit in all advanced yoga practices that elevate yoga practice as 'body on yoga-mat' to the next level of 'body is yoga-mat'. Author's effort through this research work is to unlock the deep philosophy, history and mystica of vak-yoga and provides practical techniques, useful for society at large seeking yoga solutions for health and total wellness-culture. All effort is made not to infringe and throw open the sacred tradition to open society. The derivative techniques from vak-yoga that help a yoga-NEXT stepped progress in ashtaanga yoga practice, from asana- pranayama through pratyahara towards dhyana are detailed. The benefits of presented techniques would find practical utility in applied yoga professions for health and total -wellness culture care. This is also an effort to bridge the disturbed connection of yoga and samskrutham in current models of yogaanga practices and language: sanskrit studies.