{"id":10858,"date":"2020-08-01T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=10858"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:44:05","slug":"practical-contributions-to-a-modern-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/practical-contributions-to-a-modern-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical contributions to a modern yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I will venture to give a general outline of this Yoga as I see it, and to describe some of the exercises that have proven appropriate and helpful in a series of experiments which I have carried on with some groups of students.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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By Roberto Assagioli<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> , The Beacon, Oct 1933, Vol 12,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the last few years the need of a new Yoga has been expressed in many quarters, that is, of a Yoga which would lead to the same eternal goal as the Yoga’s of the past, namely, the conscious union with the One-Self, with the Supreme; but a Yoga, the formulation and the practical methods of which would be suited to the mentality and the needs of modern man and to the conditions existing in our western civilization; a Yoga which would express the spirit of the New Age that is rapidly permeating the minds and souls of the more progressive men and women of today.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I will venture to give a general outline of this Yoga <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>as I see it<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> , and to describe some of the exercises that have proven appropriate and helpful in a series of experiments which I have carried on with some groups of students.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For clarity’s sake the stages of this Yoga may be tabulated as follows, although in actual practice they closely intermingle and partially overlap each other.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

These stages are:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A. Orientation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

B. Purification<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

C. Development and Training.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

D.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Control<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

E. Realization\u2014Union.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A. ORIENTATION.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

In the rapidly proceeding disintegration of the old forms of religion, philosophy and morals; in the chaos of dis-connected and conflicting ideas and opinions, in the clash between the old and the new, between feeling and reason, between East and West, which characterizes the most painful and critical condition of the majority of mankind today, the first and most urgent need is that of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>orientation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The outstanding problem of the West is that of the relationship between science, which is the result of man’s observations and experiments; philosophy, which is the product of his thought, and religion, which is the outcome of his devotion.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The vital problem of the young generation of the East is that of the conflict between the old traditions of their civilization and the modern thought and way of living, which are rapidly pervading the East.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n