Mindful Yoga

It has since been advocated in differing forms by yoga and meditation teachers and authors from many backgrounds, such as Anne Cushman, Frank Jude Boccio, Stephen Cope, Janice Gates, Cyndi Lee, Phillip Moffitt, and Sarah Powers.

[5] However, Cope writes, the meditation and "insight" practices described by Patanjali are missing from the mainstream Western tradition of yoga, though they are taught within Buddhism.

"[2] Isaacs described the benefit of not reacting to the discomfort that one might feel in a standing asana such as Virabhadrasana I, instead just observing one's thoughts and sensations in the pose.

She commented that the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism and the Patanjali's eight-limbed yoga have similarities, both going from "ethical practices and conduct and include training in concentration and awareness.

"[2] She quotes Cope as saying that he sees "Buddha and Patanjali as brothers, using different languages, but speaking about and pointing to the same thing".

[2] Isaacs writes that yoga stresses concentration on a single object such as the breath, whereas Buddhism calls for mindfulness of all events as they come to one's consciousness.

Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn pioneered the use of Mindful Yoga to treat stress at his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction clinic. [ 1 ]
Hinduism and Buddhism share many of the concepts behind Mindful Yoga, such as karma , the endless chain of cause-and-effect, symbolised by the endless knot at the centre of this Nepalese prayer wheel .
Practitioners can use yoga asanas such as Virabhadrasana I as an opportunity to observe their thoughts and sensations. [ 2 ]
The Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu , releasing Mansi Gulati's book Yoga and Mindfulness , [ 12 ] New Delhi, 2018