yoga Mysore Journey: Body, Spirit and Culture

The Yoga Journey to Mysore is an expression of the multitude of the term "yoga". The journey seeks to illustrate the connection between three major facets of yoga - the physical, the intellectual and the cultural. It combines physical and mental training (Asana, breathing, and meditation), conetmplative exploration (ideas and beliefs), and cultural encounter (art, food culture, rituals, customs). All this in the Indian space, where yoga grew and prospered and from which emerged as the gospel to the entire world.

The connection in our journey, between body, spirit and culture, is real and tangible: it is a connection between the yogic body, the spirit of yogic thought and the Indian culture that has been around yoga for at least 2500 years. Not easy to explain, but it is very easy to experience it when we are there, in one of the ancient temples, a spectacular religious ritual, at…