GANJA YOGA FROM GANGA LAND? The latest fad which is catching on fast in the USA and Canada is “marijuana on the mat” says scribe Shobita Dhar. Lucele Pancini who teaches Ganga yoga in Toronto says that “you feel more connected with your soul” – a spiritually higher alternative to the plain vanilla variety of yoga. Marijuana floods your brain with dopamine and the happy state of mind which helps you enjoy yoga better says Liz McDonald who started the trend five years ago in Los Angeles where there are more yoga studios than gas stations. Smoking up before yoga asana makes its mystical components feel more real and removes the sense of convention and rigidity from yoga. This is also an added attraction to westerners who are wary of eastern mysticism. While purists criticize and scoff at using cannabis as part of this ancient practice, Pancini states that Patanjali spoke of “certain herbs” which have yoga-like benefits in his Yoga Sutra. Marijuana and Yoga have a history in spirituality, but does it mean that progressive evolution into new forms after Hatha and tantric must embrace esoteric forms?
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:19:34 +0000
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