The chakras, nadis, & marmas are systems of the subtle body that impact on the health of the physical body.

The Vedic worldview, or understanding the thinking in the time these wisdom texts were recorded, is really important to the connection between yoga and Ayurveda.  First, we need to understand what yoga is.  Most of us these days think of Yoga as  yoga asana, the movement classes we mostly practice here in the states.  These classes are great, and beneficial in a million different ways- but to really understand the Vedic worldview of yoga and her sister Ayurveda, let’s drop that movement class definition of yoga. 

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