{"id":1434,"date":"2025-07-10T18:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaurbano.org\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:21:22","slug":"yoga-urbano-quinto-encuentro-de-yoga-urbano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaurbano.org\/en\/yoga-urbano-quinto-encuentro-de-yoga-urbano\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Urban Yoga Meeting, Turmero Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0URBAN YOGA<\/a><\/strong> It's starting to spread throughout the region, and our fifth meeting took place in Turmero, at one of the community's most popular sports and recreation parks, known as the Turmero Oval. Yes, on Sunday, June 29th, we met again to continue building this yoga practitioner movement in the region as a community.<\/p>\r\n

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The Turmero Oval, also known as the La Monta\u00f1a Athletic Center, served as our outdoor yoga studio, showcasing its lush greenery. Those who attended enjoyed, as is customary, the three activities that bring this gathering to life:<\/p>\r\n

1. Philosophy of Yoga in everyday life<\/h2>\r\n

Part of the purpose of this urban yoga practitioner movement is to publicize the philosophy that underpins the techniques we practice as part of yoga, since many times the word yoga is reduced to these techniques, overlooking that it is a philosophy, and this is due to the way it has been approached in the West, based more on the physical body and the development of its capabilities when these techniques are carried out regularly.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The teacher Iskra Boh\u00f3rquez<\/a><\/strong> He explained that Yoga is originally a philosophical tradition from India, one of the six ways of life (Darshan) that interpret the ancient Vedic texts of that nation. As a philosophy, Yoga offers answers, like all philosophies, to those great questions that humanity has asked throughout history: What am I? What is my purpose here? What should I do with that purpose? What happens after death? He discussed the worldview offered by Samkhya philosophy, which predates Yoga but is essential for understanding how Yoga techniques operate within us and for what purpose.<\/p>\r\n

The attendees learned about the two unique and eternal principles (without beginning or end) from which the entire Universe originates, according to the two philosophical traditions of India, Samkhya and Yoga. These principles are Consciousness ("Purusha" in Sanskrit) and Matter ("Prakriti" in Sanskrit). Everything we experience through our senses (hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch), including our body and mind, has materialized on this plane we inhabit thanks to the existence and interaction of these two principles.<\/p>\r\n

However, both Samkhya and Yoga emphasize that what we truly are is Consciousness (Purusha), a unique and eternal field of energy and information, which uses Matter (Prakriti), which allows separation, to experience the infinite forms it can bring to life.<\/p>\r\n

Yoga offers the means to verify this theory and thereby liberate humankind from the suffering inherent in a life focused on separation, on the temporary states of matter. As humankind progresses along this path of self-discovery, drawing closer to the truth of what it truly is, according to Yoga, joy, health, inner peace, zest for life, empathy for others and all beings on the planet, clarity, and the will to fulfill the deepest desires of each individual return.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n