By Master Manisekaran

Yoga is par excellence. An art of wellbeing that has no parallel comparisons. It has withstood the test of time which is both legendary and beyond all religious beliefs at more than 10,000 years of oral history.

What is a community? It is a grouping of individuals who have some shared beliefs in a particular culture. The culture can be just as basic as being in a gated community or as complex as a religious community. However, or whatever it may so be, a community strives with faith and comradeship.

Yoga means union. Like a sincere friendship, but it is not the superficial acquaintances that take place in society that cannot stand the rigours of life. It needs to be like a marriage of two hearts that may not be part of the mainstream drama of acknowledgments and opinions of superficial society that lacks authenticity of a relationship so private that nature is the only witness.

This is love and yoga is love. In that philosophical bent of discovery embedded in the practice of yogis comes this non theoretical real-life experience.

Yoga community has been through numerous ages and civilisations but it remains true to its core like a sacred friendship that unites hearts to serve humanity, pushing it to evolve further.

The strength, power and resilience of yoga communities is just like the marriage made in heaven, need not conform to society but remains true to the heart.

The yoga community is an extended version of a sacred marriage made in the heavens against the backdrop of the lovely clouds. It comes again now in this century with the revival of truth, love, and real relationship.

Let’s stay put in the inner journey that has persisted since time immemorial- yoga and its remarkable adherents- yoga community.