The object of the Integral Yoga

The object is to enter and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine. Its object is not to be a great yogi or a Superman (although that may come) or to grab at the Divine for the sake of the ego’s power, pride or pleasure. It is not Moksha though liberation comes by it all else may come, but these must not be our objects. The Divine alone is our object. – Sri Aurobindo



Wednesday, June 30, 2010

AT WORK - YOGA - DANS L’ENTREPRISE

AT WORK

Advantage - When we are healthy, we are better able to face challenges and give our best to whatever endeavour we undertake. Recent research indicates that companies who offer Yoga and wellness programs to their employees reduce their annual health insurance premiums, and thereby improve their bottom line. (American Journal of Health Promotion).

Why Yoga at Work? - Is a low cost and innovative solution for companies wanting to reduce health care expenses, relieve workplace stress and promote employee well-being. The performance of a corporation depends on the performance of its key assets employees. Healthy employees are more productive and more cost effective.

The regular Yoga practice make a big difference at media companies, financial institutions, apparel manufacturers, hospitals, universities, non-profits and other businesses in many countries.

The opportunity to go from their work stations to a Yoga class right on your premises is very appealing to staff members at all levels a convenience that inspires loyalty and respect. Even those who don’t attend classes are impressed that their companies offer them!

 Workplace Benefits: - Improves concentration, decision-making skills and ability to multi-task - Increased motivation and creativity - Reduces multiple costs of stress-related illnesses and absenteeism - Improves employee alertness and productivity and ability to react more calmly in demanding situations - Relieves head, neck and back strain, carpal tunnel syndrome, insomnia, high blood pressure and work-related injuries from repetitive motion and/or lifting and moving objects - Fewer aches and paints at their desks - Creates better customer service - Enhances employee attitude and outlook - An overall sense of well being about their lives, work and companies - Promotes well-being in the workplace and reduces employee turnover.

Employers see: - Increased productivity - Decreased absenteeism - Higher morale - Lower turnover - Fewer insurance claims for common illnesses.

Yoga classes can be held practically anywhere in the office, on the floor or in chairs. Yoga can be practiced by men and women of all fitness levels, ages and body types. Yoga’s simple yet profound system of stretches, breathing and quiet relaxation brings immediate benefits: - Improved function of all internal systems of the body - Stronger bones, leaner muscles and more flexible joints - Greater mental clarity and ability to handle stress - Deep relaxation and meditation for mental clarity.


DANS L’ENTREPRISE

Diminuer le stress au travail grâce à des cours de Yoga pour vos employés. Le Yoga permet d’atteindre ses objectifs en entreprise.

Face à un monde en constante évolution, on demande toujours plus des salariés: rigueur, investissement en temps, et flexibilité. Et malheureusement, nous ne réagissons pas tous aussi bien face à ces nouveaux défis: mal-être, stress, surmenage, les accidents, l’absentéisme, les problèmes de santé, et pour conséquence, la diminution de la productivité.

Ce sont des raisons pour lesquelles les cours de Yoga sot offerts depuis des années dans plusieurs entreprises. Les entreprises comprennent que les programmes de Yoga permettent de transformer la tension et la fatigue de leurs employés en vivacité d’esprit, endurance et productivité. Le Yoga rend plus réceptif et plus créatif, permet de gérer les tensions sans être débordé, d’affronter les expériences difficiles avec plus de calme et de force. Cette mesure de prévention a fait ses preuves dans la gestion du stress et la dépense est largement récompensée.

Le Yoga axé sur l'équilibre du corps et de l'esprit, en entreprise ou dans un cadre spécifique pour répondre à un besoin particulier et simplement offrir un nouvel espace de bien-être à chaque individu. Une façon de considérer les forces humaines qui constituent une entreprise comme une énergie essentielle et vivante qui fait l'entreprise. Un élément indispensable qui accroît la reconnaissance, participe pleinement à la motivation et renforce l'appartenance de l'individu à l'entreprise.

Le stress est palpable dans un environnement. Il peut consciemment ou inconsciemment se transmettre à des collaborateurs ou des clients et s'avérer catastrophique sur la santé. A l'inverse, le bien-être offre un terrain favorable à l'harmonie, l'efficacité, la concentration et l'épanouissement.

Le propose est une programme sur mesure en fonction du contexte et du besoin. l'intervention régulier ou ponctuel directement au sein de l'entreprise, dans un site spécifique ou c’est propose la réalisation d'un programme dans des cadres spécialement conçu pour accueillir formations, séminaires, conventions, etc.

Le Yoga offrent l'opportunité de se ressourcer, de retrouver une vitalité, une énergie nouvelle, un esprit calme et tranquille, un corps détendu et près pour l'action. Les postures de Yoga offrent une réponse dans le mouvement et la respiration consciente, la relaxation dans l'absence de mouvement. Les deux incitent au lâcher-prise. Une façon de découvrir comment nous fonctionnons, comment nous pouvons évoluer.

Le Yoga vous aident pour: la gestion du stress, les tensions physiques et mentales, la fatigue, la maîtrise de soi, la confiance en soi, la concentration, l'efficacité, l'hypersensibilité, l'émotivité, l'amélioration des relations personnelles et professionnelles, l'agitation, les pathologies physiques et physiologiques, l'hygiène de vie.

Les bienfaits qu'une pratique de Yoga régulière peut leur apporter: - le bien-être corporel, - prévention de problèmes de colonne et bien les LER et tendinites, - la détente, - le contrôle respiratoire, - l'ouverture et le centrage, - diminuer les effets du stress et agir à partir de situations concrètes, - apprendre à se détendre au travail pour une meilleure efficacité, - renforcer la cohésion entre les employés par le partage d’une activité sans jugement ni compétition, - éviter stress et perte de temps. Et aussi un moyen de combattre la sédentarité ainsi que les problèmes d’obésité.

Cette déjà développée dans de nombreux pays et présente dans de grandes entreprises, répond à un besoin collectif vital dans l’environnement professionnel actuel. Les bénéfices et techniques employés dans le Yoga sont depuis longtemps reconnus au sein de l’entreprise. Cadres et employés doivent faire face à un stress toujours plus dévastateur entraînant absentéisme et maladies. En retrouvant bien-être et motivation, employés et cadres augmenteront leur productivité et leur action pour l’entreprise.

Mais pourquoi faire du Yoga en entreprise? - Il est maintenant clairement prouvé que le Yoga en entreprise peut avoir un impact énorme sur la concentration, la productivité et sur l'état de santé général des employés.

Le Yoga permettra aux participants d’être plus calmes, plus souples et plus respectueux les uns des autres. Quand on est mieux dans sa peau on est mieux avec les autres. Le Yoga rend aussi plus réceptif et plus créatif (meilleure intuition des autres et des événements). Il donne avec la pratique une meilleure santé, une meilleure hygiène de vie. En renforçant son système nerveux on vit les moments de stress avec plus de force. Le travail méditatif permet, pour sa part, de gérer les tensions sans être débordé. Vous serez plus en forme et plus serein.

Pour qui? - Les dirigeants, les cadres, les compétiteurs et plus généralement toute personne qui vise à optimiser ses performances en vue d’améliorer ses résultats, trouvera dans le Yoga un moyen d’atteindre ses objectifs.

Dès le premier cours, on acquiert des repères positifs. C’est une source de bien être qui apporte, aujourd’hui encore plus que jamais, un soutien face aux exigences de la vie contemporaine.

La pratique du Yoga, permet d’être mieux intérieurement, de gérer son stress et ses angoisses, de réveiller ses énergies, de retrouver sa souplesse, en résumé de mieux vivre.

Très rapidement grâce à cette pratique, les collaborateurs retrouvent harmonie et bien être avec eux-mêmes et au sein du groupe. Le Yoga apporte à chacun un comportement responsable, un positionnement solide en affirmant sa place dans la société. Il est un outil de motivation et d’intégration.

Cette discipline est accessible à tous, jeunes, moins jeunes, sportifs ou non sportifs. Je l’enseigne avec simplicité dans le respect de toute religion, culture, prenant en compte l’âge, le sexe, et la santé de chacun.

C’est le professeur qui se déplace et vient directement sur vos lieux de travail: - Sur vos heures de dîner - Après ou avant vos heures de travail - Pour des occasions spéciales, formations, séminaires, thématiques, etc - Au bureau, sur chaise - Dans un local approprié en petits groupes avec tapis de Yoga.


Wednesday, June 23, 2010

GARBHASANA



Garbhasana is the pose that every person starts life with. Grabhasana, which literally means the "Fetus Pose," makes the a person doing this exercise look an unborn child in the womb. When this asana is performed, the pose achieved resembles that of a human foetus in the womb. So this asana is called Garbhasana.
Being an abdominal exercise, it has many benefits ranging from reducing tummy fat and clearing the way to six pack abs to building body’s resistance to ailments like gastric troubles, colic pain, stomach upsets, chronic fever, flatulence, enteritis, indigestion and constipation.
 
Technique - As a Kukkutasana, insert the hands between the thighs and the calves. Push the arms forward till the elbows can be easily bent. Then hold the lobe of the right ear with the right hand and of the left ear with the left hand. Stay in this position very cautiously to avoid tumbling. The constant practice of this asana will enable you to balance the body on the coccyx (the tail bone). If aspirants experience difficulty in performing this asana in Padmasana position, it should be practiced without Padmasana. While performing this asana, let the legs be stretched on the floor. The asana should be performed for 8 to 10 seconds in the beginning. Later, the time of the retention of the asana can be increased to one minute depending on age, ability of the aspirants and benefits expected.
 
How to do the Garbhasana - Begin by sitting on a mat. Keep your legs crossed with your arms by your side with palms resting on the carpet to support you. Inhale and exhale normally and be comfortable at this stage. As you are learning to do this exercise, sit with a wall behind you to support your back.
Inhale deeply and stiffen the muscles of your limbs. Place your back firmly against the wall (from aspirants) and pull your crossed legs upwards. While doing this you will have to bend a bit away from the wall. But then the psychological feeling that the wall is there to prevent you from falling backwards is what counts.
When you bend at your hip, your body may shake and your legs may fall to the floor. This happens when you are still learning to do this exercise. Practice will make you perfect and ultimately you will you learn to do it by bending your hip and lifting your legs.
Once you lift your legs, use one hand to support your legs to remain in this position. You can now move your arm with which you are supporting your legs to stay in position. With practice, you will learn to balance your upraised legs without any support.
Now you will have to use all your skill and strength to push one arm through your folded legs from in between your calf muscle and thigh. You will have to do one arm at a time. Your right arm goes into your right leg and your left arm into your left leg.
As this is a slightly difficult move, you may have to struggle to push your arms into your folded legs. You will also need somebody to support you while learn to do this exercise.
When you are comfortable with the above step, you can try bringing your arms from between your folded legs up to your knees. Later on you can also try to pull your arms a little bit further and place them on your shoulders or even below your chin. But these are advanced moves and you will have to try these only after you master the primary step of inserting your arms fully into your folded legs.
During the learning stage, it is common for all learners to fall either forward or backward. The wall behind you can prevent you from falling backwards. And if you do fall forward, you may use your hands to break your fall. A better option is to ask a partner or yoga teacher to support you from the front. While learning, it is common to fall in either direction, so do this exercise with a wall behind you and a partner to support you from the front.

How to Exit - Bend forward from your hip and release your folded legs. Rest your legs on the floor. After doing this, you may release your hands from the legs. But never withdraw your arms before resting your legs securely on the floor. If you do this, you will not only find it painful to withdraw your arms, but you could also badly sprain your arms.

Benefits - While doing the Garbhasana your abdomen is under pressure and therefore you can gradually develop a flat washboard-like abdomen. Due to this pressure on the abdomen, your abdominal organs also perform efficiently and can increase your body’s resistance to ailments like gastric troubles, indigestion flatulence, colic pains, stomach upsets, enteritis, chronic fever, and constipation.
- This exercise can also help in toning your elbows and knees as these joints are under considerable pressure while doing the Fetus Pose.
- This asana keeps the abdominal organs trim. It cures gas-trouble and increases the digestion-power.
- The abdominal organs, the breast and the joints of the arms and the legs get sufficient exercise through this asana and their ailments disappear.
- This asana helps to preserve the semen and the mind begins to have communion with the soul.

OBS.: To derive comprehensive benefits from the different yoga asanas, do this posture along with other yoga asanas like the Ardha Chandrasana to resist ailments like osteoporosis and slipped disc, the Mandukasana to resist diabetes, and the Halasana to exercise your entire body with a single posture.

Who Should Avoid - Those of you who suffer from any hip, back or neck related ailment like sciatica, slipped disc or spondylitis should avoid doing this exercise. Before you start doing this exercise, do not forget to consult your doctor and yoga teacher.


Garbhâsana - Traduction sanskrite: garbha = l'embryon. La posture de l'embryon

Bénéfices - Fortifie la colonne vertébrale, stimule l'élimination, améliore la respiration, aide dans certaines pathologies respiratoires comme l'asthme, peut être préventive de certains troubles cardiaques, débloque le diaphragme et le plexus solaire.

Energétique - Installe durablement urdhvaretas (la verticalité), "magnétise" sushmunâ, élimine les énergie rajas et tamas du souffle.

Mentaux - Intériorise la pensée et les perceptions sensorielles, développe la stabilité de l'attention, permet d'accéder à des états de conscience méditatifs.

Durée - De 1 a 5 minutes. Idéalement entre 5 et 20 minutes.

OBS.: Chakra concerné - Principalement le chakra du cœur et accessoirement la gorge et le pubis. Nâdî concerné - Sushumnâ. Prânâyâma utilisé - Le rythme 1/4/2 avec kakimudra, puis nirvrittipranayama le souffle immobile. Mudra/bandha/drishti utilisés - Mulabandha, kakîmudrâ et shambavî mudrâ. Visualisations - Expansion dans le cœur, non souffle dans la colonne vertébrale. Mantra utilisé - "Om".


Friday, June 18, 2010

Yoga means Union

Yoga means Union. Union of body and mind. Only when the human being finds this balance, this harmony, this alignment it is potentially the best of himself. Yoga is more than an ad hoc, it is a discipline, a lifestyle that uses movement, breathing and relaxation as the main tools and complementary. It also gradually becomes a constant source of challenge and constructive action for oneself and scalable. It has a healing effect, regeneration. It releases tension, balances and harmonises. It acts on the body-mind facilitating letting go necessary to find new energy and its potential. It provides access to a development in any context and environment and to find a spontaneous intelligence.

Yoga signifie Union. Union du corps et de l'esprit. C'est seulement lorsque l'être humain retrouve cet équilibre, cette harmonie, cet alignement qu'il est potentiellement au meilleur de lui-même. Le yoga est plus qu'une activité ponctuelle, il est une véritable discipline, un art de vivre qui utilise le mouvement, la respiration et la relaxation comme outils principaux et complémentaires. Il devient également progressivement une source permanente de remise en question et d'action constructive et évolutive pour soi. Il a un effet réparateur, régénérant. Il libère les tensions, rééquilibre et harmonise. Il agit sur le corps-esprit en facilitant le lâcher-prise indispensable pour retrouver une énergie nouvelle et son plein potentiel. Il permet d'accéder à un épanouissement dans n'importe quel contexte et environnement et de retrouver une intelligence spontanée.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

PRANAYAMA

What is Pranayama - Many people think of Pranayama as just breathing control, but it is very much more.
Ayama means dimension, not control.
So pranayama is practiced in order to expand the dimensions of prana within the body.
Pranayama is essentially a process by which prana is controlled by regulating the breathing voluntary. It involves a temporary pause or interval in the movement of the breath.

Purpose of Pranayama - The Hatha Yoga Pradipika states that Pranayama is practiced in order to understand and control the pranic process in the body. Breathing is a direct means of absorbing prana and the manner in which we breath sets off pranic vibrations, which influence our entire being.
By becoming aware of the nature of the breath and by restraining it, the whole system becomes controlled. When you retain the breath you are stopping nervous impulses in different parts of the body and harmonising the brain wave patterns. In pranayama, it is the duration of the breath retention, which has to be increased. The longer the breath is held, the greater the gap between nervous impulses and their responses in the brain. When retention is held for a prolonged period, mental agitation is curtailed.
Through pranayama the mind can be brought under control. In many spiritual traditions, including Sufism, Buddhism and Yoga, it is known that by concentrating on the breath, you can still the mind, develop one-pointedness and gain entry into the deeper realms of the mind and consciousness.

Precautions and Prohibitions -  Pranayama should not be practiced when the lungs are congested.
- Pranayama should not be practiced immediately after meals and at least four hours should be allowed after eating.
- During Pranayama the breath must not be forced or strained.
- People with high blood pressure, lung, heart, eye or ear problems should NOT hold after an IN breath and no vigorous breathing exercises, cleansing or bellows breaths.
- People with low blood pressure should NOT hold after an OUT breath.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Chakras I


Chakra (derived from the Sanskrit cakraṃ चक्रं ([ˈtʃəkrə̃]), pronounced [ˈtʃəkrə] in Hindi; Pali: ॰हक्क chakka, Chinese: 轮, Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ་; khorlo) is a Sanskrit word that translates as "wheel" or "turning".

Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices which, according to traditional Indian medicine, are believed to exist in the surface of the etheric double of man. The Chakras are said to be "force centres" or whorls of energy permeating, from a point on the physical body, the layers of the subtle bodies in an ever-increasing fan-shaped formation (the fans make the shape of a love heart). Rotating vortices of subtle matter, they are considered the focal points for the reception and transmission of energies. Seven major chakras or energy centres (also understood as wheels of light) are generally believed to exist, located within the subtle body.

It is typical for chakras to be depicted as either flower-like or wheel-like. In the former, a specific number of petals are shown around the perimeter of a circle. In the latter, a certain number of spokes divide the circle into segments that make the chakra resemble a wheel or chakra. Each chakra possesses a specific number of segments or petals.

Texts documenting the chakras go back as far as the later Upanishads.

The Integral Yoga and Other Yogas

This yoga aims at the conscious union with the Divine in the supermind and the transformation of the nature. The ordinary yogas go straight from Mind into some featureless condition of the cosmic silence and through it try to disappear upward into the Highest. The object of this yoga is to transcend Mind and enter into the Divine Truth of Sachidananda which is not only static but dynamic and raise the whole being into that truth.
Those who seek the Self by the old yogas separate themselves from mind, life and body and realise the self of it all as different from these things. It is perfectly easy to separate mind, vital and physical from each other without the aid of supermind. It is done by the ordinary yogas. The difference between this and the old yogas is not that they are incompetent and cannot do these things - they can do this perfectly well - but that they proceed from realisation of Self to Nirvana or some Heaven and abandon life, while this does not abandon life. The supramental is necessary for the transformation of terrestrial life and being, not for reaching the Self. One must realise Self first, only afterwards can one realise the supermind. - Sri Aurobindo

Thursday, June 10, 2010

DHANURASANA


- Dhanusha means a bow. The hands are used like a bowstring to pull the head, trunk and legs up and the posture resembles a bent bow. Therefore this asana is called "Dhanurasana".

- Technique - Lie prone on the floor on the stomach, face downwards. Relax the muscles. Keep the arms resting alongside the body.
- Bend the legs at the knees.
- Raise the arms and hold the ankles with the hands. Raise the chest and the head. Fill the lungs with air.
- Straighten and stiffen the hands. Stiffen the legs also. The body now assumes the posture of a convex arch.
- If you lift the legs up, you can raise the chest . Hold the breath.
- Then exhale slowly. Attempt to keep the knees together.
- Stay in this position as long as possible.
- In this asana, the abdomen supports the whole body. So practice this asana when the stomach is empty.
- The body in Dhanurasana pose gets good exercise if it is lightly rocked from left to right and forward and backward.

- Remember - Do not try to bring the toes near ears forcefully if it is difficult. Gradually increase the practice.

- Benefits of Dhanurasana - One who regularly practices Halasana, Mayurasana and Dhanurasana never becomes lazy. One is always active and energetic.
- This asana gives a good massage to the abdomen so it cures prolonged constipation, dyspepsia, and other disorders of the stomach.
- Increases energy and counteracts depression.
- It cures spinal hump and rheumatism of the legs, the knees and the hands.
- It reduces fat. It activates the intestines and increases the digestive power.
- It nourishes all the abdominal organs by supplying blood to them. This asana is a blessing to those who suffer from gas and other intestinal disorders.
- Stretches the chest and lungs.
- This asana is very beneficial specially to women because it alleviates the menstrual disorders and improves the reproductive system.
- This asana rejuvenates the spine . It prevents bones from being untimely degenerated.
- It activates the pancreas and insulin is produced in proper proportion.

- Contraindications - High and low blood pressure, Migraine, Insomnia, Serious lower back, Neck injury, Diarrhoea, Headache, Heart problem, Peptic ulcer, Hernia, Thyroid or endocrine gland disorders.


- Dhanurasana ou posture de l'arc
- Technique - Se coucher sur le ventre, replier les jambes en gardant les gros orteils joints, genous écartés, attraper les chevilles avec les mains.
- Allongez-vous sur le ventre avec les bras le long du corps. Le menton repose sur le sol et les pieds sont étendus.
- Sur l’inspiration, pliez les deux jambes et attrapez les chevilles avec les mains. Levez la tête, le haut du corps et les cuisses, et regardez vers le haut. Éloigner les pieds des fessiers en soulevant du sol la tête et les épaules.
- Le corps est maintenant comme un arc en tension. Le poids du corps repose sur l’abdomen. L’extension de la colonne vertébrale et sur le Chakra Manipura.
- Essayer de bien soulever les pieds pour que le corps repose sur l'abdomen.
- Retenez la respiration et maintenez la posture aussi longtemps qu’elle vous est confortable.
- Expirez en revenant dans la posture de départ.
- Ou aussi - Tenir la posture quelques secondes en respirant normalement.
- Relâcher la posture doucement et se reposer à plat ventre avec les bras vers l'arrière et une joue sur le sol. Détendre tout le corps.

- Commencez par réaliser cet Asana trois fois en gardant brièvement la posture. Après avoir pratiqué ainsi un certain temps, étendez la pratique en gardant la posture quelques minutes en respirant normalement.


- Il est possible de préparer cette posture en dynamique : sur chaque inspir, de monter les pieds, les genoux, la tête et les épaules de plus en plus haut et de relâcher sur chaque expir.
- Aussi - Respirez normalement, basculez le corps d’avant en arrière dans la posture de l’arc en tension. Respirez normalement en roulant le corps de droite à gauche dans la posture de l’arc tendu.


- Bienfaits - Maintient la flexibilité de la colonne vertébrale, améliore la mobilité des hanches et des épaules. Masse les organes abdominaux et active le Chakra Manipura, stimulant ainsi le flux d’énergie vitale.
- Dhanurasana renforce et tonifie les muscles du dos, assouplit la colonne vertébrale, les hanches et les articulations des épaules.
- Elle masse les organes abdominaux, ce qui améliore la digestion, masse le plexus solaire, ce qui permet de remédier à l'anxiété.

- Précautions - Evitez cet exercice en cas d’hernie, de blessure du dos ou après une opération chirurgicale de l’abdomen.
- Dhanurasana est déconseillée aux femmes enceintes.



Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Yoga View

It is difficult to define in a way that satisfies the intellect because it is not a fixed thing. It isn't a thing at all, yet it is at the heart of the experience of yoga. Yoga practice is a means of transformation and that transformation is both deeply personal and universal. The way we see ourselves and the world defines the world in which we live. So in yoga and all sincere spiritual practice, we have to stop and question how we are relating to everything. This stopping means embracing the mysterious and unknown nature of existence. It is the Unknown itself, which gives birth to the yoga view in the individual. Because its origin is always empty, this perspective cannot be contained or owned. The yoga view is a perspective that is beyond any and all fixed ideas and assumptions. So it is free, all-inclusive and always new. Since the yoga view is free of fixed ideas, it kills fundamentalism and gives birth to compassion, understanding, and a profound ongoing curiosity into the nature of life. - The Yogaview

Sun Salutation

          Sun Salutation

Moon Salutation


Moon Salutation

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Purna Yoga or Integral Yoga

In the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, Integral yoga (or purna yoga, Sanskrit for full or complete yoga, sometimes also called supramental yoga) refers to the process of the union of all the parts of one's being with the Divine, and the transmutation of all of their jarring elements into a harmonious state of higher divine consciousness and existence.
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga should not be confused with a trademark "Integral Yoga" of Swami Satchidananda.
He describes the nature and practice of integral yoga in his opus The Synthesis of Yoga. As the title of that work indicates, his integral yoga is a yoga of synthesis, intended to harmonize the paths of karma, jnana, and bhakti yoga as described in the Bhagavad Gita. It can also be considered a synthesis between Vedanta and Tantra, and even between Eastern and Western approaches to spirituality.
The theory and practice of Integral Yoga is described in several works by Sri Aurobindo. His book The Synthesis of Yoga, the first version of which appeared in the Arya, was written as a practical guide, and covers all aspects of Integral Yoga. Additional and revised material is found in several of the later chapters of The Life Divine and in other works. Later, his replies to letters and queries by disciples (mostly written during the early 1930s) were collected into a series of volumes, the Letters on Yoga. There is also Sri Aurobindo's personal diary of his yogic experiences, written during the period from 1909 to 1927, and only published under the title Record of Yoga. - Wikipedia -

Prof. Carlos Eduardo Souza