Obama Inspires Yoga Community With Mindset

Politico.com:

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons spends a lot of his day doing yoga, and he thinks that the president of the United States has mastered the yogi mind-set.

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Comments

[nerakami]

Barack Obama's attitude and way-of-being is a direct result of the circumstances he grew up in as well as, the main people who influenced him in his life ie; his mother, whom he called "spiritual" and his grandparents who taught him some very wholesome values. He was exposed to different cultures and religions which planted within him the seeds of tolerance and open-mindedness.

I guarantee you if Barack Obama was raised in some crime-ridden area in the USA and endured growing up in a drug infested environment, he would be a different man today.

His circumstances were in precise harmony for him to fulfill this particular purpose in his life. I guess if you look at it that way, then it was a natural process...

[liminal67]

He seems to inspire everyone both good and bad ...oh welll GO OBAMA...

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[theubermensch]

There is so much more to yoga then the west knows. It is all about the physical as is most things western. Open up to other aspects of it and lets not make Obama a master yogi just yet. He's just an excellent politicians. Each is about control and discipline.

[Ed and Deb Shapiro - Huffpost Blogger]

theubermensch- I humbly disagree with you!

Yoga is about being a real human being- awake kind compassionate

you don't need to do hatha - asanas (physical) at all to be a yogi' Ramana Maharshi was probably the greatest of Indian Yogis also Paramahamsa Yogananda- they were considered Self- Realized

Ramana's path was WHO AM I

Bhakti, devotion/Jnana yoga - enlightened intellect and karma yoga/action- service are other paths

Obama is a natural yogi

Namaste-

Swami Brahmananda (Ed)