特别广播英语第 231 课：Using the Force of Yoga 接触瑜珈的神奇力量-1

As our knowledge of health and fitness increases, people are becoming more and more interested in not only taking care of themselves physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. 我们对健康与健身的知识与日俱增，人们越来越感兴趣的是不仅仅关心身体健康，还关心心理与精神的健康。

As a result, many are turning to more complete approaches to health, including less mainstream fitness methods such as yoga. 因此，许多人转而寻求更全面的途径来增进健康，包括一些还未成为主流的健身方式，如瑜珈。

Yoga's origins lie in Hindu philosophy, which was developed thousands of years ago in India. 瑜珈起源于印度哲学，在印度已经发展了数千年。

Today, yoga is a system of movements and meditation that emphasizes physical control and discipline as a way to achieve a state of spiritual knowledge. 而今，瑜珈是一组强调身体控制与修身养性的运动和静坐，是达到“天人合一”境界的一个有效途径。

Yoga's ideal state of knowledge is reached after a person has gone through eight different stages. 人要经过八个不同阶段的训练才能达到瑜珈的完美境界。

These include aspects of self-control, religion, postures, regulation of breath, restraint of senses, steadying of the mind, meditation, and profound thought. 这包括了自制、信仰、体位、调息、节欲、内省、冥想和三摩地。

For a practitioner of yoga, or "yogi" the progression through these stages is a movement from the physical toward a perfect mental state. 对瑜珈修习者来说，这些阶段是从身体到完美精神境界的进程。