YOGA can be understood as a set of behaviors that develops a holistic experience of the body, heart and mind. It is a process of fully inhabiting our life and ourselves in a radically engaging and inquisitive way. Through this training we develop a healthy capacity to literally take up residence in our bodies and minds. Which can then leads us into simple presence. Presence is a quality of being that is open and aware. This body-mind presence serves as the ground for compassion and wisdom to emerge within us.

瑜伽可以理解成一整套行为，使身、心、灵得到全面的发展。它是这样一个过程，把我们自己和我们的生活完全处于一种非常神奇的方式之中。通过这种训练，我们可以使我们的身体和精神很自然的达到一种健康的状态，从而使我们简单的存在。这种存在是一种开放的、觉醒的状态。这种身心的状态就像是土壤，使我们能生出内在的慈悲与智慧。
    Although there are many branches of Yoga, the philosophy can be defined as a joining or yoking of the many seemingly opposing layers of your being-- mind and body, inner with outer, activity with receptivity, subject and object-- the result of which is a non-dual or inclusive state of mind in which we are able to experience the challenging dualities of life without failing into dualism. Dualism is a state of mind in which we sever a piece of experience from the integral whole and subsequently see it as independent and separate.

尽管有许多的瑜伽流派，这种哲学可以看作是你的身体上看似对立的很多层面的统一结合——身与心、内在与外在、主动与被动、主观与客观。而这一结合的结果就是使我们的精神处于一种包容、和谐的状态，使我们去经历生活中的种种矛盾时不会走向分裂。这种分裂是一种精神状态，它使我们看待事物时用一种孤立而不是整体的眼光。