Thread of Yoga

A baba is doing austerities. He has been sitting in the same circle of fire for a month, the scorching himalayan sun beating on him day after day. Yogis ponder the meaning of life as dead bodies rot in The Ganges. Ether sticks to their mortal remains….The temperature is a boiling 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is just another day. The people of the land perform asanas (physical postures) and kriyas (acts of internal purification of organs). Children play in the water. Gurus give satsang (lectures), while the elephants give their blessings knowing the world was made too small for them.
And then, as the sacred India dives deeper and deeper into the recesses of the mind, it forces all to realize that there is nothing: this is the end!?!…The world of manifestations is just an illusion.
This is a 2-disc set: Region free, 0/ NTSC. This DVD set plays worldwide on PAL/SECAM/NTSC players.
Thread of Yoga, 88 minutes, 2006 +++++++++ Bonus DVD: Shadow of a Thread, 83 minutes, 2006: Full-length feature with all new material.
Patanjali starts his "Yoga Sutra" with the aphorism: "Yoga chittam vritti nirodha" (I,2): Yoga is the complete cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. To interpret the depth of this abstract concept, Wils interviewed Ramesh Balsekar, Sraddhalu Ranade, Gurudev Chitrabhanu, Dadi Janki, and several other yogis, all of them having published books on yoga. He included rare original satsangs of Swami Sivananda, founder of the Divine Life Society in 1932 at Rishikesh and author of over 300 books on yoga, Vedanta and health as he was a doctor of medicine.
This film will also shed light on meditation, samadhi and the lives of sadhus, swamis and sannyasins at Rishikesh, Benares, Tiruvannamalai and other holy places, ashrams and yoga institutes. Shot during 6 months in "cinema-verite" style on 40 locations, the film renders the true spirit of India with cremations on the banks of The Ganges, yoga on mallakhambs and ropes...
The original musical score was recorded live on location.