I understand yoga in the sense Sri Aurobindo described it.
Each movement in life may be in direction of yoga.
Here are excerpts from Sri Aurobindo's "The Letters" and the "Synthesis of Yoga", which may explain the label "yoga in everyday life".
Yoga is.....
"Yoga is not a thing of ideas but of inner spiritual experience."
"Yoga is the founding of all life and consciousness in the Divine synthesis of yoga."
"For the contact of the human and individual consciousness with the divine is the very essence of Yoga. Yoga is the union of that which has become separated in the play of the universe with its own true self, origin and universality. The contact may take place at any point of the complex and intricately organised consciousness which we call our personality."
"We see, then, what from the psychological point of view, – and Yoga is nothing but practical psychology, – is the conception of Nature from which we have to start."
"...Yoga is to exile the limited outward-looking ego and to enthrone God in its place as the ruling Inhabitant of the nature."
"Yoga is the conscious seeking of union with the Divine"
"Again the whole method of Yoga is psychological; it might almost be termed the consummate practice of a perfect psychological knowledge. The data of philosophy are the supports from which it begins in the realisation of God through the principles of his being; only it carries the intelligent understanding which is all philosophy gives, into an intensity which carries it beyond thought into vision and beyond understanding into realisation and possession; what philosophy leaves abstract and remote, it brings into a living nearness and spiritual concreteness."
"All Yoga is in its nature an attempt and an arriving at unity with the Supreme, – [...] at least at some kind of union, even if it be only for the soul to live in one status and periphery of being with the Divine, ....
All Yoga is a turning of the human mind and the human soul, not yet divine in realisation, but feeling the divine impulse and attraction in it, towards that by which it finds its greater being."
"Life develops many first hints of the divinity without completely disengaging them; Yoga is the unravelling of the knot of Life's difficulty."
[posted 2-28-2011]
