Retrieval of common concepts between teaching yoga and the elements of Stanislavsky's acting system

Western theater is deeply indebted to Stanislavsky’sActing system Who did a lot of efforts to make his acting exercises into a systematic method. Since putting the experiences as a theoretical principals in writing is a difficult task, He was obliged to present acting training books in the form of novels. On the whole, these books are considered as coherent thought within the scope of acting In which all rehearses and techniques are rooted in aforementioned thoughts. One of the most important of these, is the belief in the connected chainlike relationship between mind and body, his belief is based on theTheodulRibot- French psychologist statement whose emphasis on this issue brings him into this assumption that stress is a major obstacle to creativity but was this the most important and the only source of Stanislavski inspiration to form the system? From the view point of theorist such as G0rdon and Carnac, the most important section of the system rehearsal is Stanislavsky’s information to yoga. This article tends to mention the reason of the existence of the challenges that today has created obstacles for Stanislavsky’s training method and to identify the way out of this challenge. Grachev who is a professional acting trainer in Russia today due to getting rid of the challenge introduces the missing link as a yoga, which the ruling censorship on the pervious socialist USSR made Stanislavski remove such term as yoga inspiration, Prana, witness. This article tends to answer the fundamentals through a descriptive and analytical way.1. How are the use yoga practice of reflected in Stanislavsky's acting system?2. How did Stanislavsky become familiar with yoga and which aspects of yoga have had the most impact on his system?3. Which common elements can be found in Stanislavsky’s teaching and yoga practice? Our sources include Research materials of library studies, internet and the result of the total experience of the author in the area of teaching acting and also holding yoga educational workshop. In this article we try to analyze the Stanislavsky's utilization of yoga with regard to his acting system. In addition, the eight stage of yoga Ashtanga is dealt with, and then the common elements between the two Stanislavsky's acting system and Ashtanga yoga are identified and studied such as the ethics, muscle flexibility,breathing, concentration, imagination, communication, energy and rhythm. It should be mentioned that this study has been carried out for the first time in countries.