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Child Yoga - What is All the Fun About?
Many adults have taken up yoga, but yoga has not gained as the same popularity with children. Child yoga can offer many of the same benefits to kids as it does to adults.What can yoga offer your child?Read more…Which Type of Yoga is the Right Choice for You?
You finally made the decision to practice yoga, but which style of yoga is the best one for you? There are many types of yoga, and while they usually have common elements, their focus is often quite different. If you have not been physically active in a long time, then one of the more gentle, slower moving styles may be right for you.Read more…Yoga Clothes for Comfort, Functionality - and Let's Not Leave Out Fun!
Yoga clothes should be comfortable and functional. They should allow you to move freely and not distract you from your practice. They should feel good against your skin so they don’t cause any irritation.Read more…How to Use Yoga DVDs and Videos to Round Out Your Practice
I absolutely love using yoga DVDs and yoga videos during my practices. As a matter of fact, I use one of them almost every time I do yoga. Why do I love using them so much?Read more…Yoga Mats - Are They All Created Equal?
Yoga mats are a basic part of every practice. What you might not realize is that there are several types of yoga mats that you can choose from.Sticky Mats These yoga mats offer a covering for your practice area, as well as some stability for you when doing poses.Read more…Basic Yoga Poses (Asanas)
In most forms of Yoga there are three components to the practice; breathing, concentration and physical poses also known as asanas. The two poses below are the most common asanas used in Western Yoga practice today.Padma-Asana: Probably the most famous and well-known pose; the Padma-asana is referred to as the Lotus Position.Read more…Paths of Yoga II
Continuing the Paths of Yoga, I’m delivering to you the practical side of this mysticism that thousands of people around the world use to achieve spiritual growth, and body purification. According to yoga experts, its early practice reduces the risk of developing most of the common illnesses. And according to Yogis, masters of Yoga, its exercises can deepen your meditation.Read more…Yoga and True Self
The great sage Patanjali in his work Yogasutra codified all yogic knowledge and practices which prevailed in ancient India in the form of aphorisms. He defined Yoga in a simple way as - controlling of thoughts arising in the mind(I.2).Read more…Yoga and Christianity a Conflict?
Being a practicing Christian myself, there are very few things in Yoga that conflict with Christianity. Some critics argue that Yoga and Christianity cannot co-exist, and yet we know that Yoga is not a religion.However, that depends on your opinion.Read more…Nine Things You Should Know About Yoga for Children
Here are some guidelines and realistic expectations for parents, who are considering Yoga for their children. For your child, Yoga is much more than a kid's fitness class. Just like adults - kids need time to learn to deal with life’s daily pressures, too.Read more…Eight Amazing Benefits of Teaching Yoga
Every challenging occupation yields some sort of satisfaction, but the fitness professionals industry had an amazing 85% job satisfaction rate according to an Idea Health & Fitness survey.Job SatisfactionIn the same survey, 98% of those interviewed felt that "My work gives me a feeling of personal accomplishment." Lack of personal satisfaction is the most frequent reason why people leave a job.Read more…How to Find the Right Yoga Teacher?
I am often asked by beginners about how to evaluate a Yoga Teacher?The following is the “CALM check list.” These factors are basic criteria that your Yoga Instructor should meet before you continue on to a second Yoga class.Read more…Yoga is "Unity"
Experienced Yoga practitioners often feel discouraged when a naturally gifted dancer, gymnast, or martial artist, performs an advanced asana with little effort. As I have mentioned before, there are people with elongated joint capsules and their extraordinary range of motion is a gift. You and I may have to work at it, but the many rewards of Yoga practice are still there.Read more…Secrets of Teaching Yoga
What you are about to read applies to teaching, in general. In fact, we are all teachers, to some degree. You teach your friends, co-workers, strangers and family members on a daily basis.Read more…True Essence of Yoga
Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning.Read more…Paths of Yoga I
With dozens of Hollywood celebrities following in their Guru’s lotus footsteps and the sick Western commercial behaviour exploding Yogas popularity to a system that simply enhances people’s health, Yoga remains a system of spiritual unity of mind, body and soul among millions of Indians and many others from Eastern beliefs, as it has been for over five thousand years. As a result, some forms of yoga have gained significant popularity outside India, particularly in the West during the past century.Yoga is a form of mysticism that developed on the Indian subcontinent in the Hindu cultural context.Read more…Eating Disorders And The Use Of Yoga In Prevention And Treatment
It was not so long ago that eating disorders, such as bolimia and anorexia, were thought to be purely the result of mental conditions. More recently, though, some physical factors have been attributed to these conditions. It is now thought that eating disorders can be triggered by a multitude of factors, in combination, including those of a psychological, behavioural, social, or biological nature.Read more…Yoga Your Way To A Happy Vacation
Yoga Your Way To A Happy VacationThere have been many studies into holiday stress. Sadly, those studies show that such stress does exist; that summer vacation can actually prove more stressful than the rest of the year. It is ironic that millions of people dream all year of that escape from the daily grind, only to transport that daily grind to other locations.Read more…Yoga, Do Not Knock It Until You Try It
Are you one of those folks who have never tried yoga? How about one of those grown up teenagers who likes cow tipping and thought you might knock over your sister when she was doing yoga? Yes, I know that is fun isn’t it?Read more…Yoga and Weight Training - Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Yoga has become part of Western fitness training techniques. However, there are some who have never tried it, relegating it as a hippie trend from the 60’s. Those individuals would rather look at their flexed bicep in the mirror at their gym.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Yoga category
- The Yoga Life Style Challenge - I Dare You to Increase Your Happiness - By: Yogeshvara OM
The following story illuminates the balance that is critical to a healthy yoga practice. - 8 Prehypnosis Tips For A Good Hypnotherapy Home Study Course - By: Jec Gonzales
The challenge on every selfhypnotic experience is on tapping into these states and infusing the goals and missions we want to achieve. The potential for positive change is only limited by the extent of your preparation. How you format your own growth formulas will determine the level of your success. In this light, I prepared 8 preparatory reminders for a meaningful selfhypnosis. - How Distant Energy and Chakra Healing Works - By: Michael Mohoric
Distant chakra energy healing is a method that can heal, balance and align the chakras. The chakras are vital energy centers in the spine that affect all areas of life and have been recognized and written about in many ancient texts. - Classifying Asanas, Levels, Methods, Mastering Them - Part III - By: merry parker
Slow and controlled, Yoga asanas are very different from the fast, bouncy motions so popular in Western aerobics, gymnastics and other forms of exercise. Asanas (physical positions) progressively achieved or mastered in 4-levels, help one to achieve the body and mind’s natural condition of being in a relaxed state of being. - Physiological Benefits Of Yoga - III - By: merry parker
Apart from benefiting sufferers of respiratory illnesses, regular Yoga practice also helps manage pain as in sore joints, arthritis, rheumatism, including other aches and pains. - Yoga Benefits - Part I - By: merry parker
As any enthusiastic practitioner of Yoga will tell you, physical and mental therapy is the most important benefit of yoga. - Yoga and Obesity - Part I - By: merry parker
In today’s technology dominated world, decreased physical activity and exercise has resulted in global obesity, whether physical, mental or emotional, which by itself is the main reason behind various diseases that ail the human society, at large. - Healthy Mind & Mind with Yoga - By: merry parker
Blood flows through the body at a certain pressure, but if the pressure is higher than the normal range, then you can say you suffer from High Blood Pressure, and if it drops below what is considered the normal range, then it is called Low Blood Pressure. - Yoga's Bestowal Of Psychic Powers (ESP) - By: merry parker
If, you have read any yoga books, you will know that practicing ‘Vashitva’ gives you the ability to control objects, animate or inanimate. And finally, ‘Ishtatva’, the last power gives one the ability to create and destroy objects at will, a power that almost rivals that of God. The ultimate power, it can be attained with dedicated practice of Yoga techniques. - Yogic Truths - By: merry parker
A Sanskrit word meaning ‘yoking’ or ‘union’ , yoga is one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy, with widespread influence among many other schools of Indian thought, one can find its basic text contained in the Yoga-Sutras by Patañjali ( c. 2nd B.C.).