Yoga exercises strengthen your body and make it more flexible. Yoga also calms your mind and gives you energy. In active sports or strenuous exercises, you use up energy. In yoga classes, students report that they feel tranquil after a class, yet have more energy. Slow and steady motion is the key to going into [...]
Truthfully, there are no reasons why any of us cannot be, or do,
what we want, as long as you are not hurting anyone. You should
always strive to be the best you can be. However, you may find
that many people create obstacles, in front of themselves, to
avoid success.
This is truly ironic that we hold ourselves back [...]
As if to lend weight to my contention that your computer can, in theory, teach you anything, along comes a pair of CD-ROMs called Wellness Yoga and Shiatsu Relaxation.
Lithe young women demonstrate these ancient Eastern techniques while mellow-voiced narrators speak over somnambulant music, the better to relax you and make you all well.
Most of us [...]
Can you find good quality Yoga classes for free? Sometimes you can, and many introductory Yoga class packages are free, or priced, so low, that they might as well be. Some students of Yoga jump, from studio to studio, like grasshoppers. These Yoga students are in search of constant introductory packages and free Yoga classes. [...]
Once you have mastered the basic approaches, you will start developing a definite sequence, a routine for Deep Relaxation. It has been found that the most effective way to relax is to begin at the top and work down: Relax the head first– let go the face muscles, the jaw muscles, the eyeballs, the lips, [...]
The various postures of yoga have long been used as a basis for the stretching moves that are prescribed for athletes or used in other forms of exercise. It’s no surprise, then, that a flood of yoga tapes is hitting the market.
There are tapes for Olympic-level athletes and tapes for rank beginners. There are tapes [...]
Pop icon Madonna is probably one of the most popular bi-products
of commercialized yoga. Since she started to come out with that
toned and buffed figure, women all over the world wanted to know
what kind of diet she has been doing. When she revealed that she
has been on her journey of self-discovery and has found a new
source [...]
Ina Mirx is 68, looks 35, and can do things with her body that a 16-year-old farm hand can’t do, but she wasn’t always fit-as-a-fiddle.
At the age of 30, while pregnant, she was forced to jump from the third story of a burning hotel. She landed on concrete, fractured her spine and pelvis, broke several [...]
Hatha yoga is an ancient hindu system of working with the human nervous system. Because it releases tension and endows one with renewed energy, far too many 20th century people, yoga teachers included, have come to look upon the venerable Indian physical science as solely an exercise for health and vitality of mind and body. [...]
First and most widespread, as well as the one best known in our hemisphere, is Hatha Yoga. The name, derived from the Sanskrit Ha, which stands for the female principle and Tha, the male principle, implies that this Yoga may be practiced by both men and women with the object of achieving complete control of [...]
Hatha Yoga, in common with other Yoga schools, teaches certain rules of conduct, or yamas. There are ten of these: Ahisma or harmlessness, Satya or truthfulness, Asteya or non-stealing, Bramacharya or continence, Kshama or forbearance, Dhriti or fortitude, Day a or mercy, Aarjvna or straightforwardness, Mithra or moderation in diet, and Sucht or purity. There [...]
For controlling your hypertension, there are two effective yoga exercises that helps lower the blood pressure:
Inverted Yoga
Inverted yoga reverses the action of gravity on the body. The most profound changes brought about by Inverted Yoga is in circulation. In inverted poses, legs and abdomen are placed higher than the heart.
Lengthening up through the legs and [...]
Yoga began in India 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit language and means, to join or integrate, or simply union. Yoga started, as far as we know, as part of India’s philosophical system, but not everyone practiced yoga, and it has never been a religion.
About 5 million people in [...]
You can get audio or video tapes that give breathing instruction and teach relaxation techniques at health food stores, bookstores, and by mail order. It’s probably fine to learn breath and relaxation from a tape or booklet, but don’t try the yoga exercises without a skilled teacher. He or she can make corrections, caution you [...]
