Swami Ramdev Takes Yoga And Breathing Exercises To Another Level

Information on Swami Ramdev, an ever growing yoga master who is helping millions in India with simple breathing exercises.

The Benefits Of Yoga: Efficiency In Work Is Yoga!

Sometimes what a voluminous book can not explain can be explained in a single sentence! It is true about yoga. Yoga is not mere a word; it is a vast subject with many dimensions.

Yoga: Three Reasons You Should Not Do Yoga Posture -- Peacock

The Peacock is a very difficult asana and should be practiced with great care and only attempted by those who are in an athletic condition. Mayur means peacock in Sanskrit language. When this asana is exhibited, it resembles a male peacock with a long plume of colorful feathers trailing behind. A successful Peacock pose depends to a great extent on the body type and weight distribution. Anyone with a big chest and small hips and thighs will not have much difficulty to achieve this pose. But a person with a small chest and big hips and legs will find this pose very difficult to complete and held (that’s why most women find this pose very difficult to perform).

Tips On Getting The Most Out Of Corpse Pose In Yoga

Corpse pose has many benefits, but it can be neglected because of its apparent simplicity. Learn how to get the most out of this restorative pose, the two types of breathing you can do, and more.

The Spiritual Benefits of Yoga

Spirituality is something all of us have within us; but, not all of us know how to use it. Yoga is one way to summon your spirituality to the surface, where it's at your disposal.

Structural Integration

Structural Integration is probably not something a lot of people think about. However, thinking about it and participating in it can greatly enhance life and health.

Yoga: Three Reasons You Should Not Do Yoga Posture - Monkey Pose (the Split)

Hanumanasana is dedicated to Hanuman, a powerful monkey-faced God from India's great epic, the 'Ramayana' and his famous leap across the sea from the southern tip of India to the island of Sri Lanka to rescue Sita, the Rama’s wife. Hanuman is known for his devotion to Lord Rama, the seventh incarnation of Vishnu and this pose honors that devotion. Commonly referred to as the split, Hanumanasana, is one of the most challenging poses in Hatha yoga practice, because it demands two seemingly opposite actions in the pelvis.

How One Yoga Looking Push-up Can Work The Whole Body

We want results and we want them now, hence the ever-changing technology. This actually lends itself to our fitness and health needs. So are there any exercises one can execute in as little time as possible and still be able to achieve a solid workout? The answer may lie in this yoga-looking exercise.

Try These Yoga Poses for Jet Lag

Jet lag appears definitely to be one these things: A Condition resulting when travel across time zones leaves a person feeling “out of sync” with local time at his or her destination. That considered, to get you 'back in sync', one highly recommended solution will be Yoga. Let’s see how

Awakening the Female Serpent... Uplifting Divine Power

The 6 Chakras are also called the 6-fold wealth. In spiritual science it is called Sham (mental control), Dama (sense organ control), Uparati (dispassion), Titiksha (forbearance), Shradha (faith), Samadhan (concentration). Sham means serenity. It means destruction of agitation, tension, anguish and anger. Dama means mastery of the sense organs and stopping them from straying towards their respective objects. Uparati means fighting against vileness, wickedness etc of the mind.

Relaxation, Enhanced Health And Yoga For All - The Many Benefits Of Yoga That You Must Experience

Yoga exercises and techniques have many benefits, and practitioners often talk about the unification of body, mind and spirit achieved through yoga. The belief that the mind and body are a unified structure is fundamental to yoga, and leads on to the belief that when the body is in harmony, healing can be achieved.

Mind, Body, and Money: How to Reconcile Making Money In Your Spiritual Practice of a Yoga Studio

In the world of mind-body-spirit, we tend to have this paradoxical relationship with money. On the one hand, we sometimes want to think of the work we do as being above the materialism of money. Yet on the other hand, we all have bills to pay. How do we reconcile this apparent dilemma?

Who Should Become a Yoga Teacher?

Consider this idea: If you know nothing about Yoga, but I know a little something - I can show you what little I know. This happens with any form of shared knowledge, and the person who knows a little more about Yoga, becomes a Yoga teacher.

Yoga Effectiveness on Demand - Mayoralty Debates

Popular ideas about yoga would keep it to the fitness classrooms of the world. However, yoga is far more than a pose and its effectiveness is measured by how well it can be used as a tool outside the fitness room. Yoga means integration of the body, mind and spirit of an individual. The physical poses (actually “asana” or seat in Sanskrit) are only one factor to assist us in getting to yoga. When we are in balance we perform better in our work and play.

Yoga: Three Reasons you should not do Yoga Posture - Child's Posture

This posture requires the entire body to be folded in on itself in the fetal position and it is simple for those who are flexible as a child. If you have a need of a posture that does not fold you completely into flexion you can place your hands alongside your head. For those who have good flexibility in the spine and healthy knee joints this posture will be easy to achieve but for some people this posture may not be comfortable. In that case the use of props such as a small pillow under ankles, between legs and thighs, between thighs and torso and under the forehead can be adopted to gain its benefits.