Bikram Yoga is a type of yoga developed by Bikram Choudhury. It is also called “hot yoga” as the classes are held in a room that has been heated to at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This yoga offers 26 poses that help you train your muscles and joints. Bikram Yoga helps you promote weight loss and clean out the toxin from your body. In addition, it also gives you a psychological benefit. Performing this Read more
Yoga classes abound: traditional yoga, hot yoga, power yoga, yoga for fitness, yoga at church. The list goes on. With so many options, it might be challenging to decide if yoga fits into your personal wellness regimen. Understanding yoga basics might help decide what’s best for you and how it works with your wellness plan.
Having a health strategy that addresses all aspects of health, not just diet and exercise, offers the greatest support for Read more
It is true that yoga for beginners can be quite exciting as much as it is for seasoned practitioners. Moreover yoga for weight loss can also be practiced for added benefit. However, there are a number of obstacles that seem to get in the way. First of all comes the strange vocabulary of the Sanskrit terms that are routinely associated with yoga. Try pronouncing terms like pashchimottanasana quickly and you will find out. Besides Read more
Despite the best efforts of the admin staffs, organizers often face troubles in managing the growing number of attendees. If you are facing the same problem, then it’s time to find some better ways to simplify the attendee registration and management procedure. Banking on online solutions can help you manage registration, accept payments, and allot different class schedules to the attendees seamlessly. A myriad of scalable event management solutions is available these days, which Read more
I once read an explanation of yoga asanas (poses) as starting from geometric and inanimate objects and moving on to something more fluid and challenging. Basic starting positions such as “trikonasana,” or triangle pose, where both feet serve as the anchor and one does a standing side bend, to “tadasana,” or mountain pose, where both feet and legs are pressed together as the weight pushes through the feet, anchoring them down into the earth, Read more
Many pregnant women choose to partake in yoga while they are pregnant to continue to get some exercise without the rigorous exercises many are warned against during pregnancy. Note that Bikram yoga, also known as hot yoga, is not ideal for pregnant women because it involves doing yoga in a very hot environment. Restorative yoga, on the other hand, can be very beneficial to women who are pregnant, or even those who are trying Read more
All schools of yoga agree in the idea that there is in each person ‘One’ who sees all the other things but is not seen by them – ‘some kind of self’ (kashchid swayam), which is the Sinner Self’ (anta atman), the ‘primeval Being’
By whose mere presence the organs of the body and the thinking mind and the higher intelligence all keep to their own proper forms and actions, like servants.
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Most of the modern-day practitioners of yoga are introduced to this ancient art through the lure of physical exercise. Even the Romans praise physical exercise as one of the noble pursuits of humankind. Immediately after battle, the stinky sweat and grime are scraped off a gladiator’s body with olive oil (ancient Romans did not use soap to wash) and repackaged as very expensive face cream that’s highly desirable to the wealthiest of Roman ladies.
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India is where yoga was invented, or one should say, where it developed. Thousands upon thousands of years ago. Although the official age of yoga is around 5,000 years, sages, sadhus, gurus – whatever you will – were practising the vedic arts long before yoga was being studied as a philosophy and being handed down in written form or through extortionately priced classes. What were the Celts – later, as the British, to be Read more
Would you claim that you have good posture? As a child I was continually told to sit and stand up straight. When my mother would catch me slouching, she would come behind me, and twist-drive the knuckle of her pointer finger into the middle of my back. Then zip, up I would go, standing erect like a soldier at roll call.
I thank my mother daily for her efforts to encourage my good posture. The Read more
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