Teaching Meditation to Children
Teaching Yoga for a kids’ sports team helps them improve concentration and agility, and done together as a group, is an excellent “team…
Benefits of Meditation – The Ultimate Guide
Kirtan and swadhaya are both Bhakti Yoga practices. Bhakti Yoga originated thousands of years ago in ancient India. It is one of the…
Chakra Meditation in Yoga Class
Chakra meditation is much like any other meditation, but concentration is placed individually on each chakra, starting with the root and…
How to Beat Your Ego with Meditation
n order to silence the ego; it is necessary to understand what the ego is. Let’s start with what the ego is not. Within Yogic…
Yoga for Families At Risk
As a capstone to the program, participants were invited to two yoga workshops each, in which they explored practices for stress reduction, back health, emotional regulation, and relaxation. Activities were taught in a way that encouraged participants to take ownership of the practices they deemed most helpful and continue practicing them at home. At the end of the second session, each family was awarded a yoga mat, strap, and photo-guide to take home. As one participant commented after her first session, “Yoga is really good because we feel a lot of stress. Yoga helps us alleviate the pain we feel, and we feel better mentally too.”
Yoga for Anger Management
By Kimaya Singh and Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500, YACEP Is Yoga for anger management realistic? How can Yoga help people with anger management? Every person feels anger at some point. It is a natural emotion that has its roots in jealousy, hatred, outrage, or frustration. Regardless of its cause, anger has negative effects on …
Five-Minute Meditation Techniques
The five-minute breath awareness meditation technique is one of the best methods to choose, despite its simplicity. For five minutes…
Yoga for Emotional Healing
The daily practice, of Yoga, provides emotional healing and support for a variety of reasons. In Yogic philosophy, it is believed that the ego is a major player in creating emotional disturbances, because it draws all conscious attention into itself. During a daily Yoga session, the conscious attention is diverted from the ego, and in those moments, true emotion may be felt. Turning the conscious attention toward one’s true emotions is very healing – in and of itself. Very often, an objective look at reality is all that is needed to promote an internal and lasting change.
Yoga to Manage Mood Swings
Few things can put someone on edge the way that an overload of stress can. This can in turn lead to moodiness and outbursts that can harm personal, professional and familial relationships, causing further deterioration of a person’s mental health, even among those who have never been diagnosed with anxiety or stress-related disorders. Yoga can help through preventing this overload of stress and working to calm anxiety. In fact, yoga can even increase tolerance to stressful events by moderating uncomfortable physiological responses like raised blood-pressure and heart-rate.
Yoga For Depression – How it Works
In the case of Yoga treating depression, this is a subject that needs to be focused on considering how individuals in a depressive state often question their significance, the meaning of life and what they can offer to this world and the people around them. The practice of Yoga enables us to slow down and more calmly respond to our thoughts, rather than impulsively react to them.