Teaching Yoga: Do Not Lock Your Joints
To avoid locking your joints is very important to practice, if you are participating in yoga training sessions. Sometimes even over time a joint injury can lead to issues such as osteoarthritis.
About Yoga and the Vagus Nerve
Imagine a pill proven to release neurotransmitters, promote feelings of good will, release tension, and improve health. We would be standing in line to buy it. Why not try Yoga instead?
Teaching Yoga for Skiing: Injury Prevention
Teaching Bow Pose to your Yoga students will help them to maintain flexibility throughout the entire front side of their bodies. A regular practice of Bow Pose will also help to strengthen their back muscles, further helping to prevent back injuries. This Yoga pose also helps to boost metabolism and increase energy flow throughout the body. Bow Pose is usually practiced after the Sun Salutations and standing postures, including balancing standing postures.
Basics of Pranayama for Yoga Teachers
Even beginning students can understand that breathing is important in yoga. The knowledge of this complexity can sometimes present a barrier to learning. As students become fixated with the length and quality of each breath, their concentration on other equally important aspects of the lesson weakens. In order to prevent this, the yoga instructor must teach the importance of breathing in a relaxed and conscious way.
Piriformis Syndrome and Yoga
Stretches restore flexibility to the hip flexors and strengthen the piriformis muscle, but that’s not all. When included in a comprehensive Yoga training routine, they improve posture, flexibility, and overall health.
Yoga Training to Activate the Pituitary Gland
Kundalini Yoga recommends meditation for opening the Sixth Chakra while “Yoga Journal” provides a series of poses designed to stimulate the pituitary gland. These include the following list of Yoga postures.
How to Lengthen Your Spine through Yoga Moves
Practicing Yoga poses, in order to stretch your spine, works in a multitude of ways. First, the poses strengthen the muscles around the…
The Amazing Health Benefits of Yoga
Yoga is a welcomed alternative to vigorous exercise routines. Yoga focuses largely on stretching the body and deep breathing. While not a high impact or strenuous workout, yoga is very powerful and has beneficial effects on the body, mind and soul. The stretching elongates the muscles and limbers them up making it easier to get around and accomplish everyday tasks in your daily routine. It increases blood circulation, pumping more blood to the heart and brain, which gives you a boost of energy and flexibility.
Yoga Poses For The Holidays
Yoga poses that open up the heart area help to cultivate a deep sense of compassion for others and us. Practicing a brief period of meditation focused on compassion after practicing Yoga asanas that stimulate and open the heart region will help to solidify this awareness. In the past few years, researchers have been able to pinpoint the beneficial consequences of nurturing compassionate thoughts through magnetic resonance imaging devices of the brain.
Yoga Poses for Hip Pain and Tension
If you need instructions on how to practice the Sun Salutations, please refer to a reputable book, website or visit a local Yoga studio…