The Purpose of Yoga: Problem Solving Skills
One of the methods we demonstrate during Yoga teacher training courses is to write the problems and possible solutions down on paper…
Yoga for Stress Management
Are you interested in yoga? Has your partner recently started yoga lessons? Maybe your doctor has suggested you take up yoga as a form of stress management.
Can Online Yoga Renew My Health
As a Kundalini Yoga Teacher, students approach me everyday with questions about this unique and beautiful yoga. Thanks to all of you who have shared your thoughts so freely with me! Your open curiosity provides me with confirmations and “a-ha” moments about this yogic path of self discovery, soul searching, healing, and awakening.
Mantra Meditation – Ultimate Guide
Many Yoga teachers find it difficult to include these practices in their classes due to time constraints and unfamiliarity with these methods on the part of both the instructor and the students. Chanting sacred syllables, mantras and scriptural verses has been shown to calm an overactive mind, focus one’s attention on positive, uplifting thoughts, and even balance the flow of life force energy throughout the body.
The Discipline of Yoga
Steve Jayanta Paquette was born in Nova Scotia and spent much of his childhood in Atlantic Canada. He has recently returned to Nova Scotia after living for 10 years in a yoga ashram where he studied the ancient practices of yoga and meditation. He lives in Yarmouth and shares mindfulness, meditation and yoga as moving prayer in studios, churches and corporate settings around Atlantic Canada.
Yoga Poses for Walking
Combining the practice of Yoga postures with walking will provide you with a very balanced and “do-able” exercise regime. Ayurveda is the…
Hatha Yoga for Muscle Recovery
Yoga, Tantra and S¡mkhya, were developed by this admirable people. Their civilization, which is also one of the most advanced of ancient…
Five Yoga Secrets and Myths
Yoga and India aren’t strangers, yet we find Yoga’s popularity suddenly spiking after it’s embraced by the west. It has become the thing to do to be fit with celebrities swearing by it. It is as if Yoga is a ‘novel’ concept or is reinvented by the west. After it has become the ‘in’ thing, there are two sets of people- the ones who do it and others who don’t. Most of people who do it, adopt yoga for life while the others don’t want to do it because of the myths around it or don’t know how.
Yoga For Better Health
While you may never run a marathon or achieve a perfect dance pose, you can greatly increase your health and well being by regularly practicing yoga. Yoga helps to focus your mind and a focused mind can help shape your body! The mind is powerful and what we think we can become.
Yoga Beauty Secrets – You Can Start Today
Yoga’s ingenious postures trigger positive changes in your metabolism and functioning of your endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, reproductive, and urinary systems by direct stimulation of organs and glands. The Shoulder Stand stimulates your thyroid gland, having an important direct positive effect on weight regulation. Yoga breathing techniques (pranayama) are designed to trigger burning of excess body fat, to enhance detoxification processes and expulsion of toxins through our breath, and prove extremely effective for tension-relief, promoting a relaxed state and elevated awareness. Charismatic people transmit beauty through this irresistible combination of positivity, humility and self-confidence.