Yoga and Pregnancy - Why Do Yoga At This Time?
...Yoga is for everyone, any age, men, women and children but is especially helpful at times of change in our lives. Pregnancy is a time when extra care should be taken not only in exercise classes but in all activities and living. Yoga will help maintain a healthy and strong body during all stages of pregnancy and help women to deliver their babies in a confident way.
Pregnancy is a natural time for taking care of yourself. For a first time mother a yoga class will offer a chance to be comfortable in the changes taking place both physically and mentally. A chance to take a break, relax into the pregnancy and make contact with her baby. Yoga will also help prevent all kinds of back problems. It will help to keep blood press...more
Easing Stress Naturally - Practice Yoga
...ability to rise above worldly desires. Practicing yoga is known to result in the gradual awareness of the true meaning of reality.
In the ancient world, yoga evolved as a way of cultivating spiritual awareness, compassion and insight. It has been taken to represent the union of the soul and the body.
One of the many branches of yoga that penetrated the modern world is hatha Yoga. This consists of concentration techniques, breathing exercises, specific dietary restrictions and the "asanas", or the stationary or moving poses used to create a balance in the different systems of the body. Among the systems benefited by the asanas are the digestive, the endocrine and the nervous systems.
This series of poses or postures exert their beneficial effects by slowing down mental activities and gently stretching the bodi...more
The history of Yoga
...ty, studiousness, contentment, discipline
Pranayama - controlling the breath
Pratyahara - going inward and withdrawing attention from the outside world
Dharana - concentration
Dhyana - meditation
Samadhi - merging with the universal consciousness
The swami Vivekananda added to the history of yoga by bringing it to America. In 1893, he addressed the Parliament of World Religions and discussed the path of yoga...more
Yogic stress Management therapy - Don't Worry, Be Happy
...One aspect of Yoga, which amazes most new students, is the newfound ability to become aware of everything, which was already around them in the first place. This includes feelings of, and opportunities for, happiness.
Remember Bob Marleys song. Dont worry, be Happy? Have you ever been offended when a friend said, Take it easy. Why? A simple solution to your big problem, seems like an insult...more
