...have been teaching and practicing yoga all day - assist, cue, and guide, when you need a break. When you find yourself tired, do not be concerned with performing every yoga posture in your classes. Most of all, make it fun and incorporate stimulating methods and ideas.

For internal healing and healthy lifestyles, yoga teachers are on the right path. Most humans are disconnected from their bodies and run on "auto-pilot." This is much similar to the behavior of a pigeon. To link the mind, body, and spirit, in unity, is rare for pigeons and humans.

With global obesity on the rise, yoga will not fade in popularity. There are too many people who are mentally detached from their physical body. This can be observed by the increase in the size of children.

This will require action on the part of everyone, but yoga teachers have an opportunity to educate their students toward the...more

Bhakti yoga, The yoga of Love

...nger feels it before practicing Bhakti Yoga) with the divine. When upon his quest for reunion with the Godhead, when filled with love for the Divine, nothing else matters for the devotee, not food, not sex, not wealth, not any earthly pleasure or even responsibility. His love makes his quest by far the most important consideration.

Bhakti yoga is the fastest way, indeed the most direct way, of attaining God Consciousness. This is because love is the strongest emotion an aspirant can feel and it puts other considerations, even knowledge of the scriptures, into second place. All types of yoga, all forms of knowledge, are based on true faith, true devotion, on true Bhakti yoga. For without love for the Divine, one hasn't the motivation to mak...more

Anti-Aging And yoga, Is There A Connection

...r forms of body-weight exercises such as Pilates, Hindu-Push Ups (both being direct descendants of Yoga) and Calisthenics, you are definitely bound to see a drastic delay in the whole aging process.

Some yoga poses such as the Sun Salutations, The Shoulder Stand and the Abdominal Lift Exercises in yoga have been known for centuries to delay aging naturally (of course in an adherence to a proper diet).

Though any vigorous exercise may suffice, yoga stands unmatched as an...more

Stress Management - yoga

...controlled breathing exercise which promotes a relaxed feeling or eases stress. Savasana, Makarasana, Balasana are few asanas to be practiced to relieve stress

Prayanama (A breathing technique) :

In this technique an individual do slow and steady breathing - like inhaling through his one nostril and exhaling through other. Besides there are fast breathing movements like intake of air through nostrils and exhaling through mouth at fast pace, this way air is passed properly through blood capillaries and the person feels himself in light mode and he feels that there is no burden ove...more

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