- The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Tantra Yoga
- The more you learn about any kind of Yoga, the more there is to know. A wise teacher once said, Every day I wake up to find out I know less than I did the day before. This is even more true of Tantra Yoga - about which there is much misinformation an...
- Why Zen Yoga Poses Can Improve Your Health
- Zen yoga poses are part of an Oriental system that combines the practice of asanas with Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine. Postures are categorized according to the primary meridian they affect. A meridian can be understood as similar to a bl...
- Yoga and Children - Increasingly Popular
- If you thought yoga was just for adults, you need to think again. Nowadays, yoga is greatly popular among all ages ' especially with kids. Practicing yoga actually enables children to develop a fitness program and a way of healthy living. Yoga can gi...
- Yoga Can Be Intimidating - First Time Experiences
- If you are very nervous about taking a yoga class for the first time, you should not despair. You may find the shapes that people are able to twist themselves into as being quite intimidating to a newcomer like yourself. This may prevent you from eve...
- Different Stages of Yoga
- Generally, Yoga consists of and is described in eight stages astanga-yoga, (eight-membered Yoga). Yama (restraint) denoting abstinence from injury (ahimsa), falsehood, stealing, lust, and avarice is the first stage; with niyama (observance), denoting...
- Yoga Explained
- Originating and implemented in India thousands of years ago, Yoga, essentially is a way of life and an integrated means of synchronizing mind, spirit, and body, a system now practiced universally, regardless of caste, creed or religion.In addition to...
- Yoga Insights: Walking Yoga Meditation
- Walking meditation is more difficult for most Yoga students, than breath awareness meditation, but it is very beneficial to those students who have difficulty sitting still. Some Yoga practitioners are more restless than most of us, so this is when w...
- A Comfortable State of Mind and Body
- Yoga Guru Patanjali has defined Yoga as a steady and comfortable state of Mind and Body. And, a comfortable and steady state of body and mind is precisely what practising yoga delivers. Other forms of exercise increase the strain on body muscles, as...
- Branches Or Basics of Yoga
- Ancient practitioners have likened yoga to a living tree with six branches coming from the trunk, with each branch having its own unique function relating to a particular lifestyle. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is one of the six darshanas of Hindu or...
- Yoga a blend of Spiritual and Physical Exercises
- Yoga, the brainchild of the ancient Hindus is a form of mysticism, whose origin is impossible to trace, dating back as it does to thousands of years before recorded history. One of the six schools of Hindu philosophy, Maharishi (or Sage) Patanjali, i...
- Could a Blind Man Become a Yoga Teacher?
- Recently, I ran into a case in which a Hatha Yoga teacher, who had been teaching for years, was being refused from a Hatha Yoga teacher training course. Before anyone gets stirred up over this, and the Act on the Affairs of the Handicapped, in the Un...
- What Else Should a Hatha Yoga Teacher Know About Teaching Yoga Classes?
- Yoga teacher ethics should be thoroughly covered in all Yoga certification programs. With the current laws about harassment, all Yoga teachers, and anyone who works with the public, should beware. The less said, in your Yoga class about trivial matte...
- When Does One Become A Yoga Teacher?
- When you teach a friend, co-worker, or family member, one Yoga technique, you have taken the first step toward becoming a Yoga teacher. This is the traditional way Yoga was initially taught before Hatha Yoga classes became such a magnet to the public...
- Learn Ashtanga Yoga For Strength And Flexibility
- Ashtanga is a more physically intense form of yoga than most, which is one of the reasons for its' immense popularity. This can make it more challenging to learn however. There are two main ways it is taught - a more traditional approach pioneered by...
- The Aims of Hatha Yoga
- Hatha Yoga can help you towards better health and calm your mind so that you can solve your personal problems, but I do want to stress two facts. Firstly, that the aim of Hatha Yoga is not the acquisition of a superior muscular physique but the disci...
- Yoga Being the Key to Modern Ailments
- As recently as a century ago, when the average life expectancy throughout the Western world was less than forty years, people gave little thought to keeping fit. Life was simply not long enough. The few men and women who lived into their eighties and...
- How could a Shy Person Become a Yoga Teacher?
- The calling to teach Yoga classes can reach into any of us, but what about obstacles which hold each of us back. A shy person may want to become a Yoga teacher, but how can he or she develop the voice of a Yoga instructor?For an aspiring Yoga teacher...
- Kids Yoga: Stress Management Sessions for Children
- Let's think about it: Being a kid these days is not what it used to be. If you grew up watching Leave it to Beaver, you cannot really relate to the current peer pressure, multi-tasking, sub-par education programs, and daily distractions that our chil...
- Yoga for Health: Are You Stressing Out? Take a Yoga Class
- Stress is actually the number one killer of humans on the planet. Stress is a factor and cause of more physical and mental diseases than most of us can imagine. If you have any disease or ailment, stress will make it worse. If you are getting stresse...
- Yoga: When Should You Consider a Private Lesson?
- Shouldn't Yoga should be easy for everyone to understand? There are so many Yoga books, containing detailed, full color pictures and loaded with content.At this time, it is easy to find audio books, DVD's, and various video formats made by world famo...
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