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How to Incorporate Yoga in Your Fitness Regimen

...ning up the large and smaller muscle groups and warming them up, when practiced in high numbers such as 24 and upwards, these babies give you strength.

Hey, Bruce Lee was said to do them as well as several Eastern Wrestlers, so it cant be wrong.

This is the very core of yoga itself.

This exercise is a combination of Yoga Poses, Breathing exercise, Sun Bathing and Prayer. It is the warm-up of a yoga class or personal yoga session and is a combination of 12 poses that are performed in a synchronized motion with emphasis on rhythmic breathing.

My next suggestion would be the yoga-esque calisthenics exercise known as the Hindu Push-Up. If one exercise could work the entire upper body, hips and depending on your execution, legs, this will be it.

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Teaching Hatha Yoga - Ethics and Professionalism

...leaning curve, so learn and avoid beating yourself up.

You must avoid self-doubt, and the appearance of self-doubt, when you teach Yoga classes. Learn to separate friendships from professional relationships. This is a hard line to walk; especially, if long-time friends are in your Yoga class.

However, you have a mission, a task to perform, and a Yoga class to lead. If you want your classes to be flawless, forget about special relationships during class time. You will be a better Yoga teacher, when you treat everyone the same.

Remember that if you praise one student for something, it would be fair to...more

Your Yoga Practice - 7 Guidelines For The ultimate Beneficial Yoga Experience

...ch yoga pose. Are you using your breath to assist you into the pose?

Most importantly, become aware of what thoughts and feelings course through your body while moving from one asana to the next and practice accepting those thoughts and feelings, without judgment. Just let those thoughts and feelings exist, observe them, without comment!

Now look at the STRUCTURE of your yoga practice. As it is important to balance the body and the mind, you need to structure your poses. Each forward bend should be followed by a backward bend. The poses you do on one side should be done on the other side of your body as well.

Now what is the best TIME to practice yoga? Many say generally in the mornings, just on arising as your mind is clear, free of thoughts and the air is still and quiet, there is no disturbance to interrupt your focus on you and your practice. The second best time to practice yoga is during the evening, those 2-3 hours around sunset. The chaos of the day has abated, and you can focus more clearly.

For many of us these times don't suit our lifestyles or commitments. So my belief is that yoga can actually be practiced at any time during the day. Whenever you are able to take a block of time for yourself. The only caveat to that is that you shouldn't practice yoga for at least two hours after a meal. So if early afternoon is a time that you can plan to have free, and be at liberty to focus on you with...more

Karmic Yoga Where You Are

...e about the way that we are doing it. There are two elements to Karmic Yoga which are similar to the elements in Hatha Yoga. One element is sacrifice, the other is renunciation. Sacrifice means sacrificing the outcome to the work that you are doing to God. It is not about hurting oneself in the name of God, it is about working in the moment, diligently as a hand of God, not as an extension of our egos or the societies corporate ego.

Renouncing is done when we let go of our right to make a lot of money, or to feel good about ourselves, or proud of ourselves for helping those "poor people." It means letting go of the right to be angry and upset when we are frustrated. It means living in the here and now and being what we are meant to be, divine beings living in earthly bodies. It can be compared to bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth through our interactions, our gifts and our the application of our knowledge for the betterment of others who, in actuality, are only different fa...more

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