What Exactly is Alternative Therapy and How Does It Boost Your Health and Well-being?
...My first yoga retreat
I never wanted it to stop. It was a wonderful feeling of joy, love compassion and connection to everyone who was there with me. This was despite the fact that I had only met these people just three days ago. But at that moment, it felt like I had known them all my life.
This was my first yoga retreat. Four days of total immersion in the practice, philosophy and life of hatha yoga. We practiced yoga twice a day. Spent several hours in sitting and walking meditation and learned about the philosophy of yoga through talks and discussions.
We helped prepare and ate the most delicious home-made vegetarian food. I was on an energy high. I had so much stamina. It was the best short break I had ever had.
So why did it effect me so profoundly?
Our subtle energy body
Yoga works on our bodies and minds at many levels, and in a way that traditional medicine fails. Infact, many of the alternative therapies and practices, that have become so popular, work on our mind and body in powerful ways.
You may not realise it, but your body has a network of unseen energy channels. They follow the pathways of our nervous system and provide a constant supply of subtle energy that keeps us alive.
This complex mesh of energy channels, or 'meridians' a...more
The Purpose of Yoga - Anger Management Secrets Of Pranayama
...is for a much longer time span, which is fine. The one to two ratio of inhale to exhale will expel your anger and rid your body of toxins.
This breathing pattern is sometimes called the 4-7-8 breath, but it can also be modified for people who can not breathe as deep. For example: You can modify this Pranayama to - inhale for two seconds, hold for four seconds, and exhale for four seconds.
This breathing sequence is a 2-4-4 breath. The one t...more
Using Breath to Deepen Your Yoga Practice
... practitioners have their personal favorites. But there is actually a rhythm at which you can breathe that is optimal for hooking up with the rhythm of the brain.
It's really easy to do: breathe in through your nose for six heartbeats, hold for three heartbeats, and exhale through your nose for six heartbeats. When your lungs are empty, inhale again immediately with no break.
If you are feeling stress or a low energy level, doing this for a couple of minutes will make you feel refreshed. You can also practice this breathing when you're doing yoga and no particular method of breathing is suggested for a part...more
The Secrets of Karma Yoga to Obtain Your Life Goals
...yourself.
Maintaining the right attitude is an important part of karma yoga. It is only jobs that are liberating or binding that are considered to be karma yoga jobs. To be successful in karma yoga, you only use your hands to work as your mind is always fixed on the feet of the lord and not on the consequences or results you anticipate on completing your job.
With karma yoga, it is important that you have the right motive to your job. It is only pure motives that remain successful. Usually a person embarks on some work thinking of the fruits of the work. This maintains such a frame in the person that it is quite impossible to think of any work that has no reward. This is not followed in karma yoga as here, a job or work is fulfilled only with the intention of completing the work and not for the rewards that accompany it.
Karma yoga places emphasis on you doing ...more
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