The Yoga Way to Health and Well Being
...tively affects bodily structures and organs. The awareness required during yoga practice, ensures that mind and body have to work together to create a mind-body harmony which in turn promotes healing.
Yoga will not be a quick fix for all your aches, worries and pains. However, with regular yoga practice your body will rebalance slowly and steadily, leaving you discovering the results for yourself. Physical benefits which you can anticipate are improved efficiency of the lungs, better use of your respiratory muscles, improved flexibility of the joints, improved coordination and muscle tone, maintenance of bone density, reduced risk of injury as well as the prevention of weight gain. Psychological benefits can also include an increase in self-confidence, decreased cravings for tobacco and food, better sleep, an increased ability to relax, improved concentration as well as a reduced likelihood of depression. Yoga differentiates itself from ...more
Stress-Free Parenting - three Simple Yoga Stretches to Help Parents Reconnect and Enjoy Parenting
...Are you a parent and have trouble dealing with the difficult and challenging behaviour of your son or daughter? Do you ever feel stressed and upset by their attitude and wonder what you can do to help them develop a more positive approach to life?
If your child is in trouble, plays truant, uses drugs or involved in crime, you may find it difficult to cope with their behavior. Have you ever staid up all night; have knots in your stomach, not sure, where your son/daughter is, what they are doing and what time they will return home?
If you continue to struggle to understand and manage the situation, the chances are you end up feeling stressed, tired and w...more
Partner Yoga Explained
...s of the asana, increasing blood flow and energy into the targeted body area.
Partner yoga has some other advantages over traditional individual yoga in that it promotes fun, laughter and creativity as well as relaxation, concentration and balance. It can be very rewarding to share your yoga experience with another person, particularly if that person is your partner in life as well as yoga.
Depending on the asanas used, partner yoga can be very intimate and loving and is ideal for couple trying to reconnect and regain closeness in their relationship. A partner yoga workshop makes a great romantic gift for a birthday or anniversary, or can just be a fun alternative to the usual night in front of the television.
...moreWhat Is Ashtanga Yoga?
...signify Ashthanga Yoga are
1. Yama - It reflects the moral and ethical grounds of human behavior
Ahimsa: non-violence
satya: Truthfulness
Asteya: No stealing
Brahmacharya: celibacy
Aparigraha: non-covetousness or Envy or possessiveness
2. Niyama - It reflects the disciplines one has to go through their human life
Shoucha - Purity
Santosh - Contentment
Tapa - Endurance
Swadhyaya- Self ...more
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