Why Yoga At An Early Age By Marsha Wenig When presented in a child’s language, yoga can help counter the stress experienced by young people living in a hurry-up world. Our children live in a hurry-up world of busy parents, school pressures, incessant lessons, video games, malls, and competitive sports. We usually don’t think of [...]
How Yoga Wrecks Your Body - Yogi Glenn Black Responds to controversy over New York Times Article on Yoga The recent New York Times magazine article “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” (William Broad, Jan. 5, 2012) has stoked an international controversy, shaken the yoga world and focused the spotlight on my previously anonymous, reclusive yoga [...]
Meditate to live your life to the fullest. Meditation is one of the most powerful tools there is to help us restore the harmony within, and to gain access to our bodies’ inner intelligence. In meditation we rediscover the silence in our mind, and make it part of our life. Silence is the birthplace of [...]
Asana is the use of very specific physical postures. This is the foundation from which everything else is built. In fact, without the other techniques being applied, Hatha Yoga is little more than step or gymnastics. Only through the use of asana, vinyasa, bandha, pranayama, and drushti can the ultimate benefits of yoga be gained. In yoga there are hundreds of [...]
Yoga is a practical tool for untapping our hidden, and latent potential. It uses the five techniques of asana, vinyasa, bandha, pranayama, and drushti to bring about a state of profound relaxation. This relaxed state is one of vibrant, and alert harmony, in which all of the different aspects of our being are integrated, and [...]
Moon Days Moon Days are the days each month on which you “take rest” from your regular Yoga practice. With traditional Astanga Yoga, no practice is done on full, or new moon days. Or, on Saturdays. Both full and new moon days are observed as yoga holidays in the Astanga Yoga tradition. The reasoning behind this is [...]
Basic Guidelines for Beginning Hatha Yoga All forms of Hatha Yoga, like many fitness programs, involves using your muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, and mind. Some of postures are challenging, and move your body in ways it may not be accustomed to. While all of the movements are possible, and none of them is inherently harmful, you [...]
The Benefits of Yoga – “Health is Wealth, Peace of Mind Happiness, Yoga Shows the Way.” Swami Vishnu-devananda Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual, Cultivate Your Own Garden with Yoga, by discovering the tools that can bring each of us in touch with our true nature through Yoga. Yoga is one of the best stress busters [...]
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