Posts Tagged ‘yoga poses’

Yoga is a fantastic form of exercise to help keep your body healthy and fit.  With yoga routines you will improve your fitness and health as well as feel refreshed and energetic.  Many of us gain weight and become unfit as we get older and yoga is a great and gentle way to improve your fitness and it will also help to lose weight and live a healthy and active life.

Many of us will put off starting a new exercise program due to lack of motivation and lack of energy.  Let’s face it, after a hard days work who has energy to exercise.  That is why yoga is so great, it isn’t extremely energetic and is a nice gentle way to get back into an exercise routine.  By practising yoga you will also increase your energy levels which will make it easier to practise as well as take on other lifestyle changes. Read the rest of this entry »

Bikram Yoga – also known as Bikram Method Yoga and sometimes as ‘hot yoga’.  This method of yoga has many advantages that can change your whole perspective in life.  It also builds your mental and physical strength, improves flexibility and balance, and improves your overall health.

Bikram yoga gets its roots from Hatha yoga, which helps in healting the body and mind.  It was founded by Bikram Choudhury who practised a number of exercises in his rehabilitation from an injury suffered in a weight lifting accident.  While practising these exercises he discovered that they had some healing benefits, he then shared this discovery and since then Bikram yoga has gone on to be practised by many people for its healing abilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Different yoga poses have different benefits for your body, each of them have their own function and perform differently.  The one thing that all yoga poses have in common is that they are designed to develop your bodies flexibility and strength.

Here are some of the yoga poses that are commonly used:

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