Posts Tagged ‘yoga’

Yoga is not only an extremely popular form of exercise, but depending on the form you practice, can be exciting or calming, social or meditative, energizing or relaxing. No matter which of these best describes your yoga class, here are a few tips to help make sure that you are benefiting from yoga practise.

* Go to yoga class with an empty stomach. Yoga is full bending, twisting, lengthening, stretching, and strength moves. Eating a big dinner before that kind of movement could result in you cramping up or feeling nauseous and having to leave the class or not participate as fully as you’d like. Read the rest of this entry »

Yoga works to benefit your body by balancing your body, mind and soul. The main difference between different types of yoga is the source that you aim to alter or perfect. Some yoga types benefit the mind, some have many physical benefits and some types have spiritual benefits. Some techniques may have two of these benefits and some will benefit all three. The one technique that is the most difficult to learn, but also the most beneficial, is Tantric Yoga.

These techniques were derived from India thousands of years ago. The techniques have progressed over many years into its present form. Read the rest of this entry »

It is well known that yoga has some amazing health benefits and each individual pose offers its own benefit.  Yoga helps to strengthen muscles and make you more flexible as well as helping to correct posture and maintain that good posture.

By practising yoga regularly you will start to enjoy its benefits quite quickly and to make yoga a part of your life you will continue to enjoy good health for years to come. 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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We all know as adults that life can be quite stressful but most of us don’t consider that our children can also feel very stressed in their lives.  Life seems to travel at a much faster speed these days and as a result both adults and kids are under a great deal of pressure.

Teaching your children yoga can help them to deal with lifes pressures, both now and also gives them some great techniques to deal with the challenges that they will face in life as they get older.  Yoga can help boost a childs self esteem while also teaching them methods of relaxation.  These skills can benfit them in life and help them to develop cooperation and compassion. Read the rest of this entry »