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...I practice yoga on the chair and I love it! Were the words of Isabel, a woman of 100 years-old. Do you practice yoga here? I asked with a sense of incredulity. I was at the adult day care center where I facilitate a womens group. My viejitas as I called them with love, are from 65 (the baby) to a 100 year-old. In a very enthusiast manner they explained to me what yoga in chair, as it is normally known, meant.

It is basically a practice that involves a series of gentle movements and postures that are supposed to enhance flexibility, breathing, posture and circulation. These women expressed how they enjoyed this class and the physical and emotional effect it had on them.

Although I had been a great believer of the benefits of yoga and I even recommended as a way to cope with grief or any emotional pain, I didnt know the effect it had on older adults but after that conversation I realized that yoga was indeed a spiritual tool that enhanced the quality of life of these women and this is the aspect of yoga I want to elaborate.

The word Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word yuj and it means to unify. It originated in india 5000 years ago and it has been known as a method of discipline that helps to...more

Yoga and Pranayama For Applied Energy

...f us. Yoga is truly the oldest existing form of personal development known to mankind. It is up to us to pick up the pieces and build a better life.

Yet, Yoga does contain many answers, which will give us enough direction to transcend average thought. To go beyond our perceived limitations, requires us to study, look at the infinite possibilities, cultivate the positive energy from within, and project it out into...more

Sacred love- Yoga and the Mystery of real Life love

...he future. love is empowerment, the grand statement of this fifth key is that I am the cause of all that happens to me with this knowledge Yoga is practices every moment of every day.

Synopsis

There is a deeper meaning to yoga, one that extends outside of the four walls in which a yoga practice is performed, or a meditation is experienced. That deeper meaning is, according to ancient texts, love.

love of life, love of nature, love of work, love of brothers and sisters. But the most potent love of all, is the capacity to love a significant other, a relationship. Here you will find many anomalies between the diverse teachers, teachings, and practices of yoga. You will find advanced practitioners who are unable to hold a relationship, beginners who are in long term partnerships, you will find ashrams which are little more than singles camps and youll find obsession with a physical experience of Yoga that does nothing to make a loving family home.

What more can Yoga be than a relationship, a deep and pure window through which spirituality can be experienced, practiced and challenged. Here the five keys to SACRED love help to bring yoga from the studio to real life.<...more

Yoga Positions to Improve Your Health

...While there are many different positions in yoga for the many different levels of experience, most beginners start performing a limited number of these yoga positions that are appropriate for a beginner.

All of the yoga positions are done for specific benefits of the mind and body. There are yoga positions for the spine as well as the major muscle groups. The specific yoga positions for the spine work to strengthen the spine and improve a person's overall health. Other yoga positions are used to improve the balance and stability and increase muscle strength in each session. Yoga exercises also improve a person's overall physical fitness and state of the mind.

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