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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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...breaking, but always someone comes forth to be the cause of new laws and more rules.

Back to the saintly Yoga teachers who run Mommy and me Yoga classes. If you teach these Yoga classes, you have my deepest respect and I congratulate you.

I have never run one of these Yoga classes, but did once have the experience of teaching children, and their parents, martial arts - in a joint setting. Notice, I said did once have one parent single handedly created 30 new rules before he was finally dismissed. By the way, his child is still welcomed. He was my personal test of patience.

Religious Yoga: Most people, outside India, discount the value of Bhakti Yoga. This is a serious mistake for the masses to be so involved in buying, gathering, and consuming materials, that we cannot see the forest from the trees. With the condition of the world today, there has never been a b...more

How To Improve Your Bollywood Dancing Using Yoga

...Yoga can improve stage performance.

* Yoga can help calm stage jitters.

* Yoga can improve balance.

* Yoga can increase flexibility.

* Yoga can help in injury prevention

An added yoga routine will increase a dancer's flexibility and strength. Not only does it help with an overall sense of balance, but increases concentration and focus. Yoga is great for breath ...more

What Makes Ashtanga Yoga Different?

... you perform the Asanas, or postures, the body produces heat which causes your blood to "boil" and excrete the toxins outside of your body. The contaminations are found in your sweat. So the more sweat you produce, the more toxins are released. This is the natural way for the body to get rid of unwanted substances.

The poses are used to fully develop the physical strength and health of the body. It is the sequence of practices that make this possible. There are three postures used in Ashtaga Yoga.

The three are grouped on different levels:

- The first is the Primary Series which aims on aligning the body and also detoxifying it.

- The second is the Intermediate Series opening and cleansing the energy channels which comes to the process of purifying the Nervous System.

- The last series would be the advanced series from A to D. In this set, the grace and strength are assessed.

The Tristhana is another yoga principle which symbolizes the close union of the three places of action and attention. First is the posture, seco...more

Introduction to the kundalini Yoga Seven Chakra System

...f forehead: Eyes & Perception: Intuition

7. Sahasrara (Crown): top of Head: Brain and Nervous System: Bliss

Now that we know what Chakras are and what they do, lets see how we can work on them. The key to opening and balancing Chakras is by purifying the Nadis of blockages and increasing the flow of Prana. This is best done through the use of Yoga and Pranayama. Yoga, specifically kundalini or Kriya Yoga, and Pranayama are the essentially the science of Chakra Activation. They are designed to systematically dissolve the debris that collects and blocks the flow of energy through the nadis. When the flow increases, the Chakras are opened and, over time, become optimally balanced. This leads to higher levels of awareness and consciousness -- which is to say that it leads to a human being achieving their highest potential.<...more

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