Lose Weight With Yoga

Well known for its ability to bring down your stress level, promote flexibility and build and tone lean muscle, yoga is less known for its equally powerful effects for weight loss. You may not have heard yoga mentioned in this context, but it can be a great way to burn off calories. Conventional yoga isn’t a vigorous type of exercise. While it conditions and tones your muscles, you’re not likely to work up a sweat during a yoga session. However, the fact that your muscles are being given... Read more »

Yoga for Beginners

For beginners, doing yoga may seem an impossible task. It might seem scary for people who have not tried doing this exercise. They might have seen men and women wearing almost nothing and are able to twist their bodies to positions that seem almost impossible. Yoga is among the oldest practice for self-development. Its approach is gentle, helping even the stiffest bodies to yield and become flexible in a gentle way. The key to yoga is the non-competitive way of practice. Progress comes with regular... Read more »

Start An Early Path To Well-Being: Babies And Yoga

Yoga, in its purest form, is a discipline that connects the mind, body, and spirit. It’s more than a philosophy, it’s a way of being. Forget the stereotyped, tree hugging, hippie mantras of naysayers. There is more to it than stretching, sweating, and breathing. Yoga has intellectual benefits and practical guidelines for healthy living. The practical aspects involved in the philosophy of yoga have become widely practiced due to their healthy and calming effects on the body and mind. Yoga... Read more »

Yoga Fitness: Above and Beyond Your Average Fitness Routine

Yoga is synonymous with fitness. This is because yoga is interested in a holistic outlook on the entire body and how fitness should be incorporated into exercise. This is because yoga is about, mind, body and spirit, but yoga is also synonymous with health and fitness. Anyone who has been taking yoga classes for any amount of time will probably tell you they feel much more fit then they did before taking yoga classes. This is because of the holistic ideals behind yoga and how the holistic side of... Read more »

Surfing and Yoga- Five Good Reasons Why This Combination Works

Surfing is one of the most thrilling sports there can be on sea. But unlike most sea sports, it does not require machinery of some sort. All you need in surfing are: a board, surfing gear, rippling waves and a sense of adventure. But just like any other sport, surfing can also drain your energy and patience. It can be grueling especially to the neophytes, as it requires perfect mind and body coordination. To have a body in total harmony with your inner self to get your body in the best surfing condition,... Read more »

How to Get the Most out of Your Yoga Vacation

Many Yoga practitioners go to retreats, ashrams, or intensives, while they are on vacation. Travel expenses, and a dull economy, are keeping many Yogis closer to home this year. No matter what you decide to do, your vacation days should be memorable and filled with fun. A sudden jump in fuel costs may alter your vacation plans, but it is important to get away from your regular working routine. Let’s look at options you can do during vacation, without costing you “an arm and a leg.” Challenge... Read more »

Yoga in Practice - Four Steps to Take Control of Your Life

At a critical point in life, we may feel as if we are in a hopeless situation. This is when some people blame the moral law of cause and effect (karma), their family members, or someone else, for a current hardship. We can apply the principles, we learn in Yoga sessions, toward our situation in life. There are things we cannot control, such as natural disasters and economic shifts, but we are not helpless. Let’s look at four steps to take control of your life. 1. Stop blaming someone or something... Read more »

Yoga in Practice - Recognizing the Guru

Has your Yoga practice ever challenged an established belief? Have you ever had your belief system turned upside down? For children, or young adults, to see a role model fall from grace, is painful; but adults base their beliefs on decades of experience. Let’s look at solutions for keeping our integrity intact. Recognize the guru from within. If you have been practicing Yoga, on a steady basis, for any length of time, you begin to hear a voice from within. There will always be a point in life,... Read more »

Teaching Hatha Yoga - Steps to Professional Development of Yoga Teachers

Over the past two decades, professional development of Yoga teachers has grown, in parity, with the volume of new students. Let’s look at some easy steps any Yoga instructor can take toward taking his or her knowledge and teaching skills to new heights. Before you make a decision toward developing your skills, you may want to compile a list of areas where you feel you might want to go. Consider your performance reviews, feedback from program coordinators, students, or colleagues, and the input... Read more »

Teaching Hatha Yoga - My Student Has a Back Problem

When teaching Yoga classes, have you ever run into a problem that is not in the books? In such a case, you should consult your Guru, mentor, or a trainer of Yoga teachers, for further advice. Here is an example of such a conversation. Q: “I have Yoga student who has a bad back. Poses like the Fish and Bridge bother his back. I haven’t found anything in the books about not doing them because of a bad back. However, I also don’t want him to hurt himself. Should he do a different pose,... Read more »