Peace from Within with Meditation
Meditation is a simple mental practice, which looks like thinking, but goes far beyond the process of thinking. Meditation is a heightened state of awareness. The practice of meditation can be seen in ancient religious texts (Christian, Muslim and most importantly Hindu scripts). The most widely followed meditation is Yoga meditation. Yoga was part of ancient Indian (Hindu) life and is still widely practiced. Yoga also suggests a few asana (yoga poses) for meditation and there are poses that are not suited for meditation. Meditation, as a religious ritual was practiced for over 5000 years. The most developed form of ...
Basic Yoga Sitting and Its Benefit
JANU SIRSASANA: Correct foot placement Sit up straight with legs evenly extended in front. Bend the right leg at the knee and place the foot so that the heel is in the right groin and the front of the foot touches the left thigh. Turn the foot so that the bottom of the foot is facing upward and press the knee back to form an obtuse angle with the body. This position will be difficult at first; don't force it. Put a folded blanket under the knee and also under the hips. Gradually the knee will move farther back. Just keep ...
Yoga Postures and Variations
1. THE COBRA Do this in easy stages. Lie down, face prone, legs tightly together and stretched back, forehead on the floor. Put your hands, palm down, just under your shoulders. Inhale and raise your head, pressing your neck back, now use your hands to push your trunk up until you are bending in a beautiful arc from your lower spine to the back of your neck. You need go no further than this. However, if you are supple enough, you can now straighten your arms completely, bend the legs at the knees and drop your head back to touch ...
Yoga Practice
Yoga: The Introduction
Yoga, which means discipline, was developed in the year 300 by an Indian Hindu named...
Yoga in a Short History
Yoga began in India 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit...
Postures in Yoga
It increases muscular strength. It reduces tension and stress. It has a low potential...
Introduction to Kundalini Yoga
The word Kundalini is a familiar one to all students of Yoga, as it is well known...
Let’s Start Yoga Now
You can get audio or video tapes that give breathing instruction and teach relaxation...
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Yoga for Women
Before You Start
Yoga poses can be done anytime, anywhere, or as part of another workout. Always warm...
Basic Yoga for Women
If a woman wants a healthy way of life devoid of any strain and stress, she should...
Exercises it
WARRIOR III POSE: Start in the Mountain Pose with the heels slightly apart, big toes...
Hold Your Pose
So, how can yoga help reshape your waist. In simple terms, by requiring you to move...
Get a Perfect Size of the Waist
The size of the waist is an indication of overall fitness for many people. Most health...
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Cure it with Yoga
Modern Day Stresses
Yoga is a 3,000-year-old, Hindu discipline of mind and body that became known in Western society with the hippie generation of the Sixties and early Seventies. Its image as a mystic practice is disappearing as fast as the stressful aspects of the Eighties are appearing. As an effective method of stress management, yoga is spreading into the business... [Read more of this review]
Asthma
Yoga breathing exercises could help sufferers of mild asthma and may help reduce their use of low-dose drug inhalers in wheezing attacks. Researchers from the Respiratory Medicine Unit, City University, Nottingham, call for more studies of ways of improving breathing control which they say have been largely ignored by Western medicine. While yoga practitioners... [Read more of this review]
Insomnia
Sleep is an essential part of good health. A good night’s sleep can help you feel good, look healthy, work effectively and think clearly. But sleep is not always so easy to come by. If you sometimes have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, you’re not alone. A 1991 Gallup study found that more than one-third of all Americans suffer... [Read more of this review]
Diabetes
Diabetes in various forms affects up to 5percent of the world population with 12 million diabetics in Western Europe alone. Of the different ways in which diabetes presents, noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is probably the most commonly encountered genetic disease. NIDDM or Type II diabetes is multifactorial, depending also on environmental... [Read more of this review]
Infertility
Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after one year of trying, or the inability to carry pregnancies to a live birth. It affects one out of six couples of childbearing age in the United States today – at least ten million people. And in a career-oriented area like Washington, where many couples postpone decisions about childbearing... [Read more of this review]
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