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Although yoga is practiced in the U.S. by more people than ever before, there is still a great deal of misinformation in the West about the true nature and purpose of this sacred science. Most people associate yoga with the physical practice of postures, called “asanas.” But this is like saying ... Views: 2879
It’s pretty hard to have not noticed that there are yoga studios, classes and magazines popping up everywhere. Yoga has gone mainstream in a big way in the past few of years.
What once was looked upon as a form of exercising which only the extremely limber would attempt, yoga has been given ... Views: 1256
With winter now well on its way, the ancient technique of Jala Neti can be a useful yogic tool to ward of the common cold and keep the nasal passages clear at all time! Neti is one of the six classical Kriyas (cleansing practices) mentioned in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the Gheranda Samhita, ... Views: 2620
With so many yoga teachers around, it may be difficult, especially for a beginner, to choose the yoga class that best suits. The following are a few guidelines for choosing a yoga class that's right for you.
1 Choose a style of yoga that suits you
There is no point in signing up for an ... Views: 992
3. JNANA YOGA is the path of wisdom, understanding, discrimination and philosophy. It is the path, which few can follow. It requires a razor sharp mind that is always aware of the truth that we are not the contents of the mind, nor are we the body. Everything we see is just a temporary reality ... Views: 1157
There is no any other discipline more helpful in achieving knowledge of inner- self, and harmony with the world than Yoga. Bio-energy knowledge of methods of mind and body healing cannot be completed without studying Yoga.
Basic Hatha-Yoga is a practical and complex method of developing a ... Views: 5677
Any dog or horse trainer knows that what you feed to an animal influences their behaviour. Although we tend to forget this when it comes to ourselves, what we eat has huge influence over our thoughts, and ultimately our emotional and spiritual well being. The yogis of old times knew this, and ... Views: 3657
THE FOUR BASIC SYSTEMS OF YOGA
There are many systems of yoga, but they fall into four basic categories. All the systems have the same goals:
1. Harmony between body, mind and soul,
2. Harmony between human beings,
3. Freedom from mechanical, unconscious, robot-like ways of thinking and ... Views: 1060
"The living context for practicing various yoga branches is not to flee one's existence, but to realize the profound experience of one's path."
Author
"Namaste'." Without false modesty, pride, or preconception we greet kindred spirits along the path, meeting them eye-to-eye and toe-to-toe ... Views: 1295
Yoga Cat, Shadow, appears to understand Cynthia's question, "What do I do with my eyes? Where should I look? We've never discussed it." Shadow, a fifteen pound Russian Blue, sits on the inside windowsill, a dark silhouette, settled, staring into the room, his spine drinking in trees outside ... Views: 1070
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Various forms of meditation and inner concentration have been developed by most cultures and systems devoted to human health, harmony and evolution. The concept of coming into contact with an inner power, an inner voice, an inner knowledge or an inner guidance is common to all ... Views: 3729
Stretching should feel wonderful. If there is any discomfort and pain, then you are not stretching muscles. More likely the muscles have contracted to protect themselves, and the fascia surrounding the muscle fibers is binding in an effort to immobilize the area so that you can do no further ... Views: 1159
Life is energy. Everything we see, taste, smell, feel and hear
is energy. All there is energy. There is fast moving energy
and slow moving energy. The fast moving energy involves things
we cannot see but we experience. Slow moving energy is that
which accumulates into solid form. It is this ... Views: 2323
Over the last 20 years, the popularity of yoga has increased from nearly no interest to being one of the most popular exercise regimes around. To match the increasing demand for yoga, more and more yoga centers are opening all the time. For those of us looking for something new, or just starting ... Views: 1169
YOGA is the oldest form of physical training and is part of the ancient Indian Science of Ayurveda. There are primative drawings on the walls of the caves in the Indus Valley in northern India where the very first pictoral descriptions of Hatha Yoga were recorded about 5000 years ago, according ... Views: 699
5 Steps to Studio Success
Today, I am going to share a fundamental formula for running a successful business – it works for just about ANY type of business. It works for IBM and Chevrolet, and it also works for the restaurant down the street. In fact, I use it with most yoga studios. ... Views: 1038
Improving Your Studio's Business Through Serving Your Community
As a studio owner, you strive to provide the best you can for your students and clients. Yoga is a sacred experience for you, and you want to share its essence with as many people as possible.
At the same time, you need to earn ... Views: 830
Listen in to conversations after any yoga session, and we’re almost guaranteed to hear someone discussing this or that yoga pose that they hate and wish they never need to do again – ever.
But why is it that there are certain yoga poses that we just dread? We can feel them coming, ... Views: 807
Have you ever noticed how easy it can be to see what someone else is doing wrong? But then when we hold up the mirror to ourselves, seeing our own issues clearly is like looking into a thick fog. Small business owners in general tend to face this challenge regularly – they know that ... Views: 2505
Developing Your Skills as a Yoga Teacher
No matter what style of yoga you teach or intend to teach, there are many things you can do to ensure a wonderful class for both you and your students.
The following tips are just a few techniques that will help bring out the best in your class:
1) ... Views: 6795
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Yoga Therapy - by Christophe Mouze and Ciara Cullen
Submitted on Apr 29, 2007 from
In this article we will look briefly at yoga as therapy, specifically how this can happen in the West. A lot of people in the West seek out yoga because they hope it might prove to be a means of healing an ailment or an injury. These ailments can range from stiff or painful backs to more serious ... Views: 802
We are happy to inform you that we have healed a terminal sick patient for the third time in a few years. As usual we have respected the original Yoga scriptures and the teachings of the Tibetan, Dwahl Kuhl, as written down by Alice Bailey.
This time the healing concerns a patient with a tumor ... Views: 1373
Many of us that regularly go to yoga classes will have heard the instructor telling us not to look at others in the room, but instead to think about our own practice. There is no doubt about the truth of this advice. When making these comments, the instructors are reminding us to practice yoga ... Views: 876
Everyone gets a stiff neck sometimes. Often yoga can help. Of course, before you do anything, it’s important to know if your neck pain is the sign of something more serious. Make sure to see your doctor if:
• Your neck pain persists for more than three days or keeps coming back.
• You suffer ... Views: 13905
Problems in the modern world can best be alleviated by calling upon the ancient art of Yoga. The practice has been around for thousands of years; but now, more than ever, we need its incredible powers. Just like the home remedies of peoples living centuries ago, Yoga can be incorporated into ... Views: 954
Our busy lifestyles and work demands mean that we often find it difficult to exercise our bodies as frequently as we should. This leads to tiredness, stress and reduced work performance.
However taking a short break to complete a few simple yoga postures at your desk can help to relieve stress ... Views: 1757
Continued concentration over long periods required in the modern workplace can be demanding on your mind and your body. The stress and fatigue felt by many of us can impact our work performance – and lead to ongoing stress and exhaustion when you get home.
However taking a short break to ... Views: 1535
While it’s true that you’ll get out of your practice only as much as you’re willing or able to put into it, a committed approach to your practice can help you in ways that you’ve never expected. Indeed practicing yoga could be the platform and motivation you need to completely transform your ... Views: 2297
Yama and Niyama, the misunderstood yoga
I think nothing about yoga could be more sadly misunderstood than the principles of Yama and Niyama. As you may already know, according to an ancient and widely accepted system set down by the yogi Pantanjali, there are 8 "limbs" (astanga) of yoga, which ... Views: 7146
How To Tell People About Your Yoga Studio
So They Say “I Want That!”
What people ask and what people really want to know are two different things. Just because you answer someone’s stated question does not mean that you’ve actually answered their real question. ... Views: 2104
Pain is without doubt an integral part of yoga practice. But is it really something that should be avoided at all costs? Of course pain is our body's way of telling us that it's not comfortable with the posture we're holding. Throughout our practice we should be conscious and listen to our ... Views: 1029
Marketing companies are constantly inventing new and expensive fads to help us exercise, lose weight and get healthy. But if we’re really going to get results, it’s probably just best to do more and more of the things we already enjoy. Frankly there aren’t any shortcuts to good health and ... Views: 873
The Power of Speech
Swami Radhananda - From ascent magazine Issue 14 summer 2002
The other day in yoga class, Johanna, a student, discovered that she had based her idea of her intelligence on negative remarks she heard when she was seven years old. We have all taken in opinions of others about ... Views: 5660
from the desk of swami radhananda
Holding A Pose
(carrying the essence of asana into your life)
Ascent Magazine, issue 17, winter 2003
The body is a good place to start a spiritual practice because of its potential to change and show us concrete results. By exploring the physical practice of ... Views: 927
Okay, so you’ve decided that this is the year you are going to get into shape, both physically and mentally – you’ve decided to take up yoga or to recommit to your current yoga practice. Maybe you’ve signed up for a new class or purchased some new yoga DVDs, or maybe you want to begin your ... Views: 1887
Would you like to know how to meditate better? How to be more effective when addressing an important personage? How to change a mood or feeling? How to be in rhythm with the universe through the day? Well, believe it or not, the answer lies in the breath. And swara yoga is the science that helps ... Views: 1279
Try the Class Yourself
Recommendations for a yoga teacher from a friend may be good but you must check the class out for yourself. What works perfectly for a friend may not be a good fit for you. Even if you know what school or style of yoga you prefer, classes vary according to the individual ... Views: 1361
In 1996 Kerrie Hamner was shocked to learn that a harmless-looking mole on her left thigh was actually melanoma. After surgery to remove a large area around the melanoma, the doctor assured Kerrie that she was now cancer-free. But two years later, when she was just 25 years old, Kerrie learned ... Views: 932
What do the beating of a shaman's drum, the labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral, stone monuments in Ireland, a Hopi medicine wheel, the ancient art of feng shui have in common? Each in their own way are methods developed by different cultures to create harmony between themselves and their ... Views: 1057
1. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. You could follow-up with a "thank you" email and include an advertisement for other products you sell. You could follow-up every few months.
2. You could upsell to your customers. When they're at your order page, tell them ... Views: 967
These days, it seems like everyone wants to work from home and make money on the Internet. But before you even turn on your computer, the first question you have to ask yourself is whether you’re cut out for this kind of work.
The fact is, building a home-based business isn’t for everyone. Some ... Views: 973
1. Make your reader visualize they have alreadybought your product in your ad. Tell them whatresults they have gotten and how it makes themfeel. They'll already become emotionally attachedbefore they buy.
2. Turn your ad into an article. It could be a story,or how-to article. This will lead ... Views: 1151
Your online business will likely require more advertising than a contemporary business downtown, yet some new to the world of online business do not spend the time and money to advertise their business appropriately and are, in turn, loosing money. Your online business is crammed into the world ... Views: 1227
1. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. You could follow-up with a "thank you" email and include an advertisement for other products you sell. You could follow-up every few months.
2. You could upsell to your customers. When they're at your order page, tell them ... Views: 1063
After a recent trip to Dahlonega, Georgia, I became obsessed with wanting to know more about the U.S. Mint that had been there and its history. To say that "The Neighborhood Mint: Dahlonega in the Age of Jackson" by Sylvia Head, Elizabeth W. Etheridge, gave me all the information I ever wanted ... Views: 1005
Many people buy books on yoga and meditation, but never get into the regular practice of these methods. It is not only true for yoga, there must be millions of self-help and self-instruction manuals of all types gathering dust on shelves around the world. So if you are in this position, don’t ... Views: 1273
Have you ever been to a fitness center or a yoga studio and forgot your yoga mat and had to borrow one? Or maybe your own yoga mat has gotten dirty and you’re wondering how to wash it. In these situations, do you think twice about wanting to put your hands and face down on that dirty yoga ... Views: 1793
People come to yoga looking for various things: peace of mind, stress reduction, improved concentration, and weight loss. Yoga can help you to accomplish all of this, but “yoga works, if you work!” You have to do the practices on a regular basis in order to get the results
If you have bought ... Views: 1134
Just as we have relationships with other people, we also have a relationship with our environment. We are all connected to each other and to the universe at the same time. Our environments are an extension of ourselves, and we feel better and function more efficiently when we are in harmony with ... Views: 2769
Stay fit with Pranayama Yoga
for twenty minutes a day
(A package of seven amazing breathing techniques)
V.N.Mittal
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INTRODUCTION
When I started learning the package of seven yogic pranayama ... Views: 21032