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ARTHUR BOORMAN, DISABLED VETERAN, WALKS AGAIN AFTER DISCOVERING YOGA | Yoga isn't just an excellent weight-loss therapy for troops returning home injured. According to CareForVets.org, yoga is also being used to help treat post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among war veterans who've served in Afghanistan and in Iraq. 
Considering yoga's stress-busting effects, one would think that high-schoolers might benefit from the practice. 
In India, laughter-yoga helps seniors feel good, and feel good about themselves, by providing community and friendships as well as happy, healthy exercise. 
Wish you were motivated enough to practice yoga daily? Joanna Tovia found the inspiration she needed in a moving documentary. 
In this post we zoom out and look at a technique that can be learned with Chaturanga Dandasana and then transported to other poses to improve benefits and safety. I call this technique “ease in, ease out” and it relates to how one approaches the end point of a pose ... 
A pose-a-day yoga plan as a powerful antidote to life's daily stressors. Use it to ease into your day or to undo tension in the evening -- or both. 
At least once a week, I'm asked how often I lift weights. "I'm a yoga teacher, I don't lift", is generally met with polite skepticism... 
Snowga is the latest creation of combining yoga and skiing that teaches you how to improve your skills on the slopes by incorporating yoga principles. 
Here are some common sense, and not so common sense tips to help you along your path of practicing yoga with your community,... 
Use these additional tools to help find a more pleasurable yoga experience. 
We need to relearn how to stretch. An easy, whole body routine should be followed daily as positive compensation for each days accumulated compressions. |
Downward-facing dog is unique in its ability to engage, in one fell swoop, acupuncture's largest and most all-encompassing channel. For the remaining few who haven't already, it's time to strike this pose. 
What are Mul Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha, Jalandhar Bhand and Maha Bandha? What function do the Bandhas serve in your body and yoga practice? 
“Experience and believe” Yogi Bhajan The basics of Kundalini yoga are asanas, mudras, bhandas (energy locks), and mantras (sound currents). The classes are a dynamic blend of postures that are either repetitive or held for a specific amount of t... 
Serving enables us to release any sense of separation. It takes us out of selfishness and neediness, and to discover that in giving we do not have any less. 
Yoga has been shown in research to help people with a multitude of health problems, including relieving back pain and lowering stress -- it may even help to lower blood pressure. 
No time to exercise? This 15-minute routine can be done at home or on the road. 
Medicare, the government health insurance program for Americans 65 and older, covers the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease program, which teaches a plant-based, meatless diet, meditation and regular exercise. The program was officially declared an intensive cardiac rehab program in 2010, and the first patients started in May 2011. 
Partner yoga can help you deepen both your poses and your relationships. Doing yoga with a partner makes many poses more accessible, comfortable, and therapeutic. 
These ten tips for practicing yoga at home will get you started in your at-home yoga practice today! 
We wouldn't sit on a plane for nine hours without being advised to get up, move around and have a stretch. But many people sit shackled to their desks, nine hours a day, five days a week. No one tells them to get up and stretch it out. 
Recently, I was asked by someone as to what to expect from her first yoga class. This person, oh, I'll call her..."Petunia", really wants to go down the yoga rabbit hole so to speak, but she's intimidated by thought of being... 
Learn what Kundalini yoga is, what makes it different from other styles of yoga, and how breath-work can leave you breathless with bliss! 
Natalie Buchi has been studying and teaching Yoga since 2005 and participated in several teacher trainings which earned her the highest level of certification with the Yoga Alliance.
Natalie directed the Yoga teacher training program at The University of Utah and now offers her own teacher training program. |
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