Yoga For Back Pain

We believe that rest is best for a painful back. But actually, what your back really needs when it’s hurt is exercise. Regular exercise relieves back pain by strengthening and stretching the muscles that support the spine and helps to prevent future injury. This is a use it or lose it situation: the more you rest, the [...]

Yoga for Asthma

Asthma
Asthma is usually caused by allergies or stress. Asthma is one of the most discomforting of respiratory ailments, known to affect around 5% adult population and 10% of children in the world. Almost all patients suffer more attacks at night when they are sleeping. Asthmatics have more trouble exhaling than inhaling.
When normal people inhale, their [...]

Yoga & Feng Shui

Many people have experienced just how well certain alternative therapies work together. Aromatherapy massages, for instance, are wonderfully popular, and yoga has for a long time gone hand in hand with meditation. Yet have you considered a combination not so common, but which when paired up offers remarkable improvement to your Yoga practice? Feng Shui [...]

Yoga for Heart Patients

Heart attack is the most common ailment in our contemporary life. The statistics of the mortality rate of this ‘killer’ has shocked doctors and disease researchers alike.
 
Yoga found to boost health in heart patients
According to a study, an eight-week regimen of yoga proved safe for patients with chronic heart failure and helped reduce signs of [...]

How Meditation and Yoga Related Together?

Meditation is an important element of yoga. It is the means of access through which the mind and body are connected together. Patanjali has himself spoken about the “Ashtanga yoga” through which he has emphasized of reaching the supreme meditative state by these eight steps. The eight steps are: -
Yama
Niyama
Asana
Pranayam
Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi

Yama, Niyama and Asana- these are [...]

Yoga During Pregnancy

For many, yoga is a stereotyped activity that leads participants into a new-aged sense of peace. Yoga, however, is an exercise that has many proven health benefits such as strength training, increased flexibility, and decreased stress.
Yoga can also be very beneficial to women during pregnancy. Pregnancy yoga is a great way to keep exercise in [...]

Paths of Yoga

With dozens of Hollywood celebrities following in their Guru’s lotus footsteps and the sick Western commercial behaviour exploding Yogas popularity to a system that simply enhances people’s health, Yoga remains a system of spiritual unity of mind, body and soul among millions of Indians and many others from Eastern beliefs, as it has been for [...]

True Essence of Yoga

Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning. When you say a face as a moon, fools search for moon in that face. But, [...]

Easy Ways to Practice Yoga at Home

Yoga is a spiritual practice which assists people in unifying mind, body and heart. Yoga consists of many Asanas and different yoga postures. For practicing yoga you are not necessarily required to join some sort of yoga classes, instead, you can easily practice yoga at home. Many times on account of many reasons such as [...]

5 Ways You Lose Weight and Keep it Off with Yoga

Desire for the Eastern approach to wellness is steadfastly growing as evidenced by the 16 million people now practicing yoga in the United States. With weight gain on the rise, yoga offers a great alternative as a weight loss tool for people over 40. Not all yoga insists on pretzel poses and yoga is a [...]

Yoga For Inner and Outer Beauty

Sometime back I read an anecdote concerning Bill and Hillary Clinton. It seems that one time, many years ago, Hillary dragged Bill to a yoga class. Bill remarked that he was the only man in the class. In many countries, that is the way it is, with women being the primary enthusiasts at yoga classes. [...]