Yoga Vs Gym Fitness & Good health is always the key to live a comfy and blissful life. For a healthy life, Physical activities are always essential. Physical activities help in burning the calories of the body and reducing the level of bad cholesterol or fat inside the body...
Healthy Heart with Revolved side angle pose
HEALTHY HEART WITH REVOLVED SIDE ANGLE POSE There is no need to explain the importance of a healthy heart for us. How we can make our heart healthy by practicing Privritta Parsvakonasana. This pose comes from parivrtta meaning revolved, parsva meaning side, kona meaning angle and asana meaning posture. The horizontal posture with proper base of support...
Yoga Poses for strength building
YOGA POSES FOR STRENGTH BUILDING Body strength is simply the ability of a human being to put the internal force against the external demands. The strength of the body should be more or at least equal to the demand to succeed in the moment. Events from the environment may...
Yoga Teaching and Progression
Yoga Teaching and Progression Unconditional support should be planned for classroom practice and self-practice in Yoga Education. A teacher should make sure about the gradual progression of a student from beginner level to advance level. This happens only if education is about temporary assistance and long-term goals. The yoga...
Spiritual benefits of KUMBAKA- The Breath Retention
Breath is a combination of inhalation and exhalation phases. The capacity of holding it during or after these phases is called as Kumbaka in Sanskrit. Controlling of breath differentiates the autonomic function of respiration. Awareness on filling up of lungs, stretching of airways and reaction of the receptor will...
Yoga Philosophy of Life – Mind, Body, Medicine
Yoga Philosophy is the mind-body-medicine from ancient times for life. Yoga as a balanced life and or at-least free from disease. This match with a mind-body connection that we often hear from modern times. Here is the connection between ancient and modern systems. Bhagawadgita: “Sthitaprajna” is the role model...
Fast Pranayama | Therapeutic Benefits and Preventive measures in Therapy
This is relevant to the natural breathing technique where awareness is on an abdominal level that is basal part of lung expansion. Fast practices like Kapal Bhati, Bhastrika. Other deep practices like high pitch Bhramari and Surya bedha Pranayama increases the adrenaline from Adrenal gland and increases the fight...
Marichyasana – A : Yoga Teaching Methodology
MEANING: Saint Marichya Pose (Spinal twist in Sitting) TYPE OF PRACTICE: Endurance practice that is Asana REFERENCE: Yoga texts like Yoga Mala by Pattabhi Joice also called Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga developed for intense natural detoxification of the body, breath, mind and allows the natural tranquility. PURPOSE: It was described...
TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS of LOTUS
“Padma” means Lotus in English. It represents the divine and pure mind. If the person is practicing this regularly, the transformation happens in the self and can be transferred to the next generation from prenatal women. Here are the preparatory practices which lead to LOTUS POSE. Which leads to...
Kapalabhati- a Pranayama, Kriya and Spiritual Practice
The books on Yoga techniques defined “Kapalbhati” as “Pranayama” (manipulation of breath) and a “Kriya” as “Shatkriya” (cleansing technique). As per “Patanjali Yoga sutras”, it comes under the techniques leads to spontaneous stoppage of breath. Among these view,s Patanjali brought the concept as clear as later texts. Modern medicine...