Yoga, derived from the Sanskrit word meaning "union," is a philosophy that connects the body, breath, and mind to energize and balance the whole person. This mind-body therapy involves physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation to improve overall well-being.
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Yoga Poses For Disabled And Handicapped People
The ancient Indian practice of Yoga involves moving the body and working to help one’s mind achieve balance and well-being. Traditional yoga focuses on improving physical and mental health while helping each person to reach his or her highest potential.
Yoga is a beneficial and...
How to Maintain Your Yoga Practice While You Travel
Travel and yoga are truly a dream combination. Travel broadens our horizons, challenges us in interesting ways, teaches us new life lessons and gives us the opportunity to connect with new people. And while yoga can have very similar benefits, at the same time...
Best Yoga and Meditation Destinations for Spiritual Awakening
Yoga and meditation are practices which help you reach an inner calm. They will teach you how to find peace within yourself even in the loudest of cities. However, from time to time, going to a quiet place to meditate and practice yoga is...
Guide To Different Styles Of Yoga: What Type Is Right For YOU?
If you’re just starting to explore the wonderful world of yoga…
then chances are that one of the biggest questions you’re facing is what kind of yoga is right for you. With thousands of yoga teachers each leading different styles of classes under different branches of yoga,...
Best 7 Combination of Foods And Yoga to Lose Weight Faster
7 Healthy Foods & Yoga Poses To Help You Lose Weight
Introduction of Foods And Yoga to Weight loss
When you have a balanced lifestyle that takes full advantage of yoga practices and a healthy diet, not only will you feel more centered as a human...
The Spiritual Benefits Of A Non-Religious Practice
Although often associated with different religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism or Taoism, they are not religions or even religious practices. They are philosophies. Teachings. Practices that work not only on the body or the mind but open the practitioner...
Understanding The True Purpose Of Yoga
The true purpose of this 5,000+ year old practice was never about contorting into the perfect pose…wearing cute yoga outfits, or building instagram followers with sexy backbend photos.
These days, it seems like everyone is a “yogi.” Whether on social media, big pharma-sponsored TV commercials,...
Yoga Speak - The Ultimate Guide!
From "om" to "namaste," yoga enthusiasts practically speak their own language. Here’s our guide to all things yoga to make reaching savasana (don’t worry, we’ve defined it below) much less intimidating.
The Methods
One look at a yoga studio’s schedule, and it’s time...
7 Ways To Stop Leaking & Losing Your Spiritual Energy
In the yoga tradition we encounter a fascinating metaphor: it is said that the milk of a lioness is so potent that no container can hold it except for pure gold. If the golden vessel has impurities, the milk will eat through the vessel...
Meet Jean Dawson, a 100-year-old Yogi
Health magazines around the world claim that yoga is for everybody…
That’s because it really is. Another proof is Jean Dawson from England who has turned a hundred years old this month and is still going to her yoga class every Monday morning!
Newspapers wrote about...
How Yoga Changed My Life: A Journey Into the Soul of Nature
I’ve long been a disciple of yoga. But a year ago a Tarot card reading told me my what I’d come to suspect – that working with nature was my soul work now. Arriving to this place took years. As yoga brought me back into...
3 Benefits of a Consistent Yoga Practice
“Yoga tourism” is a term that I use to describe how most of us start practicing yoga. You go to a studio by your office with a great teacher, then you find a studio near your home and another wonderful teacher.
Pretty soon, you are...
Drishti — Focused Gaze For Spirituality And Healing
The power of focus in igniting the chakras. Learn how to control and hold your stores of focus using Drishti.
Meditation, self-reflection, and self-discovery have two things in common:
All of them are the introspective roads towards knowing one’s self, and hence achieving balance...
7 Mudras To Unlock Your 7 Chakras
Mudra is an ancient Sanskrit term meaning, “gesture.” We use mudras in yoga to cultivate a greater sense of awareness to certain energetic fields within the subtle body. In other words, we can use them to help us meditate and open up our chakras.
And there...
5 Ways Yoga Can Heal Your Soul
Yoga is a tremendously ancient art, used for centuries not only to strengthen and improve the body, but also to help the soul.
Our modern understanding of yoga is very far removed from the all-encompassing philosophy which used to be the basis of yogic practice, and...
3 Quick Yoga Poses to Relieve Insomnia
Trouble sleeping? You’re not alone. It seems the more people I talk to, the more I realize insomnia is becoming sort of an epidemic. Especially for those on the awakening journey. A recent study reported that people who suffer with insomnia are much more...
10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Yoga
Rebecca Butler
When you teach yoga for a living, you see and hear many things that kind of blow your mind. So I've been inspired to create a list to share with the world in hopes of making yoga less intimidating for the beginner and...
Yoga - A Primer
Yoga, derived from the Sanskrit word meaning "union," is a philosophy that connects the body, breath, and mind to energize and balance the whole person.
This mind-body therapy involves physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation to improve overall well-being.
Today, millions of Americans of all ages...
