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Children's Yoga - 5 Ways Yoga Helps Your Child Develop a Healthy Body
If you are looking for a safe, fun and quick way to help you child develop a healthy body, introduce him to yoga. Children from as young as two years old can practice yoga, at home or in a group with other children. Here are five ways yoga exercises help your child develop a healthy body.
How to Do the Yoga Half Moon Pose With a Block
The yoga half moon pose appears simple at first glance; however, it is a challenging balance posture that requires plenty of practice and patience to master. The half moon pose strengthens the legs, particularly the ankles, and helps to improve your concentration and balance. For those just beginnin
How to Do Yoga Restorative Hero Poses
Hero pose is an advanced yoga posture. It requires a lot of flexibility through the hips and low back. It also requires you to bend your knees deeply. This is not a good posture for those with hip or knee sensitivities. However, if you want to try this posture and find the regular variation too deep
Yoga Meditation - Whole Body Scan to Balance Your Energy
Are you new to yoga? Your entire yoga practice is a meditation. As you perform your yoga poses, you focus strictly on what's happening with your body and what you're trying to do. You move out of everyday consciousness into real concentration which is the basis of meditation.
Achieve Real Fitness and Peace With Yoga
People often crave so much for fitness that they do not realize that the kind of fitness that really attracts them is only going to be achieved through yoga. People often disregard yoga thinking that it is slow, requires too much patience or simply an activity where people just do a lot of deliberat
Meditation As a Subversive Activity
When I first started meditating, I failed time and time again. I was certain that I must be doing something wrong and would never be able to meditate. After about a year of this, I discovered a rare and uncommon form of meditation and everything changed.
Yoga Relaxation Gifts
Give the gift of relaxation.relaxation au cr??puscule image by Unclesam from Fotolia.comOne of the greatest gifts you can give someone in today's fast-paced, high-stress world is the gift of relaxation with yoga. The 5,000-year-old practice promotes peace of mind and physical health,...
Hot Yoga For Detoxification Benefits
Hot yoga or bikram yoga is gaining popularity as the new way to detoxify and to remove toxins from your body. Find out more how this form of exercise can help bring multiple benefits to your health.
Society, Religion, Spirituality and Meditation
Meditation is widely used in the western world today. As people hear of the benefits of meditation it has travelled the world several times over under various different names. One thing that we have realised though is that countries like India, China and Japan have always been at the forefront of me
A Yoga Teacher Training Course Bestows 5 Surprising Benefits
The main reason for joining a yoga teacher's training program is of course to become a certified yoga teacher, but just by completing such a program numerous other benefits are gained as well. This article will discuss 5 such unexpected benefits of taking a yoga instructor training course.
Make the Stress Melt Away With Meditation
Are your days filled with nothing by stress lately? Do you wish you could find a way to deal with it? Well you can make the stress melt away with meditation.
Yoga Moves and Position Tips
Some yoga poses look like you're dancing. Holding a pose can be very challenging without making a architectural plan to support you. Lots of people love a yoga move with the support of a ball...
What Kind of Yoga Mat Should You Get?
I started attending a local Yoga class at the YMCA and had quickly fallen in love with how it benefited my body. I had been borrowing a friend's yoga mat, but since I loved it so much, I decided I should look for my own. It was hard to know where to start. I talked to a few people, as well as m
Ashtanga Yoga: Revisiting The Eight Steps to Perfection
While majority of people think that yoga is just a form of exercise that enhances flexibility, if you go back to its roots, yoga is actually a set of spiritual practices aimed at helping a spiritual aspirant attain self-realization. Of the different types of yoga, Ashtanga yoga or eight-limbed yoga
Iyengar Yoga Corrects Body Alignment
Iyengar Yoga is a form of yoga that focuses on the proper alignment of the body. It was founded by B.K.S. Iyengar, who established the use of props to get maximum benefits from each pose by concentrating on the alignment. This was done in order to achieve improved therapeutic benefits from each sess
How to Do the Yoga Peacock Pose With Blocks
The yoga Peacock pose is a challenging arm balance pose that works to strengthen the wrists and arms as well as the core muscles of the body. Because learning to hold and balance yourself in this pose can be quite difficult, using a few yoga blocks can help to reduce frustration and increase your su
Meditation - Breaking Away From Past Conditioning
Did you ever think to associate Pavlov with meditation? Maybe not, but here's some nuggets related to Classical Conditioning. At least acknowledge that past conditioning doesn't have to ruin your day. With consistent meditation practice you are offered the gift of present moment awareness.
How to Be Comfortable During Meditation
This is a guide for being comfortable while sitting in meditation. It isn't complicated and doesn't require that you sit in full lotus. The art of meditation is much less about the body and much more about the mind and breath.