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Do yoga, get healthy - the benefits of yoga

February 27th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Yoga is a moving  meditation which works remarkably to achieve  health and harmony.

Here are some of the benefits of yoga:

1. Stress is the number one suspect affecting all parts of our physical, endocrinal and emotional systems. And with the help of yoga this things can be corrected.

At the physical level, yoga and its cleansing practices have proven to be extremely effective for various disorders.

2, Yoga is known to increase flexibility; yoga has postures that trigger the different joints of the body. Including those joints that are not acted upon with regular exercises routines.

Yoga also increases the lubrication of joints, ligament and tendons. The well-researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body.

It has also been found that the body which may have started doing yoga being a
rigid one may experience a quite remarkable flexibility in the end on those parts of the body which have not been consciously worked upon.

3. Yoga also massages all organs of the body. Yoga is perhaps the only exercise that can work on through your internal organs in a thorough manner,
including those that hardly get externally stimulated during our entire lifetime.

4. Yoga acts in a wholesome manner on the various body parts.
This stimulation and massage of the organs in turn benefits us by keeping away
disease and providing a forewarning at the first possible instance of a likely onset of disease or disorder.

One of the far-reaching benefits of yoga is the uncanny sense of awareness that it develops in the practitioner of an impending health disorder or infection.

This in turn enables the person to take pre-emptive corrective action.

5. Yoga offers a complete detoxification of the body. It gently stretches the muscles and joints as we;; as massaging the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body.

This helps in the flushing out of toxins from every nook and cranny of your body as well as providing nourishment up to the last point. This leads to benefits such as delayed aging, energy and a remarkable zest for life.

6. Yoga is also an excellent way to tone your muscles. Muscles which have been flaccid and weak are stimulated repeatedly to shed excess fats and
flaccidity.

But these enormous physical benefits are just a side effect of this powerful
practice. What yoga does is harmonize the mind with the body and these results in  real quantum benefits.

7. It is now an open secret that the will of the mind has enabled people to achieve extraordinary physical feats, which proves beyond doubt the mind and body connection.

In fact yoga = meditation, because both work together in achieving the common
goal of unity of mind, body and spirit which can lead to an experience of eternal bliss that you can only feel through yoga.

The meditative practices through yoga help in achieving an emotional balance
through detachment.

This in turn creates a remarkable calmness and a positive outlook, which also has tremendous benefits on the physical health of the body.

Yoga helps you to live in the present moment

December 12th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

One of yoga’s many gifts is that it helps you to stay in the present moment. Few people can “be present” for themselves and others consistently.

Most of us don’t realize that we spend 99 per cent of our time - even our most intimate moments with others - worrying about the future and agonizing over the past, rather than being present for our lives.

In Yoga and human kindness give singer/songwriter Sherry Ryan many ‘Wonderful Cures’ Sherry Ryan says: “‘I think I worry and I live in the past and future, but maybe not as much as other people,’ she considers, noting that the practice of yoga is about letting go of the ability to think or dwell on the past or future. ‘There’s obviously a varying degree there, but maybe I’m a little better at being in the moment than I thought. There’s a good quote on the bathroom wall at The Ship — it’s a Ron Hynes quote, apparently, but I don’t know that for sure — it goes something like, ‘We barely savour the moment but we spend a lifetime dwelling on it,’ meaning you’re not in the moment but after it’s gone you worry about it and worry about it … you’re not really getting the full deal if you’re not in it 100 per cent.’”

As you continue to be practice yoga, you’ll find that you’ll catch yourself throughout the day when you’re worrying: you realize that you’re missing what’s real in your life, and the only life you have, in fantasy and regret.

Yoga has the potential to enhance you life in many ways, and the power of presence - where your whole life becomes a meditation - is a wonderful gift, so just keep practicing yoga.

Yoga music - finding the right music to practice yoga

May 18th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Yoga music is very useful as an yoga practice aid.

It helps with the relaxation and meditation techniques, and as well it can even be used outside of yoga for your own relaxation.

Yoga music basically works by using certain and specific sounds which have a particular integrating quality for the body and mind, and this music was actually first derived from the ancient musical system of India in order to help yoga practitioners to connect with and become aware of their bodies at the most deepest levels.

Obviously the whole purpose of yoga is to relax and ease your body and mind, and so if you have loud or irritating music playing then obviously this is going to make the process much more difficult overall. However if you have the yoga type music on, which is calming and soothing, it will help to improve strength, clarity, and inner peace.

All in all, this calming and expansive yoga type of music combined with that of the gentle sounds of nature makes for a relaxed and meditative listening experience, and thus is great for an exercise routine such as yoga.

If you are wondering where you can go to get this type of music, then you can really rest assured because there are many different options that are available to you here, and you can generally find this type of music at any location that sells any other type of yoga equipment, and so try going to your local exercise retail store first.

Even if you decide to go without music, you will still be reaping an incredible number of rewards when it comes to doing yoga because it is one of the best forms of exercise of all that you can do for yourself, and you will feel better mentally, physically and spiritually, which is something that most other exercises cannot claim to.

However, as stated previously, the music truly brings the exercise of yoga together for you, as it helps you to relax and free yourself so that you can act out the exercise to its full potential.

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