Yoga asanas - Yoga twists for strength and relaxation
March 28th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
Yoga twists relieve stress by loosening your back muscles; as they untie knots in your body they untie knots in your mind. Twists are very relaxing, and should be part of your every day yoga routine.
There are several different types of twists you can perform: forward bends, and back bends which you can do standing up, sitting or lying down.
You can even do bends right in the middle of a busy day at work. When you get too stressed, you can do a forward bend right in your office — close the door first — and you will be amazed at how relaxed you feel afterwards.
Yoga Asana of the Week Easy Pose - Sukhasana
August 24th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
In Easy post, it seems that you’re just sitting, but this is an active pose. The asana opens the hips, lengthens the spine and promotes grounding and inner calm. You’re sitting cross legged; your aim is to touch your knees to the ground. To achieve this, it helps if you sit on a small cushion or bolster..
Sit on the floor, with a small cushion under your rear, and cross your legs. Rest your hands on your knees with the palms facing up. Relax your hips.
Press your hip bones down into the floor and reach the crown of the head up to lengthen the spine. Relax your shoulders and back and press your chest gently towards the front of the room.
Relax your face, jaw, and belly.
Remember that the post is active - relax, and lengthen your spine at the same time.
Let your tongue rest on the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth.
You can relax in Sukhasana for as long as you wish.
Yoga Retreats - take a yoga break
June 6th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Wouldn’t you like to get away from it all, and take a break - yoga break? Yoga retreats are popular, and you can take a retreat for a day, or for weeks.
Yoga retreats are basically places that you can go to get away and to practice yoga while you do so. There are numerous different benefits that you receive from yoga. Yoga is an exercise which uses poses that work your body and increase flexibility in your muscles and limbs, and this includes joints that are never really on the ‘radar screen’ let alone exercised.
Yoga stretches muscles and joints as well as massaging the various organs, yoga thus is able to ensure the most optimum blood supply to various parts of the body, and this helps incredibly in the flushing out of toxins from every nook and cranny of your body.
Yoga retreats are great because they are basically just like a yoga class in a gym or studio, only they are typically located in more rural areas, or beside the ocean, so that there is silence and no business or other typical city issues.
Yoga retreats are so fantastic because they help the yoga process overall; it is one which helps to relax and soothe the mind, body and soul, and so being out in the middle of nowhere helps this incredibly. The freedom and solitude that you experience in one of these retreats is going to be able to help you while you do your yoga, and you will immediately notice differences in yourself.
If you are interested in going on a yoga retreat, check with your travel agent, or ask your yoga instructor.
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