Yoga for Peace of Mind - Meditative slow and steady

After a surge of interest during the '60s, yoga began to fall out of favor. Exercisers lost patience with the meditative, slow but steady activity, and turned to the fast pace and quick shape-up of aerobics. Now yoga is back, less reminiscent of gurus in pretzel positions, and more attractive than ever to people who are interested in working out as well as working toward a spiritual goal.

Yoga is a great stretch and flexibility program. It is increasingly being used by those who are having problems balancing their work and personal life. A stressful working environment and a hectic schedule has an unwelcome impact on the personal lives of the modern day executives, so they are turning to yoga to bring about peace of their mind and to gain a perfect work life balance.
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Beauty in Nature

Thank you Mother Earth for providing the beauty of nature, the trees, forests, oceans, sun, moon and the air we breathe. You take good care of us, may we return the favour.

Kindness

Real meditation stokes the fire of kindness within. Wisdom contained in the Yoga scriptures fan the flames helping us to remember we are all brothers and sisters regardless of body, religion, race. As Lord Jesus said "... Love God, love others and do unto others as you would have them do unto you ... "

Be kind
Peace and Light

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The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Yoga Relaxation - Holistic Yoga For Health

Several Yoga techniques are now being taught in mainstream hospitals and businesses; books about these yoga techniques are great sellers.

Even the Army is interested - it has asked the National Academy of Sciences to study meditation and other new age techniques that might enhance soldiers' performance.

Details differ, but a common theme is relaxing the body while keeping the mind alert and focused - on an object, sound, breath or body movement. If the mind wanders - and it always does - you gently bring it back and start again.

If you havn't been to a yoga class yet, now's the time to get started. Go along and enjoy the asanas, developing body awareness and especially the pranayama and meditation at the end of the class.
Experience the positive benefits for yourself.

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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the animals.

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The practise of holistic yoga -- like the science of acupuncture, or tai chi and qi gong, is based on prana also known as life force. A key reason you feel better after a hatha yoga class is that the practise of holistic yoga helps move your life force in a way that is balanced and complete. Using the breath through each pose, you are clearing the pathways that distribute life force. The flow of life force is a good explanation for why we feel great after a yoga workout.

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"...For the soul there is never birth nor death..."

Yoga asanas - Advantages and benefits

Yoga is different things to different people, so what it means to you will depend greatly on how you were introduced to it and how you enjoyed your initial experiences with it. For some people Yoga is simply a method of exercising that ensures they have a healthy supple body. For other people Yoga transcends a method of exercise and is a spiritual experience that allows them to find the balance and centring their lives need. This type of Yoga comes closer to a life philosophy than any other.

The mental advantages of Yoga are also quite clear. Yoga has an ability to redirect our thinking to a more positive frame. The most common form of Yoga used in corporate stress management is Hatha Yoga because it is a particularly potent form of physiological and psychological cleansing. In any environment stress is a normal occurrence, what differentiates a successful person from an unsuccessful one (and by extension a successful business from an unsuccessful one) is how we deal with that stress. Hatha Yoga, and Yoga in general provide the tools needed to deal with stress on a daily basis.

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Yoga Benefits the Sympathetic And Parasympathetic Nervous Systems

Fight or Flight: Sympathetic Nervous System

Frequently referred to as the “fight or flight response”, the sympathetic nervous system is responsible for alertness and wakefulness, as well as the ability to respond to stress.

In response to stimulus (mental or physical), hormones including noradrenaline and adrenaline are released by the adrenal glands. While it is technically very difficult to measure these hormones in individuals, simple signs of sympathetic activation can be seen in individuals including: increased pupil dilation, sweating, increased heart rate and blood pressure (frequently used in lie detection testing).

Heart rate and blood pressure are probably the easiest and most reliable of these signs to clinically measure and are most frequently used by medical researchers to study human response to stress, as well as recovery from stress.

Recovery & Regeneration: The parasympathetic nervous system

If the sympathetic system is the accelerator of our internal stress response system or what makes us turn ON, the parasympathetic system is considered to be ‘the brake’ or the OFF button. The parasympathetic system’s main role is to conserve energy. One way of doing this is to slow heart rate and energy needs, particularly when we are resting or sleeping. Parasympathetic activation is dominant when we are truly resting or sleeping (provided we are getting uninterrupted, quality sleep).

The parasympathetic is the part of your nervous system that slows you down, it’s responsible for telling your muscles to relax, improving your digestion and assimilation, boosting immunity, and helping you sleep better.The parasympathetic nervous system counteracts many stress-related symptoms and the negative by products of life in this world. Hatha Yoga increases the flow of prana, or life force, in your body.

Scientists have declared that today’s modern life style; the junked up, wired up caffeine fuelled society, frequently experiences an imbalance between sympathetic and parasympathetic balance. This has a tendency to make us prone to mental and physical burn out, periods of decreased mental concentration, immune imbalance and many stress related diseases including cardiovascular disease. The true long term effects of the modern wired up society we live in today will probably not be fully known for decades to come.

Holistic Yoga Meditation - Timeless quote -The Supreme Person says:

As the sun alone illuminates all this universe, so does the living entity, one within the body illuminate the entire body by consciousness.

Lord Krishna

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

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Yoga Helps Fight Bulge

Yoga practice helps middle-aged people lose weight and keep it off, suggest new studies published in the online journal Alternative Therapies In Health and Medicine.
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center surveyed 15,500 men and women to assess their weight and yoga histories between the ages of 45 and 55.
For purposes of the study, regular yoga practice was defined as practicing at least 30 minutes once a week for four or more years.

20-Pound Gap

Statistics showed that the subjects who were of normal weight at the age of 45 and did not practice yoga consistently gained about 10 pounds, while those who performed regular yoga routines lost 3 pounds during that same 10-year period -- a difference of 13 pounds.
There was a wider gap between people who were overweight at the age of 45. The non-yoga group gained about 14 pounds, while the yoga group lost 5 pounds -- a difference of almost 20 pounds.
It is not likely that yoga's fat-fighting potential is due to the physical activity itself, according to the study's lead author, Alan R. Kristal, DrPH.
"During a very vigorous yoga practice you can burn enough calories to lose weight, but most people don't practice that kind of yoga," he notes.

Body Awareness a Factor

"From my experience, I think it has to do with the way that yoga makes you more aware of your body. So when you've eaten enough food, you're sensitive to the feeling of being full, and this makes it much easier to stop eating before you've eaten too much," Kristal explains.
"Most people practice yoga in a way that's not aerobic enough to burn a lot of calories, so it has to be some other reason," adds study co-author Denise Benitez, owner of Seattle Yoga Arts.
"People who regularly practice yoga develop the inner resources to stay with a little bit of discomfort," she says, hypothesizing that those inner resources help people to stay with the discomfort that is caused when they deny themselves junk food.
In order to accurately measure the effects of yoga on weight maintenance and loss, these preliminary findings will need to be replicated, Kristal cautions.

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Yoga Asana - Vrksasana or Tree Pose for beginners

Vrksasana or Tree Pose for absolute beginners.

(This image is NOT absolute beginners as per instructions here. After you master the beginners tree pose you can graduate to this version.)

This is a great pose to help centre yourself. To regain focus, concentration and determination.

How to:

• Stand with your feet hip distance apart and parallel. (Mountain pose)
• Transfer your weight to your right foot. Visualise sending roots down into the ground. Firm and strong.
• Bring the ball of the left foot to the floor, touching your left heel to your right ankle.
• Find a spot to fix your gaze upon, this will help with balance.
• Bring your hands into prayer position at your chest.
• Inhale and raise your arms with palms together.
• Think about lifting and lengthening through your hips, spine and ribcage.
• Lengthen up through your shoulders and out through your finger tips.
• Seperate your palms, think about growing branches.
• Keep your neck nice and long.
• Balance for a few seconds.
• Bring your hands back to prayer position.
• Re-balance your weight evenly on both feet.

When you are ready repeat on the left foot.

Benefits:

• Strengthens the muscles in the standing leg and ankle.
• Stretches the inner thigh muscle and opens the hip.
• Helps with focus, balance and concentration.
• Helps to reduce flat feet.

Cautions:

• If you have high blood pressure, keep the hands in prayer position.

• If you have weak ankles or inner ear problems that affect your balance use the support of a wall or the back of a chair.

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Namaste
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Yoga Asana Apanasana Digestion Pose

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Apanasana

Here is one of my most favourite hatha yoga stretches. It is very simple to do and the benefits can be felt instantly.

How To:

• On your yoga mat, lie down on your back. Knees bent with feet flat on your mat.

• As you exhale, gently firm your belly muscles and bring your feet up off your mat hugging your knees to your chest.

• Inhale softly and on the next exhale, gently draw the legs closer to the chest.

• On the next inhale let them relax and release.

Very simple.

Benefits:

• Lengthens the spine.
• Releases the lower back.
• Settles the air in the belly.

Cautions:

• If pregnant or have a large abdomen, keep the knees wide apart.
• Prolapsed lumbar disc.
• High blood pressure.
• Hump in the upper back, place a cushion under your head.

This yoga stretch is very relaxing. A good yoga pose to add a meditation too.
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Namaste
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Yoga Meditation - Holistic Yoga teachings and knowledge a true friend.

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Yoga Asana - Dandasana - Yoga Mantras, Yoga Meditation

Dandasana Dandasana is the basic seated pose from which all the others originate. Think of this yoga stretch as a seated version of Mountain Pose or Tadasana.



Benefits:

• Strengthens legs.
• improves alignment and posture.
• Firms the belly muscles.

How To:

• Sit with straight legs outstretched in front.

• Strengthen the thigh muscles and flex the feet. The heels may lift up off the floor.

• Gently firm the belly.

• Lift up out of your hips, feel the vertebrae and intervertabral discs decompress as the spine lengthens.

• Check that the shoulders are inline with your hips.

• Sit on a firm low cushion if you have tight hamstrings.

Arm Placement

• Think about keeping the shoulders sliding down away from the ears.

• Place the palms of your hands flat on the ground or rest them on your thighs.

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Namaste

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Yoga Meditation, Yoga Mantras, Yoga Philosophy, Kindness & Charity

There are many kind people in this world who are engaged in acts of charity, building hospitals, helping the elderly, supporting abused children, homeless teens, running soup kitchens and so on.

The heart of man can be very generous, caring and charitable. We feel 'good' when serving others in this way, we are engaging in philanthropic activities, selfless works and this is indeed amazing for all those involved.

The kind men of this world try to help alleviate material suffering as much as possible, but we must remember that although we are temporarily residing in a body, we are not just a body, but rather 'WE' are spirit in essence. Therefore it is vitally important that we nurture and nourish the spirit also. A simple and enjoyable spiritual solution is provided to us via the kindness of spiritual doctors or masters. By taking the prescribed medicine we are able to revive our dormant but natural spiritual awareness.

If a naturally kind person wanted to add a spiritual component in with their charitable mix they could do so very easily. How is this possible you might ask. This simple but vital spiritual addition to ones life is made possible due to the many blessings given freely by the perfect masters who are expert spiritual physicians. They offer us the perfect solution to the woes and untold suffering experienced in this world, not only by mankind but ALL living beings.

Their spiritual medicine bag contains transcendental or spiritual sound vibrations also known as yoga mantras. Spiritual sound comes from the spiritual realm. To our ears these yoga mantras might seem like ordinary sounds, the difference being that these sounds carry with it a potency that is not present in material sound. This potency is the ability to touch and purify the heart of every living being who is fortunate enough to come into contact with it. Within every living body is a spirit soul. When a spirit soul comes into contact with spiritual sound that person is benefitted regardless of the body they are in.

" To expose ourselves and others to spiritual sound vibrations truly is the ultimate in humanitarian effort. Without discrimination or exception everyone benefits".

Spiritual doctors are mankinds and all living beings best friend, by following their loving guidance we can become free. Free from the shackles of the mind and senses. Free from the wheel of samsara. They hand us the keys to another world, the world from which we came. They re-introduce us to our Supreme best friend who is with us eternally, seated within our hearts.

They help us to remember what real love is, what real happiness is and what REAL life and living is all about.

Due to the kindness and blessings of our spiritual doctors we are able to finally find our way back home.

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Yoga Pose Tadasana or Mountain Pose

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K... lets get started. I was going to begin with the triangle pose as I did get a request for information on that particular asana. Instead I have decided to begin with Tadasana or Mountain Pose. This asana forms the stable base for all standing poses.

Tadasana / Tada = Mountain / Tadasana = Mountain Pose

Step by step instructions

1. Stand with both feet together, or with your feet hip distance apart
2. Lift and gently stretch the toes, spread them wide and lower softly to the ground
3. Now we all know what a tripod is right! It's a 3 legged piece of equipment used for stablizing and supporting a camera. We are going to use this same principle to help us achieve a strong supportive base in mountain pose
4. Lets begin by pressing the big toes, the little toes and the heels firmly into the ground. This forms the tripod, the strong base for mountain pose
5. Alright so now we are going to gently rock back and forth—heels to toes, heels to toes
6. Come back to starting position, visualise your tripod and adjust your feet so that your weight is evenly distributed thru both feet
7. Lift the inside arches and press the outsides of the feet into the floor
8. Come back to starting position, visualise your tripod and have your weight evenly distributed thru both feet
9. Become familiar with how that feels
10. Lift the 3 arches, the inside arches, the outside arches and the arches across the broad part of your feet
11. To make sure we are not dropping thru the inside arches, activate the adductor muscles, this automatically lifts the inside arches
12. Moving up the legs to the knees, gently lift the knees by activating the thigh muscles or quads
13. Now focusing on lifting the front of the hips, gently lower the tail bone
14. An easy way to achieve the best position is to first of all place one hand on our belly just below the belly button and the other on the lower back. Visualise having tail feathers and sticking out those tail feathers – next we want to visualise a dog with it's tail between it's legs and imitate by tucking the pelvis under. The best position is somewhere in between those two extremes. Experiment and feel what's most comfortable for you
15. Next, lengthening the spine and lifting up thru the sternum. Broadening thru the lungs and rib cage. Be aware that we don't want the ribs to stick out, so draw them back towards the spine. Soften and lower the shoulders
16. Rotate thru the shoulders, moving the arms away from the body palms facing forward. Extend and lengthen the fingers. Relax the arms bring them back to your sides with the thumbs facing forward. Keep the shoulders soft. Think about the shoulder blades releasing downwards towards your waist
17. Gently lengthen the back of the neck, and lower the chin down to a neutral postition, with the chin relaxed
18. Draw up through the crown of the head, imagine a string running up thru your spine and out the top of your head, softly lengthening and opening up the body growing tall

Benefits:

Improves posture, reduces flat feet, relaxing, helps fallen arches, improves circulation, improves lung capacity

Variations:

1. Can be done with eyes closed for a more focused inward experience and to improve balance
2. Can raise the arms chest height interlock fingers and raise arms over head pressing palms towards the ceiling.
3. Bring arms behind, bend at the elbow, opposite hand on opposite elbow. Switch and hold for same amount of breaths

Variations and Modifications

1. Check your alignment against a wall. Stand with heels, sacrum and shoulder blades, but not the back of your head against the wall

Practise Mountain pose a couple times a day, this will help you to feel both grounded and relaxed.

See you next time

Lil

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The nature of Love
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than a feeling

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