Yoga

A study states that doing yoga every 8 weeks is proven to give benefit for a heart disease sufferer. It is known that more than 5 millions of Americans get heart disease, so in the long term, the heart cannot pump the blood into the other parts of the body efficiently.You may experience the serious health problem and you have consumed the effective medicine that is completed with therapy to cope with it. However, you do not feel better yet.A study that is done by Emory University in Atlanta shows that yoga can reduce the signs of inflammation that are related to heart failure. Besides, this exercise can also increase the quality of life. Indeed, many people are convinced about the fact that yoga is useful to recover the unhealthy heart.Related to heart disease, the research also shows the ...

Meditation is not something we can do, it just happens like falling asleep. We can prepare for it. For example, we brush our teeth, change into comfortable clothes, lie in bed and wait for sleep to come. Similarly the entire 8 fold path of yoga is a preparation for reaching self realisation, meditation being a very important aid in achieving this goal. Shri Yogendraji, the founder of The Yoga Institute, Santacruz has given us many insights in his little book - Guide to Yoga Meditation. Yamas and Niyamas help to create a pure and steady mind.Asanas allow the body to be healthy and flexible so we can hold a posture in relaxation, leaving the mind undisturbed by the dualities of life - Night and day, pleasure and pain, heat and cold, etc.During the 10 day Vippasana Courses, there are 1 hour s...

Yoga has been renowned for decades in the Western world for its variety of beneficial properties, ranging from increased flexibility, joint strength, muscle strength, enhanced breathing and corresponding cardiovascular side effects, and a general sense of well being as a result of the peaceful nature of the workouts. And even if the spiritual side of yoga is somewhat watered down in Western cultures there is no doubt that yoga has a variety of properties that, medically understood or not, give a hundred reasons why it should be practiced and virtually none why it should not.While most individuals practicing yoga do so in order to benefit from the breathing techniques and the flexibility combined with the relaxation of the exercises, the low-impact nature of the practice allows an individua...

A lot of problems with the development of yoga occur because we tend to jump from one phase to another. However, yoga says, 'No. If you want to get the maximum benefit from yoga, then you have to follow the steps as they are defined. "Yogis who developed this way were not fools. They were great thinkers, psychologists and psychiatrists. They understood perfectly the nature of the human mind and the difficulties that each person goes through his life. To avoid these problems they created a system where we have to improve the first step, then the second, then the third and so on.From the moment we begin to follow a sequence in yoga and integrate this sequence in our life, we begin a beautiful experience. As Paramahamsaji says with his words, 'Life is a mystery to flourish and each awakening ...