...ic breathing exercises and poses (asanas) which define your first yoga session will help you clear your mind and better deal with stress. This positively affects your state of mind toward yourself and your life. As you are more relaxed, you will find it easier to control and eventually eliminate emotional binges and snacking between meals. The deep breathing exercises (pranayama) enhance concentration and inner strength, which help you stick to a diet or an alternative exercise routine.

Yoga tones and strengthens every muscle in your body. It also stimulates glands that secrete hormones which increase metabolism and alleviate depression. As you reach more advanced ...more

How Yoga Helped Me Navigate Choppy Waters

...You are average, melanie. How could I be average? I had been practicing hot yoga for nearly five years when my husband of 32 years passed away. I started adding more days to my weekly practice to heal and meditateto release anger and frustrationto handle the stress of separation and it worked. Was I really average?

I was 56 years old and I found that I fit the statistic of the average age of widowhood. I felt too young to be a widow and as my practice improved I knew that the door to a happy life was not closing. Yoga helped me see that the possibility of a healthy and full life was ahead of me and that there were no limits to my flexibility. Because each posture addresses so much of the inner mind, my adjustment to this new chapter was enhanced by a positive focus and a consistent practice. After a few months of reflection, I decided to participate in my yoga teachers first Yoga Teacher Training along with sixty other yogis from around the world. While I was not the oldest, I was close to the oldest enrolled for five weeks of intense training, six days a week from 7am until 9pm or later. I did itI completed my training and while I was not convinced that I would be teaching, I wanted to share my knowledge. With a body that was more toned ...more

Yoga Teacher Training - Explaining Attachment to Outcome

...ame it would be if every enlightened soul, saint, and prophet, throughout history, worried about being attached to outcome. Can you imagine if every inventor, explorer, and statesman, in our history, refused to take action, because he or she might be too attached to an outcome? Nobody would ever take action to prepare for anything and we might not exist.

The first person to say the words, "Detach oneself from outcome," had an intention, took action, and was attached to the outcome of saying those words. This is a pure paradox. In fact, this is a complete misinterpretation of the concept of non-attachment.

So, what should we be detached fr...more

Things To Know About Yoga

...e complete time you spend in practicing yoga, it is advisable to take rest of 1/4th of the time.

5. If you are tired from the excessive physical work that you did the whole day or have any other physical pain, you should avoid doing yoga. Also wear neat and light clothes while going for yoga. It is also advisable for you to avoid taking excessive alcohol, tea or coffee before the session.

6. Another important thing. While practicing yoga try to keep your mind free from any kind of worries and anxiety. Forget your all worries.

7. one note of caution for women. They should not practice yoga while on their menstrual cycle. Pregnant women should also take caution.<...more

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