Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Yoga exercise is full of stretching

Yoga exercise is used to develop flexibility, strength, and stamina. There are various styles of yoga which offer different approaches. Yoga exercise is self-motivating because, after a short time of regular practice, one finds that the body actually enjoys practicing Yoga exercises.

As the personality becomes quieter and freer from stress demands, the person finds more time to pay attention to inner feelings, needs, and thoughts. Yoga exercise is gentle, non-violent and powerful. Interestingly, research shows that yoga exercise burns less calories (0.8 per minute) than even a resting person (0.9 per minute) and much less than other types of exercise (14 per minute and upwards).


Yoga exercise is full of stretching, flexing, and bending. Can your normal excercise clothes bend with you? Yoga Exercise is not a competition, so just relax and try again. Moreover, do not try Yoga Postures which are beyond your capabilities. Yoga exercise is psychosomatic for the practitioner – harmonising both body and mind. The system of Yoga in Daily Life� is divided into eight steps, starting with Sarva Hitta Asanas, which are postures that are beneficial for all.
Yoga exercise is a perfectly balanced program that can be started by anyone above the age of eight. Your practice can be made more challenging as you progress or take it easy on days which you are fatigued.


Practicing yoga regularly will tone and firm your body while burning calories. The relaxation techniques will also help you curb "stress eating. Practicing yoga focuses on a freeing of the spirit and mind of the individual in order to enhance the practice of union with God through the one breathe. Instruction of yoga for beginners also incorporates a series of physical movements. Practicing in the morning will help you revitalize your mind and body, keep you energized and ready for work. Meditation and Relaxation Techniques is also advised during the night for restful, more peaceful sleep.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Yoga for what

Yoga is more than just a form of exercise, but part of a well-rounded philosophy that dates back over 5,000 years. Our goal is to reach, teach and inspire our students to live a healthy, integrated life. Yoga originated in ancient India and is considered one of the longest surviving philosophical systems in the world. Some scholars have estimated that yoga is as old as 5,000 years; artifacts detailing yoga postures have been found in India from over 3000 B.C. YogaSlackers are a group of yoga practitioners who practice their asanas not on a mat, but suspended on a piece of 1” flat, stretchy tubular webbing (like rock climbers use) tensioned between two anchor points above the ground.

Yoga is an ancient science of personal self development that has evolved into an integrated lifestyle program. The practice of Hatha Yoga will release the physical tensions and stress so that you feel energized calm and peaceful. Yoga Alliance has received hundreds of e-mails and telephone calls regarding a variety of scam e-mail letters circulating throughout our community of RYTs and RYSs. These e-mails look as though they have been sent by YA. Yoga is a 5000 year old science whose teachings were first imparted not in a classroom or Gurukul, but on the battle field. In the epic Mahabharata, the sage, Lord Krishna is first said to have imparted the teachings of Yoga to his despondent student Arjuna.

Yoga affects every aspect of our being. Yogaville is the home to and international headquarters of Integral Yoga International, which is the global organization of Integral Yoga. Beginning in 1966 with a handful of friends sitting in the living room of a New York apartment and asking Swami Satchidananda questions, Integral Yoga has grown into an international organization renowned for its teacher training programs and for making Yoga accessible to everyone. Yoga is a system of mental and physical exercises which were originally developed in India over thousands of years. Today there are many different styles with many different goals.
Yoga is not a religion. It doesn't require that you fast or abstain.

Yoga, when combined with a vegetarian diet, aerobic exercise and medication, has reduced cardiovascular disease rates and blood pressure levels. However, yoga is not a substitute for traditional medical care and treatment. Yoga practices began in the West about a century ago, with many continue .

Friday, May 16, 2008

What' s Yoga Sutra?

Yoga Sutra: "It is only when correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed". There will always be a tendency to start yoga with enthusiasm and a desire for sudden results! Yoga4fitness.org shall not be responsible for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages, which result from the use of the content or reliance upon any information on this web site.


Yoga is more than just an exercise , it is a lifestyle that concentrates on combining the mind, body and spirit. There are many different types of yoga.

Yoga is a series of exercises and postures (asanas) which are advertised as a way to tone up, reduce stress and experience tranquility. In the traditional understanding, physical yoga has a great deal more to do with the practitioner's invisible, ?subtle? body, than it does with the flesh and bones and muscles that encase it.

Yoga is a science which is been studies and researched over by many scientists even now. Today the doctors also advise the patients to continue their yoga every day for their well being and fitness.


Yoga affects every aspect of our being. Yoga is an age old magical practice that fits this modern day perfectly. Here at Divine Goddess we are very passionate about yoga and the benefits it bestows. Yoga is an ancient science of personal self development that has evolved into an integrated lifestyle program.

The practice of Hatha Yoga will release the physical tensions and stress so that you feel energized calm and peaceful.


Yoga for kids is an excellent way for a child to exercise and has many other benefits for a child's health. Not every type of yoga can be used as yoga for children though.

Yoga is a system of mental and physical exercises which were originally developed in India over thousands of years. Today there are many different styles with many different goals.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

A Beginner’s Guide To Yoga Positions

A Beginner’s Guide To Yoga Positions



Yoga is increasingly gaining popularity as more and more people resort to it in an effort to de-stress after a hectic, chaotic day. If you are new to yoga and have decided to go it alone and not join a yoga class, you would need to do a lot of research on yoga positions for beginners. With the wealth of information on yoga available to you at your fingertips, all you need now is time to sift through it all and come up with the ideal program that suits you best.



Though a lot of yoga positions for beginners are easily available, it is not as easy as it sounds. You need to familiarize yourself with some basics before you get started or else you could end up tying yourself into a knot.



The most important things you need to know if you want to take up yoga are the prerequisites for yoga. There are certain dos and don’ts that you absolutely have to adhere to. Yoga, though a rather flexible activity is rather inflexible in many ways. Yoga can be practiced by people of all ages, but it is recommended that children under the age of twelve practice yoga only for shorts periods of time. If you are doing yoga for health reasons, you should be aware that to achieve the full health benefits of yoga you need to devote a minimum of 30-45 minutes a day towards yoga practice. The ideal time to practice yoga is early morning when you have just woken up from a restful sleep and the rest of the world is still asleep and peaceful. Yoga can also be practiced later in the day, but you have to make sure that certain diet restrictions are followed.



The philosophy of yoga recommends that yoga should be ideally practiced on an empty stomach. That’s one of the reasons why the best time to practice yoga is early in the morning. You need to plan your diet for the day if you plan on practicing yoga positions anytime during the day. Any liquid has to be had a minimum of one hour before yoga practice. Solid food, though allowed, should be eaten in limited quantities.



Yoga should ideally be practiced in an airy spacious room, free from any distractions and disturbances, as you need intense concentration to get it right. Apart from this, all you need for yoga is a carpet or a floor mat and loose comfortable clothing. It is recommended that you wear undergarments while practicing yoga.



Yoga is very beneficial towards your physical as well as mental well-being. It relaxes the body and stimulates the mind. If done well and all the rules are adhered to, the benefits could be amazing. To achieve ultimate results, the beginner must have absolute faith in the practice of yoga and must learn to concentrate fully on the every little movement during practice.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

HOW TO CONCENTRATE OBJECTIVELY

(_a_) In all undertakings whether of small or great importance shut
off all thoughts and ideas except such as have any immediate and direct
bearing upon the thing in hand. Pay attention. Bend all the energies
of your mind and will upon it till it is completed to your satisfaction.
Divert your attention from one thing to another only when you sanction
by a resolve and understand why you do so. Your daily work which you
must choose according to the special bent of your mind, will present you
opportunities.

(_b_) Control impulse. Suppose an idea enters your mind. Compose
yourself quietly before carrying out its purport. Consider it. Turn
it over in your mind. Contemplate it. Weave your mental energies
around it, as it were, till at last the idea with your final decision
stands out clear-cut and well-defined. Then proceed to act it out
physically with your mental concentration cutting a way for you straight
on to the execution of your designing. This is _forethought_.

(_c_) In perfect concentration time vanishes. In working out a
design on which you have set your heart dispense altogether with the
element of time and work at it concentratedly for days, months and
years with confident expectation of success.

(_d_) Take a picture, representing a landscape, the interior of a
building, an assembly of persons, a square, a triangle or a more
complicated geometrical figure. Look at it well. Then lay it aside. Close
your eyes. Reproduce the picture mentally in detail. Then repose your
mind on the same image to the exclusion of all other thoughts. This is
a more fixed and meditative method and will sharpen the mind wonderfully.
It will also develop the power of conscious Mental Imagery. The
key to Objective Concentration is _Conscious Attention_, remember.


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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Mind and Self

Mind and Self

You cannot be surprised that under these conditions of continueddisappearance of functions, the unfortunate student asks: " Whatbecomes of the mind itself? If you suppress all the functions,what is left?" In the Indian way of teaching, when you come to adifficulty, someone jumps up and asks a question. And in thecommentaries, the question which raises the difficulty is alwaysput.

The answer of Patanjali is: "Then the spectator remains inhis own form."

Theosophy answers: "The Monad remains." It is theend of the human pilgrimage. That is the highest point to whichhumanity may climb: to suppress all the reflections in thefivefold universe through which the Monad has manifested hispowers, and then for the Monad to realise himself, enriched bythe experiences through which his manifested aspects have passed.But to the Samkhyan the difficulty is very great, for when he hasonly his spectator left, when spectacle ceases, the spectatorhimself almost vanishes. His only function was to look on at theplay of mind. When the play of mind is gone, what is left? He canno longer be a spectator, since there is nothing to see.

The onlyanswer is: " He remains in his own form." He is now out ofmanifestation, the duality is transcended, and so the Spiritsinks back into latency, no longer capable of manifestation.There you come to a very serious difference with the Theosophicalview of the universe, for according to that view of the universe,when all these functions have been suppressed, then the Monad isruler over matter and is prepared for a new cycle of activity, nolonger slave but master.

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Saturday, February 24, 2007

The Mental Body for yoga beginner

The Mental Body for yoga beginner
Part 1

We must now deal with the mental body, which is taken asequivalent to mind for practical purposes. The first thing for aman to do in practical Yoga is to separate himself from themental body, to draw away from that into the sheath next aboveit. And here remember what I said previously, that in Yoga theSelf is always the consciousness plus the vehicle from which theconsciousness is unable to separate itself.

All that is above thebody you cannot leave is the Self for practical purposes, andyour first attempt must be to draw away from your mental body.Under these conditions, Manas must be identified with the Self,and the spiritual Triad, the Atma-buddhi-manas, is to be realisedas separate from the mental body.

That is the first step. Youmust be able to take up and lay down your mind as you do a tool,before it is of any use to consider the further progress of theSelf in getting rid of its envelopes. Hence the mental body istaken as the starting point. Suppress thought. Quiet it. Stillit. Now what is the ordinary condition of the mental body?

As youlook upon that body from a higher plane, you see constant changesof colours playing in it. You find that they are sometimesinitiated from within, sometimes from without. Sometimes avibration from without has caused a change in consciousness, anda corresponding change in the colours in the mental body.

If there is a change of consciousness, that causes vibration in thematter in which that consciousness is functioning. The mentalbody is a body of ever-changing hues and colours, never still,changing colour with swift rapidity throughout the whole of it.Yoga is the stopping of all these, the inhibition of vibrationsand changes alike. Inhibition of the change of consciousnessstops the vibration of the mental body; the checking of thevibration of the mental body checks the change in consciousness.

In the mental body of a Master there is no change of colour saveas initiated from within; no outward stimulus can produce anyanswer, any vibration,ùin that perfectly controlled mental body.The colour of the mental body of a Master is as moonlight on therippling ocean. Within that whiteness of moon-like refulgence lieall possibilities of colour, but nothing in the outer world canmake the faintest change of hue sweep over its steady radiance.If a change of consciousness occurs within, then the change willsend a wave of delicate hues over the mental body which respondsonly in colour to changes initiated from within and never tochanges stimulated from without.

His mental body is never HisSelf, but only His tool or instrument, which He can take up orlay down at His will. It is only an outer sheath that He useswhen He needs to communicate with the lower world.