Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight?

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Yoga has proved beneficial in many, many afflictions of the human body – both mental and physical. It is universally accepted that yoga is highly beneficial in controlling and reversing many diseases and it can help you get rid of excessive fat that causes obesity. How Does Yoga Help With Weight Loss? If you asked … Read more

6 Basic Yoga Techniques

In this series we will discuss 6 different yoga techniques and their advantages. These asanas are the main stay of any Yoga practice. 1. Padmasana Yoga Technique Padma means lotus, this posture is also known as the lotus position. As shown in the images below the right way to perform padmasana would be as below … Read more

How to Become a Yoga Teacher

You love to down dog. You’ve learned how to stand on your hands instead of your feet. And you love explaining the yogic principles of non-violence, contentment and truth to your fellow yoga classmates. You might just be ready to start teaching. Make sure you have already taken many classes and workshops and done some … Read more

10 Yoga Animal Poses to Enrich Your Body

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Ready to unleash the animal in you? Each animal has a thing or two to teach. Yoga gurus of the past studied animals closely and found several secrets to well being. There is a little story about the origin of the Yoga Asanas. Lord Shiva, a Hindu God, demonstrated 8,400,000 yoga techniques and positions when … Read more

5 Ways How Yoga Helps You Overcome Low Self Esteem Issues

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“Work on being in with love the person in the mirror who has been through so much but is still standing.” The concept of self-esteem is centered around your feelings about yourself, how you view yourself, and the extent to which you like/dislike yourself. It is one of the core elements of inner being and … Read more

3 Beginner Yoga Poses for Stress Relief & Relaxation

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The following are three basic yoga poses for rest and relaxation. Balasana also know as Child’s Pose. Savasana also know as Corpse Pose. Makarasana know as Crocodile Pose. Let’s take a look at how you can do each pose. 1. Balasana (Child Pose) Here’s how you can do balasana: Sit on your heels and slowly … Read more

How to Become a Yoga Teacher?

Yoga teacher

You love to down dog. You’ve learned how to stand on your hands instead of your feet. And you love explaining the yogic principles of non-violence, contentment and truth to your fellow yoga classmates. You might just be ready to start teaching. Make sure you have already taken many classes and workshops and done some … Read more

How Often Should I Practice Yoga?

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If you’ve just started up on a yoga class, you may find yourself asking the question, ‘how often should I do yoga’? The great thing about yoga is that there is both intense style of classes as well as more relaxing style of classes so they can easily fit into your workout regardless of what … Read more

Yoga Nidra Pose for Deep Relaxation

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Yoga Nidra basically means psychic sleep. This kind of psychic sleep helps remove physical, emotional and mental strains very easily and in an effective manner. It also helps focus the mind and remove negative elements. This can be practiced either during morning after bathing or in the evening after sunset. To perform this psychic sleep, … Read more

26 Poses of Bikram Yoga

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A lot has been said about the 26 poses of Bikram Yoga and from the reports found all over the Internet. Bikram Yoga is not a special branch of yoga. Rather it is a set of twenty-six specific postures or asanas which need to be performed in a certain sequence in an environment that is … Read more