Amazing Yoga Regime

October 25th, 2011 by admin No comments »

For anyone who’s looking to start living a healthier lifestyle, especially one that includes a holistic approach to diet and healthy, active lifestyle, then a yoga regime is a perfect addition. Finding the time and the place is all you need for yoga, along with comfortable and loose-fitting clothes and preferably a yoga mat although if you’re doing it on a carpet that’s fine too. Once you get a little more advanced you’ll want to incorporate a belt and other advanced things you can use for gaining additional stretches.

A healthy lifestyle that includes a yoga regime will bring your heart rate down, calm your breathing, build core strength and help you stretch your body, limbs and internal organs too. It’s a great way to get your mind in touch with your body and help you control your movements in a slow, rhythmic manner as well as control your breathing and heart. By engaging in a yoga regime you can begin to feel healthier and better about yourself and your body.

Once you start doing yoga you’ll find that your body starts to feel different and your inner strength begins to develop and you start feeling better overall. This feeling can carry you through your day because, the best time to start yoga is in the morning, although anytime is better than no time at all. In the morning your body is stiff from sleep, so it’s the best time to start waking your body slowly and naturally through a gentle yoga regime. Simply breathing and moving slowly from one position to another and staying in that position for a certain count of time will in the end awaken your entire body, from the inside out and will leave you both relaxed and invigorated and strengthened and ready to take on the day. » Read more: Amazing Yoga Regime

Don’t Be a Shmogi, Taking Yoga Back

October 25th, 2011 by admin No comments »

From Shmoga Back to Yoga

I have some good news and I have some bad news. I’ll start with the bad news. There has been an attempt to hijack and kidnap yoga from us. And now the good news, you can take it back. Many practitioners call themselves yogis or yoginis but they have taken the sacred practice of yoga and changed it to an inaccessible and inauthentic practice. They are who I call Shmogis(ginis), or phony yogis! Many of these Shmogis have tried to take yoga away from the masses by spreading myths about the practice and I want us to take yoga back.

Yoga is over 4,000 years old and practiced by men, women and children all over the world. Yoga is the yoking or weaving together of mind, body and spirit. So why would it suddenly be subject to rigid formulations, mysterious rituals or incredible physical feats?

Yoga encompasses many aspects including physical postures, study of sacred philosophies, mindfulness, discipline, and meditation, acknowledging wholeness, to name a few.I personally believe that there are benefits to the suggested general guidelines and paths to yoga. But as you will see below, some of these have morphed into myths that seem to keep yoga exclusive only to those who follow very specific paths and keep all other seekers away. We must ask, why do some insist on portraying yoga as something to be done by the young, physically beautiful, fit and acrobatic? » Read more: Don’t Be a Shmogi, Taking Yoga Back