...How Should I Breathe?

In order to provide your body with the proper oxygen supply and to help it stay well rested, you need to practice breathing with your diaphragm. This special form of breathing is referred to as Pranayama in the yoga world, with prana meaning energy and yama meaning control. Even if you do not conduct a full-blown yoga session, simply practicing these breathing techniques will help calm your body and increase the flow of oxygen within you.

To learn the proper breathing technique, it is usually helpful to lie down on a bed. Then, place one hand on your chest and the other on your stomach. If you have not practiced proper breathing in the past, you will notice that the hand on your chest moves up and down while the hand on your stomach remains relatively still. practice breathing until the ...more

Yoga And Its importance

...elp you see through it. Following yoga postures, breathing exercises and meditation can relieve you from all pains and troubles. Yoga can also help you to lose weight. It lets you tune in, chill out, and shape up, all at the same time.

Health benefits of Yoga:

Yoga is said to be beneficial for healing many problems. Some of the benefits of yoga are:

Helps to control anxiety
Reduces stress
Improves arthritis, back pain, and osteoporosis
Relieves asthma
Controls blood pressure, diabetes and epilepsy
Combats chronic fatigue and depression
Cures headaches, heart disease and multiple sclerosis
Improves concentration and creativity
Improves blood circulation
Lowers fat
Creates a sense of well being and calm

Risks:

It is very important to practic...more

Ten Reasons to Attend a Yoga Retreat

...igned for your retreat. A yoga retreat allows ample time for extended yoga practice. Often you will receive more hours of yoga instruction during a retreat than a whole session of weekly yoga classes! Extended yoga practice allows more time for the body to unwind, release, let go, and find peace in your body, mind, and spirit.

(4) The People

The people I have met on yoga retreats are some of the most enlightened, intelligent and thoughtful people I have come to know. Yoga retreats are an amazing venue to form lasting friendships and deepen existing ones.

(5) The Location

Retreat centers are often located close enough so that it is a short drive and far enough to free yourself fr...more

practice Yoga with the Best of Intentions

... is no tranquility, harmony, peace, mindfulness, or loving kindness within the ego. To the ego everything is a perceived threat, to its existence.

Leave your ego at the door, with your shoes, before going into Yoga class. When you practice Yoga, savor each lesson, and take it out into the world, for practice. When you leave the ashram or Yoga studio, practice is applying what you learn to real life. So, it does not end, when you roll up your Yoga mat.

Be courteous to everyone all the time. You are projecting loving kindness and being mindful of life in the present, and practicing the unity of mind, body, and spirit.

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