Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts

7/15/2009

Yoga exercises to improve health


Initial Position
Stand with feet together, keeping the back straight and arms relaxed on both sides of the body.

How is
From the starting position, put the palms together in front of chest as if praying. Press the palms against each other and lift your hands above your head stretching his arms. To elongate a little more, imagine that you want to touch the sky with the tips of your fingers. Remain well for 5 to 30 seconds.
Breathe normally. Then slowly lower your hands. Relax. During this exercise, keep your back straight and do not retain or breathing.

Health benefits of this yoga exercise:
• Tones and nourishes the lungs of oxygen to the blood.
• Strengthens the spine.
• It promotes digestion and prevents constipation.
• Calms the nervous system.
• energizing the muscles of the abdomen.

12/08/2008

Tantra Yoga

You have a personality that matches the discipline of Tantra-Yoga, yoga whose practice is to use sexuality as a means to transform the physical energy into spiritual energy.

You are clearly a very sensual person, which enhances the sensations can access the physical and spiritual improvement from that. Sex-conceived as a way of raising both the body and the soul.

Mantra Yoga

In his case, the discipline that matches their personality is the Mantra-Yoga, yoga of sound. The mantras are very powerful magical sounds that are used in this discipline for meditation and spiritual elevation. People in this category, often sensitive, intuitive and expansive.

In particular stand out for their gift of communication, with his words as mantras that carry a little understanding and wisdom to those who listen with an open heart.

Jnana Yoga

You are a person who is clearly identified with the side-Jnana Yoga, yoga of wisdom and knowledge. The basic precept of this wisdom is the rational understanding of everything that happens, through the theoretical study and analysis.

Therefore, this kind of personality usually start racing philosophical, scientific and intellectual. Even the marvelous works of creation, without denying their divine entity, can be analyzed in terms of philosophy and science.

Bhakti Yoga

The discipline that identifies you is the Bhakti-Yoga, the yoga of devotion. The faith is above all other things of the world, and continues to fervently emphasize that its principles-zan belief in God, renouncing selfish desires, the pursuit of spiritual elevation and love of neighbor.

His way is the service, and sees the happiness from doing something to ensure the happiness of others, or at least mitigate his sentence.

Karma Yoga

The variant with which your personality is identified is the Karma-Yoga, yoga of good deeds. For someone like you, every human being reflected what has sown. This conviction leads him to try to choose correctly before each alternative that presents life in order to build a positive karma.

The bases on which they structure their path in life residing in three practices that you are the beginning of everything: the good, love and forgiveness.

Raja Yoga

The style of yoga suited to his personality is the Raja-Yoga, that of meditation. Search with the tenacity autoconoci-up and meditation is the most appropriate path in the direction of his spiritual evolution. This characteristic of his personality helps him connect with high energy and keep your inner balance.

This does not mean that you should meditate on the meaning of the term, but that his entire way of life is planted with a form of meditation daily with action.

Hata Yoga

You are the Hata-style Yoga, a discipline of the physical body based body that exercises rebalance the body. No doubt you are an active and dynamic person who finds the only spiritual balance when you are physically in its fullness.

For you the physical work is an activity that transcends the material, in a way similar to how they saw the physical dexterity old shaman: as a way to access through the physical ecstasy to an altered state of consciousness.

9/17/2008

The benefits of yoga sage acro

Sage-El Acro is indicated for athletes who forced the spine. There are many benefits of this technique:

More energy
Sage-El Acro favors venous return, stimulates the lymphatic system, improves blood circulation, creates heat and tones metabolism. Stretch and lengthens muscles. Uncover contractures tensions and improving the movement of all joints.

Less stress
The derivation of Hawaiian massage acrobatic also facilitates the integration mind / body, seeking a pleasant and harmonious feeling of general well-being. It stimulates the glands that are located in the brain and controlling the growth and health psychophysics.

It induces a sense of calm, tranquility and awareness, so that our behavior will become more balanced. Therefore, it is advised whenever you feel tense, angry, tired and nervous.

6/10/2008

Sri Lanka: A paradise for reflection

Powerful and shining, this large island that descuelga In indicator of the hands of its giant neighbor and mother, is a privileged place, perfect to start a personal reflection by a retreat in one of the numerous monasteries exist around the small chain mountain that marks the epicenter of the country.

The first thing the visitor feels when arriving at Sri Lanka, is a huge enthusiasm to be able to verify that the paradise described by Marco Polo, remains virtually intact in every way. If we add this to a low population density, for Asian standards, as well as a relaxed way of life, becomes a real source of pride for the Sinhalese community, against which travellers will discover an experience which may reach to be their own guides and teachers.

Sri Lanka is not a very big island but to achieve capture their special flavour, the tourist must spend at least two weeks and a gentle trail where you will discover ancient Buddhist shrines, magnificent parks, beaches with turquoise blue sea and hidden valleys where Thousands of women gather with their delicate hands tea leaves that, months later, tasting as an infusion at any elegant European coffee.

Moving in this place is relatively simple if one has a generous dose of energy and patience. There is a more than decent railway and bus services are very frequent and in all directions. The use of public transport will make us move rather slowly, but we will ensure strong emotions and deal directly with helpful people, whose sympathy and kindness surprised at each route of the road.

But if the reason for our trip is more spiritual or healing, in Sri Lanka find places where we can learn to practice yoga in a simple, and in an atmosphere unparalleled, for example, there are workshops where in a few weeks, we will become Expert masseurs, with the help of doctors "Ayurvedic" whose wisdom travelling with total harmony and simplicity.

Checking out the various places of archaeological interest or contemplate the fascinating temple of the tooth beside the lake in central Kandy, may be suggestive-up. Completing a tough day while accompanying the fishermen when they collected their slaughter at dusk, one of the many beaches in the south, may be a perfect activity for the restless traveler who wants to go home with something more than an absurd souvenir whose ultimate destination arrinconado will end up next to the other useless objects.

5/08/2008

Yoga: Utkasana

This exercise of the yoga is ideal to develop the balance and the concentration. Also flexibiliza the knees and you strengthen the general state of the legs. In the case of the pregnant ones, you facilitate the aperture of the childbirth channel.

You follow these steps and you will see the results.

1- Stop with the separate legs about 30 centimeters. You inhale and get up on the tip of your feet.
2- Still exhaling in foot tips, low flexionando the legs, mantén the direct shoulder, until being sat down, of being possible envelope your checks.
3- You continue in the same position that in the previous instruction, but with the legs and the feet together.
4- The same as in the previous position, but without separating the checks of the floor, almost playing the floor with the gluteus. The body is inclined toward before, the thighs press the abdomen.
5- This variant is since the most difficult part of the foot position, but with the legs and the feet together, until arriving to squatting without separating the checks of the floor.

The duration of this exercise should begin with 10 seconds and to increase 5 seconds per week, until arriving to a maximum of 2 minutes of time.

We also recommend you respect of this exercise that you don't carry out the posture if you suffer of a stomach strong inflammation. The pregnant ones and obese people should opt for the variants of legs and separate feet.

4/15/2008

Yoga exercises

We propose you two yoga exercises to get (as you indicate it the discipline), the physical and mental relaxation by means of the postures.

1 "Ardha-masyendrasana": firm column

Seated with legs you adjoin and enhanced, to arrange the right check under the left thigh, and the left foot above the right thigh and supported in the floor.
To turn the shoulder dercho until the left knee is under the left arm pit.
To extend the left arm until playing the fat finger of the foot.
To bend the left arm behind the shoulder until grabbing the waist of the pant.
To turn neck and head all the possible one.
The exercise is made d ecada side once, so much time as we feel comfortable.
You are good to release the column, to cure abdominal dysfunctions, lumbago and rheumatisms. You also give surety and stability.

1 "Dhanurasana": the energy increases

Extended face down in the floor with the arms throughout the body.
To bend the legs and to be played the ankles.
To lift the trunk at the time that we throw with the hands of the legs to elevate them the most high thing possible bending the shoulder.
You expires.
To stay this way the time that are possible while one breathes superficially.
The head should be on-line with the column, the chest toward out and the sunken stomach.
At the beginning, the legs can be separate, but with the practice it is convenient to adjoin them.
You are good exercise for the column and you stimulate the glands endócrinas, especially the thyroid.
You increase the mental speed and the energy of character.

How to be in shape and relaxed

Sedentarism, incorrect postures, ledges, hurries... Everything adjoins form a merged that you prevent to the body and the mind to work to full performance. The elongation and millennial different disciplines, they put us to shade and they alleviate the quotidian pressure in a soft way and without forcing us in excess.

The school yang

One of those disciplines is the Thai chi. You appear in China in the XVIII century. Until half-filled of the XX century, you were transmitted privately among the males of the family. In the fifty, Yang Chen Ugh you gave it to know through the school yang (the most popular for your affordable movements).

A class of Thai chi, you are formed by the exercises of chi kung (you leave of the traditional Chinese medicine that he/she work with the interior energy through the relaxed movement and the abdominal respiration); the foot meditations, based on the centered posture, the relaxation and an attitude of mental silence; and and the practice in the way or sequencing of slow and soft movements.

The Thai chi works in a continuous way and without abruptness muscles and articulations. You relax the muscular chronic tensines and of the nervous system; and you also strengthen the respiratory system. You develop the concentration, coordination, balance, corporal memory and flexibility. You also serve so that the chi, the interior energy flows.

The yoga

Relative also to this class of disciplines, we cannot stop to mention the yoga that he/she work on the nervous, arterial, lymphatic and energy systems through the asanas or postures, muscular static stretchings, the pranayamas (respiration that allow that the prana or general purpose energy, circulate for the whole organism), and the relaxation or the movimiernto.

The fact that you are a discipline of relaxed movements you are very important, because you are good to unlock the pressure, to assimilate the postures and to reach this way the harmony. If you are possible to equalize the four systems, a good estaod of physical and mental salu is reached. But for it, they are necessary the assiduous practice and the patience.