Anyone who’s tried to meditate for extended periods of time knows that a sagging spine is a major source of distraction. Sooner or later your upper back aches from the natural curve that comes from a lack of mindful posture, or your lower back smarts from compression.
You don’t have to look far in Yoga and [...]

Great article about yoga. Describes different types of yoga.
It’s written in Norwegian, but use this link to translate it: Click here

A Yoga Mudra is a variation of an asana that engages the hands to bring about specific effects, the purpose of which may vary according to the sequence or flow of your practice or the goals you have set for your routine (such as healing a specific illness). Sometimes Mudras are as simple as hand [...]

Whether you’re day is mostly sedentary or always on the go, chances are you’re rough on your feet. Most of us are! We don’t realise how shoes, even the most comfortable sort, squish and constrict our feet in ways that are not conducive to yoga.
(A healthy yoga foot has, at rest, toes that are a [...]

Yoga doesn’t have to be serious all the time! It’s a misconception that the practice is solely solemn, involving only stone faces, minds empty of all thought, and free of any distractions in the environment.
Sometimes it’s all those things, but let’s face it: we live in real life and very few of us can achieve [...]

Did you ever think you’d learn yoga from Paul McCartney of The Beatles? Well thanks to YouTube, you can! Here, Paul teaches us yoga exercises for your eyes, to improve your eye health.
Spending hour upon hour on the computer, as many of us do, our eyes tend to suffer the brunt of the work. No [...]

Check out this highly educational video about Pranayama, including a thorough introduction to seated positions. Kavita Maharaj teaches you about the anatomical benefits of breathing practice - such as increasing lung capacity and reducing everyday scar tissue in your lungs (we all have it!), boosting metabolism, and aiding digestion. Learn some basic and advanced seated [...]

Aerobics. Taking a few breaths and counting to 10 when you’re feeling stressed and angry. Besides being vital for our body to function, oxygen and the simple act of breathing are more than passive acts. We’re controlling and altering our breath every time we exercise or pay attention to breathing techniques we’ve learned from self-help [...]

The heart is a very important part of your body and everyone knows that a healthy heart obviously means longer life. A well functioning heart pumps blood through the body and thus prevents strokes, heart attack etc. Coronary Heart/arterial Disease, CAD, simply means suffering of heart muscles due to short supply of oxygen. It happens [...]

Yoga believes that the mind is central to a diseased condition, pacifying and placating it would in itself help cure the disease to a great extent. Asthma is primarily a disease of the respiratory system, where there is a wheezing cough and a sense of suffocation, since the patient has difficulties in inhaling rather [...]