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 [...]
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Eye Yoga with Paul McCartney
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 [...]
Yoga and the heart
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 [...]
Asanas: How to do the Cobra Posture
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Yoga is a series of various postures called ‘Asanas’ and breathing exercises. Each one of those Asanas and breathing exercises has been specifically designed to help a certain part of the body or a health condition.
The Cobra posture is a popular asana and it is always practiced as precedence to the Locust posture. The Sanskrit name [...]
Asanas: How to do the Shoulder Stand
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The “Shoulder Stand” posture is one of the most treasured asanas. Its Sanskrit name is the “Sarvanga Asana” and it is said to be a whole workout in itself as it benefits the whole body. In the Shoulder Stand posture, the whole weight of the rests on your shoulders and the neck and upper back [...]
Asana: How to do the Bow Posture
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The Sanskrit name of the Bow Posture is the Dhanur Asana. The Bow Posture gives a full backward bend to the Back-bone and all the muscles from the neck to the lower back or lumber region. The Bow Posture is called so because the body posture in this asana resembles a bow or ‘dhanur’. It [...]
Asanas: How to do Leg Lifting Posture
Yoga is a series of various postures called ‘Asanas’ and breathing exercises. Each one of those Asanas and breathing exercises has been specifically designed to help a certain part of the body or a health condition.
Asanas: How to do the Forward Bend
Yoga is a series of various postures called ‘Asanas’ and breathing exercises. Each one of those Asanas and breathing exercises has been specifically designed to help a certain part of the body or a health condition.
The Sanskrit name for the Forward Bend posture is “Paschimothan Asana”. It is a very popular and useful asana. [...]
Asanas: How to do the “Surya Namaskar” (Sun Salutation)
One of the most famous yogic Asana is the Surya Namaskar which is a salutation to the sun. This Asana is performed generally at the time of sunrise, which according to the “Vedas” is considered to be the most ’spiritually favourable’ time of the day. You must always practice this Asana on a mat [...]
Importance of Yoga
YOGA: Just the mention of the word reminds us of an environment of peace and tranquility. This beautiful art of meditation originated in India thousands and thousands of years ago. Yoga teaches us the art of self control and discipline. Gavin Flood, the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies defined yoga as [...]
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