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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

The Sanskrit name of this asana is Salabha Asana. The Locust Posture or the Salabha Asana is a reverse posture to the Cobra Posture. The values of both of these asanas are maximized when they are done one after the other as the Cobra and the Locust Posture complement one another. The Cobra posture’s effects [...]

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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 [...]

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.
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The Sanskrit name for the Forward Bend posture is “Paschimothan Asana”. It is a very popular and useful asana. [...]

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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 [...]