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Why to Choose to Practise Bikram Yoga

...bikram Yoga can be classified as a distant cousin of hatha Yoga. Its founder, bikram Choudhury, is rumoured to have been inspired into creating this variant of Yoga after having suffered an injury in weightlifting. After discovering that Yoga postures greatly enhanced his recovery, he passed on his knowledge and other people suffering from various injuries experienced the benefits of recovering more rapidly from their ailments.

There are many reasons why the practise of bikram Yoga can be beneficial to you. The advantages Bikram Yoga bring can totally change your life. This being written, Bikram Yoga is also known as "hot" Yoga and therefore can be considered a variant or westernised version of ashtanga Yoga.

Compared with Bikram Yoga, ashtanga Yoga depends on the individuals' own personal strength to muster the discipline of le...more

Some Yoga DVDs to Help You Through Your Pregnancy

...Yoga For Your Pregnancy

A 45 minute DVD broken up into two segments, Yoga For Your Pregnancy, is designed to limber up women who are expecting a child and revitalize their energy level. Yoga Journal's DVD is great for beginners, featuring alternate poses for women who can't stretch, and doesn't expect you to be a Yoga guru.

The first section, entitled "Energizing and stretching," is 30 minutes long and is designed to create strength and stamina. The goal is, of course, ...more

The History of Yoga

...ty, studiousness, contentment, discipline

Pranayama - controlling the breath

Pratyahara - going inward and withdrawing attention from the outside world

Dharana - concentration

Dhyana - meditation

Samadhi - merging with the universal consciousness

The Swami Vivekananda added to the history of yoga by bringing it to america. In 1893, he addressed the Parliament of World Religions and discussed the path of yoga...more

Practicing Yoga Can Help Children Appreciate the Environment

...er exploration of why the flowers are important to the bees and why certain birds look for worms rather than eat birdseed.

It sounds so simplistic, but this really works. Take a child away from their electronic music/game gizmo for a while and place them in this state of rest and they will begin to appreciate their world. Yoga is the fulcrum by which children can receive exercise, relax, and learn to smell the flowers again. Dont we owe it to our children to give them this inner peace so that they can face the environmental challenges ahead and care enough about them to do whats right. We can also learn so much from the world around us. We can see positive character traits all around in nature patience, perseverance, trust, acceptance. Our world, our animals, our air, our treesthey are worth fighting for. Lets help give our kids another tool so that they can face the challenge. That tool is yoga!

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