Category: Yoga
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Practicing Aparigraha by Mixing up your Yoga Rouine
Yoga has a ton of advantages and if you don’t believe it, then read this source. One of the yogi principals I’ve had the most chances to practice the past 2 years I’ve been traveling is practicing Aparigraha or Non-Attachment. Day to day routines are awesome and something I desperately miss, but when you are stripped…
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Yoga Helps Detox the Body
Toxins get a bad rep. We all know that in order to be healthy we should do things to Detox the body. Detoxes come in all shapes and forms with some being as extreme as week long juice cleanses to things as simple as making sure to drink 8 glasses of water a day. By…
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Śīrṣāsana or Headstand for Beginners
Headstand pose or Śīrṣāsana has some of the greatest benefits of any yoga asana. Headstands energize the body sending blood and nutrients to the brain, improve digestion aiding in the movement of food through the ileocecal valve (ascending colon), and stimulate lymphatic cleansing and drainage. All these benefits come from the effects of gravity acting in the opposite way…
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Kicking and Stretching Equal Simultaneous 50/50–The Harder you Kick you Can Balance Forever….
…This is one of the catchy lines of the Bikram Dialogue and a part I never leave out, because I love that Standing Bow Pulling Pose and that quotation actually describes how you should be feeling perfectly. I love Standing Bow, because this was the first posture in which I felt how my strength would…
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Take Your Yoga Practice Deeper: What I’m Working on This Year to Deepen My Own Practice
This year I’ve been reading the book Mediations From the Mat. It is a 365 day journey to help you understand Patañjali’s yoga sutras. I’m kind of cheating in that I started the book in Nov and only on day 50, but as the new year catches up with my reading I’m slowly syncing my…
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Yoga For Athletes: 6 Reasons Why You Should Do Yoga to Enhance your Athletic Preformance
One of my favorite viral images was this one to the right that started getting passed around about a year ago. “I can’t do yoga because I’m not flexible enough.”-The Many Athletes out there not doing yoga. Athletes can do amazing physical feats but it’s so funny how often they shy away from the things…
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8 Ways to Get Outside and Use Summer for Your Health Benefit
Summer has arrived. Here in Tennessee, the heat is in full swing and I’ve noticed all my friends around the country have begun posting pictures of their adventures in the sun. Hop on the summer train and join in the fun with these 8 ways to get outside and use summer for your health benefit!…
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4 Tips to Improving Your Eagle Pose Garurasana
Eagle Pose Garurasana is the first twist in the bikram yoga series. By the time you get to this pose, you should be sweating! In Eagle Pose Garurasana you cut off blood flow to the right side of the body and then the left. It is the first time in class that you begin to…
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4 Tips to Improving your Padahastasana or Hands to Feet Pose
Padahastasana or Hands to Feet pose is one of my favorite postures! It is the first time in class your shoulders get a break, if you don’t have proper posture, we suggest to check this review! By the time I am coming up arms and head together from Hands to Feet pose, I feel like…
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Awkward Pose
[leadplayer_vid id=”511BE7BD2E586″] Awkward Pose is a crucial part to warming up the body in the Bikram yoga series. Stand alone, it is a posture that tones the legs, arms, and core. The posture helps realign the body improving and preventing many painful conditions. The posture only works though if you set it up correctly. Here…