Tag: bikram yoga
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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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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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Fitness Lessons You Can Learn from a Traveling Bikram Yoga Instructor/Personal Trainer
I’ve officially been in the road now for over a week now. So far my quest to maintain a healthy fit lifestyle is working out pretty well. I’ve gone on some awesome runs. I’ve run around the Marina with views of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. I’ve run along rolling hills of vineyards…
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4 Reasons You Should Do A 30 Day Challenge
Spring has finally arrived–which means summer is just around the corner. It is time to up the workout ante! Challenge yourself to complete a 30 Day Challenge. Your challenge can be whatever you want. You can do the 30 Day Squat Challenge which should only take 2-5 minutes out of your day. You can challenge…
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To Sit or Not to Sit? What Sitting in Bikram Yoga Says About You
Ok, you are no longer a beginner to this yoga thing. Or, maybe you are, but you struggle every day to continue pushing through every posture. My question to you is, “Why are you struggling?” The second you begin to struggle, you are forgetting the first step of every posture, which is normal breathing.…
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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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Why Try Yoga? Yoga Can Challenge and Benefit Anyone!
Most people equate yoga with a stretching class. Seeing the stereotypical tall and slender woman walking with her yoga mat might not necessarily get your butt to a yoga class. Seeing a husband and wife come to class with their high school football star son on Saturday might stir some curiosity. Seeing the neighbor down…
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6 Tips to Improving your Half Moon Pose
Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon Pose) A major component to yoga is opening up the body. Half Moon Pose Begins this process. Half Moon Pose uses opposing muscle groups to open up and stretch the front, back, right side, and left side of the body. [leadplayer_vid id=”512E64014F980″] Half Moon Pose is an energizing pose that prepares you for…
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Yoga for Athletes: Don’t be the Dumb Jock
We have all heard the term dumb jock. A dumb jock is a meat head, muscle head, fine tuned athletic machine but not necessarily someone you think uses their brain. This is actually the furthest from the truth. Athletes actually use their brain for every movement they perform. Every physical task requires a complex system…