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Why Yoga is a Good Revenue Stream for a Martial Arts Studio

...e agencies. Will your town zone you differently and classify you as a child day care center?

Maybe you have a summer camp right now, and have vowed never to do it again. Which parents are late in paying their tuition? What is your third party billing agency doing about it?

Have you ever noticed the worst paying parents are usually the same ones who want everything for nothing? Are you starting to feel more like you are being taken advantage of? Do parents really see the value in martial arts, or is it cheap day care to most of them?

Lets face it, child day care is not why most skilled Black Belt instructors open a martial arts center, but you need another revenue stream to survive the summer.

There is another way to draw a crowd of adults to class o...more

Yoga Can Enhance Your Exercise Program and Your Life

...nger in yoga than they would on an exercise machine. With yoga, your muscles are oxygenated, too.

Yoga also makes you much more flexible, and flexibility means you wont be as sore as you might normally be during your workouts. And sore, stiff muscles can make for a very unproductive workout. It is good to do yoga regularly to keep your flexibility so that you can get the most out of your routine.

With yoga, you will also learn how to breathe properly during exercise, sports, and once this skill is mastered, it can improve how relaxed and good you feel in everyday life. As I mentioned, it is good to practice yoga on a regular basis so that you can start experiencing its benefits in your everyday life, and to master the skills involved in yoga.

Yoga not only helps out your exercise routine, it can also drastically improve your overall well-being. It has been known ...more

Teaching Hatha Yoga: Designing a Lesson Plan - Part 1

... less friction than joints are exposed to by many other exercise methods.

A Vinyasa style Yoga class will not hold postures for long, but Vinyasa classes are aerobic, while enhancing muscle tone and flexibility. Some vinyasa Yoga enthusiasts insist vinyasa is the ultimate cross training method.

To be honest, most of the vinyasa students I teach are, on average, a generation younger than my Restorative Yoga students, and my chair Yoga students are a generation older than my Restorative Yoga students. Therefore, the type of Yoga sequencing should address the health conditions of your students.

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Yoga For kids

...n their visualized surroundings. Ask them also to share what place have they imagined they where in.

Another approach is to create a guided imagination by telling them a story with a calming theme of some sort.

As you know children have the most active imagination, they imagine all sorts of things. And at this point of imagination it makes them feel calm. So when doing yoga for kids let them think that they are walking on a green pasture.

You can even let them think that they are butterflies in a beautiful garden. The main idea in here is to instill a sense of peace and feeling of oneness with nature.

Yoga for kids should be taught more often and in different places. It is important to teach children the meaning of union of mind, body and spirit.

There is such a wealth of knowledge that we can offer to our children with the practice of Yoga.

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