Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Get a New Lease on Life and Create Peace

...Are you looking for a way to get lean with an easy, indoor routine? Are you looking to get some stretching in after shovelling a lot of snow? Yoga and meditation should be your answer to solve all that ails you in today's world. The meaning of yoga has been lost to mean exercise. In fact, exercise is only one part of yoga. The word yoga means integration. We integrate the body, mind and spirit of our personality into an integrated whole. We present this whole being to the world and operate at a more efficient level.

Imagine performing better at work with very little effort. Yoga can accomplish that. There are many techniques to obtain this integrated sense of self. One of them is to keep the mind with you during your stretches. Don't let your mind drift as you move. Keep your mind always with you. Practicing this process is yoga.

Meditation is also a misused word. It means understanding or measuring the mind's contents. How do we do this? Closing your eyes is one way. However, most of us would probably fal...more

What Should You Look for in a Yoga Teacher Training Correspondence Course?

...g, and assisting, is a good start, but there is much to learn. Some certification courses, for Yoga instructors, focus on physical fitness, only. Yet, the International minimum standard for Yoga teacher training courses is 200 hours.

Please note: This is the minimum number of recommended training hours. There are courses, which easily exceed the 200 hour minimum. Anyone who wants to become a Yoga instructor, should be competent upon successful completion of the course.

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Yoga Tour India

...Yoga seeks to unite the individual soul with the universal Soul or God through a sustained effort to control one's mental and physical faculties. A yoga tour in India therefore, is the ideal way not just to seek the union but also to relax and rejuvenate oneself. Stress and fatigue have become a part of our daily lives and yoga is the best way to chill out and relax. Apart from maintaining body weight and flexibility, yoga increases your energy level and productivity.

Take a yoga tour to one of the destinations in India and bring in the healing secrets of the past into your modern day lives. A...more

Yoga Brings Relief For Irritable Bowel Syndrome Sufferers

... relief and balance in your body. Through the different movements, your digestive system will begin to relax more.

Further, as yoga will also help you concentrate on your breathing, this too will help the nerves to your gut to relax. Eventually, this may also relieve stress to your bowel.

Yoga is one of several physical methods that you can use to minimize the problems with IBS. By understanding how yoga works and what it does for your body, you can help to relieve several problems that are related to your IBS. This, along with considering dietary changes can help to control and improve your IBS conditions.

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