tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55608666180976893632024-02-20T07:07:29.531-08:00YogaYoga Excercises, Cure, Chakra, Equipment, all about YOGAbuitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-13668900028554978452012-05-20T03:28:00.000-07:002012-05-20T03:28:04.459-07:00Yoga for AsthmaBy way of <b>yoga</b> breathing exercises can help people with mild asthma and may help reduce the use of low-dose inhalers in wheezing attacks.<br /><br />This has been evidenced from research Respiratory Medicine Unit, City University, Nottingham, calls for more studies of ways to improve the control of breathing which they say has been ignored by Western medicine.<br /><br />While <b>yoga</b> practitioners have long believed in the benefits of pranayama breathing exercises for asthma sufferers, it is difficult to learn formally. But, using a Pink City lung - a device that sets the breathing slow and users can mimic pranayama breathing exercises - it is possible to measure the effects of controlled breathing in hospital trials.<br />
<a name='more'></a>Two simulated pranayama exercises were tested: slow deep breathing and breathing out for twice as long to breathe in.<br /><br />In asthma, the airways become restricted making breathing difficult. It is increasing in the UK, with more than three million children and adults are affected, and was responsible for 2,000 deaths each year.<br /><br />The doctor uses a standard clinical test for measuring the volume of patients were able to blow air in one second and to test their airway irritability. After <b>yoga</b>, air ducts twice as irritability,<br /><br />Although people with asthma should not stop their medication, they will have to experiment with breathing exercises<br />buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-54549400600681602542012-05-20T03:25:00.004-07:002012-05-20T03:25:57.167-07:00Seven Chakras<u><b>Seven Chakras</b></u><br /><br /><b>Chakra</b> comes from Sanskrit word meaning wheel spinning. It is a system of seven energy centers located along the spine. Chakra respectively correspond to the areas of the body, there are behavioral characteristics and stages of spiritual growth. Practicing yoga and focusing your energies during different postures can help you to align your chakras and get all the wheels spinning in the same direction and speed. Understanding how to fine tune and control your chakras through yoga and meditation can help bring balance and peace of mind, body and soul.<br /><br />In our body there are <b>seven chakra</b>s, each chakra is associated with different body parts along the spine from the perineum to the crown of your head. Each chakra is associated with a particular body site, color, emotional / behavioral center, as well as many other personal aspects including identity, purpose, rights, etc.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />The seven chakras are: Muladhara-base of the spine; Svadhisthana-belly, genitals, lower back / hip; Manipura, the solar plexus; Anahata, the heart of the area; Visshudha-throat; Ajna-brow; Sahasrara-top head, the cerebral cortex.<br /><br />Through movement and <b>yoga postures</b>, you can learn to focus concentration and energy to and from the various chakras in your body. This can allow you to compensate for areas that may not be in tune with the rest of your body or not active at all. With the seven chakra energy balancing, balance can be achieved. This spiritual energy known as Kundalini energy. In its dormant state, can be visualized as a coiled up snake resting at the base of the spine, Muladhara chakra. Because the chakra acts as a valve or pump controls the flow of energy through your system, controlled and purposeful movements such as yoga can be very useful in aligning your chakras in a way that can lead to great benefits to you in a physical and emotional well-being.<br /><br />buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-59979897460378047162012-05-20T03:23:00.006-07:002012-05-20T03:23:52.964-07:00Breathing and RelaxingWith <b>breathing and relaxing</b> then you can get out of the stress in your life. You can use the breath to relax, rather than stress, your mind and body. <a href="http://yoga-basic-equipment.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Yoga</b></a> helps you to relearn that natural state of body and mind want to be in: relaxation.<br /><br />In a good breathing will calm and energy. The energy you feel from a few minutes to breathe the liver was not nervous or hyper, but that energy, steady calm that we all need. Breathing slow, steady, and give a message to calm the nervous system: Be calm.<br /><br />Entire books have been written on <b>yoga breathing</b>. Here is one of the 5-minute Breath Break. (Read the instructions several times before you try to practice.)<br />
<a name='more'></a>A. Sit with your spine as straight as possible. Use a chair if necessary but do not degenerate into it. Flat on the floor with your knees directly above the center of the foot. Use a book or pillow under your feet if they do not rest comfortably on the floor. Hands are at the top of your foot.<br /><br />2. Close your eyes gently and let them rest behind closed lids.<br /><br />3. Think about your ribs, on the front, rear, and on the side of your body. Your lungs are behind those ribs.<br /><br />4. Feel your lungs fill up, your ribs expanding out and up. Feel the lungs emptying, your ribs coming back down and in. Do not push the breath.<br /><br />5. Some times you do this, do it for 2 to 3 minutes, then do so up to 5 to 10 minutes. At first, set aside time at least once a day to do this. When you learn how good it makes you feel, you'll want to do it at other times as well.<br /><br />Just as one stressful situation into the next challenge, relaxing for a few minutes every day gradually brought into the rest of your daily life and activities.<br />buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-4739512190513696822010-02-07T00:01:00.000-08:002010-02-07T00:04:06.264-08:00Beginners’ Yoga Video Offers Good InstructionTrying to find well-produced fitness videos that are truly suitable for beginners can be a daunting challenge.<br /><br />Most tapes these days aim at intermediate exercisers, the ones who know a grapevine from a box step and a lateral raise from a biceps curl. These tapes may offer a few easier moves here and there, but the instruction clearly is geared to people who already know what to do.<br /><br />The few tapes that are marketed for beginners often are unspeakably repetitive, as if flabby muscles always mean a flabby brain. And too often, they provide no way to add extra challenge or difficulty to the routine, as if beginning exercisers are going to remain beginners forever.<br /><br />It's nice, then, to discover Yoga Zone: Flexibility and Tone, a beginners' tape that offers the depth of instruction and easy pace that true beginners need.<br /><br />The instructor here is Alan Finger, a genial-looking middle-aged man who wears a polo shirt, rolled-up cotton pants and a chin-length bob. His physique is not the standard chiseled form of exercise videos; he looks as if he might carry a few extra pounds around the middle.<br /><br />But he has a lovely voice (with a hint of a brogue) and a calm manner, two essentials for a yoga tape, where relaxation is key.<br /><br />And he has a true gift for instruction, combining the nuts-and-bolts details of positioning with what it feels like to stretch and balance.<br /><br />When he describes how the muscles of the feet ought to rotate through to the little toe, you'll know -- and be able to feel -- just what he's talking about.<br /><br />But each move contains so many of these instructions that it can be a little overwhelming to try to master all of them at once.<br /><br />If you have tried yoga before, you'll recognize some of them -- the down-on-all-fours stretch called the cat, the inverted V that forms the down dog, and the corpse, which requires little more than lying flat on one's back, completely relaxed.<br /><br />In another nod to beginners, Finger also provides true modifications and tips for those who may not be as flexible as they'd like.<br /><br />Finger shows how a folded blanket can be placed under the knees or for better support while performing seated postures. A folded towel also is used for several poses, although Finger doesn't announce that in advance.<br /><br />The 50-minute session ends with stretching and relaxation, set to gentle New Age music that might lull you to sleep.buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-5170798215411807122009-12-12T18:18:00.001-08:002009-12-12T18:18:27.945-08:00Basic Yoga Postures and their Variations1. THE COBRA Do this in easy stages. Lie down, face prone, legs tightly together and stretched back, forehead on the floor. Put your hands, palm down, just under your shoulders. Inhale and raise your head, pressing your neck back, now use your hands to push your trunk up until you are bending in a beautiful arc from your lower spine to the back of your neck. You need go no further than this. However, if you are supple enough, you can now straighten your arms completely, bend the legs at the knees and drop your head back to touch your feet. Even if your head goes nowhere near your feet, drop it back as far as possible and hold the posture with deep breathing. Come out of the posture very slowly, returning to the face prone posture. Relax with your head to one side. Repeat.<br /><br />2. THE BOW This is also an extreme version of the simple bow. It is surprising how many children can do it immediately. Take it, once again, in easy stages. Lie face prone on your mat. If you are very slim have a nice thick, padded mat for this one. Inhale and bend your knees up. Stretch back with your arms and catch hold of your ankles, keeping fingers and thumbs all together on the outside. Inhale and at the same time raise your head and chest, pulling at your ankles and lifting knees and thighs off the floor. Breathe normally, trying to kick up your legs higher and lifting your head up. You are now bent like a bow, balancing the weight of your body on your abdomen. You can stop right here but if you can still stretch further, then slide your hands down your legs, lift them higher, keep the knees together and pull back as much as you can. Hold for a few normal deep breaths, then relax back to the face-prone position, head to one side.<br /><br />3. THE SHOOTING BOW In Sanskrit this is known as Akarna Dhanurasana and one leg is drawn up like a shooting bow. Sit with both legs stretched out in front and back straight. Reach forward with both hands and clasp your feet, catching the right foot with the left hand and the left foot with the right hand. Inhale, bend the left knee and pull the foot across the body, close to your chest, pointing the elbow up and twisting the body slightly to the right. The left hand stays firm and tight, holding the right foot. Hold posture with normal breathing, release slowly, and relax. Repeat on other side. In the beginning it is enough to hold the bent left leg with the right hand. When this is easy, stretch down and hold the left foot with the right hand. Continue to pull on the left foot, lifting it higher on each exhalation.buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-4857671845076819122009-12-12T18:17:00.001-08:002009-12-12T18:17:47.228-08:00Basic Sitting Postures with BenefitsJANU SIRSASANA: Correct foot placement<br /><br />Sit up straight with legs evenly extended in front. Bend the right leg at the knee and place the foot so that the heel is in the right groin and the front of the foot touches the left thigh. Turn the foot so that the bottom of the foot is facing upward and press the knee back to form an obtuse angle with the body. This position will be difficult at first; don't force it. Put a folded blanket under the knee and also under the hips. Gradually the knee will move farther back. Just keep the foot correctly positioned.<br /><br />JANU SIRSASANA: Correct, perfect posture<br /><br />Having positioned the foot and knee correctly, stretch the left leg out, keeping the leg firmly on the mat. Settle the heel firmly and stretch the toes up. (The heel should pull gently away from the ankle.) Now inhale and bend forward over the straight leg, catching the foot with both hands if possible. Beginners should bend only as far as they can without rounding the back. When this posture is done correctly and completely, the body will roll forward over the extended leg, absolutely flat from the tail bone to the head. Stay there breathing normally for as long as you can. Inhale, release the handhold, come up smoothly, straighten the bent leg and relax. Repeat on other side.<br /><br />JANU SIRSASANA: Wrong posture<br /><br />The heel is not positioned against its own thigh. The knee has not been pushed back as far as possible to form an obtuse angle. The back is humped and curved because the pelvis is jammed and unable to lift properly. Instead of a smooth, complete stretching of the spine, the lumbar is over-stretched and the rest of the spine constricted. The left leg is not flat on the floor.<br /><br />TRIANG MUKHAIPADA PASCHIMOTTANASANA: Sitting, forward-bending pose over one leg<br /><br />This posture generally follows the previous one. Sit with your legs stretched in front. Bend the right leg so that the right foot is near the right hip. The toes should point back. The right calf presses against the right thigh. The body will tilt in this position so put a small folded towel under the left buttock to keep the hips level and the forward stretch even and extended. Hold the left foot with both hands, inhale and bend forward, keeping both knees together as you stretch forward over the straight leg. Many students will find it difficult in this position to even take hold of the foot of the outstretched leg. Do not despair. Just hold the knee, shin or ankle, and sit, breathing deeply, in whichever position represents your best extension. If the back is tight and the spine inflexible, this will take time. Release the hold and straighten the bent leg. Repeat on the other side.buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-34287615690475729792009-12-12T18:15:00.002-08:002009-12-12T18:17:04.474-08:00Astanga Vinyasa YogaAstanga, or sometimes spelled ashtanga Yoga is actually taught today by a man named Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, in Mysore, India. He has brought astanga yoga to the west about 25 years ago and still teaches today at 91 years of age. Astanga yoga began with the rediscovery of the ancient manuscript Yoga Korunta. It describes a unique system of Hatha yoga as practiced and created by the ancient sage Vamana Rishi. It is believed to be the original asana practiced intended by Patanjali.<br /><br />The Yoga Korunta emphasizes vinyasa, or breath-synchronized movement, where one practices a posture with specific breathing patterns associated with it. This breathing technique is called ujayyi pranayama, or the victorious breath, and it is a process that produces intense internal heat and a profuse sweat that purifies and detoxifies the muscles and organs. This also releases beneficial hormones and nutrients, and is usually massaged back into the body. The breath ensures efficient circulation of blood. The result is improved circulation, a light and strong body and a calm mind.<br /><br />There is a proper sequence to follow when practicing Astanga yoga. One must graduate from one sequence of postures to move onto the next. The Primary Series (Yoga Chikitsa) detoxifies and aligns the body, purifying it so that toxins do not block. The Intermediate Series (Nadi Shodhana) purifies the nervous system by opening and clearing the energy channels, allowing energy to pass through easily. The Advanced Series A, B, C, and D (Sthira Bhaga) integrate the grace and stamina of the practice, which calls for intense flexibility. <br /><br />It is best to find a trained and knowledgeable teacher to assist you through this discipline. It is an intense practice that is rigorous, six days a week. You are guaranteed to find inner peace and fulfillment with each breath you take.buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-17451668997810484972009-12-12T18:15:00.001-08:002009-12-12T18:15:42.803-08:00Applications in Cancer TreatmentA cure for cancer exists through the use of yoga, a San Antonio, Texas, cancer specialist said during a seminar in Oklahoma City in the 1980s.<br /><br />But physicians refused to acknowledge the cure, said Col. Hansa Raval, M.D., a pathologist with the United States Army. Dr. Raval said her work in cytotechnology _ a diagnostic branch of medicine designed to pinpoint early stages of cancer _ was fruitless until she began researching the use of non-conventional methods of treatment.<br /><br />The specialist said she witnessed the use of Raja yoga and meditation cure crippling arthritis, headaches and even cancer.<br /><br />And even though Raval offers proof, which she said was collected during two years of study at the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University in India, she has been dismissed by other members of the medical profession as a kook.<br /><br />Yoga's success as a treatment method is due to another hypothesis Raval proposes that 98 percent of all cancer is psychosomatic.<br /><br />This is not chanting or mantra reciting, the physician said. It's not based on scriptures. It's not a cult. It's not biofeedback. It's deeper than that. This is a full-proof method of meditation, a detailed understanding of what the soul is.<br /><br />Raval maintains that medical schools belittle the study of non-conventional methods of cancer treatment in favor of conventional methods such as radiation, chemotherapy, and treatment through machines.'<br /><br />Medical schools teach students that the human being is only a body. But the mind has the power to cure the body. By definition, psychosomatic means a combination of mind, or soul and body.<br /><br />The soul creates the disease, but the body suffers. If the psyche creates the disease, the only way to cure it is through the psyche. It's a very simple formula: treating the seed of the problem.<br /><br />Further, studies in parapsychology all point to the treatment of illness through treatment of the soul.<br /><br />The World Spiritual University, which has branches in 30 countries, teaches peace and perfection for health and happiness through the use of Raja yoga. The university gained status as a non-governmental member of the United Nations and has offices at the U.N. building in New York.<br /><br />Raja yoga teaches students to search their soul world for answers on where they came from and why the cancer entered their body. They learn what role religion, stress, family and lifestyle played in the cancer.buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560866618097689363.post-82593169557827716132009-12-12T18:09:00.001-08:002009-12-12T18:13:39.671-08:00An All-Around Yoga Exercise: 12-Step Salute to the SunOne of the all-around yoga exercises is the 12-step salute to the sun. Do it once or twice when you get up in the morning to help relieve stiffness and invigorate the body. Multiple repetitions at night will help you to relax; insomniacs often find that six to 12 rounds help them fall asleep.<br /><br />1. Stand with your feet slightly apart, palms together, thumbs against your chest.<br /><br />2. Inhale deeply while slowly raising your hands over your head, and bend back as far as possible, while tightening your buttocks. Hold for three seconds.<br /><br />3. Slowly exhale and bend forward, keeping your knees straight, until your fingers touch the floor outside your feet. (If you can't touch the floor, go as close as you can.) Bring your head in toward your knees.<br /><br />4. Slowly inhale, bend your knees, and if your fingertips aren't outside your feet on the floor, place them there. Slide your right foot back as far as you can go, with the right knee an inch or so off the floor, (a lunge position). Now look up as high as possible, arching your back.<br /><br />5. Before exhaling again, slide your left foot back until it is beside the right one, and with your weight supported on your palms and toes, straighten both legs so that your body forms a flat plane. Make sure your stomach is pulled in.<br /><br />6. Slowly exhale, bend both knees to the floor, bend with your hips in the air, lower your chest and forehead to the floor.<br /><br />7. Now inhale slowly and look up, bending your head back, then raising it, followed by your upper chest, then lower chest. Your lower body - from the navel down - should be on the floor, and your elbows should be slightly bent. Hold for three to five seconds.<br /><br />8. Exhale slowly and raise your hips until your feet and palms are flat on the floor and your arms and legs are straight in an inverted V position.<br /><br />9. Inhale slowly and bring your right foot forward as in position 4. The foot should be flat on the floor between your fingertips. The left leg should be almost straight behind you, with its knee slightly off the floor. Raise your head, look up, and arch your back.<br /><br />10. Slowly exhale and bring your left foot forward next to your right one. Straighten your legs and stand, trying to keep your fingertips on the floor, and try to touch your head to your knees as in position 3.<br /><br />11. Slowly inhale, raise your arms up and stretch back as in position 2. Don't forget to tighten your buttocks. Hold for three seconds.<br /><br />12. Slowly exhale, lowering your arms to your sides. Relax. Repeat the series.buitenzorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938518809409613145noreply@blogger.com