Monday, August 18, 2008
Yoga Instructor Training - Yoga For Cancer Recovery
...Yoga cannot replace the medical treatment that cancer survivors must experience. However, gentle, restorative yoga speeds the recovery process and provides therapeutic healing to a ravaged body.
Cancer does not discriminate, and strikes young and old with impunity. The good thing about yoga is that it offers an appropriate therapy, exercise program, and even life path, for anyone young, old, or in between. The benefits go far beyond improved flexibility and relaxation. Yoga sets cancer survivors on the road to healing, with a life-centered focus and a real way to cope.
Health care facilities, around the world, are now incorporating yoga therapy into their cancer recovery centers. Medical professionals are beg...more
Getting Started with Yoga Quickly And Easily
... crucial in yoga.
Although it's possible to practice yoga anywhere, without needing a specially designed place, it's still important to choose a location as far from annoying distractions as you can make it. So avoid, TV, radio and street noise if you possibly can. It's also good for the area to be clean, quite, and well ventilated if that's possible. Most yoga practitioners use a blanket when practicing yoga, as there are many sitting or lying positions involved in performing the exercises and meditation, but you can easily use a towel or a mat if that's easier for you.
When it comes to choosing what to wear, it's important that you choose clothing that is loose and very comfortable. Perhaps a training suit, sweat pants and a t-shirt, shorts, or even loose pajam...more
5 Important Yoga Tips For Everyone
...Tip #1: Why are you practicing Yoga?
The first step is to figure out why you want to practice Yoga. What are your goals? Do you want to practice Yoga daily, weekly or bi-weekly? Does your schedule allow for a few minutes everyday, or you can take a 2 hour class once a week? Are you completely clear about your purpose for doing Yoga? Answers to these questions will help you determine what style of Yoga would best fulfill your goals. There are many styles to choose from and many types of teachers to learn from. Yoga studios and fitness gyms offer a variety of classes to fit your unique needs.
Tip #2: Talk to your doctor or other competent medical professional
This is probably, the most important step for you to take before starting any Yoga program. As with any exercise program, including Yoga, the advice of a professional is important for your safety. Yoga can be enjoyed by the vast majority of people provided they are aware of the limits of their capabilities. M...more
Maybe Bikram is Right?
...ont sell cheesecake, you know that. The fact is anyone who visits a Bikram style Yoga class knows what they are getting into. How could you miss 105 degrees Fahrenheit?
More to the point, America is a country of extremes and there are estimates that only 10% of the population exercises regularly. While, another 35% of the population, drift in, and out, of exercise, depending upon the season, a fad, or a whim.
The remaining 55%, of Americas population, have taken a pledge to avoid exercise at all costs. Maybe the couch potatoes can only grasp th...more
