...Yoga has been around for thousands of years, and though its origins are still unclear, it appears to have originated in ancient India or ancient Egypt. Yoga involves a series of poses and stretches within a holistic mindset and concentration that yields spiritual, physical, mental, emotional and health benefits. The art and science of yoga, is almost like a meditation itself, the more you practice it, the more you feel it's enlightening and transforming effects. It rewards and develops both the inner and outer you like the nurturing of a good parent.

The health Benefits of Yoga

The health benefits attributed to the practice of yoga has been well documented. For example, yoga improves the immune system and circulation, controls anxiety, asthma, multiple sclerosis, headaches, blood ...more

The Many Faces of Yoga

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Yoga For Shoulder Pain - 3

...ne day while you're doing a hard yoga pose, with humeri retracted, the pain in your shoulders leaves you for good.

Ask anyone who's had it and they will tell you about their misery--in vivid, excruciating detail. Someone with rotator cuff pain will point to the front of his shoulder when you ask where it hurts. Your own natural healing energy begins to flow through the shoulder girdle. Then pain goes away as the the tendons are healed and inflammation goes down.

When deciding on exercise and/or yoga poses for your frozen shoulder, one way to think about what will work i...more

Asana - Yoga Poses Or Something Else? Find Out!

... its purposes are different and the methods of executing it are different. This is why, in Yga, we do not need many things that are fundamental in Physical Education like, for example, muscular warm ups. In ancient Yga, we do not use this before executing sanas. For those who are interested in a comparative study of Yoga and Physical Education and their distinctions, we will recommend one of our books (Everything About Yga) so as not to repeat an explanation that has already been published elsewhere.

In order to economize on words, people tend to refer to asanas exclusively through a corporal prism. Yet, any technique does not deserve the name asana unl...more

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