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...By now most of us knows the benefits of yoga. We know that it is one of the top exercises for our body, our soul and our mind. It can help us to stay fit and lean. It can also help us in learning how to manage stress and relaxing our body. But do you know that there are many different forms of yoga? One form that is gaining popularity and attention is ballet booty yoga.

Ballet Booty Yoga is the creation of two expert yoga instructors: Gillianm Marloth and Teigh McDonough. This new form of yoga was not developed by them over night. In fact, it took them many years of study and experimentation to come up with the final results to this new form of yoga.

The two instructors, of course, began studying the wonderful movements that goes along with the dance known as ballet. In ballet, there are many refined movements that the dancers have to make and hold. These synchronized movements not only make for a beautiful dance over time they make the dancers body, lean and tone, as well. By incorporating some of these movements along with the mo...more

Yoga For Healthy Life

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Research proved that regular practice of yoga position, breathing techniques has many benefits like weight reduction, blood pressure normalize, immune power increase, increase of concentration, increase flexibility of body, detoxification of body system. Scientific experiement proved that yoga and breathing exercise releive stress, tension and calm the body. breathing exercise is the most effective exercise to control the asthama, depression and cool the nervous system

For Depression Treatment, There is a Helping Hand in Yoga

...l, first of all, with Yoga and its gentle movements and poses, Alpha waves (relaxation) and Theta waves (unconscious memory, dreams and emotions) tend to increase significantly after its execution.

Moreover, after its use, alpha waves increases in the right temporal region of the brain as other studies have shown that people with depression tend to have more alpha activity in the left frontal-temporal region, while optimistic, extroverted people have more alpha activity on the right.

Perhaps a simpler illustration of how Yoga works effectively for depression treatment may be that it exercises the motor centers of the brain, making the blood flow away from the emotional activity center; consequently one becomes more receptive to positive thoughts.

Although this can be accomplished by ...more

Paths of Yoga I

...singing of His glories), Smarana (remembrance of His name and presence), Padasevana (service of His feet), Archana (worship of God), Vandana (prostration to Lord), Dasya (cultivating the bhava of a servant with God), Sakhya (cultivation of the friend-Bhava) and Atmanivedana (complete surrender of the self). The nine modes of Bhakti are the ways in which a devotee attains the Supreme Ideal of life. A devotee can take up any of these paths and reach the highest state. The path of Bhakti is the easiest of all and is not very much against the nature of human inclinations.

Karma Yoga focuses on the adherence to duty (dharma) while remaining detached from the reward. Karma means to do, action, including those acts done by the individual from birth to death. "Karma Yoga is the selfless devotion of all inner as well as the outer activities as a Sacrifice to the Lord of all works, offered to the eternal as Master of all the souls energies and austerities," the Bhagavad Gita says. Following the practice of Karma yoga, an individual becomes true spiritual seeker and realizes his true nature as Atman and he lives in this world, works for this world and still stays untouched from the grossness of the mundane pleasures, thus doing immense good to the society while on his path to salvation and spiritual freedom.

The Swami Sivananda Yoga Venanda Center sums up karma yoga into five actions:

Right Attitude Its not what you do that counts, its the attitude while doing it that determines if a job is a karma yoga...more