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...The ancient art of Yoga is a useful way of staying at the peak of health. It is an ancient art of staying fit, both physically and mentally. The yoga benefits are widespread and they are being discovered even today. The benefits include physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, good mental health and natural healing.

For obese people Yoga is specifically beneficial. Specific yoga poses are available not only for losing weight but also losing weight from specific areas, e.g. the waist or thigh or abdominal areas. Yoga helps tone toning of muscles and obtaining flexibility. Yoga helps to shed excess fat through burning calories, improving metabolism, and encouraging a healthy lifestyle. The benefits may not be instantly visible, but it is an excellent long-term approach to losing excess fat and maintaining it. Along with it Yoga creates many other positive changes; it improves self-esteem, increases mental clarity, reduces stress, and improves flexibility and increases strength and balance.

To compliment the physical exercises it is important that healthy eating habits are developed. A healthy diet is...more

Discover Yoga's Healing power

... aggravated suppression of the immune system.

The response of the sympathetic nervous system can trigger stress in our metabolism. The reaction to various outside stimuli is also known as the fight or flight response the mind and body, faced with an endangering or disturbing element, prepare for one of the two options. Physically, this is manifested through an instantaneous heart rate increase, together with a high ascent of blood pressure. Breathing gets shallow and the muscles tense in anticipation to the following action. Internally, this response reduces the blood flow to internal organs and processes that are not essential in that particular moment (such as digestion and elimination) are shut down. This state of increased awareness and readiness is beneficial on a short term, preparing our body to react to the outside interventions and stimuli. Both in...more

Teaching Yoga for Stress Management - Identify the Cause

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Therefore, stress overload can potentially become a violent situation, and the cause should be identified, before it is too late. One way to have students track the situations, which cause them stress, is to have them carry a pocket diary. This may seem to be a useless exercise, at first, but a diary is a great way to track stress triggers in daily life.

Once the cause of a stressful internal conflict is identified, it is much easier for someone to find reasonable solutions. There are many forms of therapy for stress. Yoga is just one of them, but Yoga can work in conjunction with all of them.

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Kundalini Yoga

...Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of prana. Prana is the life energy we have within. In kundalini Yoga a seeker aspires to harness this tremendous power through concentration and meditation. kundalini Yoga is also known as the power of the Mother aspect of the Divine.

To practise kundalini yoga we need to take the greatest care, it is advisable to always practise kundalini yoga under the guidance of a spiritual teacher. The powers of kundalini yoga can easily be misused causing problems for the seeker.

sri Chinmoy says:

If the spiritual centres muladhara, svadhisthana and manipura are opened untimely, without full preparation, they can create untold misery for the seeker.

For this reason Sri Chinmoy advises concentration on the heart centre (anahata) It is here that a seeker can enjoy oneness ...more