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The many healing benefits of Yoga

It can be used to reduce the negative effects of infertility, high blood pressure, lung disease, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis, insomnia, and joint pain. The beneficial effects of yoga exercises are well documented not only by the yoga community but also by medical doctors.

One of the main elements that can lead to an illness is stress. Being responsible for a huge number of sicknesses, this item, which we develop in our minds, can be reduced through a good usage of yoga techniques. Here are just a few of the problems that are related to an over active stress response: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, reproductive problems, some types of diabetes mellitus, cardio-vascular disease, several autoimmune diseases, and an aggravated suppression of the immune system.

Read the full article about Yoga’s healing powers on the main site.

Yoga and fear

Diane Cesa on Yoga and fear management:

The Fear of Getting What You Want and a Fear of Falling
I’m in the process of finalizing my yoga therapy training plans and I’m feeling a bizarre mixture if fear, excitement, and elation. I’ll be attending a 5-day yoga therapy training in NYC at the end of April, and I’m quite happy about it. I did a lot of research and went through some great pains to find the right program. Many of them are out of state and scheduling can be a bit of a nightmare. Yet, here I am - signed up for a wonderful program that starts very soon. Why do I feel so scared?

A few years after regularly practicing yoga, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. I also knew that becoming a yoga teacher was only the first step in my journey. What really interests me is the healing effect of yoga. That’s why I have decided to pursue yoga therapy. By the fall, my yoga therapy training will be complete. That prospect both thrills and terrifies me.

The thought of getting what I’ve wanted all of these years is a bit scary. After all, what if I don’t like it? What if my new career ceases to be a passion and simply becomes work? What if I decide I want to do something different - does that mean I’ve wasted time and money on this training? All of those worries - over a good thing. Amazing! I think the better question to ask is so what? After all, what if none of those things happen? Perhaps it’s time to stop fretting about what will be and just let things be.

This experience of yoga teacher and therapist training has been quite enlightening for me. I’ve learned a lot about myself. I find that I am one of those people who feels like she has to know everything before she can help others. Of course that belief is only a myth. What better way to learn than through teaching? I learn something new from my yoga students (and my yoga teachers) every day. No amount of training will put a stop to the learning process. Learning is ongoing. My yoga training may only last for a year or two, but I will remain a student of yoga and yoga therapy for the rest of my life.”


Yoga has many benefits

If you’re seriously interested in knowing about yoga, you need to think beyond the basics. This informative article takes a closer look at things you need to know about yoga.

Yoga through meditation works remarkably to achieve harmony and helps the mind work in synchronization with the body. How often do we find that we are unable to perform our activities properly and in a satisfying manner because of the confusions and conflicts in our mind weigh down heavily upon us?

Stress is the number one suspect affecting all parts of our physical, endocrinal and emotional system. And with the help of yoga this things can be corrected.

At the physical level, yoga and its cleansing practices have proven to be extremely effective for various disorders.

Listed below are just some of the benefits of yoga that you can get.

Benefits of Yoga 1: Yoga is known to increase flexibility; yoga has postures that trigger the different joints of the body. Including those joints that are not acted upon with regular exercises routines.

Benefits of Yoga 2: Yoga also increases the lubrication of joints, ligament and tendons. The well-researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body.

It has also been found that the body which may have started doing yoga being a rigid one may experience a quite remarkable flexibility in the end on those parts of the body which have not been consciously worked upon.

Benefits of Yoga 3: yoga also massages all organs of the body. Yoga is perhaps the only exercise that can work on through your internal organs in a thorough manner, including those that hardly get externally stimulated during our entire lifetime.

Benefits of Yoga 4: Yoga acts in a wholesome manner on the various body parts. This stimulation and massage of the organs in turn benefits us by keeping away disease and providing a forewarning at the first possible instance of a likely onset of disease or disorder.

The more authentic information about yoga you know, the more likely people are to consider you a yoga expert. Read on for even more yoga facts that you can share. One of the far-reaching benefits of yoga is the uncanny sense of awareness that it develops in the practitioner of an impending health disorder or infection. This in turn enables the person to take pre-emptive corrective action.

Benefits of Yoga 5: yoga offers a complete detoxification of the body. It gently stretches the muscles and joints as we;; as massaging the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body.

This helps in the flushing out of toxins from every nook and cranny of your body as well as providing nourishment up to the last point. This leads to benefits such as delayed ageing, energy and a remarkable zest for life.

Benefits of Yoga 6: yoga is also an excellent way to tone your muscles. Muscles which have been flaccid and weak are stimulated repeatedly to shed excess fats and flaccidity.

But these enormous physical benefits are just a “side effect” of this powerful practice. What yoga does is harmonize the mind with the body and these results in real quantum benefits.

It is now an open secret that the will of the mind has enabled people to achieve extraordinary physical feats, which proves beyond doubt the mind and body connection.

In fact yoga = meditation, because both work together in achieving the common goal of unity of mind, body and spirit which can lead to an experience of eternal bliss that you can only feel through yoga.

The meditative practices through yoga help in achieving an emotional balance through detachment.

This in turn creates a remarkable calmness and a positive outlook, which also has tremendous benefits on the physical health of the body.

There’s a lot to understand about yoga. We were able to provide you with some of the facts above, but there is still plenty more to write about in subsequent articles.

Re: vata time

wendy


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I thinking knowing when NOT to practice is easier to start with. I know for me, also a vata, that I crash around 1-4 every day and then get my energy back at night (I have lots of kapha too). I also have more energy in the amrit morning hours between 4-6am. This always freaks people out…but it is truly the best time of day for our practice for many reasons.

Peace!

Re: coffee’s bad for vata

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I am going to touch on just a few things that have been mentioned in the above posts. As far as how coffee truly effects me. I went off of coffee quite some time back. If I have a cup of regular coffee now….my heart races, I get very nervouse, my stomach begins to churn, and it is even difficult for me to consentrate. I am a vata. You can only truly say 1 cup is ok…if you test it. We all know that caffine tolerance can bulild up a not so true reaction. If you drink it everyday, then you are use to it, so then it doesn’t bother you unless you had more than what you are use to. But if we were to all give up coffee, then one day drink a cup…that is a more accurate test to how our bodies are affected by it. I drink Kafix (a macrobiotical coffee substitute that you can even order bulk from the company itself if you dont have a local store that carries it). Decaf heral teas were great suggestions, and you can even try cinnomon milk (or even add the other spices in that were suggested in the above posts). These spices can stimulate us without aggrevating our balance.

ps. But a peice of organic dark chocolate is healthier and has less caffine…again…test yourself after a few weeks of depriving your body of any item. It will give you a more accurate indicator…

morning cheers!


Re: ashtanga yoga and vata

wendy


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I am also a vata and practice ashtanga. I have discovered the same thing about myself. I too take it at a slower pace, even skip some of the vinyasas at times, and take breaks from the practice. When I come back to it I feel even stronger and more energized. Maintaining breath control is key for us so that we dont aggrevate “wind” in the body. Like Richard, I also have a large dose of Kapha, which makes it even more challenging I think, since vata and kapha work against each other often. The Ashtanga is good for my kapha indeed.


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looking for Shaktism / Tantra links , India & elsewhere

Somaadi


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looking for Shakti / Devi / Shakta Tantra information & contacts

Pranams , Jai Mataji !

Namaskar . blessed sadhakas , here is a Goddess devotee , my spiritual name is Somaadi ,

am a bhakta shakta sadhu , i will travel soon to India

and am looking for some information which i could not find

elsewhere , such as :

anything related to Shakti sadhana , pooja , ashrams , maths , orders ,

genuine teachers and sadhus , temples , maths , places of worship , especially in the nature etc … also , anything else related with Shakti sadhana / Goddess worship in east and west ( mainly India & Asia , but also any other places , in England for example , anything of dianic orientation and other Divine Feminine links ) .

also , i would be happy to exchange and connect with

serious students , practicants and masters of

Shaktism and devotional Tantra ,

who are totally devoted to Maha Devi .

especially , i would like to know what exactly are the

similarities and differences between the main Shakta schools ,

such as Dakshinachara , Samayachara , Kaula , Sri Vidya .

very interested in exchange on this .

please help me in any way , if you wish .

many thanks , blessings and best wishes , brother Somaadi , eternally HER servant

OM SHAKTI ——— OM TAT SAT

personally at : ambaji_777@hotmail.com

Re: Somas

John…


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What’s the title of Flatterly’s book?


Re: The beauty of 3HO

kudrat


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“He wanted us to be autonomous in the end.”

Is not something called Prabupati the only relevant end for aspirant yogis???

Kudrat Singh

Re: The beauty of 3HO

kudrat


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“Yogi Bhajan was a very direct and kind teacher, that was my direct expierence. ”

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“There is nothing you can do for me and there is nothing I can do for you. We are bound by duty” YB

“There are people, they think it’s an election” YB

and in 1999 In Anandpur Sahib for the three hundred anniversary of the foudation of the Order :

“We have been called like three hundred years ago, to stop the tragedy” YB

Kudrat Singh

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