...h Center who have conducted a study showed that regular yoga practice for at least 30 minutes a week for four or more years can lead to weight loss for obese people in their middle ages. They had looked into the data accumulated from 15,500 men and women in the age group of 45 and 55 years. Studies concluded that individuals of a normal weight who had daily yoga practice sessions gained 3 pounds less than those individuals who did not have regular yoga sessions. The effect of yoga was the...more

Why is Teaching Yoga so Rewarding? Part 2

...l priorities in life and Yoga practice could be compared to a brief vacation in your daily life.

Being able to reconnect your spiritual side is a part of Yoga practice. Regardless of your religion, you will gradually gravitate back toward your roots. You do not have to look outside your religion for answers. The answers to life, and the divine, are within the religion you were brought up with. Yoga is a tool to improve your spiritual health. Yoga does not discriminate and does not condone intolerance.

All Yoga teachers will pursue the path of self-improvement. It may start as pursuit of physical prowess at first, but will end up be...more

Yoga in Practice - Solutions for Negativity

... a Yoga class finds themselves immersed in optimism. complete immersion in positive energy, and optimism, is hard to resist.

Some Yoga students often have histories of comebacks. These Yoga students have survived physical and mental hardships, when many people gave up on them. Without trying, the survivors in life become role models for all of us. Their will to survive is founded on a positive attitude.

On the other hand, a p...more

For Depression Treatment, There is a Helping Hand in Yoga

...the use of several Yoga poses, there are some specific standouts.

1. The Sun Salutations:

The sun exercises stimulates and balances all systems of the body including the endocrine and nervous systems that have marked effects on our emotions, furthermore they induce deep breathing, which has been known over the ages to help alleviate many a stressful situation. Although they are usually a warm up to other Yoga poses, they can stand on their own as a Yoga session so you may not have to spend too much time to reap Yogas benefits as an alternative treatment for depression.

2. The shoulder- Stand:

In spite of what its name may suggest, this pose is indeed very easy to execute and is the one pose that both old and new Yoga Instructors and writers view as near panacea for most human ailm...more

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