Benefits of Yoga for Your Health
Yoga offers a multitude of benefits that can significantly enhance both your physical and mental well-being. Here are some of the key health benefits of practicing yoga regularly:
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Oct
Tag Archives: Yoga
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Oct
Yoga: The Balance of Body, Mind, and Spirit
Yoga is a profound practice that integrates physical, mental, and spiritual elements to foster holistic well-being. Here’s an in-depth look at how yoga connects and enhances each aspect of your being:
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Aug
Why You Should Do Yoga: The Life-Changing Benefits for Your Body and Mind
In today’s fast-paced world, it can be easy to lose touch with ourselves—mentally, physically, and emotionally. We get caught up in our daily routines, work pressures, and endless responsibilities. All this can lead to stress, anxiety, lack of physical movement, and even serious health issues. This is where yoga comes in as a simple yet incredibly effective solution. In this article, we’ll explore why yoga has become a popular practice for millions of people around the world and how it can transform your life.
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Aug
Yoga Asana: A Path to Transform Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Yoga Asana: A Path to Transform Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Yoga has been around for thousands of years, but its power to transform lives is just as relevant today. At the heart of yoga are asanas—physical postures that not only stretch and strengthen your body but also help calm your mind and connect you with your deeper self. Whether you’re new to yoga or a regular practitioner, yoga asanas can offer you a wide range of benefits that improve both your physical and emotional well-being.
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Jun
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
Parkinson’s Disease is a long-term (chronic) and progressive neurodegenerative disorder primarily affecting the motor system. It leads to difficulty in movement and other physical activities due to the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain.
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Feb
Yoga and Hypertension
Hypertension is also called “High Blood Pressure” is a serious medical condition. It happens when the force of blood pumping through your arteries is too strong.
When your heart beats, it pushes blood through your arteries to the rest of your body, when the blood pushes harder against the walls of your arteries, your blood pressure goes up. Your blood pressure may be different at different times of the day. It is usually higher when you first wake up, after you exercise or when you are under stress.
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Jul
Sheetali Pranayama
Sheetal means ‘that which is calm, cool and soothing’
- Relax your mind and body in any meditative posture
- Keep your upper body straight and erect.
- Extend the tongue outside the mouth as far as possible without strain and curl the sides of the tongue up so that it forms a tube.
- After short exhalation start inhaling from the mouth, through the
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Jul
Parvatasana or Mountain Pose
Parvatasana or the Mountain Pose is a basic asana in yoga. Parvata stands for Mountain while aasana refers to Posture. Just like the name, this aasana gives benefits like a mountain – strong and stable. It helps to stretch the entire upper body muscles. Mountain pose also helps in curing a couple of digestion problems like acidity and indigestion. And it can be performed by everyone except for those suffering from a knee issue.
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Jul
Mitahara (Moderate or Balanced Diet)
Mitahara (Moderate or Balanced Diet)
Diet plays a very important role in the entire scheme of Yoga. Almost all the texts of Hatha Yoga Tradition invariably talk about food a great deal and recommend having the correct kind of food, if one has to succeed in the practice of Yoga.
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Jul
Halasana (Plow pose)
Halasana is also known as the Plow pose.
The name comes from the Sanskrit words hala meaning “plough” and asana meaning “posture”.
Halasana, the pose is entered from Sarvangasana (shoulder stand), lowering the back slightly for balance, and moving the arms and legs over the head until the outstretched toes touch the ground and the fingertips, in a preparatory variant of the pose. The arms may then be moved to support the back into a more vertical position, giving a second variant pose. Finally, the arms may be stretched out on the ground away from the feet, giving the final pose in the shape of a traditional plough.
