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Why you should be careful with an inverted pose in Yoga
While it certainly has some benefits, it is unnatural for your body to be inverted. Inverted poses in Yoga require a lot of strength and flexibility because it can place a lot of strain on your spine, joints and muscles. This is why there are more serious safety risks associated…
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Why is child’s pose so relaxing?
Child’s Pose, or Balasana, is a beginner yoga pose that stretches the muscles of the lower back and inner thighs. It promotes flexibility, relieves stress and helps circulation to the muscles, joints and spine. Because it is such an easy and relaxing pose, the child’s pose is often used as…
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What are the eight limbs of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras?
Yoga teaches us to unite our body, mind and spirit. While it does sound like a very personal thing, it also involves the world and people around you. The Ashtanga Yoga System, which is more commonly known as the eight limbs of yoga, provides guidelines on how to live a…
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What are inverted poses in Yoga?
An inverted pose is when your hips and heart are higher than your head. In other words, you are upside down. Inverted poses often require good core, shoulder and arm strength to avoid injury. With some poses, inversion is a lot more obvious, like the handstand. However, many of the…
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What is the Bhagavad Gita in Yoga?
‘Bhagavad Gita’ means the Song of the Absolute. It is a conversation between ordinary living beings, like us, and higher spiritual beings. In the conversation, living beings pose questions, which the spiritual being answers. This process describes Yoga in a systematic step-by-step way. It explains that Yoga is about much…
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A Yoga Instructor’s Guide to the Benefits of Yoga
The exercise modality that is Yoga is an art as well as a science. Why do we say this? Well, it is a science, because it offers practical methods for controlling body and mind. In this manner, it makes deep meditation possible. We also say that it is an art…
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How is Yoga modified for pregnant women?
Yoga is a mind and body practice. What’s more, it has a 5 000-year history in ancient Indian philosophy. There are various styles of yoga which combine physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or relaxation. In more recent years, it has become popular as a form of physical exercise. This…
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Yoga 101: Sun Salutations
Sun Salutations – or Surya Namaskar –  is a sequence of exercise that are traditionally performed at sunrise in India.  However, now they are performed at any time of the day and are an ideal warm-up for the start of a Yoga class. The sequence mobilises the entire body. Sun…
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What are Asanas in Yoga?
Postures that are performed during the physical activity of Yoga are called asanas.  These were developed over thousands upon thousands of years. Initially, Yoga practice used meditation, rituals and chanting to enable a connection to the divine. However, in later years and as Yoga became more accessible to the masses,…
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What Is Yoga?
Yoga is one of the most popular forms of exercise around the world. Our favourite celebrities swear by it, glossy magazines rave about it and even our personal trainers at the gym recommend it. But what exactly is it? And should you be doing it? Let’s a take a look……
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What Is Covered In A Yoga Course?
The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word yuj and refers to a group of physical, mental and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. The ancient practice outlined eight limbs of yoga: restraints, observances, postures, breathing, withdrawal of senses, concentration, meditation and absorption. These eight limbs serve…
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What you can Learn from Yoga about Stress Management
In so much of our lives, we’re thinking on a million different planes at once.  This has the result of us not really concentrating on what we’re doing and, sometimes, we don’t do what we’re doing to the best of our ability. Our minds also play out different scenarios in…
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