1) Sit or lie down and become aware of your body: You can do this meditation either lying down on a flat surface. If you are lying on the surface, relax completely and loose your body. Take lots of deep breath. Close eyes if you wish. 2) Follow your energy throughout the body: Begin with your left foot, become aware of it. Be aware of your toes, ankle and foot. Then, be careful about left leg’s    .. more …

Twenty million people practice yoga in the United States. William Broad, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer for The New York Times , is one of them. Broad started doing yoga as a freshman in college in 1970 and has been practicing ever since.”I can’t imagine doing [my] job without it,” he tells Fresh Air ‘s Terry Gross. “It’s an excellent means of stress management. Yoga helps me relax. And    .. more …

Most of the recognized and accredited yoga teacher training programs are fairly intensive. The yoga industry and community certainly wants to ensure that anyone holding a certificate to teach yoga meets certain minimum requirements. Each school can set its own curriculum, but if it wants to produce qualified teachers it will generally comply with industry standards.There are programs in every    .. more …

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) ” The yoga teacher in the front of the room lay on the floor, her hands resting on her upper thighs. She lifted her right leg high in the air, foot flexed. Then she grabbed her right foot in her right hand and brought her leg toward her face as she raised her upper body a few inches off the ground.Students in class smiled in amazement as they watched the teacher’s knee    .. more …

If you want to meditate, don’t worry about these problems striking you at any time. There is a solution available for all the problems one faces while meditating. Meditation cushions have been invented to provide prefect meditation posture, proper alignment and comfort to the meditator. A meditation cushion can help deepen your meditation practice. It will facilitate you to enjoy deeper state of    .. more …

PORTSMOUTH – At Portsmouth Yoga Shala, you will use the Ujjayi breathing style and technique. You will begin by heating your body with a system of postures. You will find precise gazing points. Upward Dog and Downward Dog are here within a series of Sun Salutations. You will end with the resting pose – savasana. You will experience all of those things and more, but most importantly, you’ll learn    .. more …

Fierce pose, or utkatasana, is one of the strongest and mightiest postures of them all. This posture is a great strengthener of the whole body. However, when I hear we’ll be using fierce pose in class, my mind sometimes screams, “OH NO!”This voice I call resistance comes from a dark part of my mind that I identify as self doubt. This part of the mind resists finding physical, mental and spiritual    .. more …

To linguistics sophomore Natalie Kalafatis, yoga is about more than stretching and painful-looking positions, it’s about relaxation and becoming balanced with one’s self.Saturday morning, students and adults began stretching out yoga mats across the floor of the Union, preparing for the MSU Medical Yoga Jamboree ” an event where people could experience a variety of yoga styles as well as get    .. more …

Hypothyroidism is a king of disease that affects the metabolism thus the entire bodily systems. This is because of the malfunction of thyroid gland. It means underactive thyroid. Under this condition, the gland produces less thyroxin hormone. Yoga is found to be very beneficial in treating the thyroid gland issues. There are several cases where thyroid yoga treatment has shown wonderful results.    .. more …