Yoga
What is Yoga?
Yoga poses are great to strengthen and relax the body, but there's a lot more to Yoga than that.
Derived from the Sankrit word "yuj" which means "to unite or integrate" yoga is a 5,000+ year old Indian body of knowledge. Yoga is all about harmonizing the body with the mind and breath through the means of various breathing exercises, yoga poses (asanas) and meditation.
Alternate Nostril Breathing Technique (Nadi Shodhan Pranayama)
A beautiful breathing technique that helps keep the mind calm, happy and peaceful. A few minutes of Nadi Shodhan...
Control How Much, How and What You Eat with Yoga
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The Art of Living Meditation and Breath Workshop: a uniquely powerful combination
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Yoga For The Modern-day Man
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Basic Tips to Get Started With Yoga
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Yoga Breathing Exercises
Breathing exercises, or Pranayama, are a central part of yoga, which help us calm the mind. Prana, means breath or life force energy. Yama means to house or store. Thus, Pranayama is the art of building up and storing our life force energy. Breathing techniques also prepare us for a deeper experience of meditation.
Learn all about pranayama in this beginner's guide >>
5 Tips to Deepen Your Padma Sadhana
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Dinesh Ghodke says Yoga and Youth: Lifelines of the Country
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Yoga Poses
Different categories of Yoga poses (asanas) includes standing poses, sitting poses, asanas lying on the back, on the stomach and others. These effect different parts and organs of the body.
See our recent yoga pose posts interspersed above or
view a full list of yoga poses and asana categories here.
