...Why should you practice Hatha Yoga?

1. It promotes a healthier looking body.
2. It promotes a healthier, calmer, and more focused mind.
3. Its instant benefits include stress-relief and renewed enthusiasm. It allows you to channel your energy so that its not wasted on negative emotions.
4. yoga can be adapted to your individual needs whether you are young or old, male or female, healthy or sick.
5. Practised properly, yoga is low-impact and will not put excessive strain on your heart, muscles, and joints.
6. yoga is inexpensive and requires no special equipment.
7. yoga can improve the quality of your sleep so that you wake up feeling refreshed and full of vitality.
8. yoga is fun!

yoga has been called a science or technology of liberation. This is because, unlike purely theoretical philosophies, yoga seeks to provide the student with...more

Chair yoga for Senior Independence

...Until a certain age in life, words like dignity, quality of life, and independence seem to be more suitable for descriptions, or reasons, why independent nations had revolutionary wars, than for senior independence. However, for seniors, these words reflect the need to stay the course of independence.

In some cases, our bodies go on existing, while our physical and mental health is slipping away. We need something that will maintain our health, aside from another prescription, with side effects.

Walking offers many good benefits, but some of us have more wear and tear on the knees, hips, and back, than we would like. We gave up running years ago, and walking is fine, but has to be k...more

The secrets of Karma Yoga to Obtain Your Life Goals

...yourself.

Maintaining the right attitude is an important part of karma yoga. It is only jobs that are liberating or binding that are considered to be karma yoga jobs. To be successful in karma yoga, you only use your hands to work as your mind is always fixed on the feet of the lord and not on the consequences or results you anticipate on completing your job.

With karma yoga, it is important that you have the right motive to your job. It is only pure motives that remain successful. Usually a person embarks on some work thinking of the fruits of the work. This maintains such a frame in the person that it is quite impossible to think of any work that has no reward. This is not followed in karma yoga as here, a job or work is fulfilled only with the intention of completing the work and not for the rewards that accompany it.

Karma yoga places emphasis on you doing ...more

The Wonderful Benefits Derived From Yoga For Women

...Because women have also had a tendency to be more emotional than men, and emotional pressure and stress can have a profound effect on a woman's health. It's been proven many times that emotional distress can translate into various illnesses or physical weakness. Factor such as hormonal change can also have an affect on a woman's health. For this reason many women find yoga is an excellent solution to these health issues that to some extent are unavoidable.

As a woman progresses through her life, different issues can arise. Many women suffer extensively from premenstrual syndrome and menstrual cramps. Menopause incorporates substantial hormonal changes, and can often lead to increased levels of stress for women. Pregnancy is another major change in a woman's life...more

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