Monday, September 20, 2010

10 best reasons older adults do gentle Yoga and martial arts practice

10 best reasons older adults do gentle Yoga and martial arts practice
Today br p millions of older Americans are a higher quality of life br an active and positive attitude to their personal well-being. br you have better health and a self-taught successful life by br personally responsible and proactive. The most successful is br the needs of body, mind and soul br for a whole wellness person model./p most know the research shows that regular exercise br offers a wide range of health and, what perhaps most importantly, br can function and independence. Less clear that their choice of where other can host br unexpected benefits. The choice of body and mind exercises such as yoga or soft martial arts br (such as Chi Gung, Tai Chi), older people could be to leave health br and vitality./p Yoga and Chi Kung (soft like any other art) are ideal for br older adults because she have a positive effect on the whole person: body br, emotions and spirit have. To increase the life energy, focus your body, the mind and nourish the spirit br strengthening br and soothing./p b the top ten of the reasons why older people a body soul practice: / b / p body b - i care of the body must improve the health br keeps your ability to function and maintain independence. Yoga and Chi Gung br reliable protection against falling - a major threat to the older generation! /. I / b / p b 1. Strengthening the muscles and bones... /. B Yoga builds MUSkelkraft and bone mass mainly br. br provoking the operational burden of yoga postures bone calcium to maintain. In yoga, br benefit the upper and lower load, such as walking or running br opposed./p b 2. Improved cardiovascular and respiratory health... /b br and Chi Gung soft martial arts are studies demonstrated that the blood circulation, br to improve health of the heart and lung function. Yoga breathing exercises are very powerful tools for br lung function, respiratory capacity and increase the physical energy br. Both the increased vitality and well-being./p b 3. Greater flexibility... /. B Yoga and Chi Gung br both general help function and movement br than increasing the flexibility, daily and to improve the protection against falls. Despite popular belief, you will be not br flexible practice yoga. The idea is, at the current level br with patience and compassion practice gently br yet smooth./p b 4. Better A good posture posture... /b call to keep healthy and strong our new strength and flexibility br your back. br healthy posture supports the digestive and respiratory functions. br bad attitude with bone loss in stress fractures./p b 5. Balance... /b better balance gives parents confidence that br freely and participate in sporting activities. br one of the main components of a senior fitness program is balance training. Seniors br, practice and activities that are br Yoga and Chi Gung train balance can the verheethe second death br lead non-discriminatory consequences a case - to prevent for seniors. Balance is an immaterial force that br many people take for granted./p b 6. Better energy... /. B Yoga and Chi Kung is essentially br old regeneration and compensate for our life energy. br while the sum of its parts, these techniques to renew the body gently. Concept br of "Chi" itself means "Energy" and "Chi Gung" means"energy work br literally."/p mind b - challenging i is mind to support key to br diseases such as Alzheimer's. Sure intellectual dimension of people br by learning new information and questions exploring require judgment br and decision making. The physical aspects of body soul practices br lead directly to a spiritual sense of personal responsibility, stability and balance br. /. I / b / p B 7. Intellectual stimulation... /. B order to learn the body movement is like learning a new language with its own vocabulary and rules br. It takes attention br. It is a discovery... a practice. The soft martial arts and yoga br also invite us to a way of thinking can be very br unknown for us to discover./p b 8. Emotional support... /. B br the philosophy of Yoga and Chi Gung infused us encourage taking into account the present aware and grateful that take the release us and our systems br <, br as we think things should be. This positive Outlook leads to a sense of calm and well-being br./p - spirit i b A new study zeigt that, if people withdraw them br new sense of time and their place in the world that their values and beliefs br; begin to change. Write a spiritual dimension, wellness behavior to your business to br provides additional advantages. In addition to yoga and Chi Gung br nature believe and "pay attention" strength and meditation br in all forms. /. I / b / p B 9. Following the big picture... /. B mindfulness br practice is a direct way to practice a truth to combine greater than ourselves. Practice br become quiet and preservative treatment, our inner wisdom br heard. Older adults have to find a wish "The meaning of life shown br." Practitioners of Yoga and the gentle art of a deep feeling of wealth br and unity in their lives./p B 10. Inner exploration... /. B central to the spiritual dimensions br older adults is the desire to discover the inner self. On demand it to look deep within us br, br exercises of Yoga and Chi Gung, "be" with us. We learn br to forgive our strengths and our weaknesses to celebrate br by practicing patience and concentration./p Copyright 2005 Karen B. Cohen all rights reserved./p

Yoga?

Yoga?
br p Yoga? What is this strange and exotic form of exercise that shows in the news lately? Who knows it and why is "Yoga" in your head a starving Indian embassies sit pretzel position, appear naked on a bed of nails. But would you believe that those who practice of Hatha Yoga in good ol' ' USA range Kareem Abdul Jabbar of Raquel Welch, Sting on the Miami Dolphins? The practice is quickly gaining popularity WINS under the health-conscious, that yoga is more effective than pumping iron to the strength and flexibility, more effectively than aerobic stamina and breath control build to think, and relaxing than jogging. Adapted to each age or physical condition, super active to the nomadic children, seniors and the benefits of yoga practice can be denied./p during our lives that rotate at increasingly higher speeds seem, yoga, is an effective way to slow down and stop while providing a balanced physical and mental vitality./p the beginning of Yoga were lost in the history of India. It is believed that Yoga originally developed for a spiritual seekers for complete control over its physical vehicle, so he could meditate to gain continuous long-term. Although many branches of Yoga tree, the current popular customization of Yoga to our modern lifestyle took the form it "Hatha Yoga". This form rather to "Asanas Focus" or resources to build endurance, inspection, vitality and harmony. The word "Hatha" comes from Sanskrit "ha" means Sun and "tha" means Moon expressed balance of opposites. "Yoga" means "Union" or"Rehabilitation." Together "Hatha Yoga", expresses the European Union or the balance between opposing forces. With yoga, create balance, we as a whole, health and peace within us./p this Valentine month of love, what is more love to give to yourself the gift of health, vitality and peace? Start with one breath the fundament of life. Try to breathe deeply counts for 5, hold the breath for 5 points, and slowly exhale for five points. 3-5 Repeat times. Notice how your opinion slows down the body relaxes and Outlook is more relaxed. If we relax, we are more patient and loving. Love and care, we can to make us around peace and love./p when I was small, my dad asked me if I a Chair for people whose knee backward design had. I still am one. But since I started yoga, I worked on developing a practice for those of us whose knee after front bow many hours a day. How is the body that hurts because we sit and sit and sit? We are a company "Chair man." We are to eat, to sit, sit in the car behind a desk in sessions and movies in the classes. We are talking on the telephone and TV to the computer sitting in aircraft, trains, in waiting rooms. Some of us are by accident or illness, a disability or impairment. Some of us are because we have a lazy lifestyle. Did you ever feel that your life has on the other is a series of transitions from one place?/p I don't think that our bodies were meant to live! The most chairs are for our body with a healthy approach to support. You verursachen US recession curve our back and pushed the head or sit back on our tail bone. The worst problem I ever to sit in a meeting room for three days there were lectures./p inactivity to stiffness, back pain, weakness, constipation, poor circulation, mental dullness, nervousness, cramps and degeneration. Depressing thoughts. What is the reason, and where you sit, it possible to start fit even sit in your Chair. / p Yoga which 5000 year old gift of the body to a seated stretching program p / the balance that the inevitable result of too much offset sitting can be adjusted. Body awareness, better posture, alleviating pain and suffering and improve the flexibility and building, and a deep feeling of relaxation can be achieved where you are.... sits you?/p although a coherent programme for the continuous yoga, balance, provides this and reversals is a complete yoga practice need be banished to the Yoga Studio and a gym. The time commitment of lessons per week may be difficult to adjust a hectic schedule. What should I do an hour or two during the day can also alleviate some of the benefits of yoga practice and the outcome of the meeting. In fact, little effort at the meeting in various everyday situations can significantly help our strength, flexibility, relaxation, more traffic, more clarity of mind and contribute breathing. Yoga postures adapted to small bites can the same intensity as a full yoga, but the benefits of yoga are readily available for those, on yoga nibble of the day./p who are disabled as a result of Alter, disease, or who can simply put on the floor, you miss the many benefits of yoga. Disabled people in a wheelchair or are to recover from injury, with consent your doctor to their own adaptation of breath gentle sit and advantage represents. Seated yoga you strength and flexibility, more and more to move challenging Poznan. Breathing, Dehn - and strengthening exercises can be introduced in a slow, so carefully that the agencies to new levels of fitness increases the blood flow and healing with "Viability" of energy./p "Sitting Fit" we benefit everyone, regardless of our physical condition. Meeting will be offset by moving, breathing and stretching, so some of these simple means for a try "to break mini yoga." You'll feel the difference and again your attention on your work refreshed, relaxed and with a clearer head./p customizing can be done, anytime, anywhere /p be sitting on a chair breathing setting... upright on the edge of your Chair, feet on the ground directly below the knee. Relax your hands resting on the thighs. Take a long, deep breath and inhale completely. Rejuvenation, reaching the ceiling with the Crown of the head, an extension of the spine. Continue with full of deep breathing inhalations and glowing vapours to complete 10-20 breaths./p how you exhale you drag to the shoulder blades back set, shoulders fall away from the ears, how to achieve through your fingertips. Further breaths deep breathing for 3-5. You breathe you lower the arms./p shoulder can breathe axes around the ears. Roll your shoulders backward, press your shoulders gegeneinacountries. You breathe press shoulders down towards the floor. Rejuvenation, take your shoulders back, they roll back together and press your shoulders and let down. Repeat this a few times and forget not to breathe!/p forward fold still sitting on the edge of your seat with his feet hüftbreit apart, inhale as you your arms on your pages. Now rotate the Chin like from your hips, breathe during your chest towards the thigh. Keep your back flat. With your next exhale, relax, let your chest on the thighs, arms and head baumelte, relaxed. 3-5 Deep, full, relaxing breaths. Breathe you slowly straighten with flat back./p knee raises sit, breathe, how to increase your right knee for you. Bring your legs before the knee with both hands. Keep your back flat like you and pull out your knees towards your chest. Keep breathing for 3-5. Release if you exhale. Repeat with the left leg./p

Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga what? (Part II)

Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga what? (Part II)
Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga of p br has eight limbs (parts). In my last article, Yama, Niyama briefly describes. Yama and Niyama are the outer elements of yoga, they exist and social life. The remaining six parts - Asana, pranayama, Pratyahar, Dharana, dhyana, and Samadhi are internal components of yoga. When practicing these six points in a mind focuses on the true self and the divine truth to realize. This article asanas and pranayama are described./p Asana (attitude) /p Asana is an attitude, which means that the body on a flat surface rests means. The various measures to choose the different poses. Yoga for one must decide a comfortable position, where they keep on thinking self can concentrate. To select a setting, describes Patanjali - must motionless posture and comfortable (II. 46) be. So in a Yogasana rest of the body of a comfortable position and static, so can the last point is the Samadhi and easy pass to educate all other parts of the body./p different schools of Yoga learn exercises on behalf of the Yogasana. They should be included in Yogasana Tapa, a kind Niyama. Tapa of achieve a practitioners heat or heat in the body through Yoga exercises and makes the body strong and less disease. Tapas and its outer part of Yoga exercises, but the third part of Yoga is Asana, that the inner parts. Yogasana by exercising the body can still or feel good. So in this attitude can be in samadhi. Asana easy real peace in the body and rises above the gross body, achieving mind and senses and the true self. / P should Yes, immobile and is a comfortable Asana on a flat surface on the back with your hands and legs. This is called cross-legged. In this mode, all six internal components of yoga can be practiced. A man can be - divided in four body, Prana (breath), spirit and Bliss (soul). If one of them is under control, others will of course check. In asana, is the body motionless held and as a result Prana (breath) and mind under control are. If everything is under control and still feel the salvation of the soul or the true self./p pranayama (breath control) /p consensus Prana (vital energy) is breath or breathing air. But in reality it is more than the air we breathe. It is the life force that moves and moves in these movements are expressed by breathing in and out of air. If this life force to the outside, it with the universal life force of all living beings mixed and when it comes in, does every living cell in the body. The body acts as a result of this vitality. The energy in this life force is infinite. Through our many births this Prana is from birth until death. The body is not only food, but it depends on the Prana. There are people who take no food in the coming months and years, but they can still work and live./p one are in reality, Prana, body and spirit. If one of these three immobilized, the other two are stationary. In cross-legged, if the body of motionless one and a half hours instead of Prana and motionless spirit. Prana is no inhalation immobile, as it or expiration or inhalation is done in a very subtle way. This is pranayama. Patanjali teaches - after a break of asana, there in the movements of entry and exhalation cutand the cut pranayama (II. 49). This can be explained scientifically. If the body in movement, is the rate of metabolism in the body and thus a higher breathing in rapid succession. Be reversed in a WHE the rest of the reduction rate is smaller and breathe after a long break. When the mind is restless, a very fast has and if the mind is calm, to breathe normally./p just follow the various schools of Yoga to control breathing by violence, unscientific and tendentious pranayama learn. Withhelding breath through violence, keep a carbon dioxide inside for a longer period and can be fatal to cells. In a pure and true pranayama has nothing to do. It must in cross-legged and remember the movements of the spirit of nostrills. In this way, body, spirit and Prana immobile and become a natural. Focus in pranayama would heads and give peace in this revised Prana./p

Time for yoga

Time for yoga
br p there are many things that we know we do should, but it is never enough time. Do you want more time for your family, yoga and a great time in your life? May work on many things, right things for yourself and your loved ones. So, what can you do?/p if you put all of the food on the table and work need, is a priority. In fact the work is only a part of life, and you would know that if you have lost your job. All of us go through a period of complaints after losing a job, a marriage or a loved one./p in this situation we must decide whether they continue. Well I guess you're not the type to give up. After moving in a look back at the pain and healing. Our personality developed and involves many components. These components will help us, "stick" for example: family, friends, work, prayer and hobbies./p most of you know that yoga is "Unity", but you realize that you either way the Union drive, everyday practice, if not official, in practice a yoga class? Below is a list of what should every day or almost every day./p you will notice that the work be done every day to live in moderation. Everyone needs a day free, so enjoy your weekend if possible and skip a holiday./p the prayer is a part of every religion and a part of everyday life. It doesn't matter which religion you practice, it is your business. Fortunately, most religions on this planet are universal principles which apply to all. Keep in mind that you have to mental, physical and mental health supplement. By the way, that yoga a principle also./p familyTime is so important that we a generation raised dysfunctional because of the lack of attention for our children. Some children do not really taken, their parents, as they sometimes someone else, or a kindergarten. Lack of commitment of time creates inherent problems for parents and children./p take time together to eat without argument and play with your kids. Put your kids religion, games, hobbies, humor and yoga. Give your spouse or partner of a hug and tell them they are worthwhile. Respect and recognition to run./p good friends should not be ignored. They are few and far between. You can valuable business to find your friends at Yoga./p look for all later if you can. Breathe learned from your teachers and forget. You have right to practice breathing as you remember./p correct posture is warranted, if sitting, standing, walking, eating and using the computer. Exercise should be part of the day and you should be aware your diet at all times./p the consumption of eight glasses of water per day is especially important for digestion, elimination, your skin, your vital organs, and toxins. Save the excuses - many people have eight drinks per day no problem drinking. By the way, it is not good even if the diet Coke./p work is a must if you are independently wealthy. The work should also help your mind. This is not the case is, look for a job is worth./p hobby good for mental health is also, but like all of the above, they are part of a healthy life. So how can this all fit in your life? If you go yoga classes, all you do./p but if you have timeto learn or practice yoga, you have the time. Once you have done that, you'll wonder why it took so long, to learn yoga. You will know new friends and live a happier life./p

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Yoga for beginners - it right

Yoga for beginners - it right
br p when it comes to promoting relaxation and stress relief, nothing about yoga. Unfortunately this is not the case for everyone. Most people that Yoga stop think they fail because she can't get good positions and techniques. In fact, the reason, not to much importance, position and correct technique./p I do not pretend to be a master of yoga. In fact, I'm a newbie with little skill. But I learned, for years drum and the pitfalls are similar. Here is my advice for yoga beginners./p 1. Week - enjoy the action: / p take a beginner Yoga video and configure your friend in a place you can be comfortable and alone (there is no room for confidence in this step). Go six through the exercises, rather than a happy years old, a pup rather than about to worry about technology. Try anywhere, don't worry, if it not immediately to implement any, modify if necessary are./p week 2 - study of emotions: / p when the body has probably saved the routine (if you have fun and had obsessed with technology, your body quickly learned movements). Try focus on your breathing. Be aware how oxygen and energy flows in, from and about different parts of the body. Feel the relaxation and the feeling in the muscles./p 3. Week and beyond - look for the teacher /p is most likely that you improve your skills, everywhere, without ever trying. She thought that Yoga exercises are easiest for you and become increasingly difficult. Focus on the service most comfortable with. You're probably so happy with this,You don't even have to think. Breathing and movements must be clear now so you can begin to notice details and to imitate the technique of the teacher. Repeat this step for each exercise./p many people will try to learn Yoga and other activities, only the method I put in three weeks. Many teachers are guilty of the doctrine in this way. Unfortunately starts beginners concerns to their technology not enjoy, such as in week 1 or week 2./p

The connection between yoga, attentiveness and weight loss (part 2)

The connection between yoga, attentiveness and weight loss (part 2)
br p some of you may still change, but don't forget that most people have you, prayer or grace at the table? We can always still grateful that our families for their company, the chef for his or her skill, that those who eat at home and to God, or your concept of higher beings for their existence./p food if food, adhesives, and you. Meals are not "devoured", during the television or horseback riding in the car. p / p an aspect of Yoga that with a typical Yoga is covered, that awareness in all aspects of life. You are more aware your breathing, posture, voice, what you eat and much more. Through Yoga learn to live in the moment and appreciate what you have./p some of us are rich in p love, have but little money. Some of us are rich in money and have no one who really loves us. If you look for love or money, can be converted either good or bad situations. It is really up to us whether we the best what we want./p to live most of the simple pleasures of life to its full potential. So instead of "Scoop" your food from yoga students should take the time, to enjoy the finer things of in life. This doesn't mean that we with greed much, but contact with your inner over a meal and be aware of everything. Eat with your family, if possible, and make it an enjoyable together at the kitchen table./p your inner self or sometimes "Atman"or"jiva." This is the "creature" within each of us. We like to eat and to the earthly pleasure to enjoy to the full, but awareness makes us aware, moreas the consumption of food and earthly delights. Therefore mindfulness is a natural diet tool at mealtimes./p how this is possible? If you see food and you put your senses. You don't have verbally, if you feel uncomfortable, but you must be a mental exercise for every meal. This will help your sanity and thus the speed of the food by./p the senses sight and smell, a role long before the first bite, so take the time to become aware of them, after you the Thanksgiving. Eat the right reasons. These reasons are: your health and your life./p foods should nutritionally dense, moderate, and the best way to think. Pay attention to every bite, indigestion and all your senses. The pace is slower./p to chew carefully every bite and SIP of water throughout the meal. Yogi and Yogini, to learn step to breath pranayama practice. Therefore, you should own pace when it comes to food and breathing with meals. You should not short of breath while eating. If you are you eat in a stressful situation. You learn in yoga breathing and need a good breath control still all the time./p if that you eat in a society not to eat time nutritional deficiencies dense snacks and look for another job. Companies that operate in this way to kill, their employees with stress. This is not a harmonious atmosphere, and the stress./p Finally, remember that weight is to control any mathematical formula. There are many intangible assets "under the radar to fly." Science can not exactly the force of your mind to measure the obligation and mental healthSecurity./p Yoga is much more than an exercise. Yoga is the most comprehensive system for human health known at this time. Yoga includes mental, physical and mental health./p there are a number of internal Chinese martial arts, which will work closely, but Yoga is the mother of most Asian martial arts systems. How is this possible?/p Bodidharma, an Indian monk taught a form of Yoga to the monks in the temple for the maintenance of good health. By his visit to Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of ch ' to Buddhism. As a result of this meeting, the Chinese Kung Fu was born, and many types of martial arts has continued to develop on this day./p there is as much about yoga to learn that none of us is able to learn everything in life. The results of regular Yoga exercises and lessons taught in mindfulness of a qualified yoga teacher, to help you control your weight and much more./p

Yoga teachers a good example (part 3)

Yoga teachers a good example (part 3)
p br behaviour towards the neighbouring schools Yoga and yoga teachers and their students are sincere. As the old saying goes: "If you are not a good thing to say, say anything." If we have other yoga teachers to talk about yoga or former teachers in a hostile manner what we teach our students?/p unfortunately teachers are Yoga and human behavior is not always optimal. Respect of to neighbouring Ashram as Director know show teacher or guru, about your event - in the form of a letter or an invitation. Do not post your events on the doors to their cars and on telephone poles close their Ashram./p not tempt your yoga students to break messages to other local Ashram in the local markets and cafes. Harmonious coexistence with local studios and yoga Ashram is healthy. When Yoga students sectarian or elitist are invited, they were lost from the true meaning of yoga. Always remember that Yoga means "Unity"./p avoid moving your Yoga Studio beside, above, below or across the street from an other yoga teacher. The world is a huge place. There to be no reason for us as a competitor. If it were allowed, would have a yoga business and our true mission is to help others./p attempts to keep former yoga teachers and their students good relations with the. Sometimes there are complications in the disciple mentor relationship, but try as friendly as possible./p relations with your yoga students should be balanced and remain intact. Yoga teachers should use their position or special services. If you are outside the usual feelings yoga teacher / Yoga students, need qualified advice, some "soul searching" zurückzuziehen or out of the situation./p Yoga Studio is a romantic playground, or part of a dating service for teachers. As a yoga teacher, your relationship on trust based your students. You want to also avoid "fuel" each branch of yoga./p final would like to encourage you, next to advanced Yoga students to independent developers of their own practice. It's beautiful, used, but your yoga students will grow, as innovators should be. They can feel want always the safest ways to make them on course but you keep your yoga advanced students depending on of your existence./p to draw a small comparison: some adult Eagles take care of their beautiful girls, but one day the girl will grow as big as their parents. The solution is to encourage, fly their children and adrift. You know you will be not always around, so you encourage your to develop Yoga students into practice./p