Teaching Yoga for Stress Management - Identify the Cause
...Sometimes, yoga teachers are called in to a corporate facility, an office, or a manufacturing facility, to organize a stress management program. The management is forward thinking enough to realize absenteeism, tardiness, morale, and production, will improve, if employees can learn to manage their stress levels.
Very often, one of the first questions the employees will ask is, "Do we have to talk about what is bothering us?" Obviously, people do not want to discuss anything personal in a group session, with their co-workers.
The solution is for the yoga teacher to make him or herself available for private or semi-private discussions. I mention semi-private, because sometimes a family member is present for these discussions.
In a large company, this can be very time-consuming. Therefore, this should be discussed with the company before one takes on the addi...more
yoga Straps - Having A Grip On Correct yoga
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As we all know yoga can be completely accurate and possible for everyone if the necessary things like mats, clothes, pillows, straps and many more are around. It makes your pose very much easy and everyone can practice that without any hassle. In olden times there may not be such straps or balls but they use to improvise it by using some other material which can be used in the place of the actual brick and ...more
yoga is the Perfect Exercise
...yoga is the perfect exercise! Anyone can do it, it is easy to learn, requires no specialized equipment, and it is easy on your joints. yoga combines stretching your muscles and improving your mental condition, along with working out your cardiovascular system. So if you are looking for the perfect exercise, yoga is it!
Just what is yoga? It is an ancient discipline, more than 3,000 years old from India. It is designed to bring your body, mind and spirit together. While the exercise is very popular, it is only one component of the whole. ...more
A Brief Timeline of yoga
...and the energy of the Divine. In the eight limb system of classical yoga, kirtan is considered to be pratyahara (focusing the mind inward) and is a bridge between our inner and outer selves. Bhakti yoga is the divine melody and rhythm of the human spirit, expressed in chanting and song.
Karma yoga
Karma yoga is selfless service to others. This yoga asks that the yogi make his/her actions in this world expressions of devotion and offerings to God, without considering personal gain. If you do community work, volunteer work, or just do something very nice for someone for no reason at all, you are performing acts of karma yoga. Ghandi's years of selfless service to South Africa and India are famous examples of the work of Karma yoga.
Dream Yoga
Dream yoga is about listening attentively to what your dreams are telling you. This knowledge is used to better your waking life by helping you pay more attention to your daily realities, dreamed or shared.
Jnana Yoga
Jnana yoga is the study of the philosophy of yoga; Jnana is the Sanskrit word for knowledge . The practice of this yoga involves deep meditation practice, study of the self, the True Self and the Transcendental Self. The yogi is challenged to examine the real and the illusory. In order to do so the yogi must use his/her mind to retrain the mind to separ...more
