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Home Based Business Idea – Yoga Studio

Do you love yoga? Many people enjoy the way that yoga benefits their body, mind and spirit. Although you can do yoga by yourself at home either in front of a yoga video on TV or from memory by creating your own sequence of poses, many people prefer to go to yoga classes. Yoga instructors can help both beginners and advanced yoga students to ensure that they are performing the movements safely in addition to teaching new poses and sequences. The group atmosphere in a yoga class also helps with motivation – it is easier to push yourself to make … Continue reading →

3 Ways to Learn Yoga on a Budget

Want to learn yoga but don’t want to spend a fortune? Yoga has been around a long time but has grown in popularity the last decade or so. Yoga studios have opened in most major cities drawing in tons of people. However, these studios can get pricey! With yoga sessions costing over $25! Having been someone who wanted to learn yoga about eight years ago, I know what it is like to pay those studio prices. With changes in my financial situation, I started to look around for other ways to learn yoga and keep up my yoga skills. I … Continue reading →

Yoga is Helpful For Kids With Special Needs

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Yoga is not just for vegan college students, or people with a “new age” outlook on life. There are many benefits that come from practicing yoga that can help out people of all ages with a variety of physical ailments. Yoga is something that can be good for children who have special needs. Has your child attended a yoga class yet? There are a lot of good things about yoga. Practicing yoga can help to calm both the mind and the body. It can improve concentration and coordination. It is a good way to reduce stress. Yoga is a physical … Continue reading →

Benefits of Weight Lifting

There are a number of benefits to weight lifting that you might want to implement into your fitness routine. However I also strongly urge you to first make sure that you have established some cardio into your routine first. Making the transition from cardio to weight training might be a challenge but there is no reason that you can’t have a little of both. You might break up your routine with 15 minutes of cardio and 15 minutes of weight lifting. It’s really all up to you. One of the things you will notice right off the bat with weight … Continue reading →

The Basics of Yoga

Yoga encompasses more than just exercise. It incorporates other principles including relaxation, breathing and nutrition. For some, yoga also includes meditation or positive thinking. Personally for me, I find that in my Christian faith. However others find that it can make a positive difference in their life. Of course, you can’t have yoga without the exercise. To me that is the most important aspect of yoga. It has definitely helped me to improve my posture, gain flexibility and tone muscles. The exercise portion of yoga also helps to give your body more energy and strength, which is why I prefer … Continue reading →

The Benefits of Yoga

One of the exercise components to my Wii Fit Plus is yoga. I never thought that I would really enjoy yoga but I do. I will admit that I’m not into the psychological stuff of yoga but I have found some other benefits to yoga. The two biggest things that I have noticed are my posture has improved and my balance is much better. I have never been a very coordinated person, yet I seem to be doing better in that area. Yoga has also stretched muscles in my body that haven’t been stretched in a long time making my … Continue reading →

Benefits of Twist Poses

Yoga offers a broad range of benefits for the body, mind and spirit. Each type of pose offers different benefits. For example, twist poses offer very beneficial both physically and emotionally. Twists energize the body and are great on days when you feel tired and need a boost. This benefit can be enjoyed during your regular yoga practice or at any time. for example, if you are feeling tired at work in the afternoon, a few seated twists in your desk chair helps improve your energy level and is much healthier than a cup of coffee or energy drink. Twist … Continue reading →

What Will Yoga Do For Me?

Yoga is a great form of exercise that will help your body in several ways. Yoga has amazing health benefits for your body. * Your breathing. The breathing that is practiced in yoga is known as Pranayama. The attention is focused primarily on the breath itself, which can help our lungs, our nasal area and help to decrease stress. * Your stress. Yoga helps us to relieve stress because it is a form of physical exertion, exercise. You are stretching and moving your body in numerous ways and focusing on that alone. This physical activity combined with the concentration that … Continue reading →

Research into Yoga’s Health Benefits

As a growing number of doctors are embracing the health benefits of yoga, studies continue to show the benefits of a regular yoga practice. Two recent studies looked at health benefits of yoga previously discussed in this blog: back pain and depression and showed further evidence that yoga is more than just exercise. Both studies were conducted by the National Institute of Health. In the first study, researchers looked at people with symptoms of depression. The study found that when people took a regular yoga class, the symptoms were reduced by about 45 percent. In the second study, researchers investigated … Continue reading →

Benefits of Yoga

Welcome to the new Yoga Blog. Discussing the benefits of yoga seems like as good a place as any to start. There are numerous benefits to yoga and I wasn’t’ aware of most of them when I started. Reasons for choosing yoga vary, but for me, I started because I hate all other forms of exercise. Seriously. Yoga has been around for a long time. Depending on the source, it is between 4,000 and 26,000 years old. Either way, it’s a long time, and there are many good reasons the practice has survived this long. Here are some of the … Continue reading →