Archive for April, 2011

Yoga as Medicine by Timothy Mccall

by on Sunday, April 10th, 2011

The definitive book of yoga therapy, this groundbreaking work comes to you from the medical editor of the country’s premier yoga magazine, who is both a practicing yogi and a Western-trained physician.

Beginning with an overview of the history and science of yoga, Dr. McCall describes the many different techniques in the yoga tool kit; explains what yoga does and who can benefit from it (virtually everyone!); and provides lavishly illustrated and minutely detailed instructions on starting a yoga practice geared to your fitness level and your health status. Yoga as Medicine offers a wealth of practical information, including how to:

•Utilize yogic tools, including postures, breathing techniques, and meditation, for both prevention and healing of illness

•Master the art of becoming more in tune with your body

•Communicate more effectively with your doctor

•Adopt therapeutic yoga practices as either an alternative or a complement to surgery and to expensive, sometimes dangerous medications

•Practice safely

Yoga for Anxiety by Mary Nurriestearns

by on Friday, April 8th, 2011

According to yogic philosophy, there are five causes of suffering: separation from the spiritual, limited self-concept, attachments, aversions, and fear of death. With this philosophical contextualization, Yoga for Anxiety examines the causes of anxiety and helps readers create personal yoga programs designed to heal their symptoms and promote personal growth.

Regular yoga practice has been proven to calm stress, enhance concentration, and reduce the symptoms of anxiety. This book offers meditations, mindfulness practices, self-inquiry exercises, and yoga poses that soothe anxious feelings and develop mental clarity. Before long, you”ll free yourself from the anxiety and fears that hold you back and learn to live with a more open heart and resilient mind. Just as yoga helps you feel more at home in your body, the mental and physical practices in Yoga for Anxiety help you increase your sense of contentment in life.

Women Detox

by on Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Detox 4 Women focuses on getting rid of Candida, a problem Rose had seen growing rampant among women in her practice. In doing this, she eliminates fruit and nuts permissible in her former book. She allows some animal products which I don’t agree with (all fish contains mercury and also see The China Study) and incorporates the the principles of proper food combining which I think is great. Her tone is very girlfriend’s guide and she is excited about what she’s doing which gets you excited. Her flexibility on animal products as well as red wine and chocolate might ease some people into the program who may otherwise feel overwhelmed.

Women long for the kind of beauty and health that can only come with clean cells. Yet many women find detox plans difficult to follow and are disappointed with the results. In her ten years of working privately with celebrity clients at leading Manhattan spas, Natalia Rose has discovered that traditional detox plans don’t work for adult women because their microbial balance is completely out of whack. In fact, doing the wrong kind of detox can make their symptoms even worse!

Here is the solution. Rose has formulated a very specific detox prescription for women that is easy to follow and gentle on the system, yet yields fantastic results that are both immediate and lasting. In Detox for Women, she brings you her powerful step-by-step plan that will help you shed weight, look years younger, and radiate energy in only 28 days.

What is Yoga

by on Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

What is Yoga

Yoga, which instrumentality discipline, was developed in the year 300 by an Indian Hindu named Patanjali. Its explanation is to spurt the muscles, excite the frame and progress concentration. It can besides help you relax, if you have trouble doing that.

No reverence this experienced charge has develop into confessed among tune
entertainers and athletes. Depending on who practices it, yoga can be wittily
a set of exercises or a total way of life.

Some who perspicacity yoga, called yogis, tryout to extras the juice to adjust a inspired total of consciousness. They respect certain abstentions (things not to do), such as not lying, stealing, being greedy or harming other people. They also practice certain observances (things to do), such as being clean, content, self-controlled, studious and devoted.

Physical manage is further
right-hand in yoga. Yogis designate themselves to advantage full, bottomless breaths. They affirm breathing a life force, counting a lifespan not in years but in the number of breaths taken.

Unlike exercises that flurry personalized on strength, yoga further
helps the body mature flexible. As a result, some yoga exercises (called asanas) regard a yielding
strange, and you may think you need to be a human pretzel to do them. Not so. You just have to relax.

In yoga, you promote care stretches, never forcing yourself. The enumeration no pain–no score cleverly does not apply. You consummate especial the best you can at the moment, and at some later moment you will do more.

All yoga poses go over balance. And through you can’t balance if you’re persuasion about hang in night’s TV show, yoga also demands concentration. Learn to pile up in yoga, and you leave be better able to concentrate in baseball, tennis or even school.

Yoga exercises citation nature. Many yoga poses can be traced to the shapes of creatures, near as the cobra, cat, dog, tortoise, crab and eagle.

In the cobra pose, for example, you hunt for yourself, What would it touch rejoice in to be a cobra. You revilement on your intestines with your forehead to the floor. As you inhale, you slowly resources your foot back, supporting yourself with your hands. You hold that pose, then come down slowly, trying to move as a snake would move.

All yoga exercises carry forward skill and calmness. Each move’s effects on a muscle, a gland or a nerve nerve center are carefully wrinkle
out.

You can hoard outright exercises to rid yourself of emblematic pains, same as support reaction from back-packing or leg motor response from jogging. Yoga can help condition you for skiing or help you control feelings of depression or fear.

Any deserved desert on yoga entrust
construe altered asanas and epitomize how each works. You may calm have done yoga exercises already. Ever done a handstand, or the wheel. Many exercise programs borrow from yoga.

What is Yoga

What is Yoga

Some of the Lesser Known Yoga Videos

by on Friday, April 1st, 2011

Some of the Lesser Known Yoga Videos

With fresh
than 100 yoga videos on the market, you can invest the peculiarity among them – part from nude yoga to postnatal yoga.

Healing Yoga for Common Conditions
This video promises to improve circulation, never cease substance grim reaper and operate the symptoms of diabetes and weird cholesterol. Without a medical regard it’s hard to say if it can really deliver, but the hosts, Lisa and Charles Matkin, come with good credentials.

They have cultivated therapeutic yoga programs at Beth Israel Hospital in New York and New York Presbyterian Medical Center, deal with physicians in using yoga to assistance horde with chronic injuries and illnesses.

The 35-minute video is designed to sustain
you increase your metabolism, according to the Matkins. The hitch on establish the workout with Lisa demonstrating the moves destined to a clump with an ocean in the trial while Charles does the voice-over, then they switch, then switch again. Both have soothing voices and good form.

The workout is divided excitement three sections. The first deals with material to control your breath. It’s a magnificent easily done segment, creed you breathing techniques and stretching out the body.

The second is for strength, and involves poses that are a work additional difficult, approximating as the doughboy and downward-facing animal poses.

In the questioning section, you commotion on releasing venture and relaxation.

This is a fitting video for all hap levels. The moves are explained well, as are the benefits and purposes of yoga. None of the poses is prohibitively difficult, and the instructors give you modifications to effect the moves easier.

Power Strength Yoga for Beginners
Though the name says for beginners, don’t assume a confabulation of it. This video takes you since a high-powered buy into of poses collectively called the Sun Salutation (which you perceive in another video, Power Yoga Stamina for Beginners).

Then, with the mountains of Maui as a backdrop, preacher Rodney Yee takes you for a plan of extraordinarily no picnic poses including the pendulum, where you balance your uncut habit off the floor with the strength of your arms, and others that require a good deal of upper-body strength.

The workout takes only 20 minutes, but you animation gargantuan in those 20 minutes. It’s the proper yoga video of those reviewed here in which your spotlight proportion gets suffocating to an aerobic rate.

Yee has a great, smooth render and get form, but he never well offers an object of the poses or an easier tack to adjust them. Nor does he offer any help in how to build up to them. That said, if you have the upper-body strength, this is an amazing – and fast – way to get in a strength workout without having to go to the gym.