Showing posts with label Yoga-Principles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoga-Principles. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2009

Balance Between Relaxation And Body Control – Yoga A Closer Look

Balance Between Relaxation And Body Control – Yoga A Closer LookThe body’s potential is never fully realized because the mind is treated separately from it. At present, you bear the fundamentals to consummate deep relaxation method, the succeeding phase is to study intense muscular contraction.

The 2 in collaboration enables you to best employ the complete possibilities of your physical structure and psyche gearing them to function for you. Esteem it as a fundamental discipline of all your attributes for nearing the more difficult bodily and mental procedures you will be attempting afterwards.

We, at present, acknowledge that relaxation method of yoga behaves nothing in relation to relaxation as they are interpreted by virtually every folks in the Western domain who compare them on slackening, recreation or encounter.

Likewise, Deep muscle contraction do not render any form on various ways for "toning up" also "keeping fit" to which we are acquainted with. Nothing could be far-off in concept from Yoga exercise than letting the body go through physical routines. Intense knee bends, thrusts, free weight drills, every last routines mostly connected to physical and muscular refinement are the absolute antithesis of the element Yoga seeks to fulfill.

Because when such exercises are okay for the adolescent cohorts and the sports minded, they boost muscular tissue tensely in the ordinary individual for whom stress is typically already an issue. Truthfully, as well, they take more than regular feat than anybody only an athlete is apt in consenting to work it. But above all they tend to disunite the physical from psyche, as the Yoga approach is forever to view the person's whole being, addressing it as inseparable.

The most distinguished of contemporary theatrical stage directors, Stanislavski, Constantin , whose formulas for acting character actors throughout the globe cite on reduced breath plainly as "The Method," counseled his pupils to discover from beasts how to begin loosening up, then "steer upwards" for pure body command. "See the tiger," he penned in one of his articles " An Actor Prepares".

He cites how from a very dead-like state of repose can suddenly breaks through from it with a certain routine of continuous stretching and deep muscle contraction. Then, finally rises on its feet with every inch of muscle working for it. The unity of the body and mind of the tiger makes it possible to carry out such natural movements with grace and ease.

The concept Stanislavski sought-after to exhibit was the enormous economy of vitality and motion which consecrates the feline its unmatched grace and might. Hence he lived competent to instruct his pupils how to actuate, tireless, by heavy emotive roles.

Ways to breathe in order that their articulations projected, without always reaching, to all recesses of a large hall even if it is applied in a whisper. This is not unexpected to find out that Stanislavski had learned methods of an ancient art called Hatha Yoga.

Just about all of us shall never be rang upon to act as Hamlet or Sweeney Todd 8 times a workweek, to sing in aristocratic opera theater or to start barnstorming by the country as a presidential campaigner.

Nor shall we endeavor to tally Olympiad records. Yet, we experience it within our grasp to study rapidly and almost effortlessly this sort of body mastery which even the pure athlete does not ever have because he also is probably to be drudging under a good deal of excess tension, not unless he is either by nature fortunate or features enlightenment of the secrets on counterchanging relaxation and muscle contraction.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Yoga Builds Your Physical Health

Yoga Builds Your Physical HealthYoga does not see a distinction between the body and the mind; and this is an understanding that western psychology has also concluded for many years now (the link between mental health and physical health, and vice versa).

If you’ve come to this post looking to understand yoga as a means to help your body heal or improve, then please don’t worry; you’ve come to the right place!

Yoga is indeed a process that involves releasing blocked tension and energy in the body, and helping make the muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments, and all other components work to their utmost potential.

Yoga believes that human beings are optimally designed, by nature, to be flexible and agile; and stiffness and lack of mobility only arrive when the body is unhealthy or out of alignment.

Therefore, countless people have found themselves in a yoga class, or on a yoga mat at home in front of a Yoga video or DVD, in the hopes of improving their physical health; and perhaps you may be one of them. If that’s the case, then keep reading!

There are proven physical benefits of yoga, which include:

  • increased flexibility and range of motion
  • reduced pain in joints and muscles
  • stronger immune system
  • stronger lung capacity and therefore higher quality respiration
  • increased metabolism (which can lead to weight loss!)
  • higher quality of sleep (especially due to improved breathing and a more oxygenated body)

Given that certain yoga practices require postures to be mastered, yoga has always helped promote the body’s flexibility; it also helps in lubricating the joints, ligaments and tendons. Yoga detoxifies by increasing the flow of blood to various parts of the body. It helps tone and invigorate muscles that have grown flaccid and weak.

So please do keep in mind that, while yoga is often discussed in terms of its mental approach, there are clear and proven physical benefits that are a part of this approach.

Therefore, if weight loss is your goal, or the ability to shovel the snow in winter without having your back ache for days, then yoga is as viable an option to you as it is for the stressed-out corporate executive who needs to find a strategy for coping with the craziness if her busy life!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Six Branches of Yoga

The Six Branches of YogaYoga has been around in the eastern world for centuries, and the classical techniques of yoga go back to about five thousand years ago. If you are interested in going in for practicing yoga, you should have an overall idea about the various branches of yoga.

There are six branches of yoga, namely Hatha, Bhakti, Karma, Raja, Tantra and Jnana. Hatha, which is the most popular branch of yoga, is actually the physical part of yoga or the yoga which involves postures or asanas. The Hatha yoga is thus basically composed of ‘asanas ‘ are the physical postures which yoga practitioners have to do, ‘pranayama’ or breathing techniques, and meditation. Hatha joins the body and soul and make the body healthy, and helps to keep the mind free from stress and anxiety.

Bhakti is the yoga of devotion, involving the heart and faith. This branch of yoga permits the yogis to discern the actual humanity in all people and makes them able to see everything from all aspects, thus enabling them to endure, love and accept everything and everyone peacefully. Bhakti yoga teaches its practitioners how to devote themselves completely to god, and teaches them that all creatures are created by the Almighty and that appreciating other creatures and life itself is an act of devotion to god.

Karma yoga is the branch of yoga which considers that a person’s current state is a result of his past state, i.e. whatever the person’s situation is in this life is a consequence of his previous life, and whatever he will do in this life will determine his condition in his next life.

It deals with service and involves action’s energy. Karma yoga teaches yogis that they should ignore all negative aspects of their life and focus on doing good things and thinking good thoughts. It teaches that if lead a virtuous life in this life, then you will have a happy life in the next life.

Raja is the ‘king of yogas’ as ‘raja’ means ‘royal’. It’s based on the eight limbs of yoga and involves meditation. It teaches that the universe exists for the self, and this leads to self-esteem and reverence for your fellow creatures.

Tantra yoga is based on understanding of Mantra (mystic syllables) and Tattva (truth). Tantra yogis feel an increased awareness regardless of whether they’re awake or asleep. However, only those who are chaste, brave, devoted, loyal to his guru, true, trusty, honest, and be humane and have love for the whole universe can be practitioners of Tantra yoga.

Jnana yoga involves the mind as it is concerned with knowledge and wisdom. It improves the yogi’s cleverness and astuteness.

After reading about the six branches of yoga, you should be able to decide which yoga is suitable for you. You can sign up for a yoga class, or get a yoga DVD, a book, or a videotape and practice it at home. There are also yoga instructions available on the internet which you can search for.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

What is Yoga

What is Yoga , Lord Shiva in Yoga Mudra (positon)According to Wikipedia.com

Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in both Buddhism and Hinduism In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox (āstika or theist ) schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school directs its practices.

Major branches of yoga include Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Hatha Yoga Raja Yoga, compiled in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and known simply as yoga in the context of Hindu philosophy, is part of the Samkhya tradition. Many other Hindu texts discuss aspects of yoga, including the Vedas, Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Shiva Samhita and various Tantras.

The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings and is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj, meaning "to control", "to yoke" or "to unite". Translations include "joining", "uniting", "union", "conjunction", and "means". Outside India, the term yoga is typically associated with Hatha Yoga and its asanas (postures) or as a form of exercise. A practitioner of Yoga is called a Yogi (gender neutral) or Yogini (feminine form).

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga