Yoga
53 Articles & Excerpts
Creating a Baby
Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth Through Meditation, Ayurveda, and Yoga Techniques by Deepak Chopra, M.D., David Simon, M.D., Vicki Abrams A much-needed antidote to our modern, assembly-line approach to childbirth, this new book is designed as a guide for all who wish to participate in the wondrous process of bringing new life into the world. Its ideas derive from two sources
Our Changing View of Aging
The New Yoga for People Over 50: A Comprehensive Guide for Midlife and Older Beginners by Suza Francina As a society and as individuals, we can expect that our notions of aging will continue to change dramatically in the years ahead. Leading pioneers in the field of mind/body medicine such as Deepak Chopra, M.D., an endocrinologist, bestselling author
The Yoga of Menopause: Alternatives to Hormone Therapy
Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause: A Guide to Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health at Midlife and Beyond by Suza Francina Woman's lives are deeply affected by the ebb and flow of their hormones—those mysterious and miraculous molecules that deliver vital messages via the bloodstream from one part of the body to another. Indeed, our lives are patterned by the cycles of nature
Low Back Pain First Aid Chest
Back Rx: A Fifteen Minute A Day Yoga And Pilates Based Program to End Low Back Pain Forever by Vijay Vad, M.D. What to Do if You're in Pain Right Now. After a low back injury, follow these simple steps to ease your pain and begin your healing. Focus on and regulate your breathing. Proper breathing in a slow, controlled rhythm is the fastest pain reliever.
Yoga Diet and cleansing
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp As with any discipline, from horse riding to drama, certain practices are recommended. Over the centuries, the great masters of Yoga have agreed on certain points. Being human, there are many things that they have not agreed on
Yoga and Health
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp STRETCHING ASANAS: Easy pose Sukhasana. Method: (a) Sit cross-legged on floor, each foot under opposite calf. (b) Spine must be kept erect constantly without slightest slouch, (c) Keep mind fixed on the body sensations; relax all muscles not involved
The Yoga Baby Program
Yogababy: Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually by DeAnsin Goodson Parker, Ph.D., Karen W. Bressler Life is filled with rhythms. The planet has rhythms: the ebb and flow of the tides, the seasonal changes as Earth journeys around the Sun, the sequence of night and day as the planet spins on its axis. Your body and your baby's body have rhythms also
Breath Control
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp Many writers on the subject of breath control start off by showing how breathing is linked with emotions, thought activity, heartbeat, even digestion. For instance, it is said that in states of high emotion one can easily notice that the breathing
Nature and You
Power Mudras: Yoga Hand Postures for Women by Sabrina Mesko, Ph.D.H. I was born a child of nature. I would look at every tree very carefully. Is it easy to climb onto? Will I break a branch and hurt the tree? I knew that if a tree branch breaks, the tree cries. I could actually feel the pain and tears of a tree.
Staying Focused: Work Sharper, Play Better
Real Men Do Yoga: 21 Star Athletes Reveal Their Secrets for Strength, Flexibility and Peak Performance by John Capouya I practice my breathing and focusing before every game, says Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yoga helps me calm down and helps me center my energy so I'm balanced instead of going out there and just spreading my energy all over the court.
The Back Rx Way to a Healthy, Pain-Free Back
Back Rx: A Fifteen Minute A Day Yoga And Pilates Based Program to End Low Back Pain Forever by Vijay Vad, M.D. If you're reading this book, you're probably all too familiar with the pain of a low back injury. A strained muscle in the low back can make you gasp with pain at the slightest movement.
The Master
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp The whole of this book is an introduction to these last chapters. Yet in a strange way, it is possibly these last two chapters that introduce the rest of the book to us in a new way. For the lives of the men dealt with here explain the teachings
Chapter One
First There is a Mountain: A Yoga Romance by Elizabeth Kadetsk As a young journalist, Elizabeth Kadetsky found herself running for hours every day, eating little, and suffering from a troubling and persistent pain in her chest. On a friend's advice, she applied to the yoga institute in India where the legendary B. K.
Yoga and Nerves
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp The greatest Yoga teachings are spoken by those individuals who have realised the unconditional state. Because their ego is largely merged into That which forms the basis of their being, their words are to some extent, spoken by Life itself.
Anti-Aging Pyramid
Fit and Fabulous After 40: A 5-Part Program for Turning Back the Clock by Denise Austin Congratulations! Just by reading these words, you've already taken an important first step toward improving your life and your health: You've made the decision to do it. But now you're not sure what to do next. You know that you need to exercise more.
Hatha Yoga
How to Be a Yogi by Swami Abhedananda HATHA YOGA is that branch of the Science of Yoga which teaches how to conquer hunger, thirst, and sleep; how to overcome the effects of heat and cold; how to gain perfect health and cure disease without using drugs; how to arrest the untimely decay
Discovering Yoga
The Little Yoga Book by Erika Dillman I had done some yoga breathing once when a yoga teacher came to my office to conduct a relaxation workshop. The breathing exercises had helped my lungs and my head feel better, although I felt a little funny lying on the floor making breathing noises
How Your Back Works
Back Rx: A Fifteen Minute A Day Yoga And Pilates Based Program to End Low Back Pain Forever by Vijay Vad, M.D. The Healthy Back is a Back in Balance. The human back is a marvelously evolved structure, the supportive center of every imaginable movement. We can see that in the way young children roll and tumble as they play, and in the way champion athletes
Introduction
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp I am often asked the question, What has yoga done for you? As the value of the methods I am to explain rest largely upon the answer to that question, and as I am only a printed name to you, I will be immodest and reply.
The Loving Touch
Yoga and Relaxation by Tony Crisp Devotional exercises are like the warmth that makes the unwieldy block of ice fit the jug. The water and the jug are the same as before, but the one has melted into the other. So the soul of a man melts into the awaiting presence of the eternal.
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