Saturday, June 14, 2008 

Teaching Hatha Yoga - Ethics and Professionalism

...Any time you are sitting at the front of the Yoga class, in a teaching capacity, your role must fit comfortably into Yoga teacher / Yoga student relationship guidelines. This concept of role playing is a difficult transition for any Yoga intern, regardless of past experience.

It is one thing to make sure you are concentrating on your breath, alignment, mantra, bandhas, or Mudra; but when you teach Yoga, you must focus on a room full of students with separate thoughts. With responsibility, changes come from within you.

Suddenly, the standard of your classes are in question within your own mind. This is the real issue, within your own mind; your classes may be criticized, but do not criticize yourself in public.

If you have taken the time to develop a lesson plan, and guided a Yoga class from star...more

Why Is Yoga So Popular In The West?

...eeds. Computers, of course are technology creations. These are technologies, and by our use of time saving, we have done the opposite, and that is to go ever faster.

Life is fast paced today. In France several hundred years ago, if a king passed away, it could have taken a century before everyone heard the news! Today, this kind of information can get anywhere in the world. Think of this article, it is worldwide. You could read it, speak to your friends, and before long, everyone has read this article!

So, what does this have to do with the popularity of Yoga meditation in the west? It is simply, this fast paced society we find ourselves in. People can't seem to have time to think. Ask someone to take a time out and breath deeply for a few seconds, and it seems like...more

Yoga Vinyasas Which Ones Are Right For You?

...cular vinyasas is designed to build your strength and increase your overall flexibility. Like with most vinyasas, you may find variations on this depending on what style of yoga you are using, but there are a few basic poses and a flow that is fairly consistent among the variations.

For the Sun Salutation, you go through the flow twice in order to complete one round. Do it one time for the right side of the body and the other time for your left. If you are crunched for time, still try to do at least one. Even that one half of a sequence will help you to feel revitalized.

The sun salutation starts with mountain. From there you go with hands up, head to knees, lunge, plank, and stick. Still flowing, you go into upward dog, downward dog, and lunge. Finally, the sequence finish...more

Does Yoga Benefit Plastic Surgery Patients?

...ed with yoga helping to tighten the skin, one has to remember that in general, the skin is aging and the exercises can only do so much.

Just like your skin, if you do not take care of it, it will gradually fail and begin to wrinkle just as before. Plastic surgery is like a second chance at getting a more youthful look, and just like any second chance, you need to do things differently to make sure it lasts. That is where the yoga can be most beneficial as it w...more

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