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5 Reasons Why You Will Love Yoga

    1. Lose Weight

    Believe it or not, celebrities attend their yoga classes not only because they like it but because their body needs it. Being in a heated room lets you remove unwanted toxins in your body. The sweat that you get from yoga is 5x more than 1 hour of jogging. For weight conscious people, follow the footsteps of celebrities, give yoga a try. Then see how much pounds you’ll reduce.


    2. Improves Posture


    With all the exercises and positions you need to perform, without a doubt you will get used to the proper stance and position of the body. Every yoga teacher makes it to a point that their students know the proper way to sit, that the back is always straight and the arm and leg gestures are correct. By constantly attending yoga classes, you won’t notice that you are practicing the right posture even outside of the class. If you have scoliosis, consult your doctor first before engaging into yoga.


    3. Increases Flexibility



According to research, yoga has positions that act upon the various joints of the body. These includes those that are never really exercised. Yoga will be the tool for you to be more flexible physically even at your 40s.


    4. Normalizes Sleep

    Teenagers experience insomnia in this generation. Partly is because of the technology that distracts them – internet, video games, TV shows, etc. On the other hand, not only teenagers struggle with insomnia but also adults, due to their jobs or other reasons. To normalize sleep, doctors and health experts advise to take yoga classes as it helps your body system maintain good health, including internal issues like sleeping on time.


    5. Meet New Friends

    The best part about yoga is the aftermath, for extroverts. This is a good venue to meet new people in your life and expand your network. Worried because you are an introvert? Don’t panic! You can start a conversation by talking about your experience from yoga classes. Surely, anyone would be interested in conversing with people who they can relate with. For this instance, yoga is the common ground.


    So what are you waiting for? Be in love with this new hobby, Y-O-G-A.

    {Bikram Addict}

Living Healthily and Consistently

What you eat reflects who you are. Engaging into yoga doesn’t mean you are already healthy as a person. At times, you forget that what you eat has a huge impact to your health and body. I have a friend who regularly attends yoga classes in the morning, before she goes to work. People look up to her, Tina, because of her enthusiasm in attending all her classes, as she makes an effort not to miss a single class. The yoga class is incomplete without her. On the other hand, as she lives her normal life outside the four corners of the yoga class, her eating habit reflects differently. You would see her enjoy fried and oily foods, sweet milk chocolates and drink coffee or any drink with caffeine. That kind of lifestyle is not only evident in Tina’s life. Certainly, other gym buffs or yoga addicts struggle to eat healthy, the proper way.

Managing is involved in the area of eating. If you cannot fully manage and prioritize what’s important to eat, your diet will be ruined. In short, going to yoga is practically useless. Let me help you out with your proper and healthy eating lifestyle. Be guided by this FOOD PYRAMID I will show you.

healthy-food-pyramid

If I were you, I will buy a poster of this food pyramid. Post it in the kitchen or simply get this image and place on your phone. You need a reminder that healthy living is not simply attending yoga classes, it is being consistent from day to day, with what you eat and what you do.

{Bikram Addict}

Mediations on Fasting

fasting225.jpgHunger. Reincarnation. Yoga. Cooking. Prayer. Restraint. Family. Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, a new book of insights and meditations by yoga instructor and Oberlin College creative writing professor, Kazim Ali, touches on these parts of the human experience. Writing about the Islam occasion of Ramadan, Ali articulates the process of fasting from dusk to dawn:

“Twenty-nine or thirty days to explore the line
between the interior of the body and the surrounding world, to think
about what is brought to us and what we owe,” he writes.
He also compares the process to yoga. “[Yoga] is a practice, not unlike fasting, that allows us to practice linking
the inside-the private experiences of the body and the mind-with the
outside, the pulsing, breathing, actual world.”

Even if you’ve never fasted in your life, Ali addresses the other way we deny our appetites–something most human beings can relate to.

We want to know: Have you ever denied your appetite? What was the result?

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

White House Easter Yoga

egg_yoga.jpegLet’s roll some eggs
and do some yoga
!” exclaimed First Lady Michelle Obama, from the White House balcony on Monday morning.

The theme for this year’s annual White House Easter Egg Roll
was “Get Up and Go!” a reflection of the First Lady’s nationwide campaign
against childhood obesity through exercise and healthy eating.

Anusara Yoga Heads to Encinitas, CA

Anusura Yoga founder John Friend has announced the fall opening of an worldwide center for Anusara Yoga in Encinitas, California. Friend told Buzz that the center will include an 8,500-square-foot state-of-the-art studio, a soundstage for talks and concerts, and plenty of workshops, trainings, and gatherings, and will host visiting scholars and master teachers of other disciplines.