December 4th, 2009 
levis25 This time of year there always seem to be a plethora of articles and news reports about how to deal with the stress of the holiday season.
Take, for example, this video by a news station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota:
We all know yoga can help us deal with stress from the holiday season–or any other stressful time for that matter. What else do you do to help you keep your calm during the hustle and the bustle?
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
Posted in Personal Stories, Relaxation Techniques, yoga poses 
Tags: always-seem, Holiday, lifestyle, news-reports, news-station, other-stressful, stress, the-holiday, video 
Comments Off November 16th, 2009 kate Yoga for Kids is one of the fastest growing yoga niches out there today. It’s taught in hundreds of studios across the country. A recent report from CNN featured kids that use yoga to cope with everything from ADHD to divorcing parents. But can a 4-year-old really appreciate the depth of the practice?
Who cares!? As long as it’s helping them manage their stress and feel better, they’re getting the benefit of the practice.
“I think the younger kids may not know exactly what they get out of it. It’s kind of like when you put zucchini in their muffins and don’t tell them,” yoga instructor Cheryl Crawford told CNN. “They don’t really know. They just know they they feel good.” (See video below.)
Do you have kids who practice yoga? Have you noticed any benefits?
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
Posted in Relaxation Techniques, health benefits Tags: benefit, cheryl-crawford, cnn, country, fastest, featured-kids, muffins, news, practice, practice-yoga, recent-report, stress, their-muffins, yoga-instructor, younger Comments Off February 5th, 2009 kate 
Stress is one of the major causes of health problems for many adults today. With the face-paced life that we are in, multi-tasking and hurrying up and long hours at work are the normal everyday challenges that we face. Stress causes high blood pressure, makes you look old, makes you irritable and affects the way you relate with people. There is one way to prevent all of these and handle stress: yoga.
Yoga helps you relax and feel good and handle difficult things. Practicing yoga will help you make good decisions and will give you the inner power to start and finish all the things that you need to do. When you practice yoga, you will learn how to breathe slowly and makes use of the full capacity of your lungs.
Do you notice that when you are stressed out or angry or in a bad mood, your breathing becomes faster? You can control your stress or your emotion by doing some yoga breathing exercises. Just sit down with your back straight and then start breathing deeply and slowly. Count your breath and be mindful of the air breathing in and air breathing out. After 10 counts, notice that you feel much better and more relaxed.
The whole yoga routine of poses or asanas will also help you in handling your stress. The yoga poses will put you into a meditative mood that will calm you down and clear your mind. If you are feeling a lot of stress everyday and you feel that your lid will come off, it will be very helpful if you start doing some yoga breathing exercises and one or 2 yoga postures.
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