It isn’t often that your doctor takes off his coat, puts on shorts, and leads a yoga class. Unless your doctor is
Posts Tagged ‘yoga poses’
The Bikram Yoga Addict – Various Basic Yoga Postures
January 3rd, 2011
levis25 Are you getting burned out by all the stressful things happening to you? There are some people who resort to doing a yoga exercise when it comes to ways on how to eliminate depression in their system. However, doing this kind of meditation requires a lot of patience because the bikram yoga addict should not be done in haste. You don’t have to force yourself and do several position in just a short span of time. Remember that the reason why you’re doing yoga is to get rid of the stress, so do every position slowly. If you don’t have the slightest idea on what poses to use, here are some of the basic positions that can give you a good jumpstart in your meditation.
The Indian Sit or the Sukhasana – This is the starting position that helps you become aware in your breathing and other activities of your body system. It also develops your posture and helps you get a nice and strong hips.
Dog and Cat – This bikram yoga addict pose can give flexibility to your spine. Start by bending your knee and putting your hand just in front of your shoulders. As you breathe in and out, arch your back and tilt your pelvis upward to give your back a good stretching.
Mountain or Tadasana – This gives awareness to your balance and it also increases your focus as you strive to have a good posture for a few minutes. Developing self-awareness is the main focus of this pose.
Forward Bend or Uttanasana II – This is rather a bit complicated compared to the previous poses but it sure give a lot of benefits for your body. If you think that a bending position will give you back pains, this yoga pose will give rest to your heart and neck while providing relaxation to your mind and body.
The Triangle or Trikonasana – If you want to do a little stretching, this pose will give a nice exercise to you spine while boosting up your balance and concentration. Start with spreading your feet a few feet apart and bend to your left while make your hands spread out parallel to the floor. Inhaling and exhaling while doing this pose can help in improving your respiratory system.
If you want to know more about the bikram yoga addict, you can try visiting the other links provided.
Cambridge Institutes Yoga Parking Tickets
September 29th, 2010
levis25
The city of Cambridge has stretched its views on parking tickets. Last week, city officials began issuing parking tickets illustrated with a series of calming yoga poses. According to an article in The Boston Herald by Laura Crimaldi and Ira Kantor, the city printed 40,000 yoga parking tickets as a part of a public art project by artist-in-residence Daniel Peltz.
The artist says:
“I started this process by wondering what would happen in a world where I received them [parking tickets] with a set of graceful postures: a clean bend at the waist, a gentle lift of the windshield wiper . . . I’m going to get the ticket either way, my only choice really is how I’m going to receive it.”
We want to know:
Would an image of a yoga pose make you feel less annoyed at receiving a parking ticket?
What daily hassles would be improved if they included a gentle reminder about yoga’s relaxing principles?
Nora Isaacs is a Bay Area-based health writer and editor.
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
RSS Feed
Posted in
Tags:
