Today more than ever, it is essential that we include daily practices that realign and balance the body. As we grow, evolve and expand with new technologies that seem to "speed" things up in the world around us, it is especially important that we take special care to take the time to keep our bodies fit and flexible. In short, there must be a balance between an exciting, active daily life and a practice that involves taking the time to "slow down" and listen to what the body needs to keep it strong and limber.
My own personal journey began over 20 years ago at the age of 21 when I had a Gran mal seizure. This was my wake up call and a true blessing in disguise. Although the doctors could find no physical reason for the cause of this seizure, I intuitively knew that it was, in part, due to the fast paced life I was living at the time. That is when I began the practice of daily Yoga!
I started out stretching on my own and then began attending yoga classes becoming familiar with different types. Although there are many diverse styles from more traditional Hatha yoga to more modern versions and everything in between, it is important that you take the time to explore what you enjoy the best. If it makes you feel great there is more of a chance that you will be back for more!
Top Tips For Making It A Routine:
Buy a yoga mat and comfortable clothing.
Attend a number of classes in your area to become familiar with the different styles.
Pick some of your favorites and make them part of your weekly practice.
Buy Yoga Dvd's or get them from your local library.
Watch them with your friends, or start a yoga group for discipline and inspiration.
Create a "yoga time" everyday, whether it is in a class or at home.
Set this certain amount of time aside in which you will ONLY "focus" on your practice.
I personally have made yoga apart of my daily routine like brushing my teeth or eating breakfast. Morning is my favorite time to relax and enjoy a quiet focused workout. It is important for you to decide what works best for you and your own personal schedule and family life. Maybe three days a week is all you can afford? Well, 3 days a week is better than no days a week. Overtime it will make you feel so revived and alive that you will WANT to do it every day.
Yoga can become a lifelong companion that helps not only to alleviate aches and pains, but also increases your ability to let go of tension before it becomes a problem. We all need to be adaptable to change in the world we live in. Yoga helps us to adapt to a fast paced life with ease and flexibility that is our true nature. Make yoga part of your daily exercise program today!
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Yoga - Best For Mind, Body, Spirit Wellness
We have learned, in the past century, that our mental, physical and emotional or spiritual selves are related parts of our whole self. That if one component, the mental for example, is negatively affected, this will redound to the disadvantage of the other component selves as well.
Nobody ever welcomes the possibility of any health concerns. The quandary is so real - being or regaining health and keeping fit? Most everyone began pondering over possible, realistic and effective ways to manage it. There must be efficient and effective ways of stress management and relief.
Yoga could be the thing to meet these concerns.
The concept of Yoga is directed toward these three basic concerns of body movements to methods of breathing including meditation. Originating from the East, as among its ancient traditions, Yoga is now accepted and done in local, and global communities. Its followers started with religious organizations and now include business and professional entities and the ordinary civilian. There is now global acceptance of how stress diminishes work effectiveness and disrupts the harmony in a home and how yoga helps in stress management or relief.
Yoga looks at things as a whole. Yoga focuses on oneness - bringing together the body, mind and spirit. This theory delivers you from stress, grants you physical health, mental awareness and spiritual transformation.
Yoga teaches you how to meditate effectively, you are taught proper breathing, visualization, body stretching movements. The poses in yoga extend your spine while you're learning to regulate and slow down your breathing. Your body becomes equally rested and energized.
As you go on with yoga over time, you later get resistance to stress. The complete program of breathing methods, body stretches, fitness plans, meditation and directed visualization take out the stress you're confronting now.
Not only stress management and relief, Yoga likewise brings down blood pressure and adjusts heart rate, it diminishes anxiety levels and muscle constriction and raises energy levels and limbering of the body.
Yoga moves, in comparison to the usual exercise routines, are slow and gentle, which make Yoga applicable even to those who are physically hampered by illness.Plus, the meditation and positions of Yoga develop your spiritual awareness and mental consciousness.
Nothing good comes just falling into our laps. You must allot a regular time for you before you can acquire these gains leading towards the fitness of your entire system. Which in time will soon make you realize that getting into yoga was the best decision you ever made in your life.
Nobody ever welcomes the possibility of any health concerns. The quandary is so real - being or regaining health and keeping fit? Most everyone began pondering over possible, realistic and effective ways to manage it. There must be efficient and effective ways of stress management and relief.
Yoga could be the thing to meet these concerns.
The concept of Yoga is directed toward these three basic concerns of body movements to methods of breathing including meditation. Originating from the East, as among its ancient traditions, Yoga is now accepted and done in local, and global communities. Its followers started with religious organizations and now include business and professional entities and the ordinary civilian. There is now global acceptance of how stress diminishes work effectiveness and disrupts the harmony in a home and how yoga helps in stress management or relief.
Yoga looks at things as a whole. Yoga focuses on oneness - bringing together the body, mind and spirit. This theory delivers you from stress, grants you physical health, mental awareness and spiritual transformation.
Yoga teaches you how to meditate effectively, you are taught proper breathing, visualization, body stretching movements. The poses in yoga extend your spine while you're learning to regulate and slow down your breathing. Your body becomes equally rested and energized.
As you go on with yoga over time, you later get resistance to stress. The complete program of breathing methods, body stretches, fitness plans, meditation and directed visualization take out the stress you're confronting now.
Not only stress management and relief, Yoga likewise brings down blood pressure and adjusts heart rate, it diminishes anxiety levels and muscle constriction and raises energy levels and limbering of the body.
Yoga moves, in comparison to the usual exercise routines, are slow and gentle, which make Yoga applicable even to those who are physically hampered by illness.Plus, the meditation and positions of Yoga develop your spiritual awareness and mental consciousness.
Nothing good comes just falling into our laps. You must allot a regular time for you before you can acquire these gains leading towards the fitness of your entire system. Which in time will soon make you realize that getting into yoga was the best decision you ever made in your life.
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