Teaching Yoga for Nausea
There are a few yoga postures and breathing exercises that will help prevent nausea or alleviate the symptoms. Nausea can be an unwelcome...
Yoga for Stress Relief: Restorative Asanas
There are a number of Yoga asanas that are very helpful for relaxing both the body and mind. A regular practice of Yoga postures and...
Teaching Cooling Yoga Poses to Calm the Mind
Cooling poses quiet both the mind and body as the poses facilitate the inward withdrawal of the senses known in the Yoga sutras as...
Yoga Poses to Nurture the Water Element
There are Yoga postures that nurture all four elements: earth, air, fire and wind. Yoga poses that nurture the water element are fluid...
Telling Stories for Kids Yoga Postures
Depending on the age of your Yoga students, they will most likely be ready and willing to make up a story or two. To help, you can set the scene, and identify a problem the characters will face, before beginning to tell the story. You can let each child tell a part of the story, breaking it up into the beginning, middle, and end; or you can let the story flow in different directions. Remember that the importance of the story lies in the Yoga postures - not whether the story makes perfect sense.
Yoga Poses for Walking
Combining the practice of Yoga postures with walking will provide you with a very balanced and "do-able" exercise regime. Ayurveda is the...
Yoga for Children with ADHD
Yoga for children with ADHD is a sensible solution. Yoga can be an incredibly effective tool in supporting children with ADHD to improve..
Yoga Meditation to Train the Mind
A Yoga mediation technique that is particularly useful for improving your mental powers of concentration is breathing meditation. When...
Heal With Yoga
Another advantage of healing with Yoga, is that it lets people control a variety of body functions. These include blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate, metabolic functions, and so on and so forth. Skeletal, muscular, endocrinal, and nervous systems then respond in a highly sensitive manner, to ensure proper function and maintain health. For example - when you practice Sarvangasana, the thyroid is really stimulated, or when you practice Sirshasana, the pituitary is stimulated, or when you practice Paschimottanasana, the pancreas is stimulated. Research has shown that, people who regularly practice Yoga, have lower anxiety, are more stress resistant, have normal blood pressure, great heart function, and overall enhanced physical fitness.
A Good Work Practice – Simple Yoga Postures For Busy Medical Professionals
You don't have to be a contortionist to practice yoga or trade your scrub pants for spandex pants. You don't even have to be in the yoga studio or local gym. With the simple poses listed below, men and women of all ages and abilities can alleviate stress at work and keep energy levels high. You can do them virtually anywhere and arrive home at the end of the day feeling rested and balanced.