Sunday, August 17, 2008
Yoga Teacher Certification for the Rich and Famous
...tation costs to be concerned with, when using a Yoga home study course. The only cost is for materials, tutoring, and Yoga teacher certification.
Further, I explained that to be trained in a face-to-face setting, by a Master Yoga Teacher, is more expensive due to the hands on time spent with his teacher. After all, we have an onsite Yoga Teacher program that is more expensive than our correspondence course.
Time spent learning Yoga from a Master Teacher, or a Guru, is a valuable service. Our course is designed for an experienced Yoga practitioner who doesnt need as much hands on help or who has a local Yoga teacher for guidance.
He continued the conversation to ask me about technical support, and I explained that we handle it by Email, over the phone, and some interns stop by for our Yoga teacher workshops. We have had Yoga teacher trainees visit us from California and Great Britain to attend a workshop. By the sound of his voice, he seemed depressed, and I asked him, What is wrong?
He told me that he hadnt been ...more
Pregnancy Yoga
...problems such as tiredness, backache, anxiety, headaches and many other complaints of pregnancy.
Pregnancy yoga helps you to understand and become aware of your body. As you move and stretch into postures, you reconnect with the power of your female form, and begin to listen to and trust your body's wisdom. You learn valuable techniques of relaxation, and breathing techniques that will assist you through labor, birth and the experience of motherhood.
Beyond a physical preparation for labor and birth, pregnancy yoga provides you with the inner space to adapt to the changes of pregnancy, and the journey to motherhood. "pregnancy yoga allowed me to spend time focusing on me and my baby. It gave me the space to reconnect with my femininity after the rush and harshness of the working world," says Aileen Kennaugh, mother of Kayla.
Using breath as the tool, pregnancy yoga teaches you to let your...more
True Essence of Yoga
...Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning. When you say a face as a moon, fools search for moon in that face. But, wise people see similarity in the face and moon. Similarly, wheels and lotus flowers should not be searched in the spinal card. Spinal card is the main nerve, representing mind, which is the base of love.
All these wheels or lotus flowers are the bonds of love in the various relatives like parents, wife or husband, children etc. They are compared to wheels or the revolving whirlpools in the ocean, which attract a swimmer and drown him. Similarly, these love wheels are compared to lotus flowers, since the lotus flowers attract the bee by sweet fragrance and bind it. Similarly, these love flowers attract any one and bind them. Kundalini is the mind which is the energy travelling as waves like a serpent, should cross all these love wheels connected to 7th lotus flower in the head called Sahasrara, which is Buddhi or intelligence that takes the decision, which...more
Enjoy The Amazing ashtanga Yoga Practice
...this type of yoga. If there is a frail body and the sense organs are not operating at full capacity then it will not be beneficial to practice.
This is a philosophy that K. Pattabhi Jois has applied. This is important to understand so that in doing the practice, it will ensure that the body will get better and become more fit and improved.
Two things applied in ashtanga Yoga are Tristhana and Vinsaya.
A type of yoga called Vinsaya makes ashtanga and its practices very different from other kinds. Vinsaya is defined by the breathing and action which can be used to cleanse internally. There is only one breath for each movement. It is vital to sweat when doing Vinsaya. The procedure is being followed properly if there is sweating. When Asanas is performed, heat is created by the body which makes your blood boil and help the toxins leave your bod...more
