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Articles: yoga
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A Workshop with Sandra Sabatini
by Elizabeth Irvine
The author, who was initially exceedingly stressed out, late due to train cancellations, eloquently describes an inspirational workshop she attended with the renowned yoga teacher Sandra Sabatini, author of the book Breath the Essence of Yoga - A Guide to Inner Stillness.
Dru Yoga for Healing
by Paulette Agnew
The gap between modern medicine, quantum physics and ancient forms of health care, is closing fast. The science of Dru Yoga plays an essential part in this journey of discovery, as it works to heal through engaging heart power and through building bridges with therapeutic movement sequences between body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Hatha Yoga - The Energetics of Movement Transformation
by Lillian Irene Lovas
In this article Lovas explores how movement can be a way of motivating the inevitable changes that happen in our lives, how movement can be applied to therapeutic change and personal transformation.
Kundalini Yoga: Powerful, Transformational and Healing
by Barbara Lyndley
Partners Yoga
by Jan Williamson
Yoga practice is extremely versatile; it can be practised in solitude or in the more social atmosphere of a class situation and can be modified to suit age, ability and need.
Positive Health of Mind and Body
by Ruth White
The author illustrates what she calls the “universal natural law that whatever we do in this life will eventually come back in exactly the same proportions” by relating the story of a poor Scottish farmer who rescued a nobleman’s son who was being sucked to certain death into a bog. The farmer wouldn’t accept any payment but agreed to the nobleman paying for his son’s education. The nobleman was Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Sir Winston, and the farmer’s son eventually became Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin.
Ruth White - Iyengar Yoga Teacher
by Ruth White
Back in the Seventies, freelance photographer Ruth White was suffering from a lot of back pain. Years of bad posture and carrying heavy photographic equipment had taken their toll on her lower lumbar region and a specialist advised her that the most effective form of treatment would be to support her back in a plaster cast while it realigned itself. This seemed a very drastic form of treatment and Ruth was not looking forward to months of immobility and discomfort. It was only a chance conversation with a judo teacher that led her to try a different approach -Yoga.
Strengthening Digestion with Yoga and Ayurveda
by Meggan Brummer
This article focuses on our digestion and the ayurvedic wisdom of food and individual constitution (made up of Pitta, Vata and/or Kapha). The author touches on "where and how we eat", "how often should we eat", "how much should we eat" and "what we eat".
Surviving Ruth White at Grimstone Manor
by Ruth White
A teacher of Iyengar yoga, who also sells yoga accessories, such as mats, belts, blocks, videos, etc., the author says yoga is very much about “looking within”.
Teaching Yoga in Japan
by Ruth White
Ruth White tells of her experience teaching yoga in Japan. She found the Japanese a delight to teach because of their will power and tenacity, their efficiency and their kindness, hospitality and politeness.
Teaching Yoga to Young Schoolchildren
by Lidia Flisek
Lidia Flisek, a qualified yoga teacher, initiated the Body Awareness project in a primary school six years ago, aimed at teaching schoolchildren important aspects of yoga.
What Is Yogic Massage? How Yogic Massage Found Me
by Narayani Guibarra
The technique was invented by Brigette Hass, a tutor of the MTI who also teaches holistic massage, energy awareness, dance and movement and meditation. Yogic massage is a form of healing. In each session there is a pause, a holding, a deep listening, a time to assess, release, let go. The listening enables a practitioner to feel, sense or intuit which areas need work and the most appropriate techniques to use.
Yoga and Ayurveda for Headaches and Migraines
by Meggan Brummer
This article focuses on headaches and migraines and how yoga and Ayurvedic treatments can ease and/or treat such conditions.
Yoga and Ayurveda for Reducing High Blood Pressure
by Meggan Brummer
This article focuses on specific Ayurvedic and yoga remedies for high blood pressure. The author explains what causes high blood pressure, how to recognize if you have it and what the symptoms are.
Yoga and Breathing Exercises for Mother and Child
by Elizabeth Irvine
Stress is not just for adults - adults and children alike can become worn down by the pressures of day-to-day living. This article offers a range of practical and fun remedies that adults can practise with their children, based around yoga, breathing exercises and meditation.
Yoga and Dietary Tips for Good Liver Health
by Meggan Brummer
This article focuses on the liver, an organ that plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing, and Yoga exercises aimed at strengthening sluggish livers.
Yoga and Macrobiotics for Back Pain
by Meggan Brummer
Meggan Brummer begins by looking at the benefits of using ginger externally. According to Macrobiotics, a ginger compress can be used to relieve back pain, menstrual cramps, arthritis, stiff neck and kidney stone attacks. It is inexpensive, easy to prepare and has no undesirable side effects. The combination of ginger and heat helps to stimulate the circulation of blood and bodily fluids, dispersing stagnant energy – the tissue that is being treated becomes cleansed, nourished and revitalized.
Yoga for Diabetes
by Meggan Brummer
In this overview, the author contrasts the eastern and western approaches to treatment of the various forms of diabetes and sets out what can be achieved using Yogic asanas or postures.
Yoga for Mental Health
by Tammy Lorraine Majchrzak
In this article on Yoga for Mental Health the author shares how she discovered and achieved better health and balance within through this practice. She also explains the overall benefits of yoga and how it helps one’s mind, body and spirit.
Yoga for Mothers and Babies
by Jan Williamson
The practice of yoga encompasses an holistic approach using physical movements (asanas), breathing and relaxation techniques in order to establish a sense of awareness and integration within each individual.
Yoga for Parkinson's
by Jeanette Macturk
Research has shown Yoga to be the most beneficial alternative therapy towards helping people with Parkinson's.
Yoga for Weight Loss and Management
by Meggan Brummer
In this article on Yoga for Weight Loss and Management, the author says obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, and a new survey has also found that half of the British population are beyond their ideal weight.
Yoga is Health Giving
by Ruth White
Yoga in today's stressed-out world, says Ruth White, is as relevant as it was when it originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. It helps slow down an overactive mind while, at the same time, toning up the body, removing toxins, relieving pains, backache and injuries. Most importantly, she says, it allows space to be still.
Yoga Remedies for Body and Mind
by Mira Mehta
Mira Mehta explains how yoga can not only counter the pressures of modern living, but also alleviate many health conditions including back pain, aches and pain in the limbs, respiratory and circulatory problems, digestive complaints, menstrual and eliminatory dysfunction, problems of the throat and memory and mood disorders. She began Yoga as a child with BKS Iyengar and her mother and returns to India annually for further study and has an Advanced Yoga Teaching Certificate from BKS Iyengar. .
Yoga The Heart of Healing
by Howard Kent
While the ancient Greeks were postulating that mind and body were interwoven, the sages of India were exploring the same fundamental subject and coming to the same conclusion – only they explored the subject more deeply and offered a combination of intuitive research and applied disciplines, which they called yoga, or the understanding of one-ness.
Yoga Therapy
by Dr Robin Monro and Venice Allan
Yoga therapy is a holistic therapy that draws on practices that have been part of the traditional Indian health-care system for thousands of years, and is an approach that has proved particularly effective in managing psychosomatic, stress-related conditions, although it can be used to treat a wide range of other disorders.
Yoga Therapy
by Robin E Monro
A definition: Yoga Therapy is the adaptation of yoga to a particular set of people – those with health problems.
Yoga Tips for Healthy Living
by Nicola Phoenix
This article touches on a few aspects within the vast texts, teachings, techniques, philosophy and disciplines of yoga. It looks into the various stages of the great sage Patanjali’s teachings, and stresses that all yoga practices should be undertaken with guidance from an expert teacher.
Yoga, Dietary and Lifestyle Approaches for Prostate Problems
by Meggan Brummer
In this article which focuses on prostate problems, the author says that although approximately 50% of Australian men may experience some type of prostate problem at some stage of their life, they rarely give their prostate a second thought until it plays up.
Yoga: Oneness of body and mind
by Howard Kent
How do we keep healthy and happy? That has been, is and will be the 64,000 dollar question.
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