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5 Effective Yoga Poses for People Who Suffer from Asthma

Asthma is a chronic disease which causes inflammation of the respiratory tract. It is a surprisingly common disease that affects a large portion of the population, which is around 300 million people. Asthma is often considered to hinder people’s ability to exercise and perform workouts properly, due to consistent shortness…

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How You Can Improve Your Wellness With Meditation

Practising mindfulness and meditation may assist you with managing stress and high blood pressure, sleep better, feel more balanced as well as connected and even reduce your risk of heart disease. Meditation and mindfulness are practices — often making use of breathing, quiet contemplation or prolonged focus on something, such…

How Does Yoga Assist Us As We Age?

One key factor that separates yoga from other forms of exercise is that in bringing attention to the breath as well as coordinating the breath with the movement of the body, yoga is a practice in mindfulness. It holistically supports our well-being by promoting a mind-body connection. In addition, it…

How Yoga Can Help For Stress-Related Insomnia

Yoga isn’t just advantageous for improving core strength, flexibility as well as stress levels. This ancient exercise form can also assist you with sleeping better — particularly if you suffer from insomnia. When individuals who suffer from insomnia perform yoga on a daily basis, they sleep for longer periods of…

What Exactly Is Cardio Yoga? Find out more in this article.

Cardio yoga is a kind of yoga class which combines Yoga moves together with cardiovascular exercises. This type of workout takes classic yoga moves and makes them a bit faster, with a more rapid transition between sequences. The non-stop movement makes sure to get your heart beating as well as…

Why Yoga And Meditation Can Help With Chronic Pain

As the number of individuals who are dealing with chronic pain progressively increases, in tandem with the continuing opioid crisis, both doctors, as well as patients, are becoming increasingly more curious about how to handle chronic pain conditions using non-pharmacological treatments. The tools of yoga, mindfulness as well as meditation…

How Can Meditation Reduce Chronic Pain?

Living with chronic pain as well as illness can be unbearable. Even after taking the highest dose of painkillers, the ache very soon returns with a vengeance. You want to do anything, something, to stop the pain. However, whatever you attempt seems to fail. Moving hurts. Doing absolutely nothing hurts.…

What Is Yoga Nidra?

The term ‘yoga nidra’, or yogic sleep as it is usually known, refers an enormously powerful meditation method, in addition to one of the simplest yoga practices to develop as well as maintain. While the yoga practitioner rests comfortably in savasana (corpse pose), this systematic meditation brings you all the…

How to create a welcoming space for yoga at home

The beauty of yoga is that it can be practised anywhere. It’s relevant across all cultures, languages, as well as countries. It can be practised independently in the comfort of your home, outside in Mother Nature, or in a room full of people. From the relaxing, sequential stream of Sun…

How to do Urdhva Prasarita Ekapadasana

When you practise Standing Splits (Urdhva Prasarita Ekapadasana), focus on the stretch in your quad and hamstrings, not how high you can lift your leg. This asana is an Intermediate to Advanced Level pose which is practised for the deeper opening of the hips, and therefore forms part of the…

How to do Parsvottanasana

Stretch your outer hips and hamstrings, lengthen your spine and encourage quietude as well as self-reflection in Intense Side Stretch (Parsvottanasana). Being partially a forward bend and partially a balancing pose, this pose is a mid-way pose between Parivrtta Trikonasana and Utthita Trikonasana. This asana is also popularly called the…

How to perform Padahastasana and other basic yoga forward bends

Padahastasana is a stretching pose in yoga which utilises the strength of the body in order to stretch. The yoga practitioner makes use of his or her upper body strength in order to pull the body and then put it in a stretch. The term ‘Padahastasana’ is derived from the…

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