...yoga is a therapy for the mind and the body. Practicing yoga daily can help alleviate everyday tensions, stresses and ailments. There are not any restrictions as to who can practice it and who will benefit from it. Regardless of age, fitness level and flexibility everyone should be doing yoga daily.

yoga can help slow down the aging process. Wonder what the secret to looking young is as you look at famous celebrities like Goldie Hawn, Madonna and Sting, it isn't plastic surgery it is yoga. The aging process is a brought on by autointoxication of our minds and bodies. Get started to help keep your body clean and improve your flexibility which will keep your joints lubricated and this will slow the catabolic process which is the deterioration of the cells. While yoga will not reverse the aging process it will slow it ...more

What is Yoga?

...you need to consider when choosing a form of Yoga to study and participate in.

Using the examples above and just the short definitions given to us there, you can see they are distinct and each has a different purpose or goal.

Karma is meant to help you attain salvation through your actions. To humbly serve in this life so you can be served in the next. Everyone has heard of good and bad Karma. The saying comes from this style of yoga. If you do good things, good things will happen to you if not in this life, in the next.

Raja yoga is the control of your own mind. Not allowing it to be modified by events that have happened to you in your past. The belief here is that every event that happens in your life modifies your mind and how you perceive things. By practicing Raja yoga, you can keep your mind from being modified by these events and get to know your true self.

Bhakti yoga is selfless devotion to GOD. The belief that GOD is the supreme being that created the universe. The 9 principles of Bhakti yoga are;

1) Hearing about the Lord - singing & chanting God's names (japa), hearing stories from scripture.

2) Glorifying the Lord - describing God's all-attractive features.

3) Remembering the Lord - internal meditation on the Lord's form, activities, names or personality.more

yoga Meditation Technique

...first plate or cup.

Then very slowly with full awareness move your hands to pick that piece of crockery.

Be aware of your breath as you move your hands.

Watch as you wash the plate with care.

Listen to the sound of the bubbles as they slide off the plate and hit the water.

Feel the warm water and the suds on your hands.

Be constantly aware of all your senses sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing.

Also be aware of all your movements.

Once you've applied the yoga secret to washing your dishes you can expand it to create awareness triggers in your every day activities.

If you work at a desk you can bring conscious awareness to your body every time you pick up a pen.

Pause for half a second or even a second or two before you pick up your pen.

This reminds you that the only time you have is the present there is no need to rush through life to the next moment.

Slowly move your hand to pick up the pen as you breathe in deeply.

Be aware of how the pen feels in your hand and how that feeling changes as you start writing on the paper.

See the fine detail of the writing you're creating o...more

Namaste - yoga Adepts

...efinition as a sutra, as it would be a lack of true modesty, which is a characteristic of the true yoga adept, or pupil on the path.

But it will do to demonstrate by example what sutras are. It has become clear to me that sutras have but one goal: give the mind a stupendous jolt. As the mind is responsible for your survival, it cannot but create a sense of "self". To help the pupil circumvent the veil that the mind creates to keep that sense of "self" as a tangible reality, the stupendous "jolt" will keep the mind busy, maybe long enough for the pupil to realize he has the opportunity to go and take a loo...more

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