Tag: Yoga
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Yoga Poses You Can Do at Your Work Desk to Relieve Stress
Seated Backbend While seated with a straight spine take a deep breath and reach all the way up to the ceiling with your arms open wide. As you exhale, let your gaze slowly draw behind you and bend slightly from your upper back and chest. Hold this for a few seconds, release arms to your […]
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Morning Yoga For A Perfect Day
Most of us don’t have the luxury of starting our days with the easy-going, sunrise-watching, coffee-sipping routines depicted in commercials. It’s usually more about hoping the caffeine kicks in quickly as you juggle getting yourself ready with responding to the demands of your household and buzzing phone. That’s why we recommend five minutes of yoga […]
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Top 10 Types of Yoga and Their Benefits
Yoga can be an invigorating, stress-relieving form of exercise that offers a multitude of physical and psychological benefits. With so many types, it can be hard to distinguish between them. Our list of the top health benefits of yoga offers an explanation on each type of yoga benefits and how to choose the yoga practice […]
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Laughter yoga
Laughter yoga was created by Dr. Madan Kataria, “The Laughter Guru”, who believes in the power of laughter and its ability to provide physical and holistic benefits. To reap the scientifically proven benefits of laughter, you will laugh continuously for at least 10 to 15 minutes loud and deep, like a belly laugh coming straight […]
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Yoga may have health benefits for people with asthma
A new Cochrane Review, published in the Cochrane Library today, suggests that yoga may have a beneficial effect on symptoms and quality of life in people with asthma, but effects on lung function and medication use are uncertain. Asthma is a common chronic disease affecting about 300 million people worldwide. The many typical symptoms of […]
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Expressing your creative-self through Yoga
The gifts from an ancient discipline to expand our ability on “writing” our minds. It’s true. Yoga has a lot to do with exercise and body. We can’t deny the number of benefits it brings to the well-being of our physical state overall. But Yoga is also mind, and the magical effects it has on […]
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Yoga: a discipline your heart will thank
Not a fan of running or bike-riding? Yoga may be as good for your cardiovascular system as aerobic exercises. According to a new study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology suggested Yoga may be as beneficial as more traditional physical activities such as walking or biking in reducing the risks of cardiovascular disease. Investigators […]
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Yoga Reduces Arthritis Pain by 20%
A little down dog reduces discomfort, increases energy and boosts your mood. If you’re one of the millions of mid-lifers who avoids yoga because of aching, and creaky joints, feel free to grab your mat now. A new study from John Hopkins University reports that yoga improves arthritis symptoms by 20 percent. The trial included […]
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El libro que Steve Jobs regaló en su funeral
Hoy, 5 de enero, se cumplen 123 años del nacimiento de Paramahansa Yogananda, el yogui y gurú hinduista, propagador del yoga en Occidente y autor del famoso libro “Autobiografía de un yogui”. Bajo este título, Yogananda publicó en 1946 la historia de su vida y de su búsqueda, calificada como una de las 100 obras […]