Starting a Yoga Practice

Yoga is the union of the mind, body and spirit expressed in motion, sound, meditation and community. This ancient practice of asanas (poses), meditation and gentle ritual will enrich your life and deepen your knowledge of your Self, while opening your spirit toward the world around you.

The Benefits of Practicing Yoga

Whatever that can mean today, Yoga in plain language means opportunity or luck. For example, if you inherit a legacy totally in an unanticipated way, it is your yoga that brought it your way. It is quite a common word in its usage, meaning luck, in India. Sample this: 'He had a bad yoga; he lost his business in the storm.'

Seven Biggest Mistakes Yoga Studios Owners Make In Their Business -- And What To Do About Them

Few of us ever had a class or mentor to teach us how to run a business or studio. Unfortunately, 8 out of 10 small businesses will fail because of this lack of experience. In this article, I'm going to share with you some of the common mistakes that yoga studio businesses often make.

Universal Principles of Yoga: Forgiveness

This is why Yoga can help heal today's world. Yoga teaches us about the law of Karma.

Kids Yoga: Enhanced Goal Setting Techniques

Parents know that children need the best possible “head start” in the extremely competitive world of academics, athletics, and later on, in business. Hatha Yoga classes, for children, offers them a chance to set their own goals, without a strict measurement of success.

Need To Improve Your Health Or Flexibility? Try Yoga

Yoga can have all sorts of health benefits, and these can include improvements in flexibility. This can have benefits in many areas of your life.

Yoga and Spiritual Self-Reconciliation

The sooner we all realize that peaceful co-existence, and tolerance, will bring about world peace, the better. These are the universal principles of Yoga, and they do not conflict with any religion.

Yoga and Mental Self-Reconciliation

Many of us need time to “find ourselves,” and some of us never do. How can Yoga help a “lost soul?” Can Yoga really be a guide to better mental health? Where do you start to “pick up the pieces” and practice Yoga for self-reconciliation?

Yoga And Its Importance

Yoga is a traditional system of healing for the mind and body. It means union. It is a popular belief that yoga can cleanse your body of toxins and improve muscle tone, as well as help in blood circulation.

Yoga is Suitable for Everyone

Yoga is suitable for everyone, of any age or physical condition. This is due to the nonstrenuous nature of our approach to exercise, even people with physical limitations can find it beneficial to practice yoga. There are many different schools of Yoga.

In the Presence of BKS Iyengar

Lillah Schwartz reveals the secrets of Iyengar Yoga.

What Else Should a Hatha Yoga Teacher Know about Pranayama?

When a person has pain, he or she can think of nothing else. Pain is the companion you wish you never met. Pranayama can help us say goodbye to pain, but it must be performed technically and safely.

Kundalini: An Intense Form of Vital Force Energy

Generally a downfall connotes a bad meaning and to rise up means good. This principle is also applicable to the body especially as far as the vital force of the genital organs is concerned. By terming the Mooladhar Chakra as the female genital organ and the Sahasrar as the male genital organ no doubt only a symbolic analysis has been made but it is not so as far as actions are concerned. Instead of not wasting the Mooladhar energy in sexual passion it should be raised to the head region so that via proper meditation the eye of divine wisdom can be opened up.

Yama and Niyama: The Foundation Stones of Yoga

Living in harmony with the society around you and with your inner self is the base of yoga. The yogic principles of Yama and Niyama provide a guide for ideal human conduct. This article is an introduction to the these ancient but still relevant principles of ideal human conduct.

Yoga and Skiing Go Together Before, During and After the Ski Season

Cross training have become the buzzwords in sports the past couple of years, and they apply to skiing as much a cycling, baseball, basketball or snowboarding. Some cross training activities can only be done before your season begins; then focus changes to just the main activity. Yoga and skiing go together before, during and after the season.