Yoga diet helps in setting an ideal weight and achieving spiritual and emotional balance. Yoga diet does not insist on planning a complicated menu or calorie tracking, nor does it ask you to stay hungry. Yoga diet refers to vegetarianism, as the principles of yoga regard Sattvic foods to be the ideal diet. These foods create new energy, calm mind and there by enables to use physical, mental and spiritual talents, besides being nutritious and...more
I am a long distance runner. I competed with my high school track team and I ran on my college team at University of California at San Diego. Now I train on my own. My present goal: qualify for the 2012 Olympic team trials. Only potential Olympic competitors and and their coaches truly understand the daunting nature of this challenge. Walls are hit and overcome. Runners understand how fractions of a second off a time is sometimes a...more
People all over the world are becoming increasingly health conscious. This is the reason why we are witnessing a huge rise in the popularity of alternative medicine or treatments that teach us to do away with medication and drugs. Ayurveda and Yoga have proven to be two of the most formidable pillars of alternative medicine. These sister Vedic sciences have been united for thousands of years for the sake of healing the body, mind, and consciousness. In lay terms, Ayurveda is known to deal more with the health of the body, while Yoga deals with purifying the mind and consciousness. However, both these sciences complement and complete each other to make way for a healthy existence. Enlisted here are few of the similarities between Ayurveda and Yoga: They are ancient Vedic teachings. Yoga finds its origin in the Yajur Veda, while Ayurveda originates in the Atharva Veda and Rig Veda. Both these sciences teach that keeping the body healthy is vital for fulfilling the four main objectives of life: Dharma (Duty), Artha (Wealth), Kama (Desire), and Moksha (Liberation). Both Ayurveda and Yoga recognize that there needs to be a balance between doshas (humors), dhatus (tissues), and malas...more
Yoga is a wonderful method for gaining physical strength, fitness and beauty in your life. Yoga helps to reduce excess fat in the body, makes you healthy and brings a shine of confidence on your face. Yoga makes the body flexible and plays a vital role in overcoming stress and ageing. One should feel good from inside in order to...more
There are so many publications and web sites addressing the "how to give up smoking" subject that one may ask, what is the need to write something else? There are two reasons why I decided to write this article. Firstly, despite all what has been written, many of us don't really know what effects smoking has on our health. Secondly, methods used to...more
Is using yoga for weight loss possible? Losing weight is easy, in principle. All you have to do is to use more calories thanyou take in... period. What's so hard about that? In actuality, the balancing of both sidesof this equationis hard. The number of calories you take inis represented by your diet. My opinion isthat smart eatinggets you more than half way to successful weight loss, but this article examines whether or not yoga can assist you with the calorie burning side. Let's talk about burning calories.How Are Calories Burned?Most people don't think ofusing yoga for weight loss or calorie burning. When the average person thinks about burning calories in an effective way, it's typicallyaerobic activities such as the classes, running or cycling. These activities do the main thing necessary to blow through someserious calories, which is raise your heart rate. These are all activities thatare performed at a moderate intensity levelover a longer period of time. This explains why running at a moderate pace for a long distance is aerobic, but sprinting isn't. People know yoga can be practiced over a long period of time, but when people think about using yoga for weight loss, they're...more
Is using yoga for weight loss possible? Losing weight is very simple, in principle. You simply need to burn more calories thanyou take in... that's it. What's so hard about that? In actuality, the balancing of both sidesof this equationis difficult....more
Yogahas been practiced forthousands of years, because historically people have knownthe benefits of yoga. It is crucial, however, to rememberthat there exist more than 10different styles of yoga that are most frequently practiced, and all of these...more
There are quite a few "types" of yoga. A traditional physical and mental discipline originating in India, yogahas been practiced for centuries, and is a sequence of postures and positions, synchronized with your breathing, designed to elevate mind,...more
Meditation is to weight loss, what diet and exercise are to getting slim. The power to make a decision is "the" most important step -- and the first one -- in the grueling, even daunting at times, path to getting thin...and healthy. However, "keeping...more
If you're suffering from chronic lower back pain and are looking for exercises or some way to treat it without medications or want to find some way to get pain relief and quit taking any drugs, a new study may help you. The NIH, the National...more
Life is hectic. Many of us don’t have time to add another commitment to our busy schedules. Our pencils are wearing down to the nubs from filling in appointment after appointment on our increasingly full calendars.At times people...more