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...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 look good. Sukhasana and Shavasana are the two famous yogasna which provides complete relaxation to your body with mental peace. Yoga helps you to maintain healthy body as well as mind, thus you can gain physical fitness. It provides flexibility to your body and removes toxins from it, which will make you feel younger. It helps in thyroid and weight loss problems and thus you can get perfect shape of the body & look beautiful. Pranayams like kapalbhati are very useful to do. Yoga helps you get perfect oxygen dose for your body which provides glow to skin. It delays ageing, and you remain active and younger for longer time as compared to others who does not practice yoga. With yoga you can get toned legs and hands, firm and flat belly which will make you look gorgeous. It improves blood circulation and helps in balancing the hormones which...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...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. Your calorie intakeis represented by your diet. I would arguethat smart eatinggets you more than half way to successful weight loss, but this article is about whether or not yoga can assist you with the calorie burning side. Let's talk about calorie burning.So How Do you Burn Calories?Many wouldn't even considerusing yoga for weight loss or to burn calories. When most people think about burning calories in a quick efficient way, they usually think ofaerobic activities such as the classes, running or cycling. These activities do the main thing necessary to burn somemajor calories, which is elevate your heart rate. All of these activitiesare performed at a moderate intensity levelover a relatively long period of time. This explains why running at a moderate pace for a long distance is aerobic, but sprinting isn't. People recognize that yoga can be practiced over a long period of time, but when people think about using yoga for weight...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
We use several techniques to help us go beyond technique into the natural spaciousness of real meditation. Pre natal yoga instruction can be very beneficial to women and their particular needs at time of pregnancy. Emotional pressure and stress have...more