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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009There are almost as many types of yoga as ice cream flavors. Your yoga practice can be relaxing with an emphasis on stretching such as restorative yoga. Vinyasa yoga is more heart rate intensive because you move through postures in a flow of one posture into another using your own body weight for resistance. Power [...]
Yoga As An Alternative To Drug Therapy For Back Pain And Depression
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009There has been found to be an interesting correlation between people who suffer from chronic lower back pain and people who suffer with bouts of depression. It is a chicken and egg scenario, more sufferers of depression have chronic low back pain. But, it can be argued that suffering with chronic pain can make you [...]
Yoga is Not Just For Yuppies Anymore
Sunday, August 9th, 2009Yoga is very much “in” right now. Celebrities are photographed all the time in the tabloids with their yoga mats and credit yoga to keeping them fit. Yoga has gone mainstream. There are not only yoga studios across the country, but specialized studios which practice specific kinds of yoga like Bikram yoga or Iyengar yoga.
Amrit Yoga Stays With You Long After Downward Dog
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009I have been practicing and teaching yoga for several years. This is somewhat uncharacteristic of my fitness persona. If you’re thinking Jillian Michaels or Jackie Warner from Bravo’s Workout, that’s a little bit more of who I am. My style of fitness has always been intense, rigorous, and at times even unforgiving. My Spinning class [...]
Stretch Now or Stretch Later
Friday, July 17th, 2009A woman at my gym is very physically active. She works out 7 days a week for at least an hour and half daily. You would think that people would know who she is based on her dedication and discipline to fitness, but that is not the case. Rather, this woman is famous for never [...]
Couples Yoga is Not for Strangers, If You Know What I Mean
Saturday, May 30th, 2009There is arguably not a bigger advocate for yoga than me. I have always said that the perfect exercise routine must include cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, balance, and flexibility. A good hot power yoga class fits that bill for me, in this regard. Actually, there is a place in my world for most [...]
Yoga Moaning
Thursday, April 30th, 2009I really love going to yoga at least once a week. I workout more than the average person, possibly more than the average fitness professional but that one or two hours I give myself each week is more valuable than all the others as far as centering myself and just doing what makes me happy. [...]
Upper body yoga strength exercises
Monday, April 13th, 2009I was recently reading an article about creating shapely arms and the author referred to Madonna’s arms as “scary.” Are you kidding me? Madonna has amazing arms and it blows my mind that anyone would call her long, lean, well defined arms scary. I suppose that’s why they say there is a rear end for [...]
Kundalini Yoga
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Kundalini yoga is a new discipline here in the West however is an ancient form of yoga. In 1969, Yogi Bhajan brought Kundalini in the hopes of reaching a broader population as previously it had not been taught to the public. Yogi Bhajan felt that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy its benefits.
Kundalini energy [...]
Power Yoga
Thursday, March 26th, 2009The final type of flow or Vinyasa yoga that this blog series will touch upon is called simply, Power Yoga. Power yoga is a general term which describes an intense, fitness-based approach to Vinyasa type yoga. Power yoga most closely resembles the Ashtanga style practice.
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