yoga
Yoga and meditation are essential in living a health and wellness lifestyle. Longevity highlights yoga poses, celebrities, trends, and fads.
Lessons from Yoga
At the start of this year, I decided I wanted to try yoga. My reasoning was nothing but shallow. I wanted to improve my flexibility and shed a few kilos, and that was it. What I didn't expect was the transformation it will have on my well-being. Here’s a list of all the lessons I learned from yoga that has seeped into my daily life.
By Ayanda Mandlazi6 years ago in Longevity
Foolproof Tips to Create An Inexpensive Home Yoga Space
How would you like to create an affordable home yoga space and treat yourself to a beautiful at-home sanctuary? When it comes to a yoga studio idea, design, decor, color scheme, and furnishings all are key factors that play a major role in it coming together for your satisfaction.
By Silena Le Beau6 years ago in Longevity
Tips to Improve Your Yoga Practice
Yoga is one of the most ancient practices of discipline, and has a history of more than 5,000 years old according to Yoga Alliance. It's origin began in India and ever since has been implemented by millions of people all around the world. It is a technique that has brought many benefits to people's lives, but some people, in the beginning, find it very challenging to start. This is because yoga can teach you, your body, and your mind to be more disciplined, but it also takes previous self-discipline and control to begin and keep yoga a routine. If you are a person that feels that being disciplined is very hard for you to do, then it might take longer than normal to see the benefits of yoga. One thing to always keep in mind is that learning something new almost always takes trial and error, so it's important to keep going when you fail at yoga. Even some of the most expert people that have practiced yoga for many years can relate to a time where they struggled with the practice of yoga. The good news is that all beginners are not alone, and they're are plenty of tips and tricks to help them begin on the right path:
By Jade Pulman7 years ago in Longevity
Pranayama
“Tug on anything at all and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the universe.” John Muir Every night we charge our cell phones, but how do we recharge the mind? The secret is our breath. “Prana” refers to the universal life force and “ayama” means to regulate, stretch, extend, or lengthen. So pranayama is the extension and expansion of all our vital energy. Pranayamas are yogic breathing exercises that have the ability to improve our health, and increase mental clarity and energy.
By Stephanie Miller Kopyar7 years ago in Longevity
Prana Vayu
“At its heart, hatha yoga is more than just flexibility or strength in postures; it is the management of prana, the vital life force that animates all levels of being. Prana enables the body to move and the mind to think. It is the intelligence that coordinates our senses, and the perceptible manifestation of our higher selves. By becoming more attentive to prana—and enhancing and directing its flow through the practices of hatha yoga—we can invigorate the body and mind, develop an expanded inner awareness, and open the door to higher states of consciousness.” (Sandra Anderson)
By Stephanie Miller Kopyar7 years ago in Longevity
Being Receptive
Om Namah Shivaya gurave nada-bindu-kalatmane niranjana-padam yati nityam yatra parayanah“Salutations to the nadam, which is the inner guide and the inner life, the dispenser of happiness to all. It is the inner guru appearing as nada, bindu and kala. One who is devoted to the inner guru, the nada, the inner music, obtains the highest bliss.”
By Stephanie Miller Kopyar7 years ago in Longevity
How Yoga Changed My Life
I couldn’t breathe when I was fourteen years old, on my way to my Honors Biology class. I woke up in the cafeteria, with my then boyfriend peering over me. Discovering that I suffered from panic attacks which were so bad that they made me faint felt like it caused a huge change in my life, because I quickly realized that I never wanted to feel that way again. It felt like another thing to add to my seemingly ever-growing laundry list of personal problems, like it was the whipped cream on top of my sundae of cycling insomnia and clinical depression.
By Onyx Ocean7 years ago in Longevity
7 Reasons You Should Do Yoga
Today I am launching my online seven day yoga program plus three class pack, BLISS, for digital download, so I decided to write a short article on six reasons you should do yoga! As a busy model I found the only exercise I could do while traveling and stay consistent was Yoga. Before that I struggled to stay in the shape I needed to be in for my career. But after I found this amazing Yoga lifestyle, I could keep the shape I wanted, and enjoy life at the same time. There are a lot of random claims about yoga circulating on the internet so I gathered some scientific facts from peer reviewed scientific journals and meta-analysis studies:
By Kaleigh Marielle7 years ago in Longevity
Yoga–Beginning, Middle, No End
There are so many reasons why people start doing yoga, whether it’s to get sweaty, try out something new, get social, improve flexibility, or learn how to be more ‘yogic’ off the mat. Whatever your starting reason may be, be prepared for that to change.
By Yasmine Shaban7 years ago in Longevity
