yoga
Yoga and meditation are essential in living a health and wellness lifestyle. Longevity highlights yoga poses, celebrities, trends, and fads.
Choosing the Best Time of Day to Do Yoga
The first image that comes to the mind when one thinks of yoga is or quiet mornings, with the serenity so profound and the sun warming up to a bright day. The image itself is filled with positivity that one can feel it by just thinking of it. On the other hand, for a few, yoga also could remind of the famous yoga mat, a yoga studio and a routine work out with others.
By Jilian Woods7 years ago in Longevity
Understanding Yoga
Yoga is the art and science of living connected. Originating in India, and first found in Hindu scriptures, Yoga is a spiritual discipline based on an extremely subtle science, which focuses on bringing harmony between your mind, your body, and your surroundings. The fact that Yoga was found in scriptures has led to a misunderstanding that it is a part of religion. However, it is not a religion itself. Hinduism used Yoga as a way to be more deeply connected to the religion.
By Johanna Godinez, Life and Style Coaches7 years ago in Longevity
Slim Down with Yoga
Five minutes of yoga each day seemed like a tough commitment at the beginning. Especially for 30 days straight. When I started this unnamed challenge, my main goal was to tone my somewhat undefined, pudgy stomach. I knew I didn't want to workout, mostly because I'm lazy, and working out for 30 days straight seemed like too much of a stretch for me.
By Sylvia Hensley7 years ago in Longevity
Four Benefits of Yoga Practice
Yoga is making inroads everywhere, from trendy urban locales to small rural towns. New studios are opening every day, and many fitness gyms include yoga classes with their standard membership fees. It’s also very easy and cost-effective to do yoga at home. Yoga can even be fun for kids, who will enjoy poses that are named after animals such as puppy, cat and cow poses. You may be an absolute yoga beginner, or you may have a regular practice. Perhaps you have done it a few times but stopped. If so, it’s never too late to start again. There are four key ways yoga can help your efforts to improve your overall health.
By Indy Summers7 years ago in Longevity
These Yoga Retreats Will Cure Your Winter Blues
It’s the middle of January, and the winter blues are in full effect. Frigid temperatures are causing active people to hibernate, and shoveling snow seems like the only way to break a sweat. This is a season when self care takes a backseat to keeping warm and patiently waiting for spring. Needless to say, it’s time for a healthy, mindful escape.
By Courtney McCaffrey7 years ago in Longevity
How You Can Injure Yourself in Yoga
Yoga is a thousand year or more discipline 30 million people on this planet have gotten into. (Dr. Axe: 9 Common Poses Most Likely to Trigger Yoga Injuries, Plus How to Overcome & Avoid Them) However, it is easy to get injured while doing yoga, and this article is about why. I injured myself by pivoting my foot the wrong way while doing a left lunge. That movement caused me to fracture my tibia at the knee. Low calcium did not help the situation as I wasn’t on a calcium supplement at the time, which made me often wonder why I felt tired when I worked out a lot—tired instead of energized, that is. I also dislocated my entire kneecap in that movement. I pivoted my foot to the left. I really shouldn’t have done that.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez7 years ago in Longevity
Yoga's Many Benefits
I discovered yoga in 2007 while in college getting my BA in creative writing. I was looking for a way to manage stress. I wanted to find something that would help me relax. Yoga’s breathing techniques are what does that. Managing the breath is why people practice yoga, to begin with. Yoga poses are only held upright if you breathe into it. There are different types of yoga for different purposes. Yoga can help manage pain issues as well. Yoga helps the practitioner build an awareness of your body as well as how your mind affects that body of yours.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez7 years ago in Longevity
What Kind of Yoga Is Right for You?
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline originating in India. While many view the practice as merely an exercise, it stems much further than that. A key component of yoga is performing physical routines to keep the body toned, but breath control, meditation, emotional control, and a healthy lifestyle are also important. Yoga has many benefits to both mind and body, including better posture and digestion, improved strength, peace of mind, eased pain, and increased lung capacity, oxygen flow to the brain, and flexibility. Yoga will leave you feeling grounded and more in tune with your life.
By Telia Boice7 years ago in Longevity
Netflix and Stretch!. Top Story - December 2018.
Nobody is alone in enjoying some Netflix in the evenings! I personally love popping on a suspenseful series to wind down before bed. It’s been a tradition for everyone to zone out with all sorts of on-screen entertainment.
By Kylie Jane7 years ago in Longevity
Modern Yoga
The love of makeovers is as American as deep-fried Oreos at a country fair. We celebrate the teacher turned self-made millionaire, the former convict turned master chef and the Red Sox after they finally won the World Series. We love novelty; almost as much as we love the idea of something, anything, metamorphosing into something better.
By Candace Elizabeth7 years ago in Longevity
