...your immune system to protect you from disease.

Don't confuse yoga with religion. It's just a method of exercise with a long list of benefits to your health and well being. If you begin to feel more spiritual it's probably because you are more in tune with your body and life than you were before you started doing yoga.

The pressure and demands of life can leave us stressed out. We find ourselves rushing most of the time with the deadlines and hassles we need to keep up with. This leaves us little time to rest our minds and relax.

These are just a few of the many powerful benefits yoga has to offer. Find a little time to dedicate to it every day and you will begin to feel more calm, certain and relaxed than you thought possible.more

Teaching Hatha Yoga: The Summer Slow Down

... as a pilot class for the busy season?

Once again, I ask you to enlarge your vision and think outside the box. Do enough ground work and research to become an innovator, rather than follow the crowd. Even if your Yoga classes do slow down a bit, you can cater to your regular students, who are with you through thick and thin. Ask your Yoga students for feedback.

one last major point to bring up: Make sure you are working on reminders to your Yoga students who regularly attend classes during cooler weather. It is best to use this time to get a list of all of your Yoga students and prepare for a mailing in late August, or early September.

This is the time when children go back to school, and f...more

Teaching Hatha Yoga: What is Normal?

...o in harmony with the best prepared plans. If you are commuting, by car, to teach your next Yoga class, and you are delayed by an auto accident, or a mechanical break down, your priorities have changed instantly. You are not in control of this situation and all you can really do is damage control.

Therefore, we cannot count on a Yoga class, or life, to be normal. earth quakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, death, and behavior are very hard to predict. All a Yoga teacher can do is help one person, one student, or one Yoga class at a time.

Discard any ideas about what is normal. The universe, Yoga students, ...more

Why Zen Yoga Poses Can Improve Your Health

...Zen yoga poses are part of an Oriental system that combines the practice of asanas with Traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. Postures are categorized according to the primary meridian they affect. A meridian can be understood as similar to a blood vessel, in that it has an energetic structure that corresponds with the human body, but which is instead a channel for energy to circulate (instead of blood).

The alignment of these exercises with specific meridians is what makes zen yoga such a powerful healing modality. In fact, teachers of this Oriental system emphasize its' capacity to help treat the basic causes of illness.. This article will explore what is meant by that, and provide some illustration on how zen yoga poses can be adapted to an individual's problems.

Meridian exercises work by facilitating the natural flow of energy in areas where we experience blockages and stagnation. We may feel those areas of blockages as stiffness,...more

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