This is the first book that details how to choose Yoga asanas most appropriate for your unique body type according to the five thousand year old system of Ayurvedic medicine.
These two systems of healing and energy management have long been regarded as effective methods of relieving stress, creating personal balance, eliminating ailments, and relieving chronic pain.
Yoga for Your Type presents a fundamental understanding of both Yoga and Ayurveda and provides the information needed for you to balance your energy and feel healthy.
In this enlightening book, Kozak approaches the subject of forgiveness from a yogic perspective. She explains what happens when we embrace negative emotions and offers a wealth of techniques - from silence to visualiztion to meditation - that help us practice, and perfect, the "learned process" of forgiveness. Forgiveness isn't about giving up anything - except bad feelings. Take control of how you feel and the choices you make while exploring ways to deal with life's unexpected situatoins.
Breath Sounds is measured music for the practice of Pranayama or Breathing Practices. The Breath Sounds pattern, 6-3-12-3, offers a
6-second count for inhalation, a 3-second count for retention (holding), a 12-second count exhalation and a 3-second count retention. This volume is ideal for starting Pranayama practice and for those who can exhale for 9-10 seconds or more.
Measured Music for Breathing Practices in the Science of Pranayama. The pattern 8-4-16-4 is an 8-count inhalation, a 4-count hold (retention), a 16-count exhalation and a 4-count retention. Volume II is ideal for those who are more intermediate in their Pranayama practice or for those who can exhale for 12 or more seconds.
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Measured Music for Breathing Practices in the Science of Pranayama. The pattern 4-16-8 offers practitioners a 4-second inhalation, a 16-second hold and an 8-second exhalation (no hold after the exhalation). This volume is ideal for those who wish to deepen their sitting meditation practice.
To purchase this and other CDs you will be directed to the Lotus Press website. Click here to go there now.
Next to the old-fashioned head cold, back pain is the most
common ailment around. It runs the gamut from a lingering sensation of discomfort to eye watering spasms that stop us in our tracks.
Whether mild or acute, back pain strikes almost everyone at
one time or another.
My grandfather, a logger, worked every day from before dawn until dark. My grandmother finished her equally long workday by making six pies (from scratch, of course) in an iron stove that she continually stoked and refilled with the wood my grandfather chopped. Both of their bodies were constantly in motion except when they ate, read the evening paper, or slept. They worked hard but they were healthy, in large part because they used their bodies the way they were meant to be used. The human body was made to move, yet today many of us lead sedentary lives.
Feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? At times, you may be. But even on a good day, you are balancing a seventh of your weight on top of your neck. Your neck is the most mobile part of your spine: whether you are driving golf balls, cleaning windows, or just exercising, your neck is constantly turning, bending, arching, twisting, holding, and jerking—making it vulnerable to muscular strain. Driving a car, working at a desk, watching a movie, or engaging in any other form of prolonged sitting also fatigues the neck. These ordinary, often unavoidable activities can produce neck stiffness, pain, and even muscle spasms. No wonder so many people report having neck problems.
Article reprints courtesy of the Himalayan Institute
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