When fitness and health is the goal, you need to choose the path that takes you there for the long haul. It’s easy to start on any exercise program, even gymming; the difficult part is sustaining it over time. Working out in fits and starts often becomes counter productive as any weight you lose may…
Yoga has long been advocated to de-stress and relax the mind and body. It’s particularly effective in healing people with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) such as veterans. Along with helping to cope with PTSD, it also improves physical and mental health. Generally, the common aids for veterans to cope with their traumatic experiences during…
Body postures can influence your general well-being. Surprised? Well, there’s a lot that you wouldn’t know. But first, some background. Prana, believed to be the essential life force, inhabits your body, according to ancient Indian texts. It flows through innumerable minute channels called nadis. When ideally aligned, the nadis carry prana to every cell efficiently…
Most of us are addicts. It could be as simple as game addiction or as dangerous as substance abuse. In simpler terms, addiction is dependency on some activity or substance. Here is where yoga can de-addict you, if you choose to take it up. Your progress depends on the teacher you choose and the will…
Yoga and health, yoga and meditation, yoga and elixirs can all be synonyms if you consider them closely. Because yoga has potentially brain-altering capabilities. Sounds far-fetched? Not really, if you look at several studies highlighting this stunning capability of yoga. For long, yoga has been advocated as the stress buster, anxiety-alleviating, calming, mood booster. The…
