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Tips for Using Yoga for Knee Pain
We all know yoga is important, but to what extent does its importance stretch? By performing the different yoga poses, an individual reaps mental, spiritual and physical well-being. Mentally, yoga leads to relaxation, reduced stress levels, promotes self-awareness and re-energizes the mind. Yoga touches the…
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Embracing Yoga Fusion
It seems that not too long ago there were only a few deviating factors between yoga practices: It was either a hot room (Bikram), a flow of fluid intense movement (Astanga/Vinyasa), a variety of props to ensure proper alignment (Iyengar) or classes using passive poses…
1Welcome to Yoga Simple
Namaste. Welcome to Yoga Simple, your complete yet easy-to-follow guide to all things Yoga. Please select a topic from the menu or use the search bar to the right to find what you’re looking for. Related posts: Simple Solutions – Yogitoes Mat Towel Finding Free…
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The Best Yoga Poses for Beginners
You’ve heard all about the amazing benefits of yoga, and are finally ready to experience it for yourself. With this popular discipline balancing mind, body, and, soul it is no wonder that the interest in yoga has skyrocketed in the past few years. Once you…
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Kundalini Yoga: Discovering the Yoga of Awareness
Some of the best things in life are unexpected. For me, this is particularly true with yoga. In my pursuit of learning more about the connection of the chakras to yoga, I stumbled upon Kundalini. Likely because Kundalini (I soon learned) is the energy of the…
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How to Create a Personal Space for Daily Practice
Whether you are working with a space slightly larger than a mat or the most expansive room in your house, making physical space at home for your mediation, yoga practice – or simply honoring objects that have deep meaning — can have a profound effect…
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The Critical Five Musts (and Must Nots) Before Hot Yoga
The secret to having the best experience in the yoga studio, is to prepare your body and mind before you enter — particularly if it is a heated room. Kevin Mattison, MS, a certified Bikram Hatha instructor at Bikram Yoga Santa Barbara, shares his approach…
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Finding the Right Yoga Shorts
In the 104-degree heat of a hot yoga class, the last thing you want is to be sweating in is long non-breathing yoga pants or capris, which serve the same function as a wetsuit – only in this case raising your body temperature another few…
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A Meditation on Compassion
The human heart has the extraordinary capacity to transform the sorrows of life into a great stream of compassion. Compassion proclaims the power of the tender and merciful heart in the face of the sufferings of the world of the world – and arises whenever…
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