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Yoga Health Foundation announces Yoga Month 092008, a global awareness campaign to inspire a healthy lifestyle.

Los Angeles, November 05, 2007 The Yoga Health Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in California, has announced Yoga Month 092008, a grassroots, community-based global campaign to educate people about the health benefits of yoga and to inspire a healthy lifestyle.

Yoga Month is a year-round campaign and will peak September 2008 with millions of health & socially conscious individuals practicing yoga at thousands of yoga studios, parks and homes around the globe.

The 10 City Yoga Month Tour featuring lectures and concerts will visit yoga-passionate cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, Austin, Denver and San Diego.

Yoga has been practiced for the last 5,000 years and transformed into one of the most popular and effective methods to balance body mind, stay flexible, fit and healthy and prevent disease – mainly because it works., says Johannes R. Fisslinger, president of the Yoga Health Foundation and initiator of the Yoga Month campaign.

Yoga is attracting North American participants in numbers as high as 20 million. A recent Harris poll revealed that more than 100 million North Americans would like to practice Yoga for its health benefits.

With many Hollywood celebrities like Gwenyth Paltrow, Madonna, Russell Simmons, Courtney Cox and Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan, Ricky Martin practicing yoga and 27 billion spent in yoga-related products even traditional advertisers are paying attention.

The extensive list of current Yoga Month partners include magazines like Fit Yoga, Yoga+ Joyful Living, LA Yoga, Yogi Times, Yoga Journal, Yogamates.com, Whole Life Times, studios like Yogaworks, Exhale, Jiva Mukti, Power Yoga, Dahn Yoga and Bikram Yoga and teachers like Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, Bryan Kest, Nike’s Margo Kellison, Larry Payne, Shiva Rea.

Yoga Month will benefit local community leaders and inspire sustainable healthy lifestyle projects like Yoga for Kids, at-risk-youth, breast health or AIDS prevention.

For more information and for Yoga Studios & Teachers, Community Leaders and Media & Sponsors sign up, please visit www.yogamonth.org.

Find out about the Cost of Poor Health and why Yoga Month 092008 will make a difference in the future of health care.

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Yoga Teacher Training In India Yoga Teacher Training Rishikesh Rishikul Yogshala

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Yoga is a mental physiological discipline to unite oneself with the Almighty of who we are tiny part. Its derived from the Sanskrit word Yuj which means to unite. But most of the time a large part of the mass is misled about Yoga and misinterpreted that After achieving the certain pose is yoga and one has become Yogi once it is performed proficiently; then it is time to rethink. The position which we achieve and once this is s culminated here begins our eternal journey which links us with the almighty Brahman. To enable us to bestow with the cosmic energy is another meaning of the yoga. Get posture, holding it for a long time it becomes Mudra and after Mudra it enables us to get into Dharna (concept) Dhyan(Concentration) and Samadhi(Self realization). Yoga Teacher Training In India has been a routine living style many years ago but due to inclination towards the materialist world people started ignoring it.

Yoga Teacher Training Rishikesh is the lay man term to describe and in such holy and sacred place a well known paragon in the field of yoga is the Rishikul Yogshala. Here the all the practitioner experience outstanding experience and learns unique key points of the yoga sutra, its philosophy Physiological as well as anatomical aims of yoga under the guidance of traditionally learned teachers..That helps them to understand the Yoga scientifically as well as experimentally too.

Yoga has different meaning as per the different source like Hindu religious and mythological scripture, Geeta, Patanjalis Yoga sutra ,sankhya yoga, Darshan Upanishad etc. In todays fast moving world where everybody is rushing toward the materialist wealth to make oneself happy and peace full but is unable to receive it fully . So the before 5000 years such discipline was discovered by some of the sagacious people which even today helps us to maintain the continuity of the pace and happiness in our life and that discipline is called yoga. Yoga combines our mind body soul and place our self in such position where it begins our journey to know our self. Rishikul Yogshala is the very renowned name in the field of the yoga.

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Bikram Yoga Is Not Hot

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Bikram Yoga is widely known as the hot yoga. It was also called the Bikram Method Yoga. As a matter of fact Bikram Choudhury was the founder of Bikram Yoga, but with time numerous wrong styles of spelling bikram yoga got to be used: bickram yoga, bikhram yoga, bikrahm yoga, bikrham yoga, bikrum yoga.

It was Bikram Choudhury, that gave yoga solutions to some of modern medical problems. He was the founder and a yoga practician. He evolved Bikram Yoga after he had an injury in a weightlifting accident. He was so tenacious that he had picked up some healing benefits in using some yoga exercises. A lot of people have evidenced the benefits of Bikram Yoga so the exercise was communicated and numerous people proceeded to practice it. There are some people who do not believe in the benefits of Bikram Yoga. Bikram Choudhury developed Bikram Yoga with the assistance of some scientists. While Bikram was on his research at Tokyo University, he brought out that the healing operation takes place when all the body systems are serving well, are conditioned and robust. If the body is weak, employing the yoga practice and healing method will be difficult to obtain.

The scientists from the University of Tokyo University Hospital showed that Bikram Yoga has medical benefits. Some of its benefits include the reviving of tissues and helps in curing chronic ailments. The findings and benefits were submitted at the International Medical Conference in the year 1972. It was expressed that Bikram Yoga has the aptitude to shape the body internally.

Bikram has come up with twenty-six posture exercises which are to be applied every day. In doing so, treatment in the body can be easily obtained. Bikram or hot yoga is a series of yoga poses done in a heated room, which is usually preserved at a temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Some poses are collected with the combination of the western and eastern disciplines in Yoga which focuses on the stretching of the muscles, tendons, organs, nerves, glands and ligaments.

So, there are many reasons why you should exercise Bikram Yoga. The rewards of Bikram Yoga can completely modify your life. It’s amazing how Yoga can trigger off your life and shift your positions.

In order to be successful with the healing process of Bikram Yoga, you require attachment in doing it. The positions and hot air replenishes the cells with flushing toxins in our body. It also oxygenates blood throughout our body maintaining it clean and healthy.

Anyone who wishes to do yoga can use Bikram Yoga. It chooses no age at all. This type of yoga works with balancing, stretching and creating pressure which is all done at a same time to keep a good blood flow to all the parts of the body. So next time when you dont know if it is bickram yoga, bikhram yoga, bikrahm yoga, bikrham yoga, or bikrum yoga, just say hot yoga.

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Yoga – Contraindications For Inversions

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As we practice yoga poses we want to do also inversions. Most common inversions are the Headstand and the Shoulderstand. But there are not only those two poses which are the inverted asanas.

Any posture in which the head is below the heart is called an inversion. Whether you stand on your head, bend forward or bend back, if your head is below your heart, you are performing an inversion.

This also means that Downward Facing Dog, Standing Forward Bend and Fish pose are also inversions; although those poses are mild in comparison to a Headstand. The Camel pose can also be an inversion if you bend back far enough.

Remember – inversions are not for everyone!

Your intentions should be clear when you perform any yoga posture. If the risks may outweigh the benefits there is no logical reason why you should practice any pose which can harm you.

Contraindications for practicing inversions:

If you have any of the following conditions, please omit inversions or work with a qualified and experienced teacher who will never put you at risk and tried to modify your practice.

Anyone who has high blood pressure, heart related problems, eye issues, neck problems, epilepsy, previous stroke or sinus problems should never practice Headstand or Shoulderstand, and omit other mild inversions or be adjusted by the yoga teacher.

During any stage of pregnancy yoga should be practiced in a prenatal yoga classes specifically designed for that purpose or privately with a qualified pregnancy yoga teacher.

During menstruation Headstand and Shoulderstand preferably should be omitted and other milder inversions should not be hold for long, but because of the controversy about the inversions during menstruation it is your personal choice. Let your body guide you.

If you are a yoga teacher explain to your students why the inversions can be dangerous for them if they have any of the condition mentioned earlier.

Why not stand on your head when you have pain in your neck or neck injury? What first thing will come to your mind as you there? Ouch … my neck! Can my small neck carry my whole weight as I am inverted?

Most students put lots of weight on their head and neck instead of shoulders. Use your common sense and listen to your body. Intuition will never let you down.

Why omit headstand if I have high blood pressure? Because the danger is when your blood pressure increase from 100/60 mm Hg while standing on your feet to 150/110 mm Hg or even higher when you go for headstand.

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Yoga – 5 Yoga Habits To Better Health

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Yoga is of the mind as ayurveda is of the body. As the mind is being constantly bombarded with information and going through thoughts, we have created many more diseases which we have to contend with. To live a happier existance and understand ones purpose in this life time, the mind needs to be calm and come under the control of the individual. The mind and body need to be fully connected and functioning together to be able to live in harmony and be disease free. Here are a few simple discipilines which if followed will have a major affect on a person’s whole being.

1- Practice some postures on a daily or weekly basis to help the body stay igile and flexable. As the body consumes more physically and mentally, stiffness and rigidity set into the bones and muscle. Yoga postures will keep the body supple so you will be able to sit quietly for meditation. In today’s age this is a fundemental necessity to be flexable.

2- Concentrate on your breathing to see what kind of rhythm is ‘normal’ to you. Do you take short breaths or do you stop breathing at times? Start to take a full breath as your stomach protrudes and your chest expands. When exhaling the chest relaxes and the stomach is sucked in a little. The breath should be through the nostrils and in a calm, deep and meditative manner to bring balance to the male/female or the hot/cold energy in our being. Breath is life so watch your breathing at all times.

3-Avoid overloading the senses by excessive behaviour and habits. Once the senses are over stimulated with too much food, drink and thoughts they disrupt the balance and harmony of the mind/body where a person finds it difficult to function naturally. The best way to control the senses is to avoid any excess and to also refrain from indulging in all activities, talk or desires which come to mind or are presented by others. This will cultivate discipline and help lower a person’s ego mind and out of control desire of ‘wanting.’

4- Be in silence some part of the day without noise or talking. Once the environment is quiet the mind will be more alert to what is going on in the body. Silence is necessary for us to be able to digest food and to digest information which comes invisibly through higher awareness. We connect to a higher level of consciousness once the noise pollution has been lowered. This is wonderful also for the nervous system which controls most of the body and mind.

5- During the day periodically watch your thoughts to identify what is entering your mind and which thoughts are more dominant and repetitive. Once you see a pattern, think back to the origin where and from whom this way of thinking came about. Move away from any judgement or expectations and just observe each thought to see its origin. Through the practices mentioned above the mind and thoughts will eventually be under your command.

Start to practice as no one can do this for you. A yogi or guru can guide but can never do the work which is up to each individual. The change you are looking for is in your control but first through choice one must take action.

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