Ok, so you know that yoga will help you improve your flexibility and your body strength and will help you get in touch with your inner self. ‘You should do yoga to improve your flexibility.’ ‘It will help you breathe better.’ There’s nothing wrong with this. Yoga does do these things and there is certainly nothing wrong with wanting to …
How Yoga Can Enhance Sports and Recreation
Yoga is best used in conjunction with other things you like to do, such as soccer, hockey, running or swimming. Yoga is ideally suited to enhance and supplement other activities in a number of ways, and that is why, if you are an avid sportsman or just starting out, yoga is worth adding to your day. What do all sports …
The Community Spirit of Yoga
Did you know that the yoga was originally believed not to better the individual so much as the community? The early days of yoga have been lost to time. The first recorded poses on seals and paintings date to around 3000 years ago. However, many yoga scholars believe that yoga has the same roots as shamanism. Shamanism is an ancient …
How Yoga Can Cause Injury?
Well, we know that yoga can help you recover more quickly from most injuries because it improves blood flow and warms up your muscles. But what can heal can also harm if it’s done incorrectly. This reality has been writ large in headlines proclaiming all of the injuries which can result from practicing yoga and often with a dire warning …
Restorative Benefits of Yoga
In the west, we tend to think of yoga as something for spiritual, mental and physical balance; things like getting rid of stress and strengthening muscle groups. But there is also a growing trend towards yoga becoming a part of physiotherapy after an injury or surgery in order to promote blood and oxygen flow, relieve pain, and slowly, steadily strengthen …
Yoga in the Military
Shiver in fear, pacifists! Yoga is being taught to soldiers. Obviously, that first sentence is ever so slightly cheeky, but it is true that the effects of yoga are being studied and documented on soldiers abroad and coming home from war zones such as Afghanistan, often in conjunction with therapy to help soldiers recover from post-traumatic stress disorder which many …
Pregnancy and Yoga
Pregnancy is a time of joy, but also a time of stress and worry. Expecting women are bombarded left and right with tips and advice, and downright told what to do and what to avoid. One thing you can be sure of is the necessity of staying healthy. Eating well and exercising regularly is important in order to keep your …
How Yoga Effects Posture
Posture refers to how we stand, sit, walk and take many other actions. Posture is also tied to things like confidence and how we are perceived by others. An upright posture conveys strength and confidence. A slouching posture tends to portray a lack of confidence and sometimes things like exhaustion and sorrow. Poor posture is also linked to back problems …
Pathway Fit Genetic Test: How Science Can Inforn Your Nutrition Plan
You remember this from high school, right? Genes contain DNA, which instruct protein formation. Proteins come together to build every single unique part of you. Well, you’re not a completely unique snowflake. We all have the basically the same parts. Genetically speaking, we’re about 90% the same. Only about 10% of our DNA contains the blueprint that effects our different …
How to Diet Right
We’ve all been there. Most of us have felt frumpy, flabby, fleshy or just plain funky. Especially after chowing down on holiday parties on everything from cheesy fondue, to pigs in blankets, to cookies and pretzels, and everything and more dipped in chocolate. I get a sugar rush just thinking about it. It’s okay to pig out from time to …
Detoxify
Toxins are everywhere. They’re in our air, water, soil, food, and therefore, in our bodies. Heavy metals from car exhaust, fertilizers, and phthalates leaching out from plastics are just a few of the things that have been shown to cause all sorts of disorders. The good news is our bodies are built to deal with toxins. Our livers, kidneys, lungs, …
Benefits of Yoga for Seniors
You’ve probably heard celebrities swear by yoga and maybe you’ve watched the new moms and thirty-somethings holding convoluted poses in the gym. Yoga can seem to be a young person’s sport. However, there are several kinds of yoga which are perfectly suitable for seniors and in even highly beneficial. Seniors have to contend with an older body even if the …