A strong core is more than being able to do a lot of crunches or having a six pack. Real core strength means that you can use your core to help with everyday movements like flexion, extension, and rotation of the spine. However, it also means that you can remain stable and steady through your […]
Category: Yoga In Health
Best Yoga Poses for Flexibility & Mobility
It’s easy to focus on hitting the weights hard and nothing more when your workout goal is to build strength. You’re making a beeline for stronger, more toned muscles, and setting aside time for accessory work can feel like more hassle than it’s worth. However, there is an element of training that can contribute to […]
Yoga builds strength, but not necessarily in the same way lifting weights does.
Following in line with the functional benefit, yoga generally strengthens across your entire body, Candace Harding, DPT, a physical therapist specializing in orthopedics and a registered yoga teacher in Arlington, tells SELF. That’s because a lot of classes engage large muscles in your legs, upper body, and core through moves like lunge variations, push-ups, and […]
Does Yoga ‘Count’ as Strength Training? Cardio? Both?
Practicing yoga can leave you feeling all types of ways: fatigued in your muscles, a little bit breathless, and somehow simultaneously relaxed. By the time you roll up your mat, it’s only natural to wonder: Wait, what kind of workout was that? Which boxes yoga checks depend largely on what style you do. Yoga itself […]
Yoga for Lungs:Easy Yet Proven Asanas to Try!
Yoga for Lungs and How to Do It Breathing comes naturally to every one of us. However, not all of our lungs have smooth functioning. Understandably, some people may have breathing issues and not know what to do about them. If you do happen to have breathing problems, yoga can provide relief. There are specific […]
Best Yoga Poses For Healthy And Glowing Skin
Frustration ensues when you are unable to regain your face glow even after trying countless things. Dull and tired skin seems to take a hit on your self-image and confidence. Well, you can reap the benefits of yoga to rejuvenate your lackluster skin and restore your confidence. Holistic approaches like yoga not only enhance your […]
Explaining Yoga as a Sport
DEFINITION: Sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Participation in sports requires fitness to gain better physical performance. Depending on the sport an athlete competing in sport would need strength, stamina, reflexes, accuracy, dexterity, flexibility, endurance of various muscle groups […]
4 Ways Meditation Increases your Productivity and Wellness
What affects your health? Is it stress, or unhealthy food habits? Well! There are a lot of reasons that manifest an individual to deteriorated health. Unhealthy food habits, physical inactivity, wrong body posture, disturbed biological clock, signs of stress, and anxiety all play an important role in affecting our health. Engaging in meditation session can […]
Concept of Health and Disease in Yoga
AN INTRODUCTION TO YOGA Yoga is an ancient wealth of wisdom, which is a gift passed down to us from our ancestors from over five centuries ago. It is unfortunate that in today’s world this tradition of yoga is only confined to the practice of asanas or physical postures. Though in reality, the meaning of […]
Scientific Validation of Yoga Asanas
Yoga is a all-inclusive and specifically fine tuned process of uniting the individual consciousness with the omnipresent enormous consciousness. Accepting the spiritual nature and philosophy of yoga is certainly more important than its gross relevance pertaining to the physical exercises, postures and breathing patterns. With their perfection in yoga, the yogis control the agile activation […]