Your feelings will change over time, and vary through the day; but ideally, you should feel more relaxed and in touch with yourself after each Yoga training session. While practicing Yoga, do not force yourself during meditation, pranayama, or asanas.
Many once believed that Yoga was some sort of foreign religion. All these ideas have been proven incorrect. The general population now...
Each Yoga teacher training intensive offers something unique. Due to what is perceived as the most important factor in teaching, Yoga schools have their interns focus on various aspects. Is fitness, therapeutic application, student safety, or compassion the most important factor in teaching Yogic practices? Chances are, you feel it should be a combination of these ingredients and you realize that no two Yoga instructors are alike.
Many graduates of Yoga teacher training programs have heard about the development of awareness and the advancement of practitioners, but how do you do it? Luckily, Yogic methodology gives us a path toward human development.
Yoga awareness puts the practitioner in a state of connecting with the soul (spirit, innermost self) for the first time, in a long time, or regularly...
Teaching Yoga through life from that inner place of ahimsa is what each of us is taught during our foundational Yoga teacher training.
When teaching Yoga classes, there are some students who do not want to participate in mantra practice. Many Yoga teacher training...
Mantras can help you focus and help you achieve inner peace. They are a way to refresh your mind and body. Mantra Yoga can also help you to relax during troubled times. Repetition of a mantra can help you to free your mind and help to dispel negative energy.
For a Christian, two of the biggest obstacles to prayer are a restless mind and a restless body. Yoga addresses both of these obstacles. Physiologists tell us that the most effective way to unload tensions is through contraction and relaxation of the muscles and deep breathing; these are two basic elements of Hatha Yoga.
I have been practicing yoga for several years and in an effort to deepen my understanding of my own of my practice, I have begun...