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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

How To Get Certified to Teach Yoga for Kids

...rding since by participating in a process to get certified to teach yoga to kids, you can help kids not only increase their flexibility and strength but to also enhance their self-awareness and have a sense of unity with all life.

Upon surfing the web, I did come across some sites that offer such an opportunity to get accredited to teach yoga to the younger generation and even so at affordable costs and with enough flexibility to accommodate most schedules as some even offer such courses online.

However, in the absence of being able to be engaged in such a certification to teach kids yoga, one can still introduce them to such essentials as the Sun Salutations, the shoulder-...more

Ayurveda, Yoga - Unique Indian Culture

...ife is not only the ancient science of preventative health and healing but also a philosophy of living. It helps maintain health in a person by using the inherent principles of nature to bring the individual back into equilibrium with their true self. It believes that all of life are combinations of three energy-elements (doshas) - air (Vata), fire (Pitta), and water (Kapha). Imbalance of these doshas leads of illness and ayurveda treats each individual as a unique makeup of the three doshas and suggest cleansing process (panchakarma) specific lifestyle, nutritional guidelines, yoga, herbal supplement, to assist the individual in restoring the balance of the doshas

There are many commonalities in Ayurveda and Yoga, to mention few a) Both are ancient Vedic teachings. Yoga originates in the Yajur Veda, while Ayurveda originates in the Atharva Veda and Rig Veda. b) Both recognize that keeping the body healthy is important for fulfilling the four aims of life: Dharma (duty), Artha (wealth), Kama (desire), and Moksha (liberation). c) Both recognize that the balance of doshas (humors), dhatus (tissues), and malas (waste prod...more

How To Become A Certified Yoga Teacher Without Leaving The House

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Yoga is a form of exercise that proves to be effective in cleansing the body, relaxing the mind and increasing the flexibility of the body. With this, many health problems can be addressed through yoga. This is why more and more people turn to yoga teachers to help them cure their health problems. Though there are many courses teaching you how to become a teacher, it is not possible for...more

Yoga's Influence on Stress

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No matter who we are, we have it. We have it when we're running late for work, we have it when we fight with our spouse, we have it when we smell the turkey dinner we've fixed for our new in-laws burning in the oven. Even those of us who appear perpetually happy have it. No one is immune to it, no one is safe from it, and no one knows fully how to beat it. It is a world-wide epidemic. It is stress.

Though no Jonas Salk-like character has come in with a magic cure or vaccine, stress is still a manageable condition; it has to be, or the human race would be extinct. From eating right to cutting down on caffeine, from quitting smoking to exercising, there are ways to reduce stress behind every corner. And, sometimes, there are more unique ways to reduce stress simply up and around the bend.

Yoga and Stress Reduction
In today's day and age it seems as though everyone has an understanding of what Yoga is and what Yoga does. However, this is not always the case and some people are left not knowing, knowing only half the story, or completely under the impression that Yoga is the na...more

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