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Ten Reasons You Might Be Feeling Stiff
For someone who teaches yoga, It can be a common cry from class participants: “I am feeling sooooo stiff!”. Luckily, regular yoga and stretching can help! Here are just some reasons your body might feel as if it is getting stiffer and some tips on what you can do to keep things feeling a little more free and easy.
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Patan…Who?
Gaining some insight into the ancient philosophy of yoga can really help us to “get” why it is we do what we do…
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What is Meant By Bandah?
It may surprise you to know that when lots of people stretch, their stretching is ineffective. Often this is because the muscle they are trying to stretch is in a shortened position. It may feel stiff, sore, tight and tense but will get more so as the stretch reflex switches on – this happens particularly if the stretching is aggressive. It then becomes very difficult to lengthen the muscle because tension limits blood flow. If the whole body is constantly tense, we can see how this might restrict our range of movement.
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How and Why Does Yoga Work?
To understand why yoga is one of the best things you can do for your overall health, you firstly have to try to forget everything you thought you knew about how exercise works. For example, the goal of yoga is not to lose weight or burn calories. It is not to make you stronger, fitter and/or more flexible. But certainly, with regular practise, these things happen. Amazing side effects!
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What Are The “Guna”
In Yoga and Ayurvedic philosophy, the guna are described as “qualities”; but how can we apply this idea to our daily life?
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Taking Back Control with Yoga
When it comes to back pain, there are many sufferers and lots of ingredients, including posture and our modern “sitting” lifestyle.
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Why Inviting Nanna Will Help Balance Your Dynamic Practise..
Most long-term, fit yogis love a challenging and dynamic yoga practice. But it is also fair to say that many do get injured from time to time. Donna Farhi hurt her neck as a young student while practising a headstand and still suffers with neck pain on occasion.
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It Could Be the Best Health Elixir Known to Man and it’s FREE
Regular meditators and/or yoga practitioners have been found to have DHEA levels (an age-hormone) of people around 12 years younger. Well now that I have your interest, arn’t you wondering what and why?
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