- Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 14:35
- Meditation
Deep breathing is a great way of promoting relaxation and reducing stress. Yoga, meditation, martial arts, and trained voice are some disciplines that recognize the importance and effectiveness of deep breathing. Use the following deep breathing technique during any of the above activites or whenever you want to relax and energize your body.
It is natural ...
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- Monday, July 11, 2011, 13:39
- Pranayama
You can live without food and water for a few days, but you cannot live without breathing for a minute. As per yoga philosophy prana is life. Prana is the Sanskrit word for breath. If you can control your breath, you can control your life. Pranayama is ideal for improving your blood circulation, improving concentration ...
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- Friday, July 8, 2011, 15:21
- Pranayama
When I first encountered pranayama, I thought it was a complete waste of time. I had been taking classes for a couple of years and had just found the instructor I later came to see as my first "real" yoga teacher. One day she announced to the class, "Today we're going to do some pranayama." ...
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- Sunday, October 3, 2010, 19:13
- Yoga Info
With the ever-increasing incidence of lifestyle diseases like cardio-vascular and nervous system disorders, the time has come for us to address this ourselves, fair and square WITHOUT external dependence.
Did you know that reprogramming your natural breathing technique would not only help in preventing these problems but also help in the “reversal” of several such harmful ...
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- Thursday, September 16, 2010, 3:32
- Meditation
Breathing meditation is often misunderstood and obscured by many opposing points of view. Sometimes it sounds like meditation can take you to an altered plane of reality or astral traveling. This is almost the opposite of the real purpose of meditation; to clear a cluttered mind, not fill it with weird ideas. Meditation is something ...
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- Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 4:23
- Pranayama
Yoga breathing exercises, also known as Pranayama, are an important part of a developing yoga practice.
Pranayama is one of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, as defined by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In addition to deepening your yoga practice, learning ways to calm or invigorate the body through breathing will greatly benefit your life off ...
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