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Part I: Yoga and Weight Lifting Go Perfectly Together

...For many years, Ive enjoyed the attributes, and the results, of working out with weights at my gym. Its a national chain gym, which provides the most elaborate, sophisticated and creative exercise machines for specific muscles, plus, treadmills, stationary bikes, rowing machines, racquetball courts, swimming pool, saunas, and aerobics classes of all kinds.

But, even with all of that variety, my favorite place is still the free weight room. Dont get me wrong, I use the other areas frequently, but for the purist, the free weights are still the place for a great work out of muscle building and toning.

The trouble with most exercises you will do in a gym is they cause shortening and tighten...more

Obtain Better Health With Yoga

...ing to the way they should be, they improve blood circulation, align the spine and head, energize the main organs in the body and relax you. These exercises were designed to balance the various doshas or elements in the body and it is done by the stimulation of the glands that produce these doshas. Certain asanas are specific to certain ailments.

Then you have Pranayama which takes its name from the sanskrit prana which means life energy and ayam which means control. So what it is essentially is the control of your breath. Prana is very akin to the vital energy of homeopathy or the chi referred to in traditional chinese medicine. What pranayama does is to remove blockages in the system that have come about thanks to toxins, stress, bad diet or any kind of negative influence. These can be harmful not only in a physical way but mentally and spiritually as well. This breathing to g...more

The Mind Body - Spirit Connection to Good Health Through Yoga

...Since its inception 5000 years ago, Yoga has offered ways to integrate your physical, spiritual and mental being into one healthy unit. For any concept to last that many years it has to have value and merit. Many people over 50 seem to be more prone to this discovery than those much younger, so its not surprising that seniors are moving to Yoga in droves.

It is generally accepted that what the mind conceives, the mind achieves well, this is true of health too. If you see yourself as healthy and happy you probably are.

Yoga has utilized this approach for centuries revealing to literally millions of people the joys of how a healthy mind and body will translate into all other facets of your life.

There have been many studies about the phenomenon of the Monday morning heart attack, which, after much research illustrated that many people who hate their work and the associated stress creat...more

Concentration and Meditation

...Concentration and Meditation

This article is a continuation of the earlier article Yoga and Ethics.

The two components of yoga leading to the last (eighth) are concentration (dhaaranaa) and meditation (dhyaana); the last one is trance (samaadhi). As stated in the earlier article it is possible to practice meditation without going through the preceding stages. We mentioned only the first two components. The third and fourth (aasana and praanaayaam) are in the form of exercises. We used the terms lower and higher yoga in the sense of physical and spiritual. They were not meant to denigrate the beneficial aspects of exercises and meditation, but only to stress the point that they do not take one towards the main goal of yoga.

Paatanjali defines concentration as confining the mind in a limited mental area. The mental territory is vast though not infinite at the lower levels of the mind. Concentrati...more

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