...Almost every person has experienced unrelenting stress, anxiety, strain, and sustained tension once in their life. This can have drastic effects on happiness and health.

Sustained stress for long periods can cause adverse health problems because hormones related to stress are released to your blood stream that over-stimulates a person's metabolism. Your heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, and muscle tensions can increase due to stress.

You can counter the effects of stress to your body through yoga's breathing exercises and other relaxation exercises. These exercise...more

The Journey Of Yoga Through Mind

...our body, we come to a greater understanding of both our body and ourselves. We begin a more conscious relationship with our individuality. We meet that unique expression of ourselves expressing physically in that moment. And we are able to begin a process of changing that which is blocking the vital flow of our energy.

That is why it doesn't matter what state we are in when we begin practising a yoga posture. We might be more or less stiff, or in pain, or distracted, than usual. It is a journey of discovery, not of trying to fit ourselves into an external idea, even if that idea is represented in that moment by the yoga posture we are trying to do. Desikachar writes that the body can "only gradually accept an asana". (Desikachar) We should not strain ourselves, or judge ourselves, if we cannot fit into that posture. That posture is a possible ou...more

Discover How Yoga can Improve Workplace Safety and Health

...siness take preventative action. Yoga classes and Yoga safety programs offer employees methods for preventing injuries. Installing a Yoga program does create a positive atmosphere in the workplace.

Stressed out employees will benefit from any Yoga exercises or techniques. The fact is that stress will cost every company a fortune in health insurance premiums and potential claims. Think of the sick time, lack of production, poor morale, potential office turmoil, and workers compensation claims. In each case Yoga offers a low cost alternative for small to medium businesses.

Yoga classes in the workplace create an atmosphere of optimum morale. Employees get the message that upper management cares about their well being, when Yoga classes are available. These small perks create harmony in t...more

Health Benefits of Yoga

...t all.

Overweight men and women who participated in the study and took up yoga thereafter were reported to have lost on average 5 pounds, whilst those who did not gained on average 15 pounds over the course of the study.

An interesting fact about the study is that the yoga that participants practiced was not of a particularly high or advanced level.

Whilst m...more

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