Yoga

‘Bandha’ means to hold or lock. In the practise of bandha specific part of the body powerfully contracted or tightened… Normally the bandhas are practice with combination of asana or pranayama. The practice of bandhas effects on the physical, pranic and metal level of the follower. There are 3 Bandhas…They are • Jalandhara bandha • Uddiyana Bandha • Moola bandha. When one practised the Asana and pranayama done with bandhas its effect will be more. All bandhas should be practise in empty stomach; early morning is the best time the practises. JALANDHARA BANDHA In Sanskrit ‘Jalan’ means net, ‘dhara’ means stream, the word meaning of ‘jalandhara bandha’ is the Physical lock that controls the network of nadis (energy channels) in the neck. Benefits: 1. The practise of Jalandhara bandha helps to control the flow of ‘prana’ in the body. 2. The regular practise gives mental relaxation, and makes the mind fit for the meditation… 3. While practising pranayama especially with kumbhaka (ho...

With out breath we cannot live for a minute. Breath is the reason and secret behind life. Even though it is so important the most neglected thing in our life is breath. We never aware of how we breathing? Are we breath equally through both the nostrils etc.? All these questions never come in our mind. The life span and number of breath per minute have direct relation. If we observe the life span of the animals, birds; it’s clearly shows that the creature which have higher breath rate per minutes have less life span, and which have lesser breath rate have higher life span; for example the birds breathing very speed, around 40-50 per minute they live lesser year where as animals like elephant, tortoise-breathing rate is very less they live longer. A normal human being breathes 15 times a minute. This means he takes 4 seconds for one complete inhalation and exhalation. So in a day his breaths 21600 times, that complete one day for his body. If one breathes in this speed he will ...

‘Agni’ means ‘fire’, ‘saara’ means ‘essence’, ‘kriya’ means ‘action’. This is a purification process of the body which will increase the digestion. The long-time motion less sitting office work leads to sluggish digestion, laziness of the entire body. The internal digestive organs become inefficient; the best way to overcome from these entire problems is Agni Sara kriya. BENEFITS: 1. Agni Sara kriya massages internal organs of the abdomen, stimulates the nerves associated with the digestion. So it leads to proper and normal secretion of digestive juices. 2. The regular practise of this kriya helps to increase the good assimilation of nutrients, there by leads to good health for the follower. 3. Its helps to reduce fat from abdomen, so helps to reduce obesity. 4. One of the best yogic practises to overcome from acidity, gastritis, indigestion, constipation etc. 5. For a healthy person this kriya practise helpful to prevent any type of abdominal disorders’ in future. 6. The re...

‘Pregnancy’ is a precious and important event in every woman’s life. Today one can well plan to become pregnant when needed and take well care to have a healthy child. Pregnancy period is very important period to make the Child's growth proper. The healthy pregnant period is very important to have a normal and safe labour… Practice of  Prenatal Yoga Asanas in Pregnancy   brings many health benefits. Principles and practices of Yoga  makes an important role for this healthy pregnancy and safe labour. The physical and psychological status of the women plays major role in pregnancy. Present days the physical work for women is less compare to older days. Earlier days they are used to do lot of sitting works and home routines, which makes their pelvic region stronger, now all those works like, grinding, washing etc, replaced by machines. So the exercises, body movement is less compare to earlier days, so the pelvic region and abdominal muscles are weaker compare to e...

Sun generates heat and light necessary to sustain life, with out sun, there is no life or world for a single minute. By knowing this the ancient people worshipped sun as god Most of the ancient civilizations developed religions which are based on sun worship. it was identified as different deities. As Mithras by Persians, Osiris as in Egypt, Baal as in Chaldeans, Apollo as in Greek, Soorya as in India. Even though god is one, its worship in different forms in India.. Out of them sun is one form of god. Sun is worship as Lord since time immemorial in India..Different form of gods has some special method of worship to please them easily. Lord shiva by Abhishekam (Holy water bath), Lord Vishnu by Alankara (Decoration). Same way the to please the Sun the best way of worship is Salutation.. So sun salutation is not only part of yoga, it’s a part of Indian culture.. In olden days the daily life starts with saluting to the sun,. Traditionally sun salutation was doing with mantras.....

The purpose of food is to increase the duration of life, purify the mind and aid bodily strength. The modern science classifies the food on the basis of its function on body as carbohydrates, protein, fat etc… In the same way the yoga divides the food on the basis of its effect on mind as satvic, rajasik and tamasik foods. The yoga tells food and mind has direct relations; the type of food you taking same type of mind develop., one of the Upanishad( last part of Veda) says, ‘Yatha khadyatennam, tatha nigadyate manaha’, which means the type of the mind is depend on the type of food eaten. If one goes through scientifically also the food advised in yoga are very good for good health …The Yogic classification of food are as bellows : 1. Satvic Food: This type of food is very good for mind. It gives calmness and steadiness of mind. Satvic food increases the duration of life purify ones existence, gives strength, stamina, health and happiness. The food coming under Satvic category are g...

Which style of yoga you teaching? It’s the common question in present days from the peoples who visiting yoga centre for enquiry. Originally yoga is one, but as the time advances depend on the people tastes the yoga also under gone some changes, and became different styles of yoga. Some people want more stretching where as some want more meditations, some want more breathing. In general Asians want more medium level postures with pranayam and meditations, where as Europeans and Americans want more stretching… At present some styles of Yoga are more famous in world, some of them in brief are as below. Ashtanga yoga: In Astanga yoga more concentration is giving on breathing, each posture contains four things- Shvasa, Vinyasa, Sthithi and Dristi.It’s also called as vinyasa flow. In this type every body movement should synchronize with breathing. Yogacharya Krishnamacharya was the founder of this style of Yoga. It’s most famous in united states, Europe’s. Its main centre is in Mysore. Hat...