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...If you're looking to lose weight, you may have considered hiring a personal trainer. Here are seven reasons to get personalized yoga instruction instead of traditional gym-based personal training to help you meet your weight loss and fitness goals:

1. You never need to set foot in a gym or use gym equipment.

Unlike most forms of personal training, yoga builds strength and endurance by bearing the weight of your own body. All you need is a little floor space.

The benefits are clear: You don't need to pay extra for a gym membership, buy expensive equipment (yoga gear is cheap and often unnecessary), or worry about other people looking at you while you exercise.

2. While personal trainers tell you to "push harder, make yourself do it," a personal yoga teacher will encourage you to respect your limits without judgment.

non-harming is taught as a tenet of yoga. This includes respecting and accepting yourself (including your body) as you are today instead of forcing the body to do things it's not ready for. This also includes training the mind to be aware of destructive self-...more

Yoga For Kid

... a child needs to know this just as much as a parent does in order for him or her to cooperate.

Explain The Theory

Here's the part that will involve the most preparation in your Yoga For Kid program. Make a program that includes different steps so that it will work. A good piece of advice is to first teach how this will help children understand themselves physically, how it will help them take control of stress, how flexible it will make them and how it will help them coordinate their physical and mental abilities.

Scheduling The children

At this time, you may have everybody interested so you have to make time for them. You can suggest to do this program in the morning before school or at school if you work in one; or you can opt for an after school schedule. ...more

The Purpose of Yoga - Overcoming Fear

...types of fear, which are commonly stress related.

Every day, we fear poverty, the loss of a job, or the loss of a relationship, but sometimes there is no real danger or logical reason for feelings of intense fear, which can take a toll on our health. Our imagination can be a powerful tool toward success in life or the creator of panic attacks, without reason.

Yoga offers many solutions for stilling the mind. The first of these is Pranayama (Yogic breath techniques). Breath is the primary link between mind and body. One of the first techniques Yoga students learn in a class is natural breath.

For adult Yoga students, this means unlearning the short half breath, which most adults unconsciously practice from the diaphragm to the mouth. Natur...more

Yoga For Cancer Afflicted Folks

...s. Seeing the severity and type of cancer they are suggested to perform selective yoga exercises. They are refrained from doing complex yoga asanas as it may affect them adversely due to their weak physical state.

Before taking up yoga, a cancer patient must consult an experienced Yogi. The yogi would suggest only those exercises that serve the patients purpose well.

So, yoga could prove to be a good companion for folks afflicted with cancer, a companion that would not only decrease trauma and stress associated with the disease but also help in increasing your life expectancy.<...more