Practicing Hatha Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

Yoga is not only positioning you in different physical postures but its pathway to enlightenment of mind and soul, which can be attained by meditation, devotional chanting, and study of ancient texts. Therefore, yoga practice includes studying ancient texts, pranayama, meditation, bhakti, non-violent life style, awareness, and attitude.

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

The ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a series of yoga asanas for curative purposes. Ashtanga yoga is based on the eight limbs of yoga – yama, niyama, asana, panorama, pratyhara, dharana, dhyana, samadhi. Nurturing these practices heals the physical, mental, and spiritual state of the person. It is the blend of activities like inhalation, postures, and gaze. These activities associate mind and body in such a way that creates internal consciousness. Practicing these asanas gives soothing effect that relaxes mind and soul which helps to attain focus. To gain the results to the fullest, it should be done daily and the complexity level should be enhanced gradually. 

  The steps of ashtanga vinyasa yoga are as follows.

Yoga chikitsa- meditating according to the instructions of yoga chiktsa will bring back the energy to the body that restores health in case of illness.

Nadi shodna- the breathing exercises improves the blood circulation, clean the veins and arteries to avoid blockage in the path of blood flow which can be fatal. Moreover keeping the nervous system effective and efficient.

The other asthira asanas provides you with humbleness, glow, improved insight, strength, flexibility by getting rid of impurities in the body.

Continuous dedication and devotion to these yoga practices will gives you the mind, body and soul without any adulteration. You will find yourself very much contended, satisfied, happy, strong, and fearless. It helps to eliminate the ingredients of evilness from the body like anger, greed, desire, delusion, laziness, and jealousy.

Yoga therapy can counteract stress and depression

For years, yoga devotees have been telling us that bending and twisting our limbs into gravity-defying contortions is a great way to develop the perfect body. Now things have gone one step further, with a new wave of teachers claiming that yoga also offers a fast track to a beautiful mind.

Everyone from fraught mothers to stressed-out hedge-funders is catching on to the benefits of yoga therapy, a fusion of deep breathing, invigorating postures and self-help. This version of the ancient Indian practice is gaining credence within the medical community for helping with a range of issues, such as recession depression and anxiety, through to bipolar disorder and other mental-health problems.

In London, yoga therapy is now being offered at a number of NHS hospitals, while in New York, patients seeking help for depression and anxiety are as likely to find their hard-nosed psychiatrist treating them on a yoga mat as on a couch। It’s not surprising। We might all be sick of hearing about the economic climate, but it is undeniably taking its toll. We are currently in the biggest anxiety matrix the country has seen for more than 50 years. In recent months, mental-health charities have reported a surge in people seeking help for stress and depression. And after all the scare stories about the side effects of antidepressants, patients are increasingly wary of using medication to solve the problem.

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Yoga can cure swine flu.

Amid growing panic in the wake of rising death toll from swine flu,, yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday said that yoga had the power to cure influenza A(H1N1).

While addressing a press conference Baba Ramdev said, “There is need to panic.”

He further assured the masses that the way he had successfully treated many patients suffering from diseases like chicken pox and dengue with the help of Indian medicinal plants, swine flu also can be treated with the help of these.

He also urged everyone to opt for a healthy lifestyle with lots of exercise. As the killer swine flu virus hits the immune system of a person hard, healthy people will have a better chance to fight with flu, he added.

Further, while explaining the role of ‘yoga’ in battling the A(H1N1) virus, he said, “If we keep our respiratory organs healthy, then not only we can fight the swine flu but also can stay fit to fight any other disease.”

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