Archive for the 'Wellness' Category

I got a tip to use pranayama as preparation for meditation. That of course pushed me to refresh my knowledge about pranayama and I went to Yoga Journal. In the Pranayama practice section of their website you find articles, in Pranayama Poses you find exercises.
I prefer short meditations and practice spot meditations.
Image from YogaJournal.

BBC has a section called BBC Health. That sections has a part about Healthy living which among other things covers Fitness. I like and agree with their introduction:
Maintaining a ‘keep fit’ lifestyle doesn’t have to mean slogging it out in a sweaty gym. Just boosting your levels of general daily activity will reap big rewards [...]

Death Pose or Savasana is a useful pose. I came across it recently in a book about juggling, given as an example of how to both get rid of tensions and relax. Savasana is intended to rejuvenate one’s body, mind and spirit. It has a has a tendency to induce sleepiness.
I did it a couple [...]

Yoga Journal is a favourite of mine and I subscribe to their free newsletter. A while back it was about Meditation.
Meditation 101 is about the basics of meditation. It is written by Claudia Cummins, here are more of her essays.

I subscribe to the Daily Insight newsletter from YogaJournal. On May 5th it was about Five Steps Closer to Calm. It says:
If it’s hard for you to still your mind to meditate, the senior teachers at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health have developed a five-step approach that could help. Follow these steps and allow [...]

I have finished a book written by Eric Harrison and titled The 5-minute Meditator, I like it a lot. It is the perfect book for people who ‘have no time to meditate’. The book has about a dozen ’spot meditations’ lasting from half a minute to five minutes. Short meditations are just as effective as [...]

Over at Yoga Journal is a collection of Meditation Poses.
At present there are ten poses for different purposes. It is a nice collection and covers most areas.

At Yoga Journal is Poses: Browse Categories where you can find yoga poses. Click on a category and you get apage with small pictures and a short text, enough to find a pose and go one step further. For each pose there is a step by step guide.
Yoga Journal also has a Sequence Builder. You [...]

ZenHabits has a guest post titled Meditation for Beginners: 20 Practical Tips for Quieting the Mind.
Although a great number of people try meditation at some point in their lives, a small percentage actually stick with it for the long-term. This is unfortunate, and a possible reason is that many beginners do not begin with a [...]

The Mudra Photo Gallery is interesting, doing yoga with your hands only is an interesting topic since it can be done (almost) anywhere.
The mudra that caught my eye today is the Garuda Mudra. The text says that:
The Garuda mudra is used to heighten intuition and enable communication with the spirit world.
My intuition is pretty strong [...]

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