Archive for the 'Yoga' Tag

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

About.com is a great site that covers loads of topics. You can browse the topics at their index Sites A to Z.
Most of their subsites have newsletters. I follow Poker and Yoga.

Over at About are some nice Yoga Photo Galleries. They are a smart way to find a pose when you do not know or remember the name of it.

About has a nice Mudra Photo Gallery. Find out more about Mudra hand gestures or poses that are often used in yoga practice, meditation, and for healing purposes.

I practise yoga and enjoy it a lot, here are some sites that I find useful.
Yoga Journal is an excellent site about Yoga. They have great newsletters too.
Yoga at Wikipedia has general information about yoga plus links to other yoga-related articles at Wikipedia.
Yoga Basics is an online guide to [...]

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