... through slow stretching, balance and strength moves.

The same mental disciplines can be applied to other aspects of our lives and aid us in decision-making. Indecision can paralyze us and keep us from moving forward in our occupations or avocations. The confidence gained through Yoga enhances and strengthens your mental processes in work and play.

If you need to face a particular challenging decision in a relationship, you can apply Yoga principles to evade: denial and avoidance of the problem altogether; making a decision that doesnt empower you to move forward; choose a hasty decision that will cause more difficulties or create a angry situation that solves nothing and may perpetuate the problem.

Yoga was first used by the ancient Hindu yogis of India to obtain self-control and elevate their consciousness to an enlightened state of awareness. When you apply that philosophy to your world outside Yoga, you can add meditation to achieve a calm mind to work your way through a problem at work or home.

When you think about it, Yoga has been around for thousands of years and is still a viable solution to staying healthy, physically and mentally; there must be some positive rewards to the practice that keeps ...more

Back To nature With Naked Yoga

...t experience:

Feeling of freedom for those participating
Feeling of being less inhibited.
Being more in touch and comfortable with their own bodies
Connecting on a more intimate level with other students

Classes can be any size and groups are often mixed. Whilst on paper this may seem to have some sexual connotations, this is not the aim of many of those who attend. Naked yoga provides a freedom of movement and increases the ability to be able to focus on the postures and the correct lines without being hampered by restrictive clothes and in addition, it enables the practitioner to be able to view their actual positions in the mirrors and so they can self-correct if the pos...more

Understanding Patanajali's Yoga Sutras (11-15)

...it.

1:14 This practice of Yoga is built, with devotion and commitment, over a lengthy time period.

Many Yoga teachers see students with potential come and go. The same thing happens in any pursuit which requires commitment.

In comparison, martial arts students are not considered serious practitioners until they have practiced diligently for about ten years. With so much to learn, and life being so short, the same can be easily said for Yoga.

1:15 Freedom from the desire of seen, or unseen, objects and power, will result in a higher a state of consciousness.

We spend our time working and praying for earthly objects. Some of us plot for power and material...more

Yoga in Practice: Projecting Happiness

...life is a daily Yoga practice, even if you do not attend a Yoga class. When you help others, you are practicing Yoga. It could be argued that you are practicing other forms of Yoga, but that is not the purpose of this article. It is more important to understand that you can help others in many ways, and it does not have to cost you a fortune.

Projecting happiness is free and does not require a lot of money. Here are some ideas that will help you to be happier, and hopefully, more worry free. Whether you are a beginner, Yoga practitioner, Yoga teacher, or Master teacher of Yoga, you should spread happiness to everyone you meet.

listen to everyone, regardless of his, or her, social status. Let go of judgment; it makes fools of all of us. Pre-judgment is prejudice, and this is the one thing that prevents world peace. To some degree, we all have felt it, but you must discard it, su...more

Yoga Zone Instructor Michelle