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On this site you will find more than 60 kinds, types and sections of yoga from the simplest to the most advanced and difficult to understand. This site also has a Yoga Blog, Yoga Forum and a link to free online yoga courses.
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- YOGA-ARTICLE: It is never too early or too late to practice yoga!
Yoga is a system of self-exploration that includes physical and mental exercises and helps to expand our freedom. When should we start practicing yoga to make the process of engaging in practice as easy as possible and to build the habit faster? How can you understand that a person is ready for yoga classes? Is… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: It is never too early or too late to practice yoga! - YOGA-ARTICLE: How much does the spirit evolution cost?
Modern society provides us with many opportunities to expand our freedom. Subject to the influence of new trends, we wonder more and more where to invest our money to reach a new level of development and to evolve. Various trainings, seminars, mental and physical practices require financial investments. If we pay less — do we… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: How much does the spirit evolution cost? - YOGA-ARTICLE: Parents and children from yoga point of view
Sooner or later every person starts thinking about starting a family, having kids and raising a new generation. Many new parents ask themselves: How should they bring up their children and what kind of personal example can they demonstrate? What does Yoga offer in this respect? The questions of relationship, family issues, the advent of… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Parents and children from yoga point of view - YOGA-ARTICLE: How to get rid of importunate thoughts
Has it happened to you that some thought was stuck in your head? You would willingly get rid of it, but it would not disappear as a troublesome fly. How can we escape unnecessary thoughts? Can we put it under control? Many of you may know the expression by Charles A. Hall “sow a thought… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: How to get rid of importunate thoughts - YOGA-ARTICLE: Upgrade your yoga practice
How to upgrade your personal yoga practice? The answer to this question was given by the sage Patanjali in the 2nd century BCE in his treatise “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”. He picked out eight main limbs that a person should go through to achieve the state of yoga – the restraint of fluctuations of consciousness.… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Upgrade your yoga practice - YOGA-ARTICLE: The soul is in pain, but yoga will help!
Have you ever felt pain, either physical or mental? Surely, each of us at least once in a lifetime had a feeling of physical or emotional discomfort of various degrees of severity. Have you ever wondered what exactly pain is? Where does it come from and is it possible to avoid it? We shall try… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: The soul is in pain, but yoga will help! - YOGA-ARTICLE: Life is everything!
Life is the most important thing in the Universe. All living beings, from the simplest to the most complex, desire to bear life. They support life by giving birth and fostering a new generation of their own species. “If not for the source, the river would dry up.” The Universe, allowing us to be born,… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Life is everything! - YOGA-ARTICLE: Who to blame for our failures?
At least once in our life each one of us has been in a situation, which was dissatisfying or unpleasant for us, and caused suffering and pain. Someone did not get the desired job or did not achieve the goal. Someone had a serious illness or could not build a relationship. When something negative happens… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Who to blame for our failures? - YOGA-ARTICLE: Nyasa Yoga. Experience of the world through touching
A person can live to an old age without vision, sense of smell or hearing, but even if all these sensory organs do not function, we shall still have one very important sense — a sense of touch. Many people do not pay due attention to tactual sensations. A person builds up his/her own world… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Nyasa Yoga. Experience of the world through touching - Y0GA-ARTICLE: Continued support
Everyone sooner or later asks whether there is something permanent in this world: something that will never go away? The body is aging, emotions replace one another, people come and go. Is there anything we can rely on? If there is something eternal, where can we find it? “A thief picks a pocket, old age… Read more: Y0GA-ARTICLE: Continued support - YOGA-ARTICLE: A little bit of yoga to make us happy
What is happiness? Do we need much in order to feel it? Where is the key to happiness and what does it depend on? How to be happy despite all twists and turns in life? “Happiness is a person’s state, corresponding with the most satisfaction of the living conditions, fullness and meaningfulness of life, and… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: A little bit of yoga to make us happy - YOGA-ARTICLE: Effective time management
Where does our time fly? What do we spend time on? Why do we have only 24 hours in a day? Why do some events last forever and others rush by us in a blink? We ask these questions from time to time, but it does not seem easy to get the answers. Time is… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Effective time management - YOGA-ARTICLE: Do yogis have to be vegetarians?
Nowadays it is widely believed that before starting to practice yoga, a person must stop eating animal products and become a vegetarian. How much truth is in this statement? It is worth understanding. It is important to understand that Yoga does not control our every movement and does not impose any binding rules. Yoga makes… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Do yogis have to be vegetarians? - YOGA-ARTICLE: Personal development in a society with high spiritual values
Humans are social beings: they create groups and communicate with each other on a regular basis. We have different feelings in different groups: in one of them we may feel discomfort, and another group can become “a second family” for us. How should we choose a group according to our purpose of spiritual development? What… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Personal development in a society with high spiritual values - YOGA-ARTICLE: Getting stronger with yoga!
As it often happens, the inner weakness destroys our plans, our health and our life. At times, the following thoughts come to our mind: “This is not for me, I cannot do it.” Where does this lack of self-confidence come from? Our past failures raise doubts about our own abilities. We perceive any personal mistakes… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Getting stronger with yoga! - YOGA-ARTICLE: Is it possible to lose weight by practicing Yoga?
People start practicing yoga for different reasons. Some are looking for answers to spiritual questions; others are motivated by the desire to get into shape or to lose weight. When you choose yoga for losing weight, the following questions arise: “Is it possible to lose weight by practicing yoga? Is it necessary to become a… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Is it possible to lose weight by practicing Yoga? - YOGA-ARTICLE: How to live to the fullest?
Human development nowadays is very fast. We have to perform a large variety of tasks, process a huge amount of information and try hard to succeed in different areas of our lives. It seems impossible to achieve all goals and objectives without forcing ourselves and without losing out on our health and happiness. Each of… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: How to live to the fullest? - YOGA-ARTICLE: Can we solve many problems at the same time?
In modern society, people are often faced with multitasking. Solving several problems at a time became normal and watching those, who succeed in being all over the place, we admire them and think, that it is effective. But is it right? What is multitasking? Where did this behavior pattern come from? Is it possible to… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Can we solve many problems at the same time? - YOGA-ARTICLE: Overcoming fear with yoga!
It is hard to define our fears, because we prefer to ignore them. We need to have considerable courage and to be honest with ourselves in order to face our fears. How can we learn not to be afraid of anything? How can we learn to be brave? For a start, let us see what… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Overcoming fear with yoga! - YOGA-ARTICLE: Down with stress and fatigue!
All of us have heard the phrase: “Motion is Life”. However, every day we have to sit behind a desk at school, at the university, in the office, or in the car. Considering a sedentary lifestyle, we need to compensate lack of motion for our well-being. In a vanity of everyday life many people are… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Down with stress and fatigue! - YOGA-ARTICLE: Egoism — a helper or an obstacle?
What is it — our Ego? Is there a difference between “Ego” and “egoism”? What is a fine line between reasonable individualism and fanatical satisfying of Ego’s desires? How can we get rid of pandering to selfish desires? In our life we got used to taking ourselves as a personality with certain characteristics that distinguish… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Egoism — a helper or an obstacle? - YOGA-ARTICLE: How to expand our freedom in the right way
Is human a free being, or are we entirely governed by the laws of our universe? How is the freedom of a person realized in the modern world? How does Yoga recommend to use our freedom? In our everyday life we face with certain laws and mechanisms, which effect on all levels of our bodies,… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: How to expand our freedom in the right way - YOGA-ARTICLE: Trust the Universe and it will show you the way!
When we are born, we have to trust this world, represented by our mother and father, our relatives, the society in which we grow, and the country where we live. Growing up, we become strong and independent, renouncing everything that, in our opinion, restricts our freedom and everyone whose opinion is in contrary to ours.… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Trust the Universe and it will show you the way! - YOGA-ARTICLE: How to find our destiny in life
Each of us is wondering what is our destiny. Some find the answer to this question in early childhood, while for others the decision comes not at once, but after years and years of searching. What does yoga say about the choices of life journey? In Indian philosophy there is a term “dharma”. The direct… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: How to find our destiny in life - YOGA-ARTICLE: Freedom and responsibility — two sides of one yoga
Freedom is the main purpose of Yoga. However, what kind of freedom is it? Where is the fine line between our own freedom and the freedom of others? What do we owe and to whom? Today we shall contemplate two sides of the same coin: freedom and responsibility. The purpose of Yoga is very high… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Freedom and responsibility — two sides of one yoga - YOGA-ARTICLE: Live and let live
The reference to the above principle can be found in Vedas and in the Fundamentals of Hinduism Philosophy. It means non-aggressive, nonviolent interaction with the world around. It seems that nothing could be easier than living and letting live. Although, whether we realize it or not, very often we fail to follow this principle. Sometimes,… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Live and let live - YOGA-ARTICLE: A good habit of practicing yoga
Ancient treatise “The Narrative of Hatha yoga” states that the habit to practice yoga every day is the main criteria of success on the way to understanding yoga. But what do they mean by the word “habit”? “A habit is a set of behaviour patterns that are repeated regularly and in certain circumstances become the… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: A good habit of practicing yoga - YOGA-ARTICLE: In search of happiness with yoga
Probably each person at least once in a lifetime wondered what happiness is and where it can be found. And at least once each of us was feeling happy. But you would find it difficult to describe this feeling in words. How can you explain something that is beyond any words or definitions? From the… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: In search of happiness with yoga - YOGA-ARTICLE: A sound mind in a sound body!
Using physical exercises yoga helps to keep the body in harmony and to reach the next level in self-knowledge. Yoga teachers passed the tradition of leading a healthy lifestyle through the ages. Men and women trained hard their bodies to feel their physical and inner strength and to bear and bring up healthy posterity. The… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: A sound mind in a sound body! - YOGA-ARTICLE: Yoga is the way to human evolution!
Yoga for beginners, yoga for men, yoga for women, yoga for seniors. So, what is yoga – is it a way to enlightenment or just another method for making easy money? Where did this teaching come from? What are the basic laws of it? How many types of yoga exist? Let’s try to figure this… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: <strong>Yoga is the way to human evolution!</strong> - YOGA-ARTICLE: Creativity as a type of Yoga
«The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity in the creative soul is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite.» V. Belinsky Yoga is a process of self-knowledge, it is when we direct all our attention to studying ourselves and the world… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Creativity as a type of Yoga - YOGA-ARTICLE: Having Many Children is Not a Judgment
Is Savasana possible in a large family? Will yoga classes really have to be postponed until better times, when the children grow up? How do we avoid mental obscurity and handle stress? Where do we look for inspiration and what not to miss forever? You will find answers to these and many other questions related… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Having Many Children is Not a Judgment - YOGA-ARTICLE: Raja yoga
Tips for a newbie leader ● Learn to control yourself ● Will is the main tool of a successful leader ● What yoga techniques will help to establish the strength of your Higher Self; ● Types of workers and how to approach each one ● Where can a leader draw inspiration from? ● Praise, words… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Raja yoga - YOGA-ARTICLE: Santosha. Be contented with your life
1. What is Santosha? 2. Manifestation of maya in our life 3. How does ignorance give rise to karma? 4. How can the principles of Yoga help us in achieving Santosha? 5. Specific Practices for Finding Santosha 6. Planting the Seeds of Good Karma by Practicing Santosha 7. Santosha’s place in the Patanjali system Everyone… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Santosha. Be contented with your life - YOGA-ARTICLE: Life in Rita Rhythm
1. Energy Method and Consciousness Method in yoga practice 2. How to feel harmony? 3. Bhava as a well-deserved gift from the Universe 4. Move, feeling the rhythm of the Universe 5. Practical application of yoga knowledge in life In yoga, we often encounter the concept of harmony. This happens so often that the meaning… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Life in Rita Rhythm - YOGA-ARTICLE: Spiritual Evolution: Create Your Future Today
In terms of evolution, the form of human life is the crown of creation and according to ancient treatises, the human body is a great chance for a spiritual breakthrough. What is the driving force behind the development of living beings: is it only natural selection and environmental conditions? What is spiritual evolution and how… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Spiritual Evolution: Create Your Future Today - YOGA-ARTICLE: Yoga — the path of balance between science and religion
In the Open Yoga School yoga is spoken of as a system of self-knowledge which is neither science nor religion, yoga does not replace them, but being self-sufficient and independent, perfectly complements them. Science and religion have radically opposite approaches to world exploration which practically do not intersect in any way, but the polarity of… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Yoga — the path of balance between science and religion - YOGA-ARTICLE: Baby and mother: give love through touch
With the birth of a child, a woman’s life changes dramatically. Changes begin to occur during pregnancy at the level of body, mind and emotions. When the child is born, so many new worries are coming up that many mothers don’t know how to cope with them most effectively. Yoga can come to the rescue!… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Baby and mother: give love through touch - YOGA-ARTICLE: Dream as an aspect of the unified reality
When you hear about the existence of such type of yoga as yoga of dreams, which promotes self-knowledge in a dream, many questions arise. What is the nature of sleep? What kind of dreams are there? How can you use them for self-actualization? How to realize yourself in a dream? Let’s try to reflect a… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Dream as an aspect of the unified reality - YOGA-ARTICLE: Games of Our Mind
Going through life, sooner or later, a person begins to ask the question: What is the world? How do I perceive it and how do others see it? Is this the same idea, and what happens in my mind when I receive information from the outside? As always, in yoga there are keys to any… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Games of Our Mind - YOGA-ARTICLE: Anger: From Fear to Self-Improvement
Each of us has felt anger at some point. Everyone gets angry from time to time, but the range of intensity of this feeling is different for everyone. Often people evaluate anger negatively. They are convinced that experiencing it is harmful and unworthy for a conscious person, so they try to fight it. Anger arises… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Anger: From Fear to Self-Improvement - YOGA-ARTICLE: Chakras: a way to find out who you are!
In the article “Where do chakras begin” we looked into the questions of what chakras are, how they manifested and what main ideas should be understood before a closer examination of them. In this article, we will look into each chakra, find out what our manifestations they are associated with and how it is connected… Read more: YOGA-ARTICLE: Chakras: a way to find out who you are!