can anyone give me the different types of yoga?
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Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali, Hatha, and Natya
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Pilate's, power aerobics, step aerobics, and 20/20/20 (20 min of step, cardio, weights).  I also like cycling and yoga.
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I prefer yoga, pilates, and leg lifts.  Don't freak out, just work on it.
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Take a yoga class first.
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Pilates focuses on core strength; making the core body muscles (such as the psoas) stronger.  it is more "exercise-like" than yoga with repetitions.  There is usually not a strong mediative component.  Pilates will get you in shape and make you strong in a good way - not the surface way like aerobics.\n\nYoga is more about body awareness.  It has a meditative component and is much much older.  Yoga will change your life and who you are permanently for the better.\n\nI recommend dunya (dianne mcpherson) yoga DVDs.\nyou can buy three of her yoga DVDS at www.dancemeditation.org\nshe is my teacher and it changed my life for the better.
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Yoga is a family of ancient Hindu spiritual practices that originated in India, where it remains a vibrant living tradition and is seen as a means to enlightenment. Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, and Raja Yoga are considered the four main yogas, but there are many other types. In other parts of the world where yoga is popular, notably the West, Yoga has become associated with the asanas (postures) of Hatha Yoga, which are popular as fitness exercises and also form the basis of an expanding business.\n\nThe Pilates Method (sometimes simply Pilates) is a physical fitness system that was developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. Pilates wrote at least two books about the Pilates method: Return to Life through Contrology and Your Health: A Corrective System of Exercising That Revolutionizes the Entire Field of Physical Education.\n\nPilates called his method Contrology, which refers to the way the method encourages the use of the mind to control the muscles. It is an exercise program that focuses on the core postural muscles that help keep the body balanced and are essential to providing support for the spine. In particular, Pilates exercises teach awareness of breath and alignment of the spine, and strengthen the deep torso muscles, which are important to help alleviate and prevent back pain
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Yoga is great exercise; if you're interested in yoga, but searching for something more high-impact you should consider "power yoga." It is basically the same thing differing by its speed and breathing. I've worked up quite a sweat through yoga, and it is much friendlier on the knees, etc. than many other forms of exercise. It is very physical carefully incorporateing many aspects of fitness including flexibility & breathing.
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Yoga is great exercise and an amazing stress release.  It is very relaxing and really teaches you to focus on what you are doing, and your breathing, instead of the outside world.\n\nThe best way to start would be to find a gym or yoga studio with beginners classes.  It is really important to have a good instructor when you first learn so that you don't hurt yourself, and so that you get the most out of the postures.\n\nI was always shocked when I thought I was fully in a pose, and the instructor would walk over and adjust me an inch or two and it was a whole other feeling!!\n\nThe other thing about yoga is - don't rush it.  You can do the same poses for a year and still get the benefit from doing it.  Don't feel like you have to rush from beginner to intermediate in any timeframe.  Once you learn poses in class, try doing just one or two of them at home every day, and you will feel much better.
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Check this out:\n\nhttp://www.yoganewyork.org/meetings01_newyorkcity.html\n\nIt's a meditation-based method and classes are free.
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yoga would be my suggestion
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Ayurvedic Medicine is great, I especially love all the uses of natural ingredients.  There are a ton of great book sout there for you to look at.  I would recomment doing that.  \n\nI don't know much about yoga, I have taken a class in it, but I have an Ayurvedic Medicine woman, and she is great.
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Yoga is an ancient art of India. The main concern of yoga is conecting with your inner spirit. This is called as PRANAYAM. If I split the word it will read as Pran and AYAM. Pran means the breath or life and AYAM means control. So collectively its controlling your breath ie controlling your life. All yoga postures are based on maintaining your breatrh which directly cooridates your heart and maintaining the curves and shapes of body in proper position which further enhances the breathing coordination.\n\nThis is the basic of yoga by which you discipline your heart and body. Once you acheive this then rest is OK. You can control anything. Loosing weight is just a fun. \n\nBut caution only a trained personnel can give you right direction, These days its a booming business in western countries.
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I am a conscientious but nondenominational exerciser, and coming to Bikram (a.k.a. "Hot") Yoga began more as a scheduling convenience than devotion to its unvarying regimen of 26 poses (asanas), each performed twice and held for what can seem like forever over the course of the nearly two-hour class. \n\nYoga comes in almost as many guises as there are yoga instructors, but most classes build on the same basic foundation of poses performed sitting, standing and lying down. Although some, like the Sun Salutation, consist of a progression of steps, more often the goal is to work gradually toward a single ideal shape: the bow, the triangle, the cobra. My needs are simple: I want supervised, intensive stretching, and every yoga class I've ever attended offers at least that. \n\nThe truth is, I hated this Bikram class when I started. At first I returned only because I was desperate — the victim of a muscle-kinking bout of business travel (cramped airline seats and strange beds). Our teacher, Leah Weisman, seemed to talk incessantly. The room was always full, from 30 to 50 people. And the space was intentionally overheated. \n\nTrue Hot Yoga requires a room temperature as high as 105°F, supposedly so muscles warm up quickly and stretch more easily. This gym's drafty old studio achieves only Balmy Yoga — about 81°F — which is just as well. I've experienced optimal Bikram temperatures just once, and frankly, that's way too much bodily fluid shared and dripped and flicked around among a bunch of people who know one another in anything less than a biblical fashion. \n\nBut the thing I hated most about the class was that at the very end, while everyone was resting for a few minutes in the stillness of Shavasana, the corpse pose (designed to quiet the mind), Leah broke into song. Classroom scuttlebutt is that she has been known to sing On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever, but I've only heard her sing verses from New Age-y folk tunes that mention planets spinning around the sun and the Earth Mother calling her children home. \n\nWhy torture myself so? Simple: love triumphs over hate. As it turns out, Leah is an excellent teacher. Week after week she goes through the same routine without ever falling into autopilot. She is very "present in the moment," as she might describe it. Leah offers cautions about overexertion, suggestions on how to do each pose at various levels of challenge, and great good humor. Last week she talked about a meditation seminar she had attended and called the impromptu lecture her "sermon on the mat." \n\nAs a gasping heater blows lukewarm air around the room, she intersperses practical instruction ("Pull up your quads as you pull down your hamstrings") with abstract concepts ("Remember, you're burning new neurological pathways") that I take or leave, depending on my mood. \n\nLeah wanders among the students, propelling the class forward even as she stops to adjust an arm angle here or perform a thyroid-massaging chin tuck there. She urges noncompetition, with oneself ("However you do the posture today is how you should do the posture") and with others ("How can you compare yourself to your neighbor? You don't have the same body!"). Her monologue becomes a mantra, returning my oft-wandering focus back to the pose I'm attempting. Where is my center of balance? Can I feel my spine stretch if I imagine my head and tailbone pulling in opposite directions? How does my alignment shift when I turn my foot three degrees to the right? \n\nSome people criticize Bikram for being too arduous, but as with all yoga, much of the responsibility falls to the individual. I welcome this opportunity to eschew faster, higher and stronger in favor of deeper. In this regard, the simplicity of Bikram's poses is one more way to avoid being distracted from myself. \n\nTo spend this much time slowly and gently stretching is a luxu
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Do something YOU like...but I would say, if you're not very active, try yoga.  \nThere is different kind of yoga, so choose the yoga that will fit with you.  You don't need to be very motivated to go to a yoga courses, just take your car and go there, that's it....after that, it's not difficult, you breathe, you move slowly but everything you do is good for your body.  \n\nThe more you practice, the better you will become, the better your focus and concentration will be.  So in a sens, we can say that yoga is meditation also.  Finally, if you think yoga is too difficult for you, try tai chai, it's easier !  \nGood luck !
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I do yoga.  All I needed was the nursery at the Y to take my kids for an hour.   It's fun!
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It started in India.\n\nThere are different types of yoga. Mostly when people say Yoga these days they are refering to Hath Yoga.\n\nThe purpose of Hatha Yoga is to destroy or transform all that which, in man, interferes with his union with the universal Being. \n\nIt is a "Yoga of strength" which lays particular stress on physical exercises that even permit the adept to perform physiological feats that are normally beyond human capacity.\n\n This physical exercise part is very effective for a healthy life style . And meditation on God or Supreme relaxes mind.\n\nFor detail go to the link below.
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all yoga is the same thing.\npeople try to give it different names, and ways to do it. but the original yoga had everything in it...\nEVERYTHING...all the current yogas came from one nameless source...\nwhere can you find yoga girls? i dunno.. i dont look for them as I am married. But the term TAO could be applyed to any yoga as long as the practitioner understands the principles.\nYoga is what you make it...\nthats what makes it so great...\nEveryones view of it is different