What is kaya kalp yoga.?
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This ancient tantric technique"Kaya Kalp Yoga" was used by Indian Yogis to live longer up to 600 to 1000 years,mainly using breath exercises and special cleansing techniques from Ayurveda like Panchkarma.In ancient texts one can find reference to 90 days special kaya kalp program which can rejuvinate body cells again returning the vitality of young age.
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go to www.self.com and check out the video from Jennifer Anistons yoga instructor...that workout will kick your butt!!!!!
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I highly recommend doing yoga.
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YOGA will Help you, Do Hare posture Regularly.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga\n\nit is an indian art.. i dont know if it can classify it as an art..\nI learnt little bit of yoga in my college..\n\nthis website should help you for a general presentation
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The best site that I recommend my students is\n\nwww.yogajournal.com\n\nThen click on "new to yoga".  They also have an index of poses with step-by-step instruction of and photo.  Great site!
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For me, it's between hatha and kundalini.  Both are highly spiritual for me.  I find kundalini very interesting in that the form isn't the most important thing.\n\nI've tried bikram...while it was interesting and a great work-out, I really didn't feel any spirituality with it.  Maybe the specific yoga studio I went to didn't mesh with my beliefs.  But also I have a problem meditating when there's a mirror in front of me, and they keep telling me to look at myself.  I like to close my eyes during practice, if at all possible, and forget that I have a physical body.
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Yoga Booty Ballet!  beachbody.com :)
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On Amazon.com there's a DVD available called "Yoga for MS,"\nstarring Shoosh Lettick Crotzer. It's $29.50.\n\nAlso, here's an article on yogajournal.com that may be of some help:\n\nYoga for Multiple Sclerosis\n\nI have multiple sclerosis and have been practicing Iyengar yoga for a few months. It's been very beneficial. Is there anything I can focus on to bring more progress? \n\nBy Baxter Bell\n\n— Jessica Howland, Kihei, Hawaii \n\nBaxter Bell's reply:\n Jessica, your entry into hatha yoga with the Iyengar method was a fortuitous choice. The ability to adapt the poses with props can be particularly beneficial with multiple sclerosis (MS), since flare-ups can affect strength, balance, and coordination. \nIt’s also important for you to know about a very unique Iyengar teacher, Eric Small (located in the Los Angeles area), whose personal story of developing MS in his late teens and reclaiming his health through his study with Mr. Iyengar is almost legendary. His experience eventually led him to work with the National MS Society to create a yoga teacher-training program for teachers who want to work with students with MS. I was fortunate enough to participate in this course in 2001 with Eric as the lead instructor. \n\nStudying with an MS-trained instructor can improve your chances of moving through the practice at an appropriate pace for whatever stage of the MS cycle you may find yourself in. In addition, you will learn specific sequences designed for challenges such as fatigue, constipation, problems with digestion, lack of mental clarity, or balance. Balance, for example, can be addressed with asanas such as Tadasana (Mountain Pose), Virabhadrasana I (Warrior Pose I) and Virabhadrasana II (Warrior Pose II), and Trikonasana (Triangle Pose). \n\nFor a student with MS, there are three types of symptoms that hatha yoga directly addresses: fatigue and heat intolerance, numbness in the limbs and loss of coordination, and loss of flexibility and balance. Fatigue and heat intolerance appear to be the most limiting factors to MS students. To counter these limitations, students learn to master the breath and practice restorative postures. Both techniques cool the body and calm the nervous system. The simple breathing technique of lengthening the exhalation a little longer than the inhalation helps quiet the nervous system. It’s been observed that heat, stress, and tension can cause temporary worsening of MS symptoms, so keep the pace of practice relaxed but focused—keeping the body just shy of sweating is important. \n\nMS can also result in a daily battle with numbness of the arms and legs, muscle spasms, and loss of coordination. The system of yoga emphasizes stretching and breathing, which can release tension and improve circulation and body awareness. Yoga practice can also facilitate harmony between the muscular and nervous systems of the body, possibly resulting in more fluid movement and relief from muscle tension. As a student’s level of body awareness improves, she can begin to recognize the first signs of stress on her system before it overwhelms her. \n\nFinally, in addition to evolving body awareness, yoga increases flexibility and balance. The poses increase the range of motion in the joints and improve muscle tone, and work of most of the body’s muscle groups. \n\nYour yoga practice can be tailored according to your needs. If you are in a period of remission and your balance is intact, you can often do most of poses practiced in an ordinary class setting. During periods of relapse, stay in the groove of practicing by doing a modified practice, for example lying supine on the floor or utilizing chairs and the wall. \n\nThe effect of hatha yoga on MS is of such great interest that the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine division has funded a study of the effects of yoga on MS patients. Preliminary data shows improvement speci
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It is best to go along to a class. They normally run in courses of 6-8 weeks. Start at the beginner level and go for something like Hatha yoga.\nIt is best to go to a small class so you are supervised as you can injury yourself if you dont perform the poses correctly
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I presume you are talking about the "Budokon Weight Loss System" by Cameron Shayne published through Gaiam, Inc.\n\nIt is a combination of yoga, martial arts and meditation ranging from 30 minutes to an hour. The goals are set near in three four-week stages to make long-term weight loss and maintenance more tolerable.
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Ashtanga is great, like the above answer says.  However, I find a traditional ashtanga practice to be too rigid - it's the exact same poses every class, and much of the primary series (which will be the focus of most ashtanga classes you get at gyms, studios, etc.) is a seated sequence that I find rather monotonous.  In most ashtanga classes, each posture is held for 5 breaths.\n\nI prefer a vinyasa flow style or "power yoga" class (which has roots in ashtanga, but is not as rigid - its sequencing is pretty much up to the instructor).  In terms of strength and fitness, Bikram Yoga is great for cardio/strength - it is a fixed sequence of 26 postures done in a room heated to 90-something degrees.  You will likely either love Bikram or hate it - if you try it, be sure to hydrate well in the 24 hours before you go, and bring a lot of water and a large towel (or 2) - you sweat a LOT (I'm not a fan of this form of yoga, for a couple of reasons, one being that I get so dehydrated afterwards no matter how much water I drink that I get pounding headaches; also I find it hard to hold some of the postures when I am literally soaked from head to toe).  The purpose of heating the room to such a degree is that your muscles are more pliable as they heat up, and you can more easily get into postures.\n\nOther types I find physically challenging - Jivamukti, Iyengar (can be a slower flow, but is challenging because you hold the poses for longer and really focus on alignment), Forrest (each pose is held for a really long time) and Taoist (I had a great Taoist teacher who moved away - most studios don't offer this style, it's not really mainstream in my experience).\n\nTypes that you may want to stay away from (more spiritual and/or restorative than physical) - Kundalini, Kripalu, Svaroopa.  Hatha classes can be harder, or more geared towards beginners - it really depends on the instructor.  \n\nGood luck - I've been practicing yoga for about 4 years, and it is one of the best things I ever started doing.  If I can help with class/studio recommendations in your area, let me know!
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HI there...\nI am happy to help answer your question...\nHere is what "Pranayama" means...\n\nMain Entry:   pranayama \nPart of Speech:   noun \nDefinition:   a type of yogic breath awareness and regulation exercise designed to help control one's vital energy \nEtymology:   prana 'vital energy' + yama 'self-control'.\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pranayama\n\nAnd here is more reading on it...\n\nYoga May Help Teens Lose Extra Weight:\n\nTeens Doing Yoga Lost 6 Pounds in 3 Months, Study Shows \nMarch 3, 2006 -- Yoga could be a way for overweight teens to get in shape and lose weight, new research shows.\nAccording to the CDC, the percentage of young people who are overweight has more than tripled since 1980, with 16% of children aged 6-19 considered to be overweight.\nIn a recent study, high school students practicing yoga and breathing exercises on a regular basis shed an average of 6 pounds and trimmed their BMI (body mass index) by nearly 6%.\nThe finding comes from Anand Shetty, EdD, of Hampton University in Yorktown, Va. \n"I recommend 30 minutes of pranayama [breathing exercises] and yoga, three to four times a week," Shetty says in an American Heart Association news release. "This also can easily be incorporated at home during leisure time with other family members."\nShetty's study is being presented in Phoenix, at the American Heart Association's 46th annual conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.\n\nStriking a Yoga Pose:\n\nShetty studied 60 high school students for three months. \nHe randomly assigned half of the students to do yoga and breathing exercises for 40 minutes, four days per week, during the study. The breathing exercises used "quiet, deep, forced breathing," Shetty says. Yoga includes postures that help build overall well-being.\nFor comparison, the other students did their normal activities, without the yoga program.\nAt the study's start, average BMI was 22.8 in the yoga group and 22.3 in the comparison group. Those BMIs aren't considered overweight for adults. But teens are different, because they're still growing taller and BMI relates height to weight.\n"Therefore, by adult BMI standards, we underestimate the normal BMI for teens," Shetty says. "For this study, only students with a BMI greater than 22 were selected."\n\nYoga Group Slimmed Down:\n\nWhen the study ended, the yoga group had lost 6 pounds and 1.3 points on their BMI, on average.\nDieting wasn't required. The yoga group's weight loss may stem from the exercises, or perhaps they ate less, Shetty says.\nThe yoga and breathing exercises used the teens' abdominal muscles. Using those muscles temporarily contracts the abdomen, including the stomach, Shetty notes. \nHe didn't study stomach size but suggests future research on the relationship between stomach size and hunger, as well as yoga's effects on brain function, feelings of fullness, and hormones related to metabolism.\nhttp://www.webmd.com/content/article/119/113361.htm\n\nHAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!
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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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The difference between the two would be that While Karma Yoga is offering self less work to God, Bhakti Yoga is offering exclusive devotion.\n\nKarma Yoga-- Work is worship.\n\nDo your duty towards society, family, world at large yourself sincerly and good will. That is Karma Yoga.\n\nA life based on moral values and selfless deeds are Karma yoga.\n\nFollowing Rituals is not important. Dedication to your work is the best offering to god.\n\n Karma Yoga - is the way of selfless work.  \n\nTo exist is to act. Karma yoga means the discipline of action or integration through activity. Karma Yoga is the Yoga of self-surrendered action. Even an inanimate object such as a rock has movement. And the building blocks of matter, the atoms, are in fact not building blocks at all but incredibly complex patterns of energy in constant motion. Thus, the universe is a vast vibratory expanse. Karma Yoga is selfless service unto humanity. Karma Yoga is the Yoga of action which purifies the heart and prepares the heart and mind for the reception of Divine Light or the attainment of Knowledge of the Self. But this has to be done without attachment or egoism. \n\nThe karma yoga of The Gita is a unique philosophy of action and it declares that nature has given the right of action to man only and the right of the result of action is under the authority of nature. But the action is a duty of man; therefore he should perform actions without the desire of fruit. Lord Krishna says: "Not by abstention from actions does a man enjoy action-transcendence, nor by renunciation alone does he approach perfection." (III, 4). Then God Krishna, who communicates these teachings to his pupil Arjuna, points to himself, as the archetypal model of the active person: "For Me, O son of Pritha, there is nothing to be done in the three worlds, nothing ungained to be gained - and yet I engage in action." (III.22). \n\n\nBhakti Yoga--Bhakti Yoga is the supreme devotion to the Lord. \n\n Bhakti is intense attachment to God who is the Indweller in all beings, who is the support, solace for all beings. Bhakti yoga is integration through love or devotion. It teaches the rules of love, for it is the science of the higher love; it teaches how to direct and use love and how to give it a new object, how to obtain from it the highest and most glorious result, which is the acquisition of spiritual felicity. The Bhakti Yoga, does not say "abandon" but only love, love the Most High". \n\nFollowing rituals to feel connected to God,  Making offerings to Him, like flowers reciting His name and devoting one's life to his name like a hermit all are ways to practice Bhakti. It simply means devotion.\n\nYou can be a Karma Yogi and a Bhakt.\n\n All branches of yoga have one thing in common, they are concerned with a state of being, or consciousness. "Yoga is ecstasy" says Vyasa's Yoga-bhashya (1.1).
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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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Hatha Yoga is excellent for relaxation. So is Tai Chi.\nWhenever we encounter a stressful event, our bodies undergo a series of hormonal and biochemical changes that put as in ‘alarm mode.’ Our heart rate increases, adrenaline rushes through our blood stream, and our digestive and immune systems temporarily shut down. If the stressors continue and we stay on high alert for a prolonged period of time, we experience exhaustion and burn out. None of us can avoid stress, but we can return to a state of balance and regulation through a variety of means: exercise, humor, play, music, prayer or meditation. These activities provide calming and relaxing sensory input for stress relief and can be selected according to lifestyle and preference.\n\nYoga is a broad term for a series of practices that were developed over several millennia to bring practitioners into a state of wholeness and completeness. The sanskrit word yoga, which literally means ‘to unite,’ has many branches, including Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga consists of concentration techniques, breathing exercises, dietary guidelines, and a series of stationary or moving poses—also called asanas. These body movements are what we commonly refer to today when we use the word ‘yoga.’\n\nYoga postures balance the different systems of the body, including the central nervous system, the endocrine (or glandular) system, and the digestive system. By slowing down the mental activity, and by gently stretching the body and massaging the internal organs, yoga creates a climate of dynamic peacefulness within. This relaxing and rejuvenating experience momentarily removes us from involvement with the stressors in our lives—our “to-do” lists, unresolved issues from the past, or worries of the future. By practicing yoga on a regular basis, we build up a natural response to stress, and bring the relaxed state more and more into our daily lives.\n\nTai Chi Chuan, or Tai Chi for short, is a self-paced, non-competitive series of slow, flowing body movements (“forms”) that emphasize acute concentration, relaxation, and the conscious circulation of vital energy throughout the body. Though Tai Chi evolved as a martial art sometime in the 13th century, it is primarily practiced today as a way of calming the mind, conditioning the body, and reducing stress. \n\nThere is also this:\nMassage Therapy – A professional massage from a trained therapist can provide soothing, deep relaxation and can improve physiological processes such as circulation. A stress-relieving massage targets specific muscles that may be tense and painful. As the tense muscles relax, so does your entire body as well as your overstressed mind. According to the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), the most common type of massage is a Swedish massage, which is specifically meant to relax and energize. \n\n(AND This is something not so well known perhaps but one of the best ones!) -\nAlexander Technique:\nThere is a connection between tense, tight muscles and anxiety. Muscles, when  severely constricted, can create mental and emotional imbalances . The Alexander Technique helps release the muscle tension. This, in turn, brings about an improvement in the persons' general mental health and well-being, according to followers of this therapy.\n(give a google search for this one, lots of details will come up)