where can i find a good yoga guru?
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There are 6 or 7 yoga's, depending on who you ask. It depends on what sort of yoga you want to study. If its enlightenment via the practice of a type of yoga that you are looking for you can go to the site listed below. Request their material. Paramahansa Yogananda expressed kriya yoga in a straightforward, easy to understand way. You might find the site helpful. :-)
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Take a yoga class first.
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It depends on where you go.  The studio I go to offers different class passes, starting with 5 for $75, on up to a yearly unlimited pass for $1100.  \n\nMost places offer a drop in rate in the neighborhood of $15.  Some studios also offer a Karma Yoga, or reduced-rate class every week - where I live it's an $8 or $10 class.\n\nThen there's accessories - if you don't own a mat, some studios will rent them for $1 or $2 per class.  Do you need to buy clothing?  Do you want to have your own straps, blocks, blankets, etc?  Do you want a DVD or CD for when you can't make it to the studio?\n\nIt really varies, depending upon where you live and what you're looking for.  When I first started, I wasn't sure if I would stick with it, so the first few months I took a free community class that my studio offered and rented their mat for $1.  Once I knew it was something I was serious about, I bought my own mat and props, some yoga clothing, and began attending the other classes.
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Always remember that everyone's body is different.  There are poses you may find very challenging, and aren't able to look like the instructor in a class or video.  But the great thing about yoga is...that doesn't matter!  Each pose is different with each person.  As long as you're challenging yourself, but not straining, then the pose is right for you.\n\nWith that said, an instructor may "adjust" you to assist with the pose so it's more comfortable for you.  For example, maybe your shoulders are tense, so he/she may place their hands on your shoulders to remind you to relax them.  I've been practicing yoga for years, and this still happens to me in classes.  \n\nHave fun!  Namaste!
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Try this method:\n\nhttp://www.sahajayoga.org/experienceitnow/default.asp\n\nSee also the answer I gave you to your other question on meditation centres in Nigeria. Getting to a centre will surely improve your experience.\n\nGood luck!
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Can contact Chinmaya mission, ramakrishna mission.\nIsha Yoga meditation, 'Vazhva vazhamudam' group
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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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Not only his in general any Yoga would help.\n\nCheck this: \n\nThe benefits of yoga - Yoga for all\n\nhttp://www.boredcorner.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1379
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I had excellent results with a video tape called "Yoga for Weight Loss".  Here's a link, but it is available all over:\n\nhttp://www.fogdog.com/fog-gaiam-am-yoga-for-weight-loss-kit--pi-1736103.html\n\nI also think that the Yoga Journal's Pose Finder is awesome - and for weight loss I would look for poses for the abdomen and the thyroid (to increase metabolism):\n\nhttp://www.yogajournal.com/poses/index.cfm?ctsrc=welcome\n\nI also searched Yoga Journal for weight loss and came up with several articles:  \n\nhttp://www.yogajournal.com/search.cfm\n\nPeace!
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Maybe try a class at your local gym or rent a yoga dvd to get an idea of what it's like.\n\nOnline you can check out: http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/index.cfm
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Yoga for Round Bodies  I and II (I only have I= $30)\nYoga for the Rest of Us (PBS)
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I love the GAIAM yoga videos. You can find them pretty much anywhere online and Target also carries them. The "Yoga for Weightloss" gives great stretches and relaxing poses which are great for everyone (not just those trying to lose weight).  Here's a link that will take you directly to GAIAM's yoga videos:\nhttp://www.gaiam.com/retail/category.asp?catalog%5Fname=gai&category%5Fname=l2%5FVideoDVD
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On google, or ask.com, there are a lot of websites that teach you step by step how to do yoga poses
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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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You can learn all about yoga in the site listed below
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you meditate at 18? WOW. anyway, richard hettleman , i'm not sure if i've got the first name or spelling right, but you can google it down, has a book which combines all kinds of  asanas  and teaches you yoga in 28 days. It's an extremely old, but popular book.Might be what you're looking for.
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Yellow pages has on-line web source:\n\nhttp://national.citysearch.com/\nand so does AOL and yahoo.\n\nWhy are you looking?  To sell something to them or find a good studio?  I way to find a good studio is to check to see if the teacher has a B.A., B.F.A. in dance, an R.A.D. award, or past pro experience.  And I would watch the class and ask how many dancers have gone pro with the studio.