what are the advantages of yoga?
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(m)\n\nAdvantages of Yoga \n  \n  We give undue importance to our health and the treatment of diseases. A large number of medicines treat only the symptoms of the disease, and not the root cause. In fact, the cause of many chronic ailments is still being researched.\n\nIt is here that Yoga therapy comes to our assistance. Yoga emphasizes treatment of the root cause of an ailment. It works in a slow, subtle and miraculous manner. Modern medicine can claim to save a life at a critical stage, but, for complete recovery and regaining of normal health, one must believe in the efficiency of Yoga therapy.\n\nThe Yogic way of life includes a code of ethics, regulations, discipline and more, combined with prayer and meditation. Even a discussion of these subjects helps one relieve mental tensions and change attitudes. Simple Asanas help to stretch and relax the whole body and neutralize tensions. The sincere practice of Yoga postures benefits all levels of experience. \n\nFrom the restoration of balance, flexibility, poise, health and well being to the body, to the cultivation of mental equanimity, emotional balance, and inner strength. On a physical level Yoga postures stimulate the glands, organs, muscles and nerves in ways that traditional exercise cannot. \n\nMuscle tightness and strain is quickly relieved and both circulation and digestion improves. Stress-related symptoms like poor sleep, fatigue, muscle spasms, anxiety, and indigestion are greatly improved. \n\nThrough continued practice Yoga postures can have a profound effect on the inner dimensions of life, establishing deep calm, concentration, emotional stability and confidence.
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yoga: yoga not only helps ur body but ur mind as well; but keep it simple as to not overexert yourself. Or do any other simple exercises that should help, but dont go right out and start lifting 300 pounds
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It's a good exercise for beginners as long as you start at a beginner level and not with an advanced class. It focuses on slow, controlled movements, breathing, flexibility and balance. It does not burn many calories though if that's your reason for exercise. For more info on Yoga, visit http://www.abc-of-yoga.com
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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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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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Yoga and meditation are powerful, but since the cause of the tension is unclear, it'd be unwise to assume that they alone will cure your problem. \n\nNonetheless, they should be able to help relieve it indirectly by improving your physical and mental wellness overall. These benefits are founded on 2 things:\n1. Time to try, experience and explore\n2. A good yoga teacher
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by learning and practising yoga
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May be you can try YOGA!!
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It depends if you have a specific goal in mind.\n\nThe main benefits of exercise are weight loss, strength, stamina, flexibility, aerobic conditioning and stress relief.\n\nThe exercises that score well in all these areas are swimming, skiing, running, skating and tennis with the experts generally agreeing that swimming is the best all round exercise.\n\nWith the exception of skiing all these are inexpensive activities you can perform every day and ideally you should be looking at spending at least 20 minutes a day getting some form of exercise.\n\nThere are some exercises that are very good in some areas but not so good in others.  Rowing for example is good for endurance, strength and stamina but does little to improve flexibility.  Taking a steady walk has aerobic benefits and relieves stress but it's hardly going to improve your strength, endurance or flexibility.\n\nHere's a couple of good webpages with all sorts of useful info...\nhttp://www.faqs.org/docs/consumer/exercise.html\nhttp://www.pdrhealth.com/content/lifelong_health/chapters/fgac04.shtml
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you can perform yoga at anytime. the best time  to perform it is early morning hours ans late nights  jsut beacause  the sound will be less in the time also u can enjoy the  climate . jut imagine... u wake up at 4.30 in the morning..  fresh up with cool water. drink a jug of water or as much as you can.open ur room window  enjoy the  wind.... listen to the birds. invite the smell of flowers in your garden.. u will get a mood and u feel energetic.then start yoga or exercise or  sit down with silence and think a good thing  and concentrate on it. think positive things.. ex: if its a  exam day for you imagine that u well performed in the exam without anytension... this is naturally helps you..  you cannot perform anything in the day middle cos lot of disturbance will be there. if ur lucky to get privacy with silence you can  do yoga at anytime. silence is god...  hope u understand.. thanks
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perfect age\nswimming and yoga
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I'm a beginner as well and I highly recommend www.yogajournal.com. There's a section for beginners that gives you information about yoga, definitions and all that stuff and the section also has a quiz that you can see which type of yoga is best for you. The website also show you how to do many poses.
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Yoga is very healthy, however the combination of yoga and meditation is spiritually beneficial.
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Just a yoga mat (and some classes supply these).  Any age / weight / sex can practice yoga - it has a lot of benefits and you feel fabulous after a class.
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Exercise, yoga, proper nutrition, medication.
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Do Yoga or walking.  You can go online and get exercises for Yoga and print them out.  It's recommended Yoga 25 minutes per day.  If you walk, change pace for best results.  For example, want slow for 1-2 minutes, then increase speed, etc.
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yoga is far more better