Can someone give me a breakdown of the different types of yoga?
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I personally practice vinyasa, which is based in hatha, but focuses on the flow from one asana into another.  There is also a lot of pranayama (breath work), and the asanas chosen are often designed to create heat in the body.  It can be pretty sweaty stuff.\n\nI also like Anusara yoga.  It's sort of a new style, but the one or two classes I've attended, it was quite beautiful - they talk a lot about the inner goodness of humans.
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Yoga is a great way to stretch but it is sooo much more. It builds strength, balance, and spiritual connection. Yoga is the fountain of youth. There are different types of yoga depending on your goals. There are yoga styles with a heated studio like Bikram and Ashtanga which allow you to go really deep into the poses because you are already warmed up. The style I practice is called Anusara which is focused on alignment so the chances of injury are very little. Check with your local studio and make sure your instructor knows about your ability level and any injuries. \nJust to add to the other comments, Pilates is about strengthening your core more than about flexibility. Yoga is better for flexibility.\nNamaste!
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yoga, tai chi, mediation, deep breathing, warm bath, sleep
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trikonasana (triangle)\nprasarita padottanasana (wide leg stretch)\nbadda konasana (cobbler's pose)\nviparita karani (restorative inversion)
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Yoga as we all know it is aimed to unite the mind, the body, and the spirit. Yoga therefore is considered therapeutic. It helps you become more aware of your body's posture, alignment and patterns of movement. It makes the body more flexible and helps you relax even in the midst of a stress stricken environment. This is one of the foremost reasons why people want to start Practicing Yoga - to feel fitter, be more energetic, be happier and peaceful.
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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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http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/index.cfm?ctsrc=welcome
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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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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 for Round Bodies  I and II (I only have I= $30)\nYoga for the Rest of Us (PBS)
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A very strenuous yoga, incorporating Pranayama (breathing exercises).  I took an hour class and could only complete about 40 minutes of it.  There are 8 main categories of yoga.
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Try this site.  It looks like it can tell you the difference between several exercises.
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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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Don't know about Ayurveda.\n\nAbout Yoga: in Islam, there is a esoteric movement called the Sufi. In Christianity, in certain monasteries a practice called isychasm (not sure about the English spelling) is (was?) being followed, which could be somewhat related to Yoga.
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From personal experience, all you really need is a mat, a book and/or DVDs to practice at home. And if you're not that flexible, you should get a yoga strap and yoga bricks.\n\nSo, as far as the equipment above, they are more catered to (but not limited to) those specific programs or programs like it.\n\nIt also, just boils down to how much money you're willing to spend. Amazon.com has good prices on yoga DVDs, books and equipment/kits and you can get free shipping on items over $24.\n\nI also know from personal experience that a stability ball is a good piece of equipment to have, but of course, not necessary to have a successful yoga practice.\n\nHave fun!
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hi. allow me to share with you a couple of  highly effective yoga techniques which a am sure will do u a whole lot of good. \nthe two exercices or "PRANAYAM" as they r widely known, not only cures respiratory illnesses but also takes care of exceessive weigt gain, eyesight and also heart ailments in many patients. people have understood the benefits within weeks of starting these exercises, and i beleive u will 2.\n\n1. sit with an erct posture on the ground. both legs crossed. this is the common position in all yogic asanas. then take a deep breath. this should then be forcefully expelled from your nose by applying force on your stomach. follow this action continuously @ 2/sec. in the beginning do only 30 reps at a stretch. then rest for a while. restart and repeat the cyle for 5-10 times. do not exert yourself. you will succeed gradually. as ur capacity increases do these sets for 10-15 mins daily, increasing the reps and sets accrdng 2 ur convinience\n\n2. after the first exercise, relax. and do this one slowly. inhale air deeply from left nostril while holding the other closed with the thumb of the right hand. after completing the inhalation close the left nostril with right mid finger and exale slowly from the right nostril. follow this with an  inhale from the right and exale from the left using fingers as mentioned. do this task for 10-15 mmins daily.\n\nnote. these exercises need to be done on an empty stomach. so it is important that u havent eaten anything 3-4 hrs prior to doing these exercise. hence early morning is the best time to perform yoga. 1/2 na hour will put u enroute to a life of healthy living
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yoga.  there are yoga positions like the bridge and there are tons of positions to stretch you and get you body ready for one.\ni would start doing yoga as soon as possible and build up to it.