...yoga is a science that has gained popularity in recent years because of its holistic effects and how it helps improve your health. There are many courses you can join, and books, e-books, CDs and DVDs for you to read and watch to learn. With continual practice, you can pretty soon become an instructor. Depending on the way you market yourself and your yoga business you can earn a very high salary as an instructor.

Many people are apprehensive in becoming yoga instructors as they are not aware of the pay or salary yoga instructors can earn. Contrary to what many people may think, it is possible to ea...more

The Westernization of yoga or Why Stretching & Flexibility is Not yoga

...yoga has become extremely popular over the last decade. Today, almost everyone knows someone who says they are practicing yoga. Many of these new yogis/yoginis are quite dedicated and go to class several times each week.

Lets take a look at what they are practicing:

Most classes are 60-90 minutes of doing various yoga poses/stretches/asanas, which can vary from gentle to intense. The intensity will vary from class to class, style to style and teacher to teacher.

And so, the student will say they are practicing yoga regularly every week.

I do not wish to belittle anyones practice or imply that anyone is claiming to be or do something they are not. Yet, the fact remains that this is not yoga.

To claim that this type of activity represents learning yoga is similar to someone learning the hand and finger exercises practiced by great pianists and thinking that they are learning to play and indeed, even are playing the piano.

This is not the fault of the student. Imagine if most of the piano teachers only taught these exercises and called the practice Piano Class. Why wouldnt the student feel he/she was learning to play the piano?

Perhaps you are saying that this is silly. After all, great pianists make beautiful music when they are playing. Thats true. However, it is my contention that most people are only aware of the exercises and not what the exercises are meant to prepare them for. Its as if somehow they never get...more

Important Information About Sahaja yoga

...A unique method of mediation is used for sahaja yoga which is a type of yoga that claims to be based on an experience called self-realization. It works partly with Tantra Yoga and every human being should find that is works for them.

Sahaja yoga combines several processes so an inner transformation can take place, during which the devotee can become united, integrated and balanced overall. Over hundreds of thousands of people in over ninety countries worldwide have ultimately proved and experienced the practice of sahaja yoga.

Sahaja yoga is pract...more

The Purpose of Yoga - Aging Gracefully

...Most Yoga practitioners, and teachers, begin to realize the anti-aging benefits of Hatha Yoga, within a short time. However, with all of the anti-aging scams in abundance today, most Yoga teachers hesitate to utter the words anti and aging in the same sentence.

The many benefits of steady Yoga practice, to all age groups, are enhanced, when we explore the physical limits of our bodies. There are times when we surprise ourselves with what we can, and what we cannot, do.

The more experienced students usually do not take risks. They have been there and done that. New Yoga students are warned not to force, while they learn their physical limits.

Have you ever heard the saying, Youth is wasted on the young? When I first heard it, I was...more

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