New Online Yoga Class with Hemalayaa
My Yoga Online has added a new Hatha Yoga video by Hemalayaa: Yoga for Everyone Part 2. In this second part of Yoga For Everyone, Hemalayaa uses this various postures and flows to relieve stress, strengthen your core, and to help you enjoy an easy-to-follow yoga workout.
Click to enjoy a yoga video preview of Yoga for Everyone Part 2 with Hemalayaa
About Hemalayaa:
Hemalayaa teaches yoga and Indian dance in Los Angeles and workshops across the country. A life devoted to yoga and dance animates Hemalayaa’s playful spirit. Hema loves turning her students on to the vibrant styles of Indian dance, from the classical to the latest moves from Bollywood, bhangra, and Indian MTV.
“A healthy mind, a healthy body, a joyous life, flow from an open heart.”
This is the outlook that makes the journey of yoga with Hemalayaa so joyous and playful. A hallmark of Hema’s classes is the sound of laughter; her own and that of her students.
On one level, her class resembles any asana room where students stretch, sweat, breathe hard and elongate muscles and tendons. It’s that, and much more. Hema’s special gift is a teaching style that invites students to embark on a journey to their own inner joy. Hema’s yoga classes are about fitness in the fullest possible sense.
She teaches in Los Angeles and also offers frequent workshops in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto as well as retreats in some of the world’s most stunning settings. The daughter of Indian parents, Hema’s yoga training began at home at an early age. Her first teacher was her father. She then went on to study yoga philosophy and meditation as well as asana. Hema is also a student of India’s other great movement traditions. Her in-depth study and practice of classical Indian dance informs how she teaches yoga.
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Your Yoga Practice: Beyond the Game of Life
My Yoga Online has posted a new yoga article by guest author Kino MacGregor, Beyond the Game of Life. Kino brings wonderful insight to the concept of complete yoga practice and complete yoga lifestyle.
When we begin practicing yoga the deepest part of our consciousness asks for clarity, awakening and truth. What is sometimes the first step in taking positive steps towards the peace that we all yearn for is a recognition of exactly how deeply we are entrenched within our harmful patterns of the past. Yoga can sometimes be riddled with fierce competition in an effort to help practitioners confront their competitive nature. You might find yourself competing with a new yoga practitioner in your daily class who is naturally very flexible. Or you might find yourself competing with yourself and comparing your body in a negative light with the way it was last year, last week or yesterday. Yet still you might be competing with your friends and peers. All of this is totally normal because it is totally and completely part of being human. The yoga process is not a denial of humanity, but instead presents you with a clear mirror through which to view your character. And in the safe space of yoga get the chance to move through the competition of the ego into the open, non-judgmental realm of peace.
Physical hatha yoga even sometimes creates a fertile ground for the competitor’s mind because the postures are taught sequentially based on proficiency. It is even tempting to judge a person’s spiritual development by the amount of postures they are doing. Yet the real yoga happens within and is a process where dedicated practitioners heal the body and train the mind. It really does not matter how good your lotus position is, how many handstands you can do or how deep your backbends are if you are unconscious about the way you treat other people, beings and yourself. Similarly it is often the insurmountable challenge of the most demanding postures that teaches the fiercest competitive practitioners a very deep and hard lesson-humility. There will always be someone stronger, more flexible, younger and more knowledgeable than you. There will always be someone doing more yoga postures than you. You will never get it done and you will never be the best forever if at all. And that is a good thing because it teaches you to learn
that although you bring great gifts to the yoga practice and to life, you are not entitled to set yourself on a pedestal high above, away and apart from your fellow human beings. Paradoxically we are all both absolutely unique and totally equal on some level.
The learning that happens within the field of yoga asks you to embrace both the part of yourself that has a vital contribution to the flow of life and the part of you that is connected to all sentient beings. If you think you are going to beat one of your fellow teammate at the game of life, think again because life is not an Olympic sport with gold, silver and bronze metals. There is no judge waiting at the finish line to rate your performance, except maybe yourself. The reason why there can be no competition in the deepest sense of life is because the parameters by which life is truly measured are infinite.
The questions most often asked by people who survive a near death experience at the moment of their passing is whether they had loved enough, whether they had been truly happy, whether they had been able to forgive, whether they shared their true beauty with others and whether they had known real peace. While career, politics, success, money, shopping, drama, fame and fortune are aspects of life that cannot be avoided and can even be fun and entertaining, they are not the parameter for measuring the deepest experience of life. Instead forgiveness, acceptance, peace, beauty, freedom, joy, happiness and love are the highest truths of life. Yoga teaches you to ask whether each and every one of your actions answers to highest truths of life. There can be no real competition because time has no real meaning in the field of learning in which yoga takes place. Yoga itself is eternal and universal.
About Kino MacGregor
Kino MacGregor is a small business owner (www.miamilifecenter.com), yoga teacher and freelance journalist who has produced two yoga DVDs and is currently working on her first book, Inner Peace, Irresistible Beauty to be released late April 2009. For complete details please see www.ashtanga-awareness.com.
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New Jivamukti Yoga Video with Sharon Gannon
My Yoga Online has posted another version of the Jivamukti yoga video as taught by Sharon Gannon: Transform Yourself with Jivamukti Yoga.
Jivamukti is a physically vigorous and intellectually stimulating style of yoga that has transformed the lives of thousands. Follow Sharon Gannon she guides you through an inspiring yoga flow that is demonstrated by David Life and Sharon. In 1984 Sharon Gannon and David Life created the Jivamukti Yoga Method, which is a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. The JY Method emphasizes vinyasa, scriptural study, devotion, prayer, music, chanting and meditation as well as animal rights, veganism, environmentalism and political activism.
The Jivamukti Yoga Method is taught worldwide in Jivamukti Yoga Schools in New York, Berlin, Munich, London, Toronto, and Detroit. The Jivamukti Yoga method is recognized by TIME magazine as one of the nine major methods of hatha yoga taught in the world today, and is featured in the acclaimed documentary, “What is Yoga?”.
About Sharon Gannon
In 1984 Sharon Gannon and David Life created the Jivamukti Yoga Method, which is a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. The JY Method emphasizes vinyasa, scriptural study, devotion, prayer, music, chanting and meditation as well as animal rights, veganism, environmentalism and political activism.
Preview a free sample or download: Transform Yourself with Jivamukti Yoga
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Natural Health: The Neti Pot
Enjoy My Yoga Online’s new healthy living article by guest author Shannon Sexton (selected by Yoga + Magazine): Natural Health: The Neti Pot.
Do you have a neti pot yet? Droves of Americans are beginning to rely on this small container, which is used to clean out the nasal passages with saline, as a natural remedy for all sorts of congestive ailments. Each year, about 18 million Americans suffer from sinusitis; an estimated 40 million cope with environmental allergies; and there are more than 1 billion reported cases of upper respiratory tract infections. Many people try to quell their symptoms with antibiotics, nasal steroids, decongestants, and antihistamines. But if you’d prefer to avoid the side effects of medication, why not use a neti pot to learn the nasal wash? The process only takes five minutes—an easy, safe, inexpensive way to obtain relief.
Read the full article Natural Health: The Neti Pot
Watch a video demonstration of How to Use a Neti Pot.
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How Important Are Fats In Your Healthy Diet?
My Yoga Online has posted a new healthy living article by guest author Brendan Brazier, How Important are Fats in Your Healthy Diet?
How important are fats, what forms should you be consuming and in what quantities? It wasn’t long ago when then medical community was advocating the avoidance of all fat, even in the form of nuts or an avocado. Long gone are the days of neglect and dismissal when it comes to fat. We have made great progress drawing more clear lines between raw plant based sources that are good for you, even anti-aging, and those that are harmful such as cooked, animal based, and processed saturated and trans fats.
A deficiency of healthy fat runs prevalent throughout the modern day North American diet with the majority of people consuming too many of the detrimental bad fats including saturated fats in meat and dairy, and processed polyunsaturated fats or hydrogenated trans-fat from cooking oil and margarine used in processed foods. Consuming too many of these and not enough of the good fats contribute to stroke, heart attack, chronic inflammation, cognitive impairment, allergy, auto immune diseases and ultimately premature death.
Many of the oils we think are doing our bodies good are in fact causing further damage. The processing of oil can be the difference between good and bad. Some extraction methods for cheaper oils involve high heat, which can actually cause the oil to convert to trans fat. Other extraction methods use chemical solvents to separate the oil, usually done with low-grade oils.
Learn about selecting the GOOD fats from the BAD fats and proper ratios to incorporate into your diet. Read the full article: How Important are Fats in Your Healthy Diet?
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Whistle While You Work: Ayurveda and Your Career
Enjoy this latest healthy living article addition to My Yoga Online by guest author Shannon Sexton (selected from Yoga + Magazine) who offers tips in using Ayurvedic principles to help you achieve a more fulfilling career.
Work can fulfill us or deplete us. And since we spend easily half our waking hours on the job, our occupation affects our longevity and health. If we learn how to explore the full potential of our ayurvedic constitution (prakriti), we can design our lifestyles accordingly, reaping maximum success from our labors and increasing our levels of energy, joy, and vitality.
Our prakriti is comprised of three doshas—vata, pitta, and kapha. Although some people have dual or tri-doshic constitutions, most of us have one dominant dosha. Here is how the doshas play out at work and some ayurvedic advice on how to regain balance if your job is dosha-aggravating.
Read more about your dosha and how to achieve a more fulfilling work lifestyle.
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New Yoga Video by Clara Roberts-Oss
My Yoga Online has added a new vinyasa yoga video by Clara Roberts-Oss: In a Heartbeat Vinyasa. There are 3 rhythms in the body, that of the heart, the breath and the brainwaves. This short but sweet namaskar connects you to these inner rhythms. As you move through this sequence, you will be reminded to listen to how these rhythms change and how they affect one another. In A Heartbeat is a well rounded and concise class. Close your eyes and listen.
Watch a yoga video preview of In a Heartbeat Vinyasa
About Clara:
Clara originates her practice and teachings from New York at the Jivamukti Yoga Center. She received her certification at Sonic Yoga NYC with Lauren Hanna and Jonathan Fields in 2003. Her unique sense of sequencing is influenced by teachers Shiva Rea, Lauren Hanna, Stacey Brass (Laughing Lotus), David Life (Jivamukti) and from her background in dance.
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DIY soap – cleaning up your act
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Yoga Anatomy-Low Back Pain and Breathing Patterns
My Yoga Online has added a new yoga anatomy article by Dr. Carla Cupido: Altered Breathing Patterns in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients Dr. Cupido reviews the latest research that has revealed how breathing becomes negatively affected with low bain pain.
A very interesting paper was published in European Spine Journal this month entitled Altered Breathing Patterns in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients. Rousell and his colleague’s research proved that patients with chronic low back pain often experience altered breathing patterns while performing movements involving the core muscles. This is relevant for anyone who moves and has low back pain! Let’s define each of the patterns that were considered impaired: click here to read full article
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DIY shampoo without the carcinogens
I’ve often heard people say they do their best thinking in the shower, and although I can’t say I’m one who does heavy brain work amidst the suds I did take a minute the other day to read the back of my shampoo bottle.
What I saw surprised me. Water, sodium laureth sulfate, glycol distearate, sodium [...]
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Weleda intros pomegranate body care
It’s impressive that way back in 1921 Weleda’s founders met with Rudolf Steiner, a pioneer in biodynamic farming, and together, essentially planted the seeds for what they are today — an organic, holistic-based, international skin care company. Over the years, Weleda has an established tradition of working in harmony with nature to create some of [...]
OnlyGreen Organics – a new product review
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The VADA brand shampoo and [...]
Seventh Generation sponsors bill protecting children from untested chemicals
We live in world filled with chemicals, toxins and unknown substances. Emerging science increasingly connects exposure to toxic chemicals with serious health problems. From Bisphenol-A in baby bottles to phthalates in children’s toys and flame retardants in nursery furnishings, the modern home is filled with synthetic compounds that research now shows likely cause neurological and [...]
Laurel Fork Farm – Homemade Goat Milk Soap
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