Is Yoga Practice Enough to keep you fit?

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Yoga has gained a lot of relevance in recent times, as it plays a very important role to boost the immune system to fight off a variety of illnesses and infections. In 2021, the United nation recognized the importance of Yoga and had promoted International Yoga Day focusing on “Yoga for wellbeing” to raise awareness worldwide of the many benefits of practicing Yoga.However, the important question here is: if Yoga practice is enough to keep you fit?Well, if we look at our daily basic activities and movements, they are linked to the Yoga postures or asanas in some way or other, for example, Standing in Tadasana, if practiced properly will engage all the muscles from head to toe without any movement and will make you stand strong like a mountain…
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5 Bed Time Stretches

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Importance of good sleepSleep is an essential function that helps us to recharge our mind and body after entire day’s mental or physical hard work. Once you wake up after a great sleep, you feel really refreshed, energised and alert. It is the rest and digest phase where the parasympathetic nervous system activity is increased to make sure you are ready to relax and get the most out of your rest. This nervous system ensures that all the changes to your breathing, sweat production and heart rate happens gradually.There are a lot of benefits of a good sleep, some of which are: helps to maintain high energy levels throughout the day, helps to manage any blood pressure issues, keeps the heart healthy and young, helps to control diabetes and body…
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Yoga for beginners: The ultimate guide to start your practice

Yoga for beginners: The ultimate guide to start your practice

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Yoga is about creating space in your body and mind. It is a connection between your mind, body and breath to feel the sense of oneness within you. A great Yoga practice allows to return the mind back to calmness, heart back to openness and calibrate the nervous system back into balance, as opposed to being dominated by the stress and hormone levels. Apart from all this, it also helps in building the required strength and flexibility to achieve our fitness goals. So, if you have decided to start your Yoga Journey, it is the best decision that you have made to stay fit and calm at the same time. Identify what kind of beginner are you? This is one of the important factors that is normally neglected by many…
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Why Yoga in Rishikesh? – a Complete Guide to Yoga in Rishikesh

Why Yoga in Rishikesh? – a Complete Guide to Yoga in Rishikesh

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Why Yoga in Rishikesh?Rishikesh is a spiritual hub and is an embodiment of India's ancient deep-rooted culture. There are many places around Rishikesh where the spiritual vibrations are at the peak which are created by the deep sadhanas(meditation) performed by ancient sages. One of such places is Vashisht cave, where sage Vashisht who is one of the Sapta Rishis (7 great saints) meditated for a long time. The spiritual energy of this cave attracts many visitors who seek for deep meditation in Rishikesh. Here, one can immerse oneself in the beauty of nature as it is surrounded by majestic green mountains, beautiful waterfalls and the mesmerizing turquoise blue ganga river flowing all across the town. These picturesque landscapes posses the charm to sooth one's soul which is hard to find…
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Yoga for Spine or Backbone

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"You are only as young and healthy as your spine is strong and supple"Spine or backbone is considered as the central support system that provides structural support and balance to maintain the upright posture and plays a very important role in our day-to-day activities like sitting, standing, walking, twisting, and bending. Spine connects different parts of our musculoskeletal system that controls all the voluntary muscle movements which could be as extreme as jumping or as subtle as pushing a button.Spine is segmented into five main parts: Cervical (Neck), Thoracic (middle back), Lumbar (lower back), Sacrum (bone that connects the hips) and Coccyx (tailbone). So, It is very essential to stretch, warm up and move all the parts of the spine every day to keep it healthy and young. Especially these…
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Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutations

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Surya Namaskar is a practice of 12 graceful postures in a sequence which is performed to express our gratitude towards the source of energy(sun) to get our own system fine-tune with the nature and allowing our body to become heated to work against disease and make ourselves feel livelier and more rejuvenated. In Ashtanga vinyasa tradition as per K.Patabhi jois we must start our yoga practice with sun salutation so we can make our body eligible to move smooth and in flow.In this blog we shall learn about Ashtanga vinyasa Sun salutation ASurya Namaskar Benefits Sun salutation is one of the best ways to exercise the physical body and calm down the mind, it boosts energy, increase heat that allows all diseases to disappear, sun salutation is a way to rejuvenate…
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Warm up before yoga asana

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As body is one of the most complicated machine on the planet which is undoubtedly wonderful as how it expresses itself through movements, little did we explore how body finds its way to illustrate itself, in exercise world people have found way to make the movements easier which has unfolded next to no limited possibilities for it, hatha yoga mentioned way back that there are 8.4 million possible position that a body can move in to be able to transition into numerous positions it’s vital we know how we prepare ourselves so it becomes accessible and smooth for us, physical body is filled with  viscous thixotropic fluid which is affected by temperature, therefore, one must bring some warmth to the body before body moves into extreme, intense and complicated combinations…
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Yoga for neck

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Neck pain is one of the most common complaints people have that is caused by several factors. These include daily activities that involve repetitive forward bending, poor posture, or the habit of holding your head in one position while reading a book or especially while using cell phones and using computers.it’s easy for neck pain to extend to your shoulders and back. Neck pain can lead to headaches and even injury. Moreover, it leads to misalignment, in general people do not really take care of their neck until it starts to hurt, especially just above your upper back some people will develop a tiny lump, many people start doing stretches which temporarily feels light because muscles become relaxed, however, we want neck muscles to be stronger not stretching them merely will help eradicate…
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Yoga for abs

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Have you ever wanted abs? A lot of people watch actors and athletes that inspire them to work out two times a day and adopt a keto diet. People go to extreme lengths with unrealistic goals for their dream body. Steroids, excess gymming and unhealthy diets that look healthy can do more harm than good. Luckily, yoga has been an effective alternative healthy solution to achieve your dream body and the abs that you desire.Yoga is more than just the religious aspects to it. It consists of many asanas and poses with gentle to extreme intensity with each pose serving a different purpose. Some of these asanas may help you for better toned abs without risking your health.Shalabhasana: Also known as the superman pose requires you to lay on your…
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Yoga for insomnia

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Unfortunately, a great portion of our population suffers from insomnia and it is often overlooked. Most of the victims of this sleep disorder are neglected of care or have failed at looking for the appropriate means to help themselves. Insomnia is categorised by difficulty of falling asleep, sleeping at irregular times, staying asleep, etc. The most common form of insomnia comes in the form of acute insomnia that may affect anyone and it’s caused by several factors including stress, diet or unhealthy lifestyle. While acute insomnia may not have a prolonged effect, it may affect each person differently and bring people to go too far lengths to deal with it. You get to hear several of these stories on social media. In fact, there’s a great amount of awareness that…
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