... time, you can safely expand your capabilities and learn to accept and honor yourself without the harsh "no pain, no gain" attitude.

While a yoga practice can certainly help increase your tolerance for uncomfortable situations, it is strictly a "no pain, no pain" endeavor.

3. Personal training does a great job of getting the weight off and building muscle, but it often does so at the expense of flexibility.

Yoga allows you to lose weight while building lean muscles for both stamina and flexibility, giving you added agility, speed, and range of motion - an extra edge for the tennis court, golf course, football field or hiking trail.

4. Your personal trainer may "pump you up" to work out in an excited state, spurred by the fight-or-flight stress response.

A skilled yoga teacher can achieve the same cardiovascular training by having you hold poses, flow through a series of non-impact postures, or even through simple breathing techniques - all while in a relaxed state.

5. Personal training sessions can sometimes be mind-numbing and repetitive.

Yoga, on the other hand, requires co...more

What Should a hatha Yoga teacher Know? - Part 2

...an be found within industrialized nations, where the lust that may kill most people, is over consumption of food.

Therefore, we should strive to be moderate in eating, drinking, sex, Internet use, consumerism, computer games, television, and our behavior. With that said, the use of any illegal drugs is very far from moderate or responsible behavior.

Aparigraha: To be free from greed, wanting, hoarding, and to avoid being selfish. This is one more good reason to give to charity, and help those in need.

Yoga teachers should not only know these principles, but should live by them.

Copyright 2006 Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

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The Best way To Learn Yoga poses

...yoga poses. And each yoga teacher has their own style of teaching. Some just give very relaxing and easy to learn poses others are more intense and some even are fun. You need to find the best kind of class for your needs and the only way is to experience the poses. For the first couple of classes it is smart sit somewhere where you can see the teacher and the other students this way you can look how the poses are done and replicate them.

Sun Salutation

Most beginner classes will start with teaching you the "sun salutation." This is almost one of the standard series of yoga poses used in yoga classes. It is called a moving meditation and it helps to wake up yo...more

The benefits Of Yoga: Efficiency In Work Is Yoga!

...Sometimes what a voluminous book can not explain can be explained in a single sentence! It is true about yoga. Yoga is not mere a word; it is a vast subject with many dimensions.

The wise saying goes, Yoga karmasu kaushalam!' which means, Efficiency in work is yoga!

What you do is not important. How you do, what you do is important!

Yoga also means union. What union? Whether union between the body and the mind? Or, the mind and the spirit? The traditionally accepted belief (or truth, depending upon the level of your spiritual progression) is the union between the Jeevatman and the Paramatman- between one's individ...more

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