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Laughter Yoga on the Metro 2316 0
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Looking for a good laugh It's a healthy thing to do. On You Tube, you will find a video entitled 'Bodhisattva in Metro.' It has a five star rating and has been posted several times. As of August 11, 2010, one of the posts has received 2,537,108 views. A guy gets on the metro in France and takes his place on an outside seat. As expected, everyone is dower, poking a nose into a book, gazing out the window, staring at an advertisement and sleeping. The man starts to giggle and eventually explo...
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Yogic Science, Pineal Gland, the Flame 2560 0
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'Theoretically this practice &91;staring at a flame&93; works toward the decalcification of the pineal gland, considered by some to be the master gland of the body. The pineal gland ossifies around the age of puberty to 16 years of age, after which many modern scientists and biologists consider it a secondary gland. However in yoga science, this gland is said to rule all the others and that it is also related to the awakening of very high spiritual understanding in the individual. Since it is...
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07/31/2010 11:14 AM |
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Give Me Some Breathing Space 2416 0
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Breathing keeps us alive. But because it is an automatic process, it often receives little attention in our daily activities. Yet there is much to learn about the way we breathe and how it affects us. Short, shallow breathing increases tension and stress while slow, deep breathing brings calmness and relaxation. A yoga class purposely combines rhythmic breathing with postures in order to bring stillness to the chatterbox mind, which usually occupies itself with endless revolving of events of the...
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07/22/2010 8:18 PM |
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The Mysterious Origins of Yoga 2258 0
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Yoga. Where did it come from Out of the blue in the 1970s, it made a splash on the radar screen of exercise when numerous Hollywood movie stars became adherents. Since then, it has rapidly become the most popular fitness program in the western world with an estimated 30 million practitioners. Yet its origins are mysterious. Archaeologists have discovered that yoga existed in several ancient civilizations such as India, Tibet, China and Mexico. That it spread among neighboring Asian countries is...
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07/13/2010 6:01 PM |
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Imaginative Yoga Postures 3821 1
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Yoga is for everyone and yoga is for life. When sports become too strenuous for the body, yoga continues to hold its place as an efficient form of exercise throughout the senior years. It is not a sport; it is not competitive. Naturally, how well a participant benefits from the practice depends on commitment and frequency of practice. In a yoga class, students learn numerous beneficial poses or asanas. Their names––often describing concrete objects such as: tree, plough, boat, fish, triangle, ch...
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