Am I messing up my neck with yoga?

I’ve been taking yoga twice a week for the past two weeks and I have noticed my neck always feels tense and is kind of causing a headache at the same time.
But when I do a lot of the positions in my yoga class I get relief from [...]

Exercises at home for busy schedule and to energize?

I have little floor space in my room, no VCR, and very busy schedule. I want to make time for a few exercises though.
First off, I want to do yoga. Very basic yoga, and I’m hoping it could help me energize? Is this possible? What website can [...]

Vinyasa Krama Asymmetric sequence speeded up x4 Right side only

what should be our goal when we are in shavasana pose of yoga?

The objective of Shavasana is to shift your awareness at a gradual
pace throughout the body and slowly slip into the anabolic state of
metabolism, which is conducive to repairing of cells and tissues.
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Yoga’s Eight Fold Path to Enlightenment
While many consider Yoga to be a form a physical exercise, it is also known to be an exercise in spiritual development. Most would agree that the true goal of Yoga is to provide the individual with the means to achieve inner peace and balance. To achieve these [...]

matsyasana (fish pose)

Trying to figure out what is wrong with my back please help!!?

I am 22 years old. and my back has been bothering me for the past 6 months. I know what caused the back pain but i dont know if something serious is wrong. let me tell you how it started. I am a fishing [...]

I want to take a yoga class.?

But I’m not sure what type/style of yoga to take. I am a 40yo male and starting to feel the effects of getting older. Arthritis runs in my family so maintaining flexiblity is important to me. I have practiced myself at home in the past for [...]

Muscular imbalances that can create a rounded posture are often the result of overdeveloping the chest and abdominal areas. People tend to focus on these areas because they are in the front of the body and that is what you see in the mirror. As a result, the side of the body is [...]

Community Sports Calendar – Jan. 27
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Restorative Yoga : Yoga Relaxation Pose

Would doing some yoga exercises like the plow, and the cobra both for your spine everyday have bad effect?

I am a 20 year old male, and really wanted to gain a few inchs by doin those stretches.. wasnt sure if too much could make you acyually shorter or eventually taller????

With any of these where the [...]

As yoga continues to grow in popularity, controversial statements about its practice and benefits spew from the mouths of an increasing number of undereducated, ovezealous yoga enthusiats. Fame and popularity, it seems, does not even preclude the folly, with mega-gurus like Baba Ramdev, for instance, professing yoga as a cure for homsexuality (although I do agree that yoga is a great cure for homophobia!).

I came across this article published almost 2 decades ago, which not only ignited a fire of controversy then, but shows that the ignorance about yoga and its real methodology and practice is nothing new at all …

GOMUKH is an end point of the Himalayan glaciers named Gangotri or of the glaciers under the Gangotri group. Gangotri has an amazing dimension of about 27 cubic kilometers. The location is closure to the Indian border of the China-occupied Tibet. Gomukh is situated in the district of Uttarkashi under the state of Uttarakhand in [...]

News from the JCC: Dec. 23, 2009 online edition
Here’s what is going on at the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore , 4 Community Road, Marblehead.
VINYASA YOGA: Calm Your Anxiety

If you’re looking for a type of yoga that’s athletic, physically demanding and that can be practiced at home, then Ashtanga Yoga may be the right choice for you.
This style of yoga is very athletic. There are a series of poses or postures you perform, moving from one to the next without pause. In [...]