...This is a continuation of answers to some very interesting statements about Yoga and its many styles. Please dont take the statements in quotations too seriously; lets hope these answers will open minds.

Mine is the best Yoga style and all others are inferior.

Many students make this claim and I set them straight, right away. If you are getting a lot out of your Yoga practice, dont be so quick to put down other styles of Yoga. It is ironic when people practice something that literally means unity, and then they let the ego get in the way.

Shouldnt we just be happy that someone else is trying, or practicing, Yoga - instead of sitting on the couch? If you are a Yoga teacher, do not encourage this kind of thinking. Yoga teachers are very often familiar with many styles of Yoga, so we should know better.

If you are a student, please open...more

Breast cancer Awareness and the Benefits of Practicing Yoga Daily

... ourselves. The study concluded that yoga is associated with beneficial effects on social functioning among a medically diverse sample of breast cancer survivors. In other words, quality of life for patients improves with regular yoga practice and outcomes are likely improved. Looks like it's taken around 7,000 years to get to that conclusion scientifically, but then wasn't it only about 15 or so years ago that Time informed us that men and women are different?

Studies in north America, Europe, and Asia have shown that women who exercise at moderate to vigorous levels for more than three hours per week have a 30%-40% lower risk of breast c...more

True Essence of Yoga

...Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning. When you say a face as a moon, fools search for moon in that face. But, wise people see similarity in the face and moon. Similarly, wheels and lotus flowers should not be searched in the spinal card. Spinal card is the main nerve, representing mind, which is the base of love.

All these wheels or lotus flowers are the bonds of love in the various relatives like parents, wife or husband, children etc. They are compared to wheels or the revolving whirlpools in the ocean, which attract a swimmer and drown him. Similarly, these love wheels are compared to lotus flowers, since the lotus flowers attract the bee by sweet fragrance and bind it. Similarly, these love flowers attract any one and bind them. Kundalini is the mind which is the energy travelling as waves like a serpent, should cross all these love wheels connected to 7th lotus flower in the head called Sahasrara, which is Buddhi or intelligence that takes the decision, which...more

How To Become A Certified Yoga Instructor At Any Age

...Today, it is possible for anyone to become a yoga instructor, at any age. All you need is to have the determination and interest to become a yoga instructor. There are so many books on yoga, courses that you can follow at a yoga training school or at home through CDs and many websites and e-books that can help you become a yoga instructor.

Though the...more

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