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- Yoga for Fertility
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Author Ulyana Michailov ND
A healthy diet and lifestyle is vital for healthy sexual and reproductive function. Tuning into your body’s natural rhythms and cultivating positive habits and the benefits of yoga may be more beneficial than people realize. Yoga in accordance with a supportive lifestyle can be integrated with infertility treatments like IVF (in vitro fertilization) for a more successful result. Yoga on its own can also help support the reproduction and fertility status of the person, particularly women.
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- Plow Pose: Ways to Prop Up Your Yoga Practice
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Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin
Halasana is one of the more common yoga inversions that move the neck into deep forward flexion. With the forward flexion of the neck, the movement of the chin towards the neck creates an energetic lock (bandha) or connection with the Vishuddha Chakra - the main energy center situated on the level of the throat and the nerve plexus of the pharynx region. This energetic connection invites balanced energy into this center leading to creative expression, constructive communication, positive self-expression, and conscious listening as well as the feeling of being centered and content.
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- Pigeon Pose: Ways to Prop Up Your Yoga Practice
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Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin
Pigeon pose brings direct benefits to the joint structures of the pelvis. When the rear thigh is rotated internally, this pose opens your hip flexor muscles (psoas, rectus femoris) and your groin muscles. Pigeon pose also opens your lateral hip rotator muscles (gluteus medius & minimus) on the forward leg. This hip rotator stretch may relieve sciatic nerve tension and ease chronic low back pain.
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- Supta Padangusthasana: Ways to Prop Up Your Yoga Practice
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Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin
By using a strap in Supta Padangusthasana, you can maximize the benefits of the hamstring stretch while bringing deeper quality and stability through out the rest of the joints and energy lines.
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- Butterfly pose: Ways to Prop Up Your Practice
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Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin
The supported bolster-version of Reclining Bound Angle Pose is a restorative yoga posture that generates an array of nourishing benefits.
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- Extended Side Angle: Ways to Prop Up Your Yoga Practice
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Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin
Extended Side Angle pose takes on the stance of Warrior 2 pose, but embraces the spinal line sensations of Triangle pose. Besides the clear strengthening and warming aspects of this pose, Utthita Parsvakonasana is meant to deliver an expanding quality from the core and out to the limbs. A common mistake in this pose is to bring the bottom hand down the earth while not having the awareness or mobility to sustain even length on either side of the torso. The result, which is often also seen in Triangle, is a curving the spine and diminished expansion of the one side of the waist.
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- Savasana: Ways to Prop Up Your Practice
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Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin
Savasana (Corpse Pose) is the easiest of all Yoga postures to perform physically, yet is sometimes neglected as being the most important asana within the Hatha Yoga practice.
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- Interconnections of Ardha Chandrasana: Half-Moon Pose
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Author Ray Long, MD, FRCSC
The main story or the primary focus of Ardha Chandrasana is an intense stretch of the hamstring, gluteal, and gastrocnemius muscles on the back of the standing leg. A subplot is the balancing act that takes place in the pose. The actions of maintaining our balance and stretching the muscles on the back of the standing leg are interconnected. For example, contracting the quadriceps and hip flexors of the standing leg helps to maintain balance but also signals the muscles at the back of the leg that are stretching, the hamstrings and gluteals, to relax through the physiological process of reciprocal inhibition.
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