• Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev Plans Fast Unto Death
    Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev Plans Fast Unto Death

    Author My Yoga Online

    Yoga guru Baba Ramdev Wednesday announced he will go on a fast-unto-death from June 4 in New Delhi to demand capital punishment for corrupt officials and recovery of black money stashed away in Swiss banks by Indian politicians and businessmen.
  • Pain in the Neck: How a Techie Lifestyle Hurts
    Pain in the Neck: How a Techie Lifestyle Hurts

    Author Kim McNeil B.Sc. CYI

    Pain and stiffness in the neck and shoulders are common complaints I hear from my students.  In a previous article, I mentioned the role Forward Head Syndrome or FHS plays in the development of headaches, and neck and shoulder pain.  Closely-related to FHS in terms of its negative effects is forward head flexion (FHF).
  • The Vampire Diaries Star Loves Yoga, Shows Off Body
    The Vampire Diaries Star Loves Yoga, Shows Off Body

    Author My Yoga Online

    Nina Dobrev, star of The Vampire Diaries, shows off her beach-body in the latest issue of Seventeen Magazine.
  • Interconnections of Ardha Chandrasana: Half-Moon Pose
    Interconnections of Ardha Chandrasana: Half-Moon Pose

    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.
  • Why Yoga for Kids?
    Why Yoga for Kids?

    Author Bethany Winston

    Yoga is an ancient way of uniting our body, mind and soul. It relieves us from stress, increases energy, enhances concentration, builds strength and focuses on the overall development of the body. From several decades, people have been practicing yoga and enjoying its benefits. However, the question here is: do kids require yoga? Well, yes. Yoga is very beneficial of kids as well. Kids are the most important part of our society. Healthy kids will grow up to become healthy adults.
  • Meditation on Swaroop-True Self
    Meditation on Swaroop-True Self

    Author Padma (Marla Stewart)

    Swaroop translates as your own true self. Swa means 'self' and roop means 'form.' While it might seem that this term points to your own physical form as an individual body, on a subtler level, it means your true essence as a being. The form of your essential self is more subtle and vast than your individual body.
  • Vrksasana: The Story of Tree Pose
    Vrksasana: The Story of Tree Pose

    Author Ray Long, MD, FRCSC

    Vrksasana is both a balancing pose and, secondarily, a hip opener. It also contains elements of movement that ascend while others remain rooted into the ground. Apply the concepts used in Tadasana to the standing leg in Tree Pose, beginning with the foot. Remember that changes in the pressure of the standing foot are transmitted to the pelvic core and vice versa. Connect the two regions in the mind. Try the pose in a setting where you can place the hand on a wall for balance (even if you can balance without the wall).