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- Yamas Applied To Eating
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Author Melina Meza
There are numerous opportunities for the Yamas to support your current wellness and nutritional aspirations. The Yamas create a wheel of ethics that includes kindness, honesty, refrain from stealing, moderation, and non-hoarding. Following these five principles will help ensure that your life is filled with healthy relationships, including the one with yourself, others, and the natural world around you.
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- A Yogi’s Breakfast: Start Your Day with Vitality
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Author Ulyana Michailov ND
Breakfast has been known to be one of the most important meals of the day. It is also a time of setting a healthy intention for the day ahead. If you start the day with a nutritious breakfast, you give yourself a good chance to picking healthier food choices for the rest of the day.
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- Winter Weight Gain: 7 Tips to Calorie Cutting
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Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin
By the end of winter, many discover that they have packed on a few (or many) extra pounds. To add to the issues of reduced physical activity, the winter brings on holiday festivities that surrounds one with calorie-rich meals and treats. With a little planning and discipline, you can avoid the onset of the winter weight gain.
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- What is a Yogic Diet
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Author Carol DiPirro
A Yogic diet is a balanced diet that ancient Yogis believed had a huge influence not only over our physical well being, but also over our thoughts, and ultimately our emotional and spiritual well being. This diet can also be called lacto-vegetarian, which means that it is made up of non-animal foods with the exceptions of dairy items and honey. With continued awareness about the body through yoga you may find that vegetarian foods become a natural choice.
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- Prana: The Vital Wind
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Author Todd Caldecott
Prana is used in both a general sense and a specific sense in Ayurveda. In a general sense, prana is the animating force of the body that we receive through the air we breathe, and the food and water we drink. In Ayurveda prana is intimately connected to vata dosha, and in this sense, vata represents prana in a disturbed state. Ayurveda delineates five specific aspects to prana, as different vayus or ‘winds’ of the body.
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- Yoga: A Cure For Modern Day Stress
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Author Michelle Trantina
Stress has become a chronic aspect of life for many of us; and it takes its toll. The nervous system senses continued pressure and remains slightly activated, producing extra stress hormones over an extended period of time. This can wear out the body's reserves, leaving us feeling depleted or overwhelmed. Over time the immune system weakens causing illness and fatigue, mood swings, lack of focus, and irritability. HOW CAN YOGA HELP?
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- Seize the Summer: Ayurvedic Tips About Keeping Cool
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Author Melina Meza
In the world of Ayurveda, we are now in the summer season (June-August), which means whenever summer arrives in your geographical location, you will have a stronger relationship with the elements fire and water for three months. Ayurveda views the physical body, along with everything in the Universe, as being composed of the five primary elements; earth, water, fire, air, and ether or empty space. These elements are expressed in the physical body as qualities of stability/support (earth), feeling/fluidity (water), heat and metabolism (fire), respiration and circulation (air), and space and lightness (ether).
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