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Five Important Health Reasons to Reduce Stress

June 23rd, 2009
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My Yoga Online has added a new health and wellness article by Kreg Weiss, Five Reasons to Reduce Stress. With people needing to work more, save more, and find more time just to manage schedules, stress is becoming [...]

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Yoga Pose of the Month: Triangle Pose

June 10th, 2009
Enjoy our latest post by Dr. Robin Armstrong reviewing the applications, techniques, and cautions when doing Utthita Trikonasana (Triangle Pose). This classical Hatha Yoga posture offers many benefits: * Expands chest and shoulders * Increases mobility of hip joints * Increases neck mobility * Stretches spinal muscles * Strengthens and tones muscles of the thighs * Stretches calf muscles, hamstrings, [...]

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Top Yoga Poses for Lower Body Strength

June 6th, 2009
Practicing Yoga offers a great deal of benefits including the strengthening and toning of muscles. This strengthening and toning supports joint structures, promotes injury prevention, improves physical performance, and enhances body weight management. This strengthening is more appropriately classified as endurance, the degree and length of time in which a muscle can sustain [...]

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Feature Yoga Posture-Upward Facing Dog Pose

May 8th, 2009
My Yoga Online is featuring Urdhva Mukha Svanasana (Upward Facing Dog Pose) as the Yoga Pose of the Month. This advanced yoga back bend is wonderfully broken down set by set by Dr. Robin Armstrong. Learn the fundamental instructions in performing Upward Facing Dog along with modifications and safety cues in order to [...]

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Balance and Intentional Flow in Yoga

March 23rd, 2009
I was recently reviewing some Yoga anatomy material by David Keil and was reintroduced to a wonder concept of creating balanced energy and flow in your yoga practice. David presented the common bandha applications of mula and uddiyana in a more generalized concept throughout the entire body. As a reminder, mula means to [...]

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Subtle Rooting in Warrior Yoga Poses

January 5th, 2009
Our Warrior Yoga poses bring warmth, strength, and expansion into our yoga flows. These standing asanas offer higher levels of physicality, thus requiring fine-tuning and continuous attention to detail in order for these poses to deliver maximum benefits. Besides our requirement for proper alignment and energy locks, we can also apply subtle rooting [...]

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Twists And Turns Of Yoga Practice

December 3rd, 2008
Dr. Robin Armstrong has added a new yoga anatomy article to My Yoga Online addressing the important applications of twists in our yoga class. This article looks at how different yoga positions (standing versus seated) have different approaches to insure proper alignment and safety in our twisting yoga poses. Twisting postures are an enjoyable, challenging, [...]

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Yoga for COPD

November 29th, 2008
My Yoga Online has posted a new article addressing yoga practice for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) by Vijai Sharma, PhD, psychologist, certified yoga therapist and yoga teacher. Yoga is unique program for self-management for people with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) or other chronic illnesses because yoga is one of the most comprehensive body, breath [...]

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Yoga and Seasonal Stress

November 27th, 2008
As the busy and stressful holiday season approaches, it is important to examine your powerful emotions authentically with this new yoga article by Alexandra Goldwell, Registered Clinical Counsellor and yoga instructor. As spiritual beings having a human experience, we sure have a huge range of emotions we are capable of experiencing and sometimes several show [...]

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Neck Relief with Yoga Retraction Exercises

November 7th, 2008
Neck pain and discomfort is experienced by most people, especially for those who spend extended periods of time sitting at a desk or computer. This neck pain is often generated by poor posture habits and head positioning. To relief this discomfort, we have a few simple and quick yoga exercises that can help [...]

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