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Child Yoga – What is All the Fun About?
Many adults have taken up yoga, but yoga has not gained as the same popularity with children. Child yoga can offer many of the same benefits to kids as it does to adults. What can yoga offer your child? A healthier body – Childhood obesity is on...
Stretching & Yoga
Stretching and yoga aren't just for swamis who can fold themselves up like pretzels, or movie stars who have nothing better to do with their days! It can be a beneficial practice to all who use it, and one doesn't have to adopt the worldview of the...
The Foundation of Martial Arts: Yoga
At first glance, Martial Arts and Yoga seem like opposing forces
and philosophies, but these two health maintenance systems have
more in common than meets the eye. For a moment, consider the
similarities between Tai Chi and Hatha Yoga. Within the...
Yoga is Self Improvement
After five thousand years of written documentation, Yoga may
well be the oldest self-improvement system that ever existed. We
don't know what Yoga knowledge may have been lost before man
started to record it. In the time period beyond 5,000 years...
Yoga Teachers Lead by Example - Part 1
During the course of a lifetime, most of us have heard the
saying," Do as I say, not as I do." We see this kind of
leadership everywhere we go. All politicians, religious leaders,
police, sports professionals, parents, academic teachers,...
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Benefits Of Yoga For Pregnancy
Pregnancy is one of the most beautiful things many women want to
go through and are going through. It is something which many
women look forward too and with the increasing joy there is also
fear factor. Fear about your baby's health, a smooth delivery,
mood swings, fatigue, morning sickness, constant craving for
strange items, increasing weight and overall the feeling about
pregnancy can be overwhelming.
Pregnancy is an ensemble of risk factors. With a living being in
you, your body goes through lot of changes and these variations
may have an impact on your body. There are increasing chances of
you having high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, asthma,
liver disease and many more. These all can be avoided by doing
some yoga asanas and breathing exercises which would help in
having smooth delivery. But before doing any of these exercises
consult your doctor.
Yoga helps in avoiding high blood pressure and also tries to
control your weight. Breathing exercise is very easy and can be
easily done and one should avoid too many jerks and jumping in
this condition. Some of the poses or asanas which pregnant
ladies can do are Mountain yoga pose - beneficial for inciting
strength, relaxing and providing strength, Triangle Yoga Pose-
stretching your spine, tones up your spinal nerves, helps in
your digestive system, Warrior yoga pose - which includes
warrior I and warrior II, Standing side stretch - good for your
stomach, arms and legs, Standing spread leg forward bend and
Forward bend yoga exercise, Hero yoga pose, Cat pose, Fish pose,
Headstand, Tree yoga pose and many more including Corpse pose.
About the author:
Kevin Pederson, the webmaster for Yogawiz , provides information on
all the aspects of yoga, the importance of yoga in your daily
life and curing your ailments.
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