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Everything You Need to Know About Aerial Yoga

November 13, 2021

What is Aerial Yoga?

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Aerial Yoga is a hybrid yoga practice which combines traditional Hatha Yoga poses, aerial acrobatic arts and body conditioning exercises performed with the aid of an aerial hammock. Classes can range from gentle and restorative to very demanding depending on how the hammock is used, making it suitable for people of all levels of experience and physical ability.

Aerial Yoga Benefits

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Aerial Yoga has all the same benefits of regular yoga with some added extras, including:

Decompression and alignment of the spine

Strengthening and lengthening of the body

Upper body strengthening

Core strengthening

Improved balance

Body awareness

Increased spacial intelligence

Relieving stress and anxiety.

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(Image via @nirvanayogavihara)

Using an aerial hammock makes inversions obtainable to everyone regardless of experience or physical condition. Our bodies get better oxygenation through increased blood flow to the brain during inversions which have many health and anti-ageing benefits such as:

Improved digestion and elimination

Improved blood circulation

Improved lymphatic drainage

Improved skin tone

Relief of spinal pain

Helps with insomnia

Energises the body and mind.

Aerial Yoga also helps to build confidence and self-esteem. “I’ve noticed most Aerial beginners are under the impression they can’t or won’t be able to perform the inversions or acrobatics in the class,” Melina tells us. “I have seen the look of pure joy on my students’ faces when they overcome their fear[……]

Acro Yoga

What is Acro Yoga? Ultimate Guide to Practice and Benefits

October 24, 2021

Simply speaking, acro yoga combines the practices, techniques, and benefits of acrobatics and yoga. It merges the Vinyasa and Hatha yoga to produce some fun-filled poses that are not only helpful in building your muscle strength and flexibility but also therapeutic.

Acro yoga poses performed by two people which means a lot of confidence, flexibility, strength, and balance is required to practice this yoga. It also helps build a strong relationship with your yoga partner as there is constant communication, mutual support, physical contact required to understand each others’ body movements.

This partner-based yoga engages you with your yoga buddy through movement, connection, and fun. Acro Yoga is more of a modern yoga form that has been constantly evolving since its introduction.

Origin of Acro Yoga

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The first traces of acro yoga can be found in 1938 when the ‘father of modern yoga’, T. Krishnamacharya has seen performing a variation of backbend yoga pose with a child. However, it was just a part of his teaching methodology. At that time it was not publicized as a particular yoga style.

Several decades later, in the 1980s, while researching methods to alleviate his back pain, Benjamin Marantz discovered techniques that involved massage and inverted therapeutic techniques and named it as AcroSage.

Practising it requires at least two people but works best with three or more. In inversion poses, one person lies on the ground as a base, while another (the “flyer”) balances on thei[……]

Yoga Nidra

How to practice Yoga Nidra

September 24, 2021

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Now, the most crucial part – How to achieve this state of relaxation? It is simple. Follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Lie down on your back and keep your limbs straight. Do not curl up or tighten your body and make sure you are on a smooth surface. You can keep a pillow under your head for support.

Step 2: Close your eyes and choose a clear intention. Think about what you intend to achieve through the practice.

Step 3: Take deep and long breaths. Try to rotate your awareness throughout your body, slowly and steadily. Feel the awareness of every part of your body. It will be like giving a separate identity to each part, as if all of them are different individuals, following the commands of your mind.

Step 4: Think of your body as wholesome existence. Repeat the process until you can feel each part of your body and the space around it, without actually moving.

Step 5: Feel the thoughts passing in and out of your mind at their own pace, without letting them affect the equilibrium you’ve created.

Step 6: Think about your clear intention again.

Step 7: Prepare your mind to reach its normal consciousness now.

Step 8: Move your fingers slowly, take deep breaths and slowly open your eyes. Your Yogic Nidra is complete.

You can also follow the steps mentioned in this video to get a better idea of how to practice psychic sleep.

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Yin Yoga

8 Tips For Teaching A Yin Yoga Class

August 19, 2021

When it comes to Yin Yoga, it’s important to recognise how different it is from Vinyasa or Bikram Yoga, especially when teaching classes. Our tips are tailored to this practice, helping you to get the most out of students when teaching these classes.

Tip #1 – Use Traffic Light Systems To Monitor Comfort Levels During Each Yin Yoga Pose

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Our first piece of advice for Yin Yoga teachers is to consider using a traffic light system to monitor student pain levels.

Yin Yoga involves a slower and more meditative practice. Clients hold poses for much longer than during Vinyasa Yoga – this can be from 3 minutes up to 20!

With this in mind, you want students to stretch deeply enough for it to be felt over time but not so hard they overstrain their muscles or injure themselves.

This is where the traffic light system comes in and can be done verbally or by holding up flashcards:

Green – Students should feel no discomfort at all and can easily hold the pose.

Amber – Students feel the stretch and mild discomfort but can hold it for the duration.

Red – This is the danger zone where students will find a pose very painful.

Using this system, you ideally want students to be in the amber zone. This means they can feel their bodies adapting to the pose but shouldn’t be experiencing serious pain.

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Minor discomfort is reasonable as it means their bodies are working hard and getting the most out of their practice. However, If your students are in the red zone they risk injury and may set themselves[……]

Vinyasa Yoga

Vinyasa Yoga Glasgow

July 4, 2021

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Vinyasa yoga can be both dynamic and gentle, cultivating a sense of lightness within the body and quiet within the mind.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga is a creative, unique, and dynamic flowing sequence around the sun salutation. Designed to increase strength and flexibility, the vinyasa flow class is taught from a functional approach and provides modifications and variations to help you find your own level of depth and comfort.

Dynamic Vinyasa Yoga is an intermediate level class that focuses on inversions like headstand and arm balancing sequences. If you are seeking to advance your practice, this class will suit you. It is both invigorating and challenging, so a general level of fitness will help. However, don’t let that put you off as you can improve your fitness level by regular attendance of this class.

Slow Flow Yoga is a Moon salutation based class, creating flowing transitions between yoga postures interspersed with longer held poses. In these longer held shapes, you will have the space and time to breathe and relax any tension out of your muscles and work deeper into your connective tissue.

Vinyasa Yoga is a unique blend of Hatha yoga, Classical Ashtanga and Vinyasa Krama Yoga. The class philosophy is that yoga is for Every One, Every Body, and Every Mind. As a result, the yoga teacher adapts and modifies the class to ensure the building of strength, stamina, and flexibility for all who attend.

Vinyasa Krama Yoga is a traditional and holistic approach that involves carefully se[……]

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The Vini Yoga Approach to Yoga

June 14, 2021

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Yoga is best taught in a one to one situation, which caters for the needs of the individual. There are 3 main approaches to teaching.

As a therapy – ‘cikitsa’

This aims to help alleviate particular health problems. Eventually the condition may improve as the practitioner develops a skillful means to help deal with the symptoms.

The yoga sutra of Patanjali also mentions afflictions such as unsteadiness of limb and disturbed breathing. On an emotional level there may be the feeling of restriction in the mind and malaise known as ‘duhkha’, which can have deep-seated roots. This may also be accompanied by mental disturbance and negative thoughts, ‘daurmanasya’.

In yoga the aim is to work with the body, breath and mind to try and develop harmonious integration of all three functions. In this process the role of the breath plays a vital role in helping to bring about positive change. Particular importance is given to the exhalation, which the practitioner aims to be steady and subtle throughout the practice.

Maintaining constitutional health ‘raksana’

It is important to keep practising once the above symptoms have reduced, as there is a tendency for them to return when complacency sets in. Practice is best done on a regular basis but you may need to adjust your practice according to how you feel and your needs at a particular time. It may be your practice moves from the grosser aspects to the subtle, and you may find yourself incorporating more meditative aspects into your practic[……]

Tantra Yoga

Shivakti Tantra Yoga

May 20, 2021

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“Namaste, I want to once again express my deepest gratitude for your guidance to a beautiful far away space of such spiritual enlightenment. You have indeed drawn upon the vast pallet of metaphysical consciousness from the ancient world to compose a beautiful new world ritual that magically unifies all elements of its diverse origins. Through your enlightened presence and creative improvisations at each sacred enactment, this beautiful ritual appears to evolve and lyrically transition through so many memorable experiential phases. You certainly have opened the door to a magical world beyond. I would be so deeply honored to be invited to explore further…” :RA

“Shall Time’s best jewel in Time’s chest lie hid – or who its’ beauty shall forbid?”

Here at the Holy Love Institute of Tantra Yoga, we are on a path of devotional embodiment. We are lovers of love for the Divine, a rapturous love with God as the ocean of pure Holy Love or prem. We see the whole world as our Beloved.

“Shivakti” is the inner alchemy sacred union of Shiva & Shakti, the dance of the divine, which we aim to awaken, embody and integrate through our full range of practices. We bring awareness to breath, asana, movement and stillness. We shine the light of our own experience on the ancient sutras, teachings and transmissions, while exploring how they are relevant for us today and what is revealed through our own bodies as divine channels.

We will explore from the roots of the Tree of Yoga, Stone-age Shama[……]