Yoga Enjoy – Page 7 – All About Yoga: Poses, Types, Benefits, and More

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.

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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.

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Sivananda Yoga

Sivananda Yoga 101: All About The Vedantic Yoga School Based On Selfless Service

April 8, 2021

Sivananda Yoga is a style of yoga that was founded by Swami Vishnudevananda. It is a system of yoga postures or asanas and relaxation techniques that is encapsulated in a 90-minute class.

Vishnudevananda named the school and system of yoga after his guru Swami Sivananda. The teachings of Sivananda have been incredibly influential to other teachers and styles of modern yoga.

In this article, we’ll take a look at:

The Sivananda method: principles, asanas, benefits

Swami Sivananda

Swami Vishnudevananda & Abuse Allegations

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What Is Sivananda Yoga?

There are many types and styles of yoga, which range from Restorative to Rocket Yoga. Sivananda combines elements of Vinyasa Flow with Hatha Yoga to create a balanced approach to yoga.

Sivananda Yoga features a substantial amount of sun salutations which require you to take a breath with each movement. They generally feature in the warm-up section of the practice.

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Sivananda Yoga is a fusion of movement and relaxation.

While the sun salutation element will get your heart rate up and your body moving, the more static postures, which are held for a longer period of time, encourage you to relax the body and the breath, making it a very balanced practice.

A long savasana and meditation are used to promote relaxation.

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Restorative Yoga

Restorative Yoga & Meditation

March 2, 2021

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Transformative Home Practice – Discover the Benefits of Restorative Yoga

Open to individuals of all skill levels, including complete beginners

Slow, supported yoga poses, each held for 10-15 minutes at a time using props like folded blankets, pillows, cushions, and blocks

Engages with parasympathetic nervous system, recognized as the “rest & digest” system

Focus is on joint range of movement, flexibility, and mobility

Incorporate mindfulness in relation to your senses – sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste, and thought

Ideal for those times where you may be feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stressed, or when recovering from illness or injury. The invitation is to cultivate a habit of self-care and self-compassion through deep relaxation.

Cost: €15 drop-in / Package 4 classes for €40 / €50 for monthly membership to join any hatha or restorative drop-in classes each month.

Testimonials

Córa’s Restorative Yoga and Mindful Movement is wonderful. I find the mindfulness aspect easier when combined with yoga instruction, and the class is gentle enough for those recovering from/ with chronic injury or illness. Very calming effect. I also found it very effective if you are a carer – this is a class where you genuinely feel no stress but do feel cared for yourself.

I attended Córa’s 5-week Restorative yoga course. I found it to be very relaxing and really helped me to listen to my body so now I can identify the areas in my body I am holding stress and take action.

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Prenatal Yoga

Manage the Physical Challenges of Pregnancy with Prenatal Yoga

February 10, 2021

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Many primary care doctor in Sugar Land, Texas prescribe this form of exercise to pregnant patients. This is because a woman’s body and mental outlook are transformed during pregnancy.

Pregnancy can:

Change a woman’s posture.

During pregnancy, a woman’s body undergoes a natural shift in gravity as she gains weight, which causes a curvature of the spine.

Tighten her hip sockets.

This is to support the additional weight they are carrying.

Anxiety about pregnancy and giving birth.

Women tend to worry about their child’s well-being and their upcoming labor experience.

Performing yoga poses can help ease the discomfort and pain that a lot of women may experience as their pregnancy progresses. It can also help mitigate the stress they feel and improve their mental state.

Other benefits according to the American Pregnancy Association are:

Improved sleep

Reduced stress

Increased strength, flexibility, and endurance

Decreased lower back pain

Reduced risk of preterm labor

Acquiring medical services in Texas that can guide you through your pregnancy journey is important, especially for first-time mothers.

Get a certified and reliable Family and Internal Medicine Doctor in Sugar Land by contacting us here. Sugar Land Physicians would be happy to help you out!

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