...red on one's personal concept of God.

Tantra Yoga: A way of showing the unseen consciousness in form through specific diagrams, and movements. One of the diagrams that is used to show the joining of the physical and spiritual bodies is two triangles superimposed upon one another. The downward-pointing triangle represents the physical body. The upward-pointing triangle represents the spiritual body of support, energy, and vastness.

Kashmir Shaivism: It is based in emotion rather than intellect. The practice of this yoga philosophy states that everything in the universe has both male and female qualities. In Kashmir Shaivism, these male and female principles form an equal partnership, so interdependent that they cannot be separated. The attraction between them produces the ultimate union of opposites, creating the immense complexity of the universe that we enjoy and celebrate.

Yoga is not a religion. It has no fixed set of beliefs. There...more

The Benefits Of Hatha Yoga Examined

...children and teenagers and it's easy for them to do, as they are already flexible. Yoga can help them retain that flexibility. It can also help to develop their self-discipline. Practicing asanas is good for developing coordination and can help to improve concentration which many children and teens find difficult.

Yoga is the ideal exercise during pregnancy. Asanas can improve backache and help to lift depression. Many women who practice yoga have said that it helped to make their labor easier and shorter. Be careful to only do asanas that have been approved for pregnant women. The meditation side of yoga is also calming and centering during pregnancy.

Older people use yoga to improve and/or maintain flexibility, correct poor posture, strengthen the spine, and ease back pain. It can also improve digestion and elimination, facilitate circulation, improve breathing dis...more

The Health Benefits Of Yoga

...What are the health benefits of Yoga? Well, to answer shortly; they are very great and work in countless of ways - but that would have been a too short an article.

Stress is the number one cause troubling every section of our emotional, endocrinal and physical system. But with the assistance of yoga these things may be corrected.

At the physical level, Yoga and its cleansing practices has been demonstrated as extremely substantial for various health problems.

Discussed here below are just a selection of the benefits of Yoga that you can get.

Healthy Joints and Body

Yoga is known to increase flexibility; yoga has positions that work on the specific joints of the body. Counting in those joints that are not stimulated with ordinary exercise systems.

Yoga similarly promotes the lubrication of joints, ligament and tendons. The carefully studied yoga positions develop the ...more

How to Make Up Your Own Yoga Routine At Home (part 2)

...ciency.

1. Prayer before beginning exercises

2. Sun Salutations

3. Corpse Pose

4. Shoulder Stand

5. Bridge Pose

6. Fish Pose

7. Forward Bending Exercises

(Plough, Wind reliving and Head-to knee poses)

8. Backward Bending Exercises

(Inclined plane pose, bow pose and wheel pose)

9. Spinal Twist

10. Balancing Exercises (i)

(Peacock pose, Crow pose)

Balancing Exercises (ii)

(Side Plank and 4-Limb Staff Pose)

11. Sitting exercises

12. Exercises in standing positions

13. Complete relaxation

14. Abdominal Exercises

15. Breathing Exercises

16. Meditation (I personally just lay in the corpse pose for 5 minutes after pranayama; breathing squarely accompanying the sound of the met...more

Yoga Zone Conditioning And Stress Relea