Jul 5, Yoga Bullies - acts un- becoming a yoga teacher
Behaviours un- becoming a yoga teacher are seen with frequency online and create more dark spots that continue to tarnish the lustrous image of yoga
Jul 5, Hot Yoga
Hot Yoga wasn’t invented in America. Heat has always had a great deal of significance in the tradition of yoga, as Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani explains …
Yoga Vidya Yoga Class - Intermediate Level 20 minutes
A complete Yoga practice in 20 minutes: Pranayama, sun salutation (surya namaskar), 12 basic postures (asanas), final relaxation. For intermediate students who already master the basics. No more excuse for not having time to practice: In 20 minutes you can do so much for yourself! Feel refreshed and energized. Demonstrated by Carlotta and Aruna, yoga teachers at Yoga Vidya Ashram Germany. Voice/camera: Sukadev Bretz. More Infos http://my.yoga-vidya.org .Music by Yogi Hari http://www.yogihari.com . More Videos on http://my.yoga-vidya.org/video
Passive Yoga: Relax with supported Shoulderstand and Fish
No pain - lots of gain: Supported Shoulderstand (Sarvangasana) and supported Fish (Matsyanaa). Gives you relaxation and inner poise. Especially helpful after a busy day - or inbetween to get new energy. You need a pillow to do these 2 Hatha Yoga Asanas. Best is to do them barefoot, but it works fine even without shoes. Demonstrated by Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist Mahashakti, explained by Sukadev Bretz of http://www.yoga-vidya.de
Yoga for your Back - 20 Minutes Yoga Class
Relax your spine, strenghten your back and abdominal muscles. Prevent back problems and feel recharged. 20 minutes of Yoga for beginners
and intermediate students. Sukadev of Yoga Vidya guides you through the following Hatha Yoga Exercises: Relaxation, Nakarasana
(crocodile), Navasana (boat for strengthening the abdomen), supported Sarvangasana (simplified shoulderstand), Matsyasana (fish), Leg
stretch, Shalabhasana (bird’s pose), Majariasana (cat’s pose), Shavasana (final relaxation). Demonstrated by Carlotta and Aruna, yoga
teachers at Yoga Vidya Ashram Germany. More Infos http://my.yoga-vidya.org .Music by Yogi Hari http://www.yogihari.com . More Videos on http://my.yoga-vidya.org/video
Great Roundup of Yoga and Meditation Blogs
Yoga Blogs
Meditation Blog Articles - Edition #34
Here is some weekend reading of yoga, meditation and personal development articles and blogs for you all to enjoy and benefit from. In addition, if you are interested in being a guest author on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga (Google PR5), please email me at anmol@anmolmeht.com.
Meditation
claude presents How to Meditate - Learn the secrets of how to meditate deeply posted at How to Meditate - Learn the secrets of how to meditate deeply.
axel presents How To Prepare For A Meditation Retreat posted at axel g.
Yoga
Kat Saks presents The Subtle Power of Maha Mudra (Great Mudra) posted at Kat Saks Yoga, saying, "I’m doing a project to attempt all poses in Light on Yoga. My daily blog content seems like a good fit for this carnival!"
Ben Mural presents Yoga for Back Pain, Stress Relief, and More posted at BenMural.com.
Sandra McAubre presents 25 Reasons Your Kids Should Do Yoga posted at Sports Management Degrees, saying, "Many people who practice yoga have never thought about sharing this activity with their children. Here, we have found 25 great reasons why you should encourage your kids to do yoga."
Health and Wellbeing
Francesco Settesoldi presents Breathe, smile, enjoy life with The Five Tibetans! | posted at BreatheWithFrancesco, saying, "It’s been more than a year now since I’ve been practicing those amazing exercises….And I am ABSOLUTELY satisfied with them.I feel energized, I feel frisky, and my life is just…flowing! My body is strong and healthy."
Taylor Coburn presents How Do You Lift Your Mood When You Feel Down in the Dumps? | Motivia posted at Motivia.
Personal Development
Arnold Brod presents Life Lessons as Spiritual Guidance posted at Spiritual Healing and Energy Healing.
Spiritual Growth
Kaushik Chokshi presents Three Stages posted at Beyond Karma, saying, "The three stages of awakening…"
Thailand Breeze presents Finding Spirituality In Simplicity posted at Tip.
Other
Virginia Hensley presents 15 Bookmarkable Infographics About the Bible & Christianity posted at Masters in Divinity, saying, "If you are interested in divinity subjects, infographics about Christianity and the Bible can be very helpful. You can learn about different Biblical subjects, and visualize various events throughout Christian history."
Karen Anderson presents 13 Timeless Finance Tips From The Bible posted at Online Christian Colleges, saying, "In fact, the Bible has over 1,000 verses that discuss money. In this article, we’ll discuss thirteen timeless pieces of financial advice straight from the Bible, as well as give you the actual Scripture references."
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of meditation, yoga and spiritual growth ca using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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Huge Study Shows Yoga Therapy Helpful as Cancer Treatment
Yoga Treatment for Cancer
Yoga Therapy for Diseases
If you have been on the fence with regard to integrating yoga into your life, let me provide some motivational fuel to help you kick start your program. One of the largest studies on the benefits of yoga for cancer patients was conducted at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and below I would like to highlight some of the incredible benefits that cancer patients received from incorporating yoga into their treatment plan.
If yoga can help even those suffering from such a difficult condition like cancer, then it can certainly do wonders for you as well.
Cancer Patients Benefits from Yoga Therapy:
1. Yoga Helping Patients with Insomnia and Sleep Disruptions:
In the Rochester study, about 8 out of 10 cancer survivors reported significant sleep impairment that affected their lives before the study. Half of the patients were assigned to yoga classes twice a week for one month. By the end of the trial, 31 percent of yoga patients no longer had the sleep disruptions, twice the recovery rate of patients who didn’t take classes.
2. Yoga Providing Patients More Energy:
Yoga practitioners also reported a 42 percent reduction in fatigue, compared with a 12 percent reduction for the control group. Yoga users decreased the use of sleep medication by 21 percent, while the control group actually increased reliance on sleeping drugs by 5 percent.
3. Yoga Helping Cancer Patients with Mental Clarity and Chronic Fatigue:
The yoga study released by the cancer group is one of more than 4,500 reports showcased at this year’s meeting of 30,000 oncologists. Doctors have been especially interested in yoga’s muscle-toning stretches and meditative breathing, which practitioners say clears the mental fog of chemotherapy and the chronic fatigue that plagues some survivors for years.
In addition, the studies are showing that cancer patients are getting a great positive mental and emotional boost from doing regular yoga practice, and doctors say that this positivity is a significant factor in the success of any treatment program.
So if you are suffering from any disease or ailment, or are looking to stay healthy and fit, the evidence of the benefits of yoga is overwhelming and should not be ignored. Start a daily program and soon you too will be singing the praises of this wonderful science and enjoying a long, healthy and happy life.
Start here if you are new to yoga:
Free Online Yoga and Meditation Classes
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Potent Serpent Meditation for Awakening Kundalini Shakti
Kundalini Meditation
Awakening Kundalini Shakti
I had shared this wonderful meditation to raise Kundalini Shakti earlier this year in my monthly meditation newsletter and as it has been appreciated by many practitioners, I would like to share it with the rest of you on the blog today as well.
If you are familiar with Kundalini, you will no doubt be familiar with the use of the serpent to describe this energy and power. Kundalini is often equated to a coiled serpent lying asleep at the base of spine, which, then with the practice of Kundalini Yoga, is awakened and made to rise up to the crown of the head.
In addition to this analogy, increased encounters with serpents are also often reported by those in the midst of a Kundalini Awakening. These encounters don’t necessarily have to be with the real live snakes. These reports generally indicate that there is just a greater presence of snakes in their lives all of sudden, in the form of pictures, dreams, conversations, TV shows, books, etc.
There are also the more incredible stories regarding snakes, especially cobras, and those with awakened Kundalini. An example of this is the cobra that would often visit U.G. Krishnamurti at night at his house. This cobra would hiss and bang at the door and in general make a lot of ruckus and not stop until he was taken for a night walk by UG himself.
So it should not be surprising that there are many Kundalini Yoga Meditations that focus on using the serpent to help awaken Kundalini. Below I would like to detail one such potent meditation, for which I have to thank Swami Satyananda Saraswati for sharing it with the world. Here are the details for the source of this meditation.
Book: Kundalini Tantra
Author: Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Serpent Meditation To Awaken Kundalini
1. Sit comfortably with your legs crossed. If you cannot sit with your legs crossed, then you may sit on a chair.
2. Have your spine straight, relax your stomach and then close your eyes.
3. Bring your attention to your breath and allow it naturally slow down. This may take a few minutes to happen.
4. Now bring your awareness to the base of your spine and visualize yourself breathing from there. As you inhale and exhale, visualize the breath coming into and leaving this area. Continue for a few minutes to establish your awareness there.
5. Once you feel concentrated enough, visualize a small black cylinder (lingam with the top cut off) at the base of spine. And visualize a small baby red snake (not a cobra) coiled around this lingam looking up with the mouth open.
6. Once this picture is clear, visualize the serpent struggling to rise up the spine and straining in it’s effort to do so. As it struggles to rise, it makes an intense hissing sound.
7. When the serpent rises, visualize its mouth to be as wide as your body and as it rises, it’s body stretches up, but tail remains at the base of the spine coiled around the lingam.
8. This serpent’s body will often rise and then fall back during the meditation, but the lingam coiled by the tail will stay fixed. Continue the meditation in this way.
9. Success with this meditation is indicated by the eruption or great feeling of bliss, with the rising of the serpent. It can also happen that the lingam and serpent will move to various chakras along the spine, and if that was to happen continue the visualization using this new location as the base.
Kundalini Serpent Meditation Summary
The meditation above incorporates many important aspects of Kundalini Tantra and Kriya Yoga and it’s practice can help in developing many of the important skills needed to practice such meditations. The meditation helps you develop the power of concentration, the power of visualization, chakra awareness, channel (nadi) awareness and refines your awareness.
In addition, it helps you develop the ability to bring your breath and prana into various parts of the body, allowing you to cleanses your chakra and nadi system. And finally, it gives you a taste of the power of Kundalini Shakti.
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