Yoga is an ancient science originating in India around 5,000 years ago. That is an extremely concise way to point out that there is probably something to it. A science/philosphy that has endured 5,000 years, transcending scores of generations, of governments, cultures and religions is probably worth checking out. Yoga has many ‘branches’ or disciplines all focusing on, in some capacity, ‘enlightenment’ or union with the creator/earth. Literally, Yoga means ‘yoking’ or ‘union’ with the divine. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, one of the sacred yoga texts, comes the Eight Limb Path to Enlightenment. Essentially, this path is a road map, a sure way to blissful enlightenment. The eight limbs are as follows:
Yama – ethical disciplines
Niyama – self observation
Asana – posture
Pranayama – breath control
Pratyahara – sense withdrawal
Dharana - concentration
Dhyana - mediation
Samadhi – state of joy and peace
Asana, the third limb of this eighth limb path involves physical postures designed to promote strength and flexibility to enable the body to sit peacefully in prolonged meditation. In the west, there is more focus on this Asana limb of the Hatha Yoga system. (this is the first mention of Hatha. What is it?) Ever hear the saying, ‘your body is your temple,’ the idea that your body is structure in which your spirit resides. The Asana branch of Hatha Yoga focuses on keeping a clean, healthy temple so your spirit can thrive. To do this, Asana Yoga blends focused breathing and deep concentration with physical poses. It joins breathing, moving and thinking.
The benefits of yoga are tremendous and entire books have and will be appropriately devoted to them. That why Yoga has been practiced for over 5,000 years and still finds itself in the mainstream of a culture across oceans away from it’s origin. I provide a lengthy list of them in the back and suggest you read as many of them as you can. Though the benefits of yoga are extensive and largely entertained, in this chapter we will focus on those physical. So we will be concerned, primarily, with this third limb and will focusing on one specific type of Asana Yoga practice: Astanga Yoga.
An Astanga Yoga practice has poses dedicated to engage every cell of your body, heart, kidneys, liver, eyes, bones, brain, nervous system. It is, beyond comparison, the epidimy of the perfect exercise, so essential to total health. Oxygenating the system is one of the great benefits of vigorous exercise and the deep, regular breathing inherent in any Yoga practice strengthens the lungs to a point where more air is drawn in with each breath.
Astanga Yoga is the best, most complete form of exercise and it is all you need. Your lungs become stronger with each practice, your body’s muscles and bone fiber become stronger as you perfect each pose.
People often ask, ‘Yoga sounds like good exercise, but I still have to go to the gym and workout and do ‘cardio’ right? If you want to you can, but the Astanga Yoga sequence is totally systematic and it strengthens every muscle in the body, including the heart. To practice a Power Yoga like Astanga for around an hour everyday is plenty of ‘cardio.’
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Namaste
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Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, December 14, 2009
New Years Resolutions must start before New Year
New Years Resolutions MUST start before New Years! Or just start them today!
As we are blessed to begin a new year, it is important to realize that some very small and simple changes in your life will have profound and dramatic effect on your health and wellbeing. Eat a little smarter, exercise a bit more often, and learn to become the master of your mind... and watch and see how fulfilling life can be. In fact fulfillment is seen to be your true nature.
Begin the new Year with a resolute determination to exercise very day. That will begin the powerful positive feedback cycle whereby you will get stronger every day and your Will-Power will naturally increase and express itself in more intelligent choices throughout your life.
Daily exercise is one of the most dramatic changes you can make in your life. In short, exercising strengthens your body, burns excess calories and promotes good circulation in all of its flowing systems. It’s the first and most important step to getting healthier and happier and it’s really not so hard to pick up.
Virtually any type of physical activity is good for your body so if you are exercising at all you are off to a great start. However, certain exercise practices are infinitely more beneficial than others. The best exercise, the exercise you should be doing daily requires the following:
It is vigorous (assuming it is safe and the right pace for you and your body). It is the sustained, vigorous workout that exercises the heart. And as it strengthens the heart, it sends blood through the filter organs more rapidly cleansing and detoxifying it. Sustained vigorous activity can unburden us of previously un-eliminated waste and toxins. Because poisons are almost fully responsible for disease, lack of energy, and degeneration, the multitude of benefits that accrue go far beyond keeping us fit.
It involves the entire body. Every part of your body needs daily exercise. Unlike your car and your shoes and a lot of other things in our lives, our body improves as we use it. When it is underused it actually deteriorates. Hips that are underused now become brittle later and break later. Muscles that rarely engaged become flaccid, skin sags and systems become blocked. So the exercise you are doing everyday needs to engage the entire body. Strong biceps are great, a strong heart and bones to go with them are even better.
Like I said, virtually any type of exercise - assuming it is safe – is good for you but the exercise practice to which you will be introduced over the next few pages is great for you. The Power Yoga sequence that I teach is one of the best ways to attain all the critical components of an exercise I just described. One more thing: it can lead to spiritual enlightenment. I’m serious. Yoga involves an intense mental/spiritual element that is accessible to everyone who practices regularly. You will begin to notice it yourself as you practice but I will address this further later.
Why do I say happier? Because if any of the functions of the internal organs like digestion or excretion are impaired, the brain will also be impaired. The brain is the organ of the mind. An impaired brain equals depression. There is an inseparable relationship between the mind and the body. If there is an imbalance in one, they will both suffer. This is why the value of exercise can never be overemphasized. Exercise can decrease nervous tension as it vitalizes the body, balancing the mind-body dynamic. Vigorous activity literally eliminates the internal conditions that give rise to qualms, worries and stress.
In order to feel physically well, emotionally balanced and spiritually aligned, we MUST exercise everyday. That is just how it is. No animals in nature take a day off of being themselves.
Vigorous activity strengthens the nerves and steadies them so you are less likely to feel edginess or nervousness. The body secretes noradrenaline and norepinephrin after sustained vigorous activity. This provides a perpetual feeling of well being.
Almost everything we make in life deteriorates with use. Edges dull; paint chips; motors fail. It is a paradox, but what nature makes, bodies are the opposite to a degree. With use, they improve. With exercise, they perform longer and better. This is because movement is essential to good health. Like all organisms, our bodies are made up of free flowing systems. Life is literally flowing through us. Movement is an underlying principle of our digestive, our reproductive, cardiovascular and respiratory systems. It is required, as that is the design.
In the digestive system, the blocking of the flow is called constipation. It is very common and very unhealthy to be blocked. We need to get moving and get everything moving.
It amazes me how often blockages in our flowing systems are overlooked or their effects are blamed on some other ‘problem. In our society, many of us are more vigilant when it comes to maintaining the free flowing system in our cars than the ones in our bodies despite the fact that most of us are more prone to constipation than to a clogged fuel line. A blockage in any of your bodily systems is a serious health emergency. Keeping our systems flowing freely is essential to good health and it can be achieved through regular, vigorous exercise.
When you exercise, you also build strength. A comprehensive exercise program strengthens the entire body and encourages the coordination of various muscle groups. Rarely do we depend on just one muscle group for anything. Strength is more appropriately determined by how well our muscle groups work together.
Although exercise does help us “look good” regular exercise promotes good health in a deeper way too. Like other muscles, the heart can be strengthened or weakened depending on the degree to which it is used. The more blood your heart pumps to the aorta, the stronger and more efficient it gets. Your bones are the same way. Many of us perceive our bones as inactive and lifeless, but our skeletal system is as alive as any other part of your body. Exercising it builds bone strength and density. Even the nerves are strengthened with exercise, becoming steadier.
Author Fred Busch is the owner/director of Miami Yogashala
Fred leads international Yoga Teacher Trainings and Retreats www.miamiyoga.com
As we are blessed to begin a new year, it is important to realize that some very small and simple changes in your life will have profound and dramatic effect on your health and wellbeing. Eat a little smarter, exercise a bit more often, and learn to become the master of your mind... and watch and see how fulfilling life can be. In fact fulfillment is seen to be your true nature.
Begin the new Year with a resolute determination to exercise very day. That will begin the powerful positive feedback cycle whereby you will get stronger every day and your Will-Power will naturally increase and express itself in more intelligent choices throughout your life.
Daily exercise is one of the most dramatic changes you can make in your life. In short, exercising strengthens your body, burns excess calories and promotes good circulation in all of its flowing systems. It’s the first and most important step to getting healthier and happier and it’s really not so hard to pick up.
Virtually any type of physical activity is good for your body so if you are exercising at all you are off to a great start. However, certain exercise practices are infinitely more beneficial than others. The best exercise, the exercise you should be doing daily requires the following:
It is vigorous (assuming it is safe and the right pace for you and your body). It is the sustained, vigorous workout that exercises the heart. And as it strengthens the heart, it sends blood through the filter organs more rapidly cleansing and detoxifying it. Sustained vigorous activity can unburden us of previously un-eliminated waste and toxins. Because poisons are almost fully responsible for disease, lack of energy, and degeneration, the multitude of benefits that accrue go far beyond keeping us fit.
It involves the entire body. Every part of your body needs daily exercise. Unlike your car and your shoes and a lot of other things in our lives, our body improves as we use it. When it is underused it actually deteriorates. Hips that are underused now become brittle later and break later. Muscles that rarely engaged become flaccid, skin sags and systems become blocked. So the exercise you are doing everyday needs to engage the entire body. Strong biceps are great, a strong heart and bones to go with them are even better.
Like I said, virtually any type of exercise - assuming it is safe – is good for you but the exercise practice to which you will be introduced over the next few pages is great for you. The Power Yoga sequence that I teach is one of the best ways to attain all the critical components of an exercise I just described. One more thing: it can lead to spiritual enlightenment. I’m serious. Yoga involves an intense mental/spiritual element that is accessible to everyone who practices regularly. You will begin to notice it yourself as you practice but I will address this further later.
Why do I say happier? Because if any of the functions of the internal organs like digestion or excretion are impaired, the brain will also be impaired. The brain is the organ of the mind. An impaired brain equals depression. There is an inseparable relationship between the mind and the body. If there is an imbalance in one, they will both suffer. This is why the value of exercise can never be overemphasized. Exercise can decrease nervous tension as it vitalizes the body, balancing the mind-body dynamic. Vigorous activity literally eliminates the internal conditions that give rise to qualms, worries and stress.
In order to feel physically well, emotionally balanced and spiritually aligned, we MUST exercise everyday. That is just how it is. No animals in nature take a day off of being themselves.
Vigorous activity strengthens the nerves and steadies them so you are less likely to feel edginess or nervousness. The body secretes noradrenaline and norepinephrin after sustained vigorous activity. This provides a perpetual feeling of well being.
Almost everything we make in life deteriorates with use. Edges dull; paint chips; motors fail. It is a paradox, but what nature makes, bodies are the opposite to a degree. With use, they improve. With exercise, they perform longer and better. This is because movement is essential to good health. Like all organisms, our bodies are made up of free flowing systems. Life is literally flowing through us. Movement is an underlying principle of our digestive, our reproductive, cardiovascular and respiratory systems. It is required, as that is the design.
In the digestive system, the blocking of the flow is called constipation. It is very common and very unhealthy to be blocked. We need to get moving and get everything moving.
It amazes me how often blockages in our flowing systems are overlooked or their effects are blamed on some other ‘problem. In our society, many of us are more vigilant when it comes to maintaining the free flowing system in our cars than the ones in our bodies despite the fact that most of us are more prone to constipation than to a clogged fuel line. A blockage in any of your bodily systems is a serious health emergency. Keeping our systems flowing freely is essential to good health and it can be achieved through regular, vigorous exercise.
When you exercise, you also build strength. A comprehensive exercise program strengthens the entire body and encourages the coordination of various muscle groups. Rarely do we depend on just one muscle group for anything. Strength is more appropriately determined by how well our muscle groups work together.
Although exercise does help us “look good” regular exercise promotes good health in a deeper way too. Like other muscles, the heart can be strengthened or weakened depending on the degree to which it is used. The more blood your heart pumps to the aorta, the stronger and more efficient it gets. Your bones are the same way. Many of us perceive our bones as inactive and lifeless, but our skeletal system is as alive as any other part of your body. Exercising it builds bone strength and density. Even the nerves are strengthened with exercise, becoming steadier.
Author Fred Busch is the owner/director of Miami Yogashala
Fred leads international Yoga Teacher Trainings and Retreats www.miamiyoga.com
Sunday, November 8, 2009
The Role of Exercise
Eating well is not enough. You have GOT to exercise. Eating well is half the picture, it is precisely half, it is very important, but the other half is exercise. We are, all animals are, designed to express our bodies physically daily. We are designed to have to earn our food. So it is worked into our physiology that we are going to function better, we are going to heal faster, by exercising daily.
There are all sorts of exercises out there, you can do whichever ones you want, but the best ones are the ones that are daily, are systematic, and are as vigorous as you feel is appropriate for you and then always moving up. Starting slow and always moving up, from where ever you start, it does NOT matter. I am a yoga teacher so I say do yoga.
Because this style of yoga is cardio-vascular, it is opening up the muscles, it is benefiting the endocrine systems, it does everything. If you have other exercise fine, just make sure that they are not hurting you. If you are running, make sure that your knees are not going bad. If you are lifting weights, make sure that you don’t have shoulder injuries. Make sure that whatever you are doing that is in the effort of benefiting you is really benefiting you.
So vigorous exercise! Do something everyday. Vigorous walking do it, if it is Yoga do it, what ever you are going to do do it. Just do something! Otherwise you can eat well all you want but it isn’t the whole story, it isn’t the whole picture. You got to move your body.
You may visit my site, Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio: South Beach for questions regarding Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga. I also do 5-day Detox programs, Intensive Teacher Trainings at the following Miami Yogashala locations: Brickell Yoga, Sunny isles yoga and South Beach Yoga studios. You may also send inquiries at fred@miamiyoga.com.
Namaste
There are all sorts of exercises out there, you can do whichever ones you want, but the best ones are the ones that are daily, are systematic, and are as vigorous as you feel is appropriate for you and then always moving up. Starting slow and always moving up, from where ever you start, it does NOT matter. I am a yoga teacher so I say do yoga.
Because this style of yoga is cardio-vascular, it is opening up the muscles, it is benefiting the endocrine systems, it does everything. If you have other exercise fine, just make sure that they are not hurting you. If you are running, make sure that your knees are not going bad. If you are lifting weights, make sure that you don’t have shoulder injuries. Make sure that whatever you are doing that is in the effort of benefiting you is really benefiting you.
So vigorous exercise! Do something everyday. Vigorous walking do it, if it is Yoga do it, what ever you are going to do do it. Just do something! Otherwise you can eat well all you want but it isn’t the whole story, it isn’t the whole picture. You got to move your body.
You may visit my site, Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio: South Beach for questions regarding Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga. I also do 5-day Detox programs, Intensive Teacher Trainings at the following Miami Yogashala locations: Brickell Yoga, Sunny isles yoga and South Beach Yoga studios. You may also send inquiries at fred@miamiyoga.com.
Namaste
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Low Back Pain
What is the best back exercise for healing lower back pain? So many times we get to question “what can I do for my lower back” or “what’s the yoga pose that is the best for this” or “what pose your going to do for that.” And, unquestionably it has supposed to have specific benefits and has the ability to affect the body in a specific and beneficial way so it’s not completely incorrect to think in those terms about “all right well I have lower back pain and I have pains and what can I do, what is the one exercise to get rid of it”. Basically it is the mentality and it is clearly understandable but it’s really important to see it differently not to see anything as a one exercise is going to do it or that only yoga pose is what is providing the effect. Because what is actually required is a fairly comprehensive sequence that is going to address to every muscle on the body in every degree is possible. It’s because the body and the muscles cooperates with each other during exercise and able to communicate and coordinate much more effectively when they are being practiced with the exercise and every muscle needs that not just that because you have to tighten or lengthen your hamstrings that that’s all you do because that by itself while they’re helpful isn’t quite enough the big picture is that your hamstring have to get lengthened in the context of the rest of your body getting stronger, healthier and more flexible as well.
Please send you questions and inquiries to: fredb@miamiyoga.com; Also, visit me at my Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio on South Beach about concerns regarding Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga. I also do 5-day Detox programs, Intensive Teacher Trainings at the following Miami Yogashala locations: Brickell Yoga, Sunny isles yoga and South Beach Yoga studios.
Please send you questions and inquiries to: fredb@miamiyoga.com; Also, visit me at my Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio on South Beach about concerns regarding Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga. I also do 5-day Detox programs, Intensive Teacher Trainings at the following Miami Yogashala locations: Brickell Yoga, Sunny isles yoga and South Beach Yoga studios.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Simple Rule
In order to feel good, two things are required as a human being. This is physiology. It is required that you exercise very regularly and in my little world that means everyday. And then also, the other side of it is to eat well and when you can combine eating well and exercising, you’re creating an environment for your body and your mind because your mind needs your body to feel really good. So tons of people out there that exercise everyday that do not eat well, and they are not at peace and tons of people who eat very well they don’t exercise and they are not at peace either because if you don’t have them both you don’t have a chance. So to speak, because the body requires what it requires, it’s just basic biology. There are no animals in nature that take days off being themselves. We are made to move. We may not take days off from movement. That’s just the simple rule. So the overview is that, that when you understand what it means to eat well and for the thirty days, we may have more discipline than you may have after thirty days is over.
Here's my email for inquiries: fredb@miamiyoga.com; you may also visit me at my Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio on South Beach about Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga. I also do 5-day Detox programs, Intensive Teacher Trainings at the following Miami Yogashala locations: Brickell Yoga, Sunny isles yoga and South Beach Yoga studios.
Here's my email for inquiries: fredb@miamiyoga.com; you may also visit me at my Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio on South Beach about Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga. I also do 5-day Detox programs, Intensive Teacher Trainings at the following Miami Yogashala locations: Brickell Yoga, Sunny isles yoga and South Beach Yoga studios.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Role of Exercise
Eating well is not enough. You have GOT to exercise. Eating well is half the picture, it is precisely half, it is very important, but the other half is exercise. We are, all animals are, designed to express our bodies physically daily. We are designed to have to earn our food. So it is worked into our physiology that we are going to function better, we are going to heal faster, by exercising daily.
There are all sorts of exercises out there, you can do whichever ones you want, but the best ones are the ones that are daily, are systematic, and are as vigorous as you feel is appropriate for you and then always moving up. Starting slow and always moving up, from where ever you start, it does NOT matter. I am a yoga teacher so I say do yoga.
Because this style of yoga is cardio-vascular, it is opening up the muscles, it is benefiting the endocrine systems, it does everything. If you have other exercise fine, just make sure that they are not hurting you. If you are running, make sure that your knees are not going bad. If you are lifting weights, make sure that you don’t have shoulder injuries. Make sure that whatever you are doing that is in the effort of benefiting you is really benefiting you.
So vigorous exercise! Do something everyday. Vigorous walking do it, if it is Yoga do it, what ever you are going to do do it. Just do something! Otherwise you can eat well all you want but it isn’t the whole story, it isn’t the whole picture. You got to move your body.
If you have any questions about Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga, please visit me at my Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio on South Beach. I run 5-Day detox programs and intensive Teacher Trainings also out of all three Miami Yogashala locations. Brickell Yoga, Sunny Isles Yoga, and South Beach Yoga studios. I can be reached for questions at fredb@miamiyoga.com
www.miamiyoga.com is Miami yogashala's official site!
Namaste
There are all sorts of exercises out there, you can do whichever ones you want, but the best ones are the ones that are daily, are systematic, and are as vigorous as you feel is appropriate for you and then always moving up. Starting slow and always moving up, from where ever you start, it does NOT matter. I am a yoga teacher so I say do yoga.
Because this style of yoga is cardio-vascular, it is opening up the muscles, it is benefiting the endocrine systems, it does everything. If you have other exercise fine, just make sure that they are not hurting you. If you are running, make sure that your knees are not going bad. If you are lifting weights, make sure that you don’t have shoulder injuries. Make sure that whatever you are doing that is in the effort of benefiting you is really benefiting you.
So vigorous exercise! Do something everyday. Vigorous walking do it, if it is Yoga do it, what ever you are going to do do it. Just do something! Otherwise you can eat well all you want but it isn’t the whole story, it isn’t the whole picture. You got to move your body.
If you have any questions about Vegetarian Food, Vegan Food, Raw Food, Meditation, or Power Yoga, please visit me at my Miami Beach Power Yoga Studio on South Beach. I run 5-Day detox programs and intensive Teacher Trainings also out of all three Miami Yogashala locations. Brickell Yoga, Sunny Isles Yoga, and South Beach Yoga studios. I can be reached for questions at fredb@miamiyoga.com
www.miamiyoga.com is Miami yogashala's official site!
Namaste
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