Yoga as a Lifestyle

July 19th, 2010 Posted in Yoga therapy | No Comments »

The practice of yoga is more than just gymnastics, it’s a lifestyle. For Dr. Lionel Coudron – graduated in acupuncture, nutrition, biology and sports medicine – who taught the subject for over thirty years, “it is especially a coherent whole that can help heal many disorders, they whether physical or psychological. According to him, yoga can help people to truly be themselves or to regain, maintain their health and develop their resources. * In his last book, he gives very specific examples including the fight against back pain, chronic digestive problems or to live better in spite of musculoskeletal problems, respiratory or neurological disorders, most importantly without requiring special hardware or a sophisticated environment, since only two square feet!

Yoga is known for his positions. This is also a real physical activity. The exercises can be practiced in many ways, says this expert, but this is an activity that moves the body in all directions and which contributes to its maintenance in exceptional circumstances. With minimal time and with maximum efficiency. As for the control of the breath is “particularly original dimension of yoga is its essence, the royal way to manage emotions,” he writes, noting that it is used in all disciplines designed to control these emotions famous.

For Dr. Coudron, as indeed for all specialists, the practice of yoga does not matter how. “There is a moral and psychological composed of ten rules governing our relationship to ourselves on the carpet and our relationship with our surroundings,” he writes. “Physical activity, breathing, meditation, nutrition and lifestyles find their justification in the fact that they help us build a better life, full of meaning. If this did not allow us to maintain and develop better relationships with those around us, then, it has no interest.”

Kundalini yoga class for the backbone

December 5th, 2009 Posted in Yoga therapy | No Comments »

This series of exercises will help your spine to self-correct, to keep the column in a correct posture and support your body as best as possible. Will strengthen your back and make it more flexible.

1) Sit in easy cross-legged. Grasp the ankles with both hands and inhale deeply. Inhale, arch your spine forward and open out, and well above the chest. With the exhale, arch your spine backwards. Keep your head straight so that it does not move up and down. Repeat 108 times.

Relax for 1 minute.

2) Sit in the knee. Place your hands on the legs with the palm facing down and in contact with the thighs. Repeat the motion a year earlier. Mentally repeating the mantra SAT NAM when you inhale and exhale. Continue for 108 times.

Relax for 2 minutes.

3) Easy grasp the shoulders with fingers facing forward and thumbs back. Inhale and twist your body to the left, exhale and turn your body to the right. The breath is long slow. Continue for 26 times.

Relax for 1 minute.

4) Easy clasped hands in the mudra of the close of the bear with the right palm facing down and left up. The hands are the height of the sternum, separated by about 10 cm from the chest, the arms are outstretched, straight and perpendicular to the floor. Breathing is a long slow and deep. You inhale lift your left elbow up, exhale when you wear it down and lift your right. The movement is continuous and constant. Imagine a pin that locks the hands to the sternum and an axis that runs through the arms and not pressed to bend. Try to not make the move “a cradle” and not move his head, only the arms move. Continue for 26 times. Then inhale with your arms parallel to the floor, exhale completely and, while holding your breath as you squeeze mula bandha (the contraction of the rectum, genitals and navel inward and upward). Now inhale and exhale.

Relax for 30 seconds.

5) Easy grasp so firm and knees, keeping your elbows very straight, begin to move forward and backward movement in the spine to ride the camel. Inhale forward, exhale back. Continue for 108 times.

Relax for 1 minute.

6) In easy flow during inspiration shoulders up and then let them fall as you exhale. When you drop your shoulders cast him altogether, the motion shall be accompanied. Do this for less than 2 minutes. Then inhale, hold your breath for 15 seconds while keeping the shoulders up. The end gently exhale, inhale and exhale again.

7) In easy start to make the slow turnover of the neck to the right for 5 times, and then left for another 5 times. Then inhale through the head upright and gently exhale.

8 ) In easy clasped hands in the grip of the bear at the throat. Inhale, hold and squeeze mula bandha, exhale, hold and squeeze Mula Bandha. Now bring your hands in the same mudra over the top of the head. Again inhale, hold and squeeze Mula Bandha, then exhale, hold and squeeze Mula Bandha. This complete cycle is repeated 2 times. Then inhale with your hands parallel to the floor at the throat and exhale, relax your location.

9) It enjoys rock put your hands above your head in the grip of Venus (outer right pinkie for women, external left pinkie for men), the indices are straight in touch. Keep your arms stretched up to touch her ears and her back very straight. Now do Sat Kriya for at least 3 minutes.
Where there is recited Sat focuses on the third chakra and contracting the navel inward and upward. While reciting Nam completely relaxes the navel and the focus is on the sixth chakra. Imagine a light beam is driven from the navel to the third eye and that this comes out to infinity. The cycle continues, the concentration is strong and constant.
Eventually you inhale and contract Mula Bandha, concentrate on the top of the head and bring your whole body tense up. Gently exhale, inhale and exhale again. Relax position.

Sat Kriya is called the pearl of kundalini yoga. He recommends the practice to those who already know the technique and has practiced at least a first time under the guidance of an expert.

10) Relax completely on your back in Savasana position, with legs slightly apart, arms about 20 cm away from the sides and palms facing upward. The body and head should remain in line and enjoy a total abandonment.

Swimming is an excellent non-impact exercise that helps to strengthen the core muscles and will complement your yoga work out, so go get your Swimsuit on.

Influence on the abdomen of proper breathing

October 21st, 2009 Posted in Yoga therapy | Comments Off

The effect of breathing reaches further than the lungs and heart: it is impossible to move the diaphragm up and down without producing an effect on the abdomen. The increase of the thoracic space during inhalation acts on the inside of the abdomea and the intestines. As a result other organs such as stomach, liver, gall bladder and pancreas are massaged as they should be and without which they cannot function properly. This natural massage is absent in the case of obese people who breathe only with the thorax and who find abdominal breathing exhausting and unpleasant and therefore get increasingly fatter. Not only do they have a great deal of stale air in their lungs but these are only working with part of their surface.

The obese person also carries around digested food and it is nothing out of the ordinary to find that his intestines contain the remnants of up to six or more meals of the last 48 hours. These remnants which tend to ferment and putrify, consist of partly decomposed food. They become more and more poisonous, and when toxic gases or liquids are absorbed by the intestines they pass into the circulation where they produce devastating effects. The faeces become dryer and harder and through mechanical friction cause injury and possibly piles. It is therefore not to be wondered that in just those parts where the hardest and most poisonous faeces are carried around, cancer of the intestines is frequently diagnosed.

The obese person is aware of the results of this poisoning and tries to get rid of it by taking chemical laxatives which lead to explosive evacuation but create really an unnatural solution as they do not allow the body to work for itself.

Yoga Exercise: 12-Step Salute to the Sun

April 2nd, 2009 Posted in Yoga therapy | No Comments »

One of the versatile yoga exercises is the 12-step salute to the sun. Make it once or twice when you get up in the morning to help relieve stiffness and refresh the body. Various repetitions at night will help you to relax; insomniacs often find that six to 12 rounds help them fall asleep.

1. Position with your feet slightly apart, palms together, thumbs against your chest.

2. Breathe in deeply while slowly raising your hands over your head, and bend back as far as possible, while tightening your buttocks. Hold for three seconds.

3. Gradually exhale and bend forward, keeping your knees straight, until your fingers touch the floor outside your feet. (If you can’t touch the floor, go as close as you can.) Bring your head in toward your knees.

4. Inhale slowly, bend your knees, and if your fingertips aren’t outside your feet on the floor, place them there. Glide your right foot back as far as you can go, with the right knee an inch or so off the floor, (a lunge position). Then look up as high as possible, arching your backside.

5. Before exhaling again, slide your left foot back until it is beside the right one, and with your weight supported on your palms and toes, straighten both legs so that your body forms a flat plane. Ensure your stomach is pulled in.

6. Exhale slowly, bend both knees to the floor, bend with your hips in the air, lower your chest and forehead to the ground.

7. Now inhale slowly and look up, bending your head back, then raising it, followed by your upper chest, then lower chest. Your lower body – from the navel down – should be on the floor, and your elbows should be slightly bent. Hold for three to five seconds.

8. Breathe out slowly and raise your hips until your feet and palms are flat on the floor and your arms and legs are straight in an inverted V pose.

9. Inhale slowly and bring your right foot forward as in position 4. The foot should be flat on the floor between your fingertips. The left leg should be almost straight behind you, with its knee slightly off the floor. Raise your head, look up, and arch your backside.

10. Slowly exhale and bring your left foot forward next to your right one. Straighten your legs and stand, trying to keep your fingertips on the floor, and try to touch your head to your knees as in position 3.

11. Gradually inhale, raise your arms up and stretch back as in position 2. Don’t forget to tighten your buttocks. Hold for three seconds.

12. Slowly exhale, lowering your arms to your sides. Relax. Repeat the series.