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  Tagline: Yoga opens the path to empower brain functions Yoga is a primeval physical practice, originated from Indian land that intermingles mind, body, and spirit. Three major practices of yoga comprise physical postures, regulated breathing, and meditation which leave a positive impact on mental and physical well being of humans. There is a common consensus that yogic practices strengthen the human body to scuffle against a range of mental syndrome and physical illness. Recently experts have realized that yoga practices can powerfully augment brain cells and as a result, people may improve cognitive functions such as attention, learning, thinking, and perception. While practicing yoga, brain cells of a person get stimulated which can effectively transform brain structure and improve cognitive processes like memory, perception, attention, and learning. Yoga practices strengthen brain power and people may develop the ability to focus on their target, digest information easily,...

Yoga practices are always helpful for individuals to maintain healthy mental and physical state. Yoga during pregnancy also has huge benefits. Yoga aids pregnant women to gain strength and increase stamina. Regular yoga practices can lessen stress and anxiety and women feel comfortable for normal delivery. During pregnancy, women experience lots of pain in neck, shoulders and back pains. Yoga is the best way to manage such discomfort. It strengthens muscles, lead to good blood circulation, and women feel more energetic. Yoga also helps in dealing with medical issues during pregnancy such as sciatic pains, back pains, edema (Swellings), mood swings, and depressions. Good yoga postures for pregnant women : Hatha Yoga improves physical strength and posture during pregnancy and promotes stable breathing, improved awareness and women feel relaxed. Iyengar Yoga focuses on the poses above breathing and meditation. Iyengar yoga is very accessible as it uses a variety o...

People in today’s environment are more conscious about their physical as well as mental fitness that help them to lead good life.   Asana denote to range of physical exercise which means a stable and comfortable manner of sitting. There are numerous benefits of the practice of moving the body into different postures. Further, these asanas improve health, strength, balance and flexibility. In depth, the practice of asana is an effective way to calm the mind and move into the inner essence of being. The challenge of poses offers the yoga pupils the opportunity to discover and control all types of their emotions, concentration, intent, faith, and unity between the physical and the ethereal body. People who perform regular asana are more fit and active. Asanas improve respiration through focused breathing practises while the body maintains the specific poses. Meditation helps in cleansing the mind and allows person to focus on the important things in life and eradicates ...

In yoga practices, Chakra therapy greatly influence body cells, organs and hormonal systems, person's thoughts and feelings. Chakras are energy centres in human body which aids to control all its process. These chakras are storehouses and transmitters of the universal energies and each of chakra represents distinct frequencies within universal. The chakras interact with the electromagnetic energy field and transform this into the energy that maintain human life.  Chakras are divided into seven zones, with each area having energy that must flow freely. Seven chakras that cleanse human body are as under: Root (1st) — Base of the spine; red; governs survival instincts, grounding. Sacral (2nd) — Lower abdomen; orange; governs sexuality, intuition, self-worth/-esteem. Solar Plexus (3rd) — Upper abdomen; yellow; governs impulse control, ego. Heart (4th) — Centre of the chest; green; governs compassion, spirituality. Throat (5th) — Throat; blue; govern...

There are visible benefits of yoga for students to relieve stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, digestive syndrome and other mental strain of studies and exams. It is observed that extreme study pressure during exams, students undergo numerous mental problems. They develop unhealthy lifestyle and have poor nutritional intake that adversely effect on their physical health and lower the performance in exam. In modern age, pupils face lot of mental strain due to a highly competitive environment and work culture. Peer-pressure, examination pressure, long study hours, unbalanced eating habits are prime causes of a worrying lifestyle. Yoga has positive impact on the health of students when they are in intense pressure. The practice of Yoga can help students to overcome mental problems and lead a healthy lifestyle. Students must get benefits from regular yoga practices. Yoga helps to improve academic performance through relieving mental pressure. Through meditation, students get r...

Yoga is fundamentally a practice. Yoga therapy is beneficial for life threatening mental disorder like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer disease, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Parkinson’s diseases, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. Patients of Bipolar depression show symptoms of irritability, guilt, impulsive mood swings, and feelings of restlessness. People with bipolar depression also tend to move and speak sluggishly, sleep a lot, and gain weight. Additionally, they have tendency to develop psychotic depression, a condition in which they have lost contact with reality and to experience major disability in work and social functioning. In Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, patients experience recurrent, invasive thoughts or repetitive actions that are understood to be irrational and unnecessary. These periodic, aggressive thoughts, called obsessions, and uncontrollable, repetitive actions, called compulsions. These thoughts cause...

Yoga is a set of principles, beliefs and practices for yoking matter to spirit, body to mind, personal to universe and mortal to immortal. Chakra system is the architecture of yoke providing a comprehensive map to the way the mortal and divine yoke together. This system describes the architecture of the body through the subtle energy centres shining out from our core. Chakras are energy centres by which the galactic energy flows into the human body. There are basically eight principal Chakras and each is related with certain aspects of human existence. These are -        Muladhara Chakra - Root Centre -        Svadhishthana Chakra - Lower Abdominal Centre -        Manipura Chakra - Navel Centre -        Anahata Chakra - Heart Centre -        Vishuddhi Chakra - Throat Centre -        Ag...

Yogic philosophy is taught together with the practice. According to Patanjali, there are eight limbs, or steps to yoga. These limbs relate to Aashtanga Vinyasa practice.  These limbs are elaborated as under: 1. Yama:  This limb consists of set of ethics which ensures that the yogi interacts in harmonious way with the surrounding community. The ethical precepts are not to harm others, to be truthful, not to steal, and abstain from greed. Major elements of this limb are Ahimsa, SatyaAsteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya and Aparigraha (non-possessiveness). Yama basically means control of senses. It is considered as a code of conduct for interpersonal relationships. 2. Niyama: This limb is associated with personal observances. Niyama actually denotes to binding rules. It is well observed in human society that people follow some rules in the form of do’s and don’ts. Major components of this limb are swachha (purity), Santosha (contentment), tapas (Austerity), svadhyaya (S...

Accumulating colossal knowledge or understanding through practicing yoga is the proximity of the spiritual cosmos. Regular Yoga exercise is an effective procedure to augment spiritual growth and boost inner strength  of individuals.     Yoga is a holistic way to lead a peaceful life. It provides skills to assimilate the body, mind and breath, and link to the inner core of being that is the spiritual aspect of human life. The mind often vacillates between the past and future which leads to worry and expectation. Such desires, fear, passions, dislikes grip the mind. In order to lessen the mental conflict, it is vital to bring the mind to the present moment. Yoga purifies the body and mind of amassed stress and negative feelings. Through yoga, people reach a higher level of consciousness. With regular practice of yoga poses, practitioners gain body balance and elasticity improves, and makes them healthy, strong and alert. Different yoga postures or asanas are ...