On our first day, our teacher challenged us to find a way to give back to the community. I took the initiative to create the KVHS Yoga Project Peace legacy program, where my school’s yoga class volunteers at the Kings Way Care Center senior’s home. I organized many activities including chair yoga but I encourage many students to simply spend time with the residents, making their final stage of life a little more enjoyable. As the creator and coordinator of this…
and sizes. Yoga, which has been around for a very long time, but it is only recently becoming popular in the U.S. Yoga in Sanskrit means “union of the self with the divine,” and one of the objectives in yoga is to integrate the body and mind. There are so many benefits that yoga has, such…
limitations on what can be defined as a religion, however, these limitations do not exclude yoga.…
So I went a couple of hot yoga classes, and my counseling still made me do mindfulness exercise with her once a week. Another process I went through, which was a huge turning point for me was that I had an emotional arousal. An emotional arousal is the point where one is experiencing and shows feelings toward one’s problems and…
NIYAMA Niyama is the second stage in the raja yoga. The five rules of Niyama are in the form of Do’s. They are the attitudes we need to take toward ourselves. The rules are: 1. Cleanliness ( Sauca ) 2. Contentment ( Santosa ) 3. Austerity ( Tapas ) 4. Self-study or Introspection ( Svadhyaya ) 5. Devotion to the Supreme Lord ( Isvarapranidhana ) 1.4.1.3. ASANAS: (YOGIC POSTURES) In the Yoga sutras of Pathanjali, asana means "to be seated in a position that is firm, but relaxed".…
Research Methodology There are very few studies on yoga intervention on alcohol and substance abuse. There ae several factors associated with substance abuse that prevents patients from relapse. Participants will be select based on the following criteria: the age, the employment status and the patient admitted for long-term inpatient treatment. The patient age 18 and over, who are currently employed in a firm and who are admitted in the facility as inpatient will be recruited for the research.…
During the summer I attended the chair yoga class outside of KBCC. It was at 837 Union Street in Brooklyn. I was surprised at the number of people in the class. There was a wide variety of people who did chair yoga and the teachers at Park Slope Yoga sessions were very kind in letting me sit in on one of their classes. Actually, I stood in the back and observed the session, because I was late. I got lost. When I got there, the class was doing the warm up exercises. The instructors reminded the…
Yoga: Physical and mental health benefits of yoga How has yoga helped people throughout the world? Yoga is an ancient practice that came from India. Yoga most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. Yoga is famous all around the world because it has helped improve many people’s lives. Yoga has many physical and mental benefits: it relieves stress, increases flexibility, and improves circulation. One of the mental benefits of yoga is that it relieves stress. Yoga "creates…
Under the influence of yoga, the stress resistance of a person is markedly increased. As a result, various life troubles can hardly take person engaged in yoga out of the state of mental equilibrium. Moreover, even if such a shift occurs then the person comes to recovery much quicker and with the least losses. According to Posadzki, Parekh and Glass (2010) yoga training is efficient in curing mental health disorders and may enhance brain activities. Yogic breathing exercise, called…
Never before in its long history has yoga been getting more notice than in recent times. People have been getting into it all over the world, principally because prenatal yoga is one of the few exercises that a pregnant woman can safely undertake. It not only helps ease the trials and tribulations of pregnancy, but can also relieve the delivery itself when the time comes. The types of exercises entailed by yoga are of slow and gentle movements, and these are great during pregnancy. There are no…