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...yogas meditative quality causes your level of focus and concentration to heighten and strengthen with each session.

Here's why; our brain functions at four levels of brainwave CPS Cycles per Second) activity:

1.Beta 13-40 CPS: Fully active, alert, thinking and engaged with your life at that moment.

2.Alpha 7-12 CPS: A much slower rate of cycles per second; that dreamy state just before you fall asleep, the creative and thoughtful level.

3.Theta 4-7 CPS: Elusive meditative floating state before deep sleep.

4.Delta 0-4 CPS: Unconscious deep sleep.

Performing yoga enables you to decrease your brains activity from Beta to Alpha, to focus on the poses and your breathing. ...more

Teaching hatha Yoga: The Transformation

...s happen often. When a Yoga student feels the physical or mental benefits of practice he or she becomes transformed by discarding pain and gaining new found enthusiasm.

Within any given Yoga class, there is a form of collective transformation that students and Yoga teacher experience. If you take a typical hatha Yoga class and consider the warm ups, Pranayama, sun Salutations, asana practice, meditation, relaxation, or an integration of any other Yogic components; the transformation is quietly happening to the entire group.

There is no mystery here. Transformation of mind, body, and spirit is a result of steady Yoga practice.

Copyright 2006 Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

Even for Asthma, Yoga can be Helpful

...poses mentioned by Sri Swami Devananda and IBS Iyengar (two of the most authoritative figures in modern day yoga) as being specifically useful for removing spasms from the bronchial tubes and thus relieving Asthma.

Now, lets discuss the breathing exercises associated with Yoga. In addition to these poses, let me briefly mention the Bellows breath exercise (a yoga breathing exercise) as this helps tremendously.

The Bellows Breath Exercise (aka Kapalabathi) involves purposely pumping the stomach in an inward motion and exhaling through the nose simultaneously in controlled movements. This removes spasms and tones up the respiratory system significantly.

In addition to all of this, one commonly overlooked factor in using Yoga is this; Yoga calls for a specific consumption of foods that make up its associated Sattvic diet or Yogic diet.

Coincidentally, this diet excludes all processed, packaged or animal foods and is mostly (if not all t...more

Yoga teacher Guidelines for Assisting, Part 1

...sist - while another may feel you have crossed the line into sexual harassment.

What should Yoga teachers know about giving an assist before a potential problem arises? As a Yoga teacher, Yoga instructor, or body worker, you should have clear cut policies concerning many things, but lets focus on physical assists for now. Your release forms for Yoga students should explain what a student can, and cannot, expect from an assist; and you should get their permission in writing.

This is one good reason why you should never let a new student into a Yoga class without fi...more