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Yoga Pose: Twisted Prayer

What it is Twisted prayer is a variation of the Warrior I pose in yoga, where practitioners lunge with one foot and raise their arms up along their ears, pointing to the sky. By adding a twist, yogis further stimulate their spines a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Popular Front of India conducted Health Awareness Programme

Mangalore: “Namaz is a good yoga for Muslims. If you observe it with full obedience to God, it would be a great yoga. All features of yoga are in the same” said president of Pathanjali Yoga Samithi Narayana Swami, who was spe [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Yoga pose: Pigeon

Pigeon is one of my favorites because it really helps open up your hips — where some in the yoga community say we hold our sorrows. Getting rid of the kinks in that part of your body really helps improve your flexibility, but it ca [...]

Posted On : Nov, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Retail Detail: Yoga-à-porter

Caroline Frenette is the owner of Yoga-à-porter, a boutique that sells yoga wear and accessories, as well as lifestyle clothing. The store has just relocated; she has opened a yoga and Pilates studio upstairs from the shop. The or [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Yoga has Potential to Relieve Fibromyalgia Pain,‎ Stud...

Yoga is proven to have a significant impact on managing the symptoms of fibromyalgia patients. Research conducted at Oregon Health and Science University indicates that a regular practice of Hatha yoga, combined with meditation, breathin [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Spookiest-Named, Most Relaxing Yoga Pose Ever

If you’re a yoga devotee, you’re probably intimately familiar with Shavasana (also Savasana, or the corpse pose). You do it at the end of every yoga session, and the rule of thumb is typically five minutes of Shavasana for ev [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Playboy puts Hindu yogis in a difficult position

Now the religion's ascetics have an unlikely fellow traveller - Hugh Hefner, the Playboy publisher, whose attempt to cash in on the benefits of naked yoga have outraged Hindu leaders. A video from Playboy features Sara Jean Underwood [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Yoga may have the power to fight fibromyalgia

Yoga exercises may have the power to combat fibromyalgia -- a medical disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain, according to new research conducted at Oregon Health & Science University. “Previous research sug [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Yoga's popularity stretches from nudists to infants

In the new movie 'Eat, Pray, Love', actress Julia Roberts practices not only eating and love-making, but also yoga. With the help of celebrities such as Roberts, yoga has become an activity for the masses. Now practiced by a broa [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

The power of yoga

Yoga has been an inherent part of my life for many years now. I started practising when I trained for the Miss Universe contest. Since then, I have incorporated yoga into my life and it has become an essential part of my emotional and me [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Yoga poses dangers to genuine Christian faith: Theologian

A leading Baptist theologian says the ancient practice of yoga, bound to Hinduism, is wrong for Christians, that poses like saluting the sun (a Sarah Palin favorite pose, FYI) instead of focusing on the Son, is breathing in trouble. [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

New Yoga Calendar Has Cats and Dogs In Contorted Postures!

The Yoga Puppies and Yoga Kittens calendars, 2011, are all about picking up your yoga moves from flexible felines and contorted canines. Photographer Dan Borris, 53, has created the artwork. Borris, get his wife Alejandra's to hold a [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Kareena teaches power yoga to Tushar

An enthusiast and a practitioner of power yoga herself, Kareena Kapoor has now got Tusshar Kapoor for a student. Says a source, "It was during their Hyderabad schedule for Golmaal 3 that Kareena persuaded Tusshar to start doing powe [...]

Posted On : Jun, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Can you patent yoga postures?

The Indian government is planning to patent nearly a thousand yoga postures. Yoga teacher Swami Pragyamurti and Dr Vinod Kumar Gupta, of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, debate whether yoga moves should be patented and how that [...]