Paul Hood : Healthy Lifestyle

The first five issues are the basics of hatha yoga, a discipline in itself which is the health and concentration by lifestyle and posture.

Discipline “sport”, hatha yoga
The vast majority of yoga classes are mainly the physical dimension, that is to say hatha yoga. In the traditional way, it aims to keep the body in a state of optimal health and disciplining the mind. It has three main tools:
- Postures. From the boat to plow through the half moon, there are over 1 000. Static or dynamic (sequences as the famous sun salutation), they are still without force, in respect of the body, paying special attention to body positioning and alignment of the spine.
- Breathing exercises. Inseparable from the practice of postures, they revolve around four main phases of respiration: inspiration, the lungs filled retention, expiration and retention lungs empty. During a yoga class, and there are different ways to breathe in focusing on one or other of these phases, adopting a slow or fast breathing through only one nostril, both nostrils, or alternating nostrils, producing or not sound inspiring or expiring more or less long.
- Relaxation. This phase, which usually concludes the meeting takes place while sitting or lying. It is accompanied by breathing slowly and deeply, suggestions, or sounds very sweet.

Benefits
- The first advantage of (hatha) yoga is that it is practicable for all men and women, young or old, healthy or not. Lacking competition, it does not require special skills and mainly depends on the commitment, concentration and perseverance that each brings to achieving the postures and sequences. Furthermore, although it fits at the base into a spiritual practice, it requires absolutely no knowledge of philosophical or religious orientation.
- He then has many benefits for the body: muscle toning, flexibility, balance, strengthen the abdominal area, decrease body fat …
- It also improves the overall health: elimination of toxins, stimulate vital organs (digestive, respiratory, sex …), improving cardiac function and stamina …
- Thanks to the concentration and commitment it requires, he finally plays a key role on the mind. Stress and anxiety gradually fade, we feel after a few sessions a deep well-being that affects the actions of everyday life and relationships with others.

Discipline, lessons
With its success, hatha yoga continues to evolve. Although the postures and sequences remain unchanged, there are more and more different teachings of yoga that combines all postures, breathing exercises and meditation in a more or less energetic or gentle, lively or quiet. The most common are the ashtanga yoga (synchronization of breath with rapid sequences of postures more demanding), the integral yoga (balancing postures, breathing, meditation and relaxation), the Viniyoga (integration movement Breathing ) prenatal yoga (suitable for pregnant women), the bikhram Yoga (practiced in a room heated to 40 degrees) …

Learn
There is not really French federation of yoga, just as a French federation of tennis or volleyball. As for the training of teachers, it is still unclear, poorly regulated: it is not, for example, state diploma.
The ideal is to take courses in a gym, within a municipality or a framed structure, which often sort their teachers on the strand.

Moreover, nothing like word-of-mouth and experience to get an idea before making any entry, the ideal is to learn about oneself and, if possible, test or one – Many-free sessions to get an idea.

Discover the amazing secret that has everything you need to improve your fitness, your health, your well-being and inner peace.

Learn how yoga, the ancient wisdom can help you better manage your stress and reduce your anxiety level and help you sleep a restful sleep and the opportunity to help you live a happier life in the world today, full of stress.

Yes, yoga is a discipline really complete, and whose benefits range from physical to spiritual and moral mind. Yes, yoga will help you do exercises for relaxation, you relax and thus help cure many diseases of our modern world.

In addition to this, Yoga helps you reduce your stress, be more calm, more serene, and reduce or even eliminate insomnia. So with yoga, learn as you go exploring your true personality.

And know that even being alone, you’re never really alone, for you are with yourself.

If we were in an ideal world, every day, everyone would have access to a great master of yoga called for in the private cause them to circulate their vital energy or yoga classes in small groups.

Born in India, yoga is a discipline that aims, through physical exercises, meditation and ascetic morality, to unify body and spirit. Relatively recent in the West, there has for some years an unprecedented success, thanks to the plebiscite of many stars.

Its origin and philosophy
Yoga did not start yesterday: it is already practiced in India around the 3rd millennium BC. Yoga also means “union” in Sanskrit (literary language of ancient India).

However, it is in the 4th century BC that Patanjali, considered the father of the discipline, wrote the Yoga Sutra text reference discipline. It describes among other aspects the 8 – and compares the branches of a tree – forming yoga:

• Yama, the ability to communicate with non-violence
• Niyama, adherence to self
• Asana, the practice of postures
• Pranayama-control of respiration
• Pratyahara, in sensory inner
• Dharana, concentration
• Dhyana, meditation
• Samadhi, liberation, the ultimate stage of personal achievement

Meditation is to focus attention on one thing, whether it’s a mental thing – thinking – or physical – the task we are doing.

Often, we’re stressed because our mind is busy with a multitude of thoughts which are strung together one after the other and which do not directly affect what we’re doing: we focus on the past or the future, not the present. So, we are less effective on the task we are currently conducting, and thoughts that we are rarely constructive as we can not immediately act. We “store” then the result of these thoughts, thinking reuse later, and often they turn in our minds so confusing, cumbersome mind eventually be forgotten.

This is a great source of stress. We have each time printing something to miss, both because we do not live fully the present moment, but also because our brains firing on all cylinders, but empty, unless the output of either the height of the energy we’ve spent – like a car engine which we would not have engaged the clutch …

Meditation practice allows precisely to focus our attention on the present moment. At first it may seem difficult, but with practice it becomes a habit easier to implement, allowing us to finally live more fully and more peacefully, our lives.

There are many ways to meditate. We can meditate while sitting, or legged, eyes closed, fully focused on our inner self, or performing a task, like walking, playing sports, eating, and even work. The most important is to focus on what we do.

However, to begin, it is best to begin to meditate sitting cross-legged or kneeling or to close their eyes and concentrate on breathing. That’s all. Concentrate on your breathing and do nothing else. When you realize that your mind began to drift, gently return to your breathing, without blame. It is normal that your thoughts drift. Focus only on your breath. Contemplate the air entering your nostrils, fresh, and the air coming out of your nostrils, warmer. Be aware then of the continuous flow of thoughts that beset our mind, which sometimes takes in all other places than where we are.

And fully enjoy the present moment.

This mediation so simple if you practice the ten to fifteen minutes a day, in a quiet, can change your life. You’re more relaxed, more fully aware of the moment, and happier.