Yoga - Sun Salutation

Yoga - Sun Salutation 



The Sun Salutation is an excellent preparation for session start asanas, as heated and the whole body relaxes. It is not an asana, is a continuous series of movements that are synchronized with respiration and with the full attention of mind. 

Surya Namaskar exercises all the muscles and gives flexibility to the spine. On the other hand if you run with the right attitude helps create a mental atmosphere or pure sattvic focusing the mind on the present. 

The Sun Salutation is a very comprehensive exercise because it combines breath control (pranayama) and the main asanas in a continuous movement. To properly practice known within the Yoga, phases or sequences of Sun Salutation. 

It is also an excellent global warming to start the Yoga session since the circulation, warms and relaxes the whole body, muscle and joint exercises, it synchronizes the major nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic), massages the viscera (liver, stomach, spleen, intestines and kidneys), regulates activity of the endocrine glands (particularly the thyroid), focuses the mind on the present and facilitates concentration and calm.

Yoga in Pregnancy

The expectation of having a baby and have it be well guarded in the stomach, is a very exciting feeling for many moms. Mothers should take care for your baby to grow up healthy but do not forget to balance the needs pleasures. Mothers should take care of your body, mind, and protected to receive, pretty and relaxed, the baby is born. 

The yoga is an ancient technique from India whose meaning in Spanish is "unite". It is a series of breathing exercises and stretching. The combination of yoga and other cardiovascular exercises like walking are ideal during pregnancy, not only because they keep you in shape, but also tone your muscles, give more flexibility to your joints, improve circulation, and give you strength and vitality. 

The yoga also helps to improve breathing and relax, two very useful benefits when the day of delivery and have a baby to raise. The first thing taught in a class of yoga is to breathe. This technique, known under the name "ujayi" involves breathing deeply through your nose very slowly to fill your lungs with air and then exhale to compress the stomach. 

These breathing exercises prevent your muscles from getting at the time of painful contractions when your baby is born. The relaxation in all muscles facilitates the natural progress of labor and therefore it is much shorter and less painful. 

To entertain very common problems during pregnancy, including swelling, spots, stretch marks and backaches and leg, it is recommended that pregnant women keep the elasticity of your body. The practice of physical exercise will be very helpful in every way. Among the exercises are recommended by doctors, yoga is the one who is attracting more interest on the benefits to women during pregnancy.

The nature of mind

The nature of mind 

The nature of mind is movement, action, constantly jumping from one object to another, ie: distraction and dispersion. Attempting to stop the mind is a very painful and useless effort, but ... allow the mind to settle down is a possibility at your fingertips. 

The secret, if there is one "is to calm the body. If you stop the body the mind tends to cease its movement. But it craves anything but stop his incessant activity. But what if it continues to maintain the body in stillness subject thanks to a gentle perseverance ...? 

... Only when the choppy waters of the pond of the mind is quieted is possible to see the full reflection of the moon on the surface.  

The technique is simplicity itself as it is installed in a position to maintain the body in a firm, stable and relatively easy to develop focus and concentration needed to steer us toward our inner lives where our essence. 

Spend a few minutes a day to "just sit" to listen and watch everything that our body, emotions and thoughts want to tell is to open the door to the possibility that balance in a simple, easy and natural the layers that make up our structure staff. 

This "no action" is an ideal instrument to retrieve our forgotten inner space of inner silence and allow it to become a hub from which to live with balance and fullness.

Inner Silence Meditation

The inward journey is always fascinating as the daring involved. It is a journey in search of self-knowledge, authenticity and wholeness. A unique adventure that goes in search of Light, in search of Truth. 

Antar Mouna, inner silence, meditation is a practice belonging to Raja Yoga, the Yoga of the Internalization, consisting of a set of simple but effective techniques, which constitute a systematic process of internalization, which allows transferring the different layers of the psyche, stripping the ego personality, drawing out the essence of a natural and progressive way. 

A practice based on the development of attention and concentration to get into meditation, combining the steps fifth, sixth and seventh (pratyahara, Dharana and Dhyana) to indicate the sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. 

Meditation is the state of being which is before the mind. Do not try to reach that state, but allow it to appear, it emerges, because that state is the nuclear part of our Being is not something you have to get outside, but it is already within us. 

The preliminary stage of preparation, try-before sensory isolation (pratyahara) through the care, development of concentration (Dharana) and, finally, the state of meditation (dhyana) - passes through a pre-requisite balance vital and mental energies that make up the human being. Such conclusions can be drawn to the practice of asanas and pranayama of Hatha Yoga, the yoga of balance. 

Thanks to this balance, harmonizing can start the journey inward with certain guarantees of success. Therefore, in inner silence, we combine the practice of Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga, as both are complementary. One leads to another in a fluid and natural, the same way that day comes after night, and vice versa. Both types of Yoga are twinned. After a session of asanas, relaxation and breathing exercises, body and mind are in proper condition for reconnection with the spirit, the essence, with the Self 

Sitting quietly in Wake Pose (Padmasana, Ardha Padmasana, sidhasana or shukasana) shows unreacted everything that appears in the field of consciousness. An Observation pure, unaffected, devoid of desires, or dislikes. Full acceptance and, therefore, of understanding. It is not necessary to indicate that the qualities of the meditator must be the courage and bravery. For such qualities will be needed to cope, so unaffected, to all components as they emerge both physically, emotionally and intellectually. 

All prints (samskaras) received over the existence and stored in the subconscious will emerge during meditation. All the fears, traumas, frustrations, unfulfilled longings, repressed emotions, thoughts, suppressed, and so on. will emerge. And, through observation unaffected, unbiased and fair to all these components that will appear in the field of consciousness, will be finally eradicated, allowing a deep understanding appears in its place. Thus, the practice of silent meditation Interior instrument becomes a highly therapeutically. 

In some practices of meditation is to stop the mind. Not Meditation for inner silence. In this practice, which aim is to observe, to learn to face the contents inside. Content that each knows perfectly. We will not get cleaned and the accumulated dirt under the carpet. Through observation, we will confront our shadows to find the light they are. It is not clean "over" to feel a little better. Quite the contrary: it is a thorough cleaning. And indeed, we must have a big desire of truth as to deal with all the components we carry in our subconscious, to enable them to emerge and, then, without reacting, allowing them to go, leaving a clean space inside. 

When everything is clean, what appears is the silence, a silence arises that we feel deep within ourselves and that is not in any way conditional on the outside. It's more than likely continue outside sounds, has to be. But no longer affect us. We found the source. We are at our Center. And we experience inner peace, the bliss of being. The joy of feeling an integral part of life. So it's when Love makes an appearance. A full Love it covers everything, without limits or conditions. A love that is installed in your heart forever, because you realize that was always there.

Clear your mind with inner silence Meditation

Clear your mind with inner silence Meditation 

The inward journey is always fascinating as the daring involved. It is a journey in search of self-knowledge, authenticity and wholeness. A unique adventure that goes in search of Light, in search of Truth. 

Antar Mouna, inner silence, meditation is a practice belonging to Raja Yoga, the Yoga of the Internalization, consisting of a set of simple but effective techniques, which constitute a systematic process of internalization that allows cross the different layers of the psyche, undressing the ego personality, drawing out the essence of a natural and progressive way. 

This is a practice based on the development of attention and concentration to allow the state of meditation makes its appearance, combining the steps fifth, sixth and seventh (pratyahara, Dharana and Dhyana) to indicate the sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. 

Here and Now 

Meditation is the state of being which is before the mind. Do not try to reach that state, but allow it to appear, it emerges, because that state is the nuclear part of oneself. It's not something you have to get outside, but it is already within us. Here and now. 

For this reason, the present moment is so important. Only in the present moment is the crack in the veil of the mind that enables a reconnection with the inner self. Past and future are in the mind, that feeds on memories and projects. However, in the present moment, in true here and now, we can find our presence Ser 

Static and Dynamic Principles 

Through the stillness of the meditation posture, the dynamic principle decreases gradually, its ceaseless activity to be virtually stopped. This stop should not be forced, as occurs naturally. If you force the body motionless, the mind and body tense somatizes such tension with tension, making the practice of meditation experience unpleasant. 

If, on the contrary, such a stop is made with intelligence, providing the right conditions, then the stilling of the body and correspondence of the mind, are a natural consequence. When this happens, the static principle appears in all its glory. Understanding comes through both the awareness of Being 

The dynamic principle generates a centrifugal force outwards. The Static centripetal force towards the interior. In the balance of both forces is the possibility of the state of Meditation, which is the one who made "aware" of both forces simultaneously. 

Therefore, for proper smooth evolution toward the development of Consciousness, the activity is necessary in everyday life, as well as downtime and stillness that are made during the practice of Yoga and Meditation. Be overturned only outward is a big mistake. But pregnant just inland, is a more serious error. Being outside and inside, because for the principle that allows for "realize" there is no difference. 

Remain aware of awareness during the action would be the natural result of meditation. The consciousness expands covering all areas of our lives, internally and externally. For when this happens, everything is meditation. 

Hatha Yoga & Raja Yoga 

The man lives into existence through the mind, suffering a huge disconnect with his essence, his soul. He has forgotten himself and his body. Therefore, the gateway to the Self passes, almost inescapably, by reconnecting with the body consciousness. For this, the work postures (asanas) of Hatha Yoga with breathing exercises (pranayama) is excellent, though not necessarily unique. 

The preliminary stage of preparation, "before attempting to address the sensory deprivation (pratyahara) through the care, development of concentration (Dharana) and, finally, the state of meditation (dhyana) - passes through a pre-requisite balance of vital and mental energies that make up the human being. Such is the desired balance is obtained precisely the practice of asanas and pranayama of Hatha Yoga, Yoga of Balance. 

Thanks to this balance, harmonizing generated by the third and fourth steps of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (asana and pranayama), you may begin the journey into certain guarantees of success. Therefore, in inner silence, we combine the practice of Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga, as both are complementary. One leads to another in a fluid and natural, the same way that day comes after night, and vice versa. Both types of Yoga are twinned. After a session of postures, relaxation and breathing exercises, body and mind are in proper condition for reconnecting with the essence, with the Self 

Meditation: a therapy 

Installed in the sublime stillness in Wake Pose (Padmasana, Ardha Padmasana, sidhasana or shukasana), proceed to observe without reacting everything that appears in the field of consciousness. An Observation pure, unaffected, devoid of desires, or dislikes. Full acceptance and, therefore, of understanding. It is not necessary to indicate that the qualities of the meditator must be the courage and bravery. For such qualities will be needed to cope, so fair, all the components that arise both physically, emotionally and intellectually, as in other kinds of levels. 

All prints (samskaras) received over the existence and stored in the subconscious will emerge during meditation. All the fears, traumas, frustrations, unfulfilled longings, repressed emotions, thoughts, suppressed, and so on. will emerge. And, through observation unaffected, unbiased and fair to all these components that will appear in the field of consciousness, will be finally eradicated, allowing a deep understanding appears in its place. Thus, the practice of silent meditation Interior, becomes a highly therapeutic tool. 

Stop the mind 

In some practices of meditation is to stop the mind. Not Meditation for inner silence. This practice is learning to observe, namely related to the contents stored in our subconscious and are the cause that has shaped our present and that, too often, are a cause of suffering. 

The mind will stop, or not. We do not care. Consciousness is prior to mind. We installed on Consciousness Witness (Sakshi), just observe the cleaning process of the subconscious. Everyone knows perfectly what is going to emerge. Each has created with his beliefs, his own film, his own mental projection. But in our trip we headed inland, going toward the origin, the source to the light. Therefore, it is so important to clean our store because they are useless junk that obscure the transparency of Light. 

Freedom from suffering 

Certainly not going to clean and put the collected dirt "under the rug." Through observation, we will confront our shadows to find the Light that we are. It is not clean "over" to feel a little better. Quite the contrary, this is a real cleaning. This is to eradicate such content so that not affect us anymore, thus freeing us of the suffering they cause. 

Certainly, one must have a huge desire to awaken the Truth and the courage to face all the prints (samskaras) who for years have been accumulated within. Will entail a great deal of courage to allow them to emerge and, then, without reacting, through impartial observation and unaffected, allowing them to be, to leave a clean space within. An apparent emptiness of space, however, exudes a profound availability. 

Interior Silence 

When everything is clean and waste experiential mental contents, what emerges is a silence thick and deep that we feel comes from the depths of ourselves and that is not in any way conditioned on the outside. It's more than likely continue outside sounds, has to be. But no longer affect us. We found the source. We are at our Center. And we experience inner peace, joy of Being that to feel an integral part of life. So it's when Love makes an appearance. A full Love it covers everything, without limits or conditions. A love that is installed in your heart forever, because you realize that was always there.

Yoga holidays

One of the things of yoga is that while you have a mat and comfortable clothes that stretch is ready to begin. But there is something else ... The next time someone asks what you want gifts, consider getting a pillow or bolster yoga "(see the cushion shown). 

The use of the cushion provides a concrete way to give a little love when you're very tired, frantic or loaded. Also, subtly, you can use to imply a need for loving care, for example, when I pull out my head, my husband knows it's time to give me a little tenderness. 

The rest on this cushion feels great, in part because his support stimulates the muscles to release smoothly and gradually. Using the cushion to support your body weight you can experience the benefits of yoga postures without having to exert much effort. Being in a totally passive, you can feel completely relaxed and in that place of sweet relaxation, your body is more receptive to receive the benefits of each pose. 

I present below my favorite yoga poses restorative that make good use of the head or other alternatives such as a pillow tight, firm pillows or several folded blankets. 

Position the child sustained 
Sit on the floor beneath you shins, fingers and toes without bending your knees wide open. Place the pillow on the floor between his thighs, as close as possible and rest his groin forward, resting his torso and head on the pillow and arms where they feel most comfortable. Turn your head sideways. After a minute or two, turn the head to the other side and stay in that pose for the same amount of time. 

Benefits: Relieves tension in the lower back and opens the hips. Quiets the mind and makes you feel like a baby. 

Torque Position held 
Sit on the floor with the shins under you, then, turn your left hip and descánsela on the floor. Place the pillow on the floor to her left hip, perpendicular to the hip and bring your hands toward the floor, one on each side of the cushion. Use your hands as leverage to turn your torso to the left as far as I can and then forward lean back until your stomach, ribs and head resting on the pillow. Place your right cheek on the pillow and rest your arms where they feel most comfortable. Stay here and breathe for two or three minutes. Repeat in reverse on the other side. 

Benefits: Massages the abdominal organs, stimulates digestion and detoxification. Squeeze the tension of the muscles that run along the spine. 

Recumbent position open chest 
Sit on the floor with legs crossed with the pad placed directly behind your hips, have on hand a blanket folded for use as a pillow. Lean back until your back and head resting on the pillow and place the frieze folded under his head. Rest your hands on the floor along the torso. Stay in this position for five minutes, breathing deeply and feeling the weight of the column to sink into the cushion. 

Benefits: Opens the chest, it creates more space for the lungs to expand and deepen the breath. 

The take a few minutes to practice one or all of the poses, will help you feel more relaxed, less irritable and more clarity of mind. As a result, will not suffer from over-reactions and be more available to enjoy the constant flow of all things that accompany the festivities to come, what makes restorative yoga is a great gift for yourself and those around him.

Yoga - sport or philosophy

Yoga - sport or philosophy 

The term yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning union or union. Traditionally, yoga means union believed the person with the divine, universal spirit and cosmic consciousness. Physical and mental exercises developed in order to achieve this goal, called the achievement trastsendentnogo or stage of enlightenment. At the physical level, yoga postures, called asanas, are designed to tone the body, making it stronger and more harmonious. Through the practice of these postures, our spine becomes more flexible and resilient to stress, increases blood flow to organs, thus recovers all systems in the body. At the level of the mental (mental) in the yoga technique uses controlled breathing (pranayama) and meditation (dhyana), to soothe, purify and discipline the mind. Yet specialists say that yoga is not a religion and not even a philosophy - a style of life in which body and mind are in harmony, and can achieve our goals, not razmenivayas on trifles. 

Yoga is used in order to alleviate the problems associated with high blood pressure, migraines, asthma, high cholesterol, back pain, indigestion, menopause, shallow breathing, multiple sclerosis, varicose veins, carpal tunnel syndrome and many chronic diseases. 

Yoga has become the subject of study of many experts and they concluded that yoga techniques can achieve relaxation and reduce stress. Yoga has the same positive effects that well-designed program of exercises, increasing the overall level of health and endurance, and reducing the harm caused by a person daily lifestyle. For yoga, you do not need additional simulators or devices, but the yoga postures will help strengthen the body, using as a shell only the earth's gravity. 

Meditation is repeatedly subjected to a variety of research scientists. Despite all the debate that caused this issue, its impact on reducing stress and increase concentration, of course. Cardiologist Herbert Benson of Harvard University (Herbert Benson) says that meditation and controlled breathing techniques help the body cope with stress. Today even recommend meditation, medical associations, as the first step to recovery, which would probably make the mene time-consuming further treatment. 

Modern psychological research has shown that even minor changes in facial expressions have inadvertently affect the nervous system - yoga, uses basically link the body and mind. Yoga is based on the fact that some of the positions of the body in conjunction with the scheme of breathing can affect the mood and self-tuning rights, thus helping the body return to form and cure yourself. Those who practice yoga say that it helps to improve life in all its aspects. 

In connection with all these bright prospects, Yoga has recently become more popular, replacing the first position with aerobics and fitness. Because of this, there is a typical misconception that yoga is the same sports, like jogging, swimming and gymnastics. However, yoga requires not just a few hours a day for recovery, she gradually begins to change the lifestyle of the practitioner. Optimal yoga combined with a philosophy of life as vegetarianism. Often considered part of the yoga of Hinduism or Buddhism, but it is also wrong - Yoga is a way to achieve specific goals, rather than religion.