...t loss result. It would not matter if the activity was yoga, running, lifting weights in a gym. The act of moving the body, while living in our modern sedentary age, is the key.

Second. Specific yoga movements can 'fine tune' the endocrine system. The endocrine system consists of ductless glands throughout the body. The pituitary gland, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, adrenals, and ovaries, or testes, make up the endocrine system. If this system is not working properly the body is in trouble. Yoga can get the endocrine system running more efficiently. It does this by targeting individual glands with specific postures. A feeling of lightness and well being usually indicate a well running and healthy endocrine system.

Third. The body has to deal with bodily wastes all the time. The liver, kidneys, and lymph glands work 24 hours a day to eliminate these wastes from the body...more

Can Yoga Enhance Your Mental Performance

...breathing through one nostril can increase activity on the opposite side of the brain (i.e., breathing through the left nostril will increase activity on the right side of the brain). This ultimately results in better communication between the brain's two sides, creating better mental function and enhancing a person's ability to learn.

Mindfulness, a foundational component of yoga helps students to embrace, and focus on, the present moment, can also assist mental function. This is because those who practice mindfulness train their brain to work in a certain way. By relaxing, and severing the rope that keeps you clinging to stresses and worries, yoga calms the mind. A calm mind is better at retaining information, remembering information, and concentration skills. A calm mind focuses on attention, and possesses an advanced ability to perceive sensory information. Because of this, some people suggest that yoga, a vehicle of calmness, gives you the amazing ability to open up completely to the present moment and just be more on whether it is in making a decision quickly, being emotionally responsive, or seeing another solution to a problem with ease.

There have also been studies that concluded certain yoga positions can alter a person's position on things; specific poses relay specific...more

Different Stages of Yoga

...ave been predecessors of latter day yogis or the followers of Yoga. Although Yoga has been made into a separate school (darsan), its influence and many of its practices have crept into other schools.

In the course of time, certain stages of Yoga become ends in themselves, notably, the breathing exercises and sitting postures, as in the school of Hatha Yoga. In a less technical sense, Yoga used for achieving union with God, in the epic poem the Bhagavadgita, is also used to distinguish the alternate paths (margas) to such a union.

With the philosophy and practice of Yoga increasingly becoming popular in the West, the physical and spiritual benefits of Yogic techniques have become available through a wide variety of sectarian Yoga organisations, non-sectarian classes, and television programmes in the United States and Europe.

Prapti is the fifth power that a practitioner of Yoga can gain mastery over. Anyone, who becomes proficient in it, is able to reach distant places ac...more

Defining Yoga

...Yoga originated in ancient India. The word "yoga" is Sanskrit for "union," and yoga is seen as a union of body, mind and spirit. What we commonly think of as yoga can more properly be termed "asana," or the practice of physical poses to achieve some physical or inner goal.

Asana, however, is only one of the "eight limbs" of yoga. Here are all eight:

1. Yama - Five guidelines on treatment of others: a. Ahimsa: Nonviolence b. satya: Truthfulness c. Asteya: Never steal d. Brahmacharya: No lust e. Aparigraha: No covetesness

2. niyama - Five guidelines of treatment of yourself: a. Saucha: Cleanliness b. Santosa: Contentment c. tapas: Sustained practice d. Svadhyaya: Self-study

3. Asana - Practicing yoga positions

4. Pranayama - Breathing ...more

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