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Yoga Instructor Training - The Importance of Clear Communication

...Just like any other subject that requires communication skills, you have to finely tune your speaking skills, if you want to become a Yoga teacher. Students will continue to come back to your classes because of interaction, social atmosphere, and intellectual stimulation.

The art and science of public speaking is still a major "drawing card," whenever people gather in groups. If you attend local meetings for charities, business, city government, public schools, or religious centers, you will notice a few speakers, who stand out from the rest.

Yoga sessions are no different because you are giving detailed instructions to your students. You demonstrate, cue, assist, and cue again. Sometimes fitness- based Yoga classes do not have the same public speaking aspect.

Granted, the Yoga instructor who is teaching a fitness-based cl...more

Chair Yoga for Senior Independence

... moderation. We should still walk when, or if, it is possible, but you have to listen to your body and walk accordingly.

chair Yoga offers a safe, low-impact workout, with cross training benefits that will change your life for the best. Flexibility, mobility, bone density, and strength can all be enhanced with the practice of chair Yoga.

With flexibility comes new found mobility, and this contributes to independence. Many chair Yoga students start a walking program, or use an exercise bike, elliptical trainer, or tread mill, for enhanced cardiovascular work - shortly after seeing the results of flexibility and mobility.

Fall prevention is also covered in most chair Yoga classes. Mos...more

Staying Fit with Yoga Exercises

...Yoga exercises are the best way to free your mind and to concentrate deeply. After you have experienced a stressful situation, your mind, body and spirit is worn out and fatigued.

The cause of these might have been from the interaction with other people or something that have caused a frustration, anger, depression and disappointment in you. These feelings created out of these circumstances should be released so that you will live a happier life.

One effective way and method to express your outpoured feelings and emotion is by doing yoga exercises.

When you feel like shouting out loud or cracking the television, you can instead release your tension through yoga exercises that are effective and helpful.

This type of strategy has worked in ...more

The Five Yoga Techniques That Matter

...xercises have been worked out for the movement of joints. Some of these are stand alone exercises; the others form part of the postures. However, all these movements are gentle and aimed to make the neck, hands, arms, legs and back joints supple.

Yoga lays great stress on deep breathing. The breathing exercises are aimed to release internal energies and also to strengthen the muscles of the rib cage and belly.

Yoga, however, does not believe in exerting pressure on the body. A disciple is required to do only that much that he can do with comfort. The exercises are always followed by a state ...more

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