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Five Ways To Help Relieve Pain
Posted on July 23, 2018
Not only am I receiving my dad’s magazines, but my neighbor had some subscriptions that he is no longer using so he is passing them on to us. I have a lot of magazines. Most magazines are just advertisements. Even the “articles” are just ads disguised as “information”. I used to go through a magazine […]
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Ujjayi Breath
Posted on May 30, 2018
I am looking through my posts because I was going to post about pranayama. As I am looking I don’t see that I posted how to do ujjayi breath. I mentioned it in one of my posts but I didn’t explain how to do it. The focus of that post is the possible benefits of […]
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Three Part Breath
Posted on March 12, 2018
There are eight different limbs to yoga. The poses or asana is just one of them. That is probably the one you are familiar with, the poses. Modern Western yoga is primarily about the poses. When you hear yoga, you more than likely think of an exercise where people bend and stretch. Well, as I […]
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Cool Breath
Posted on June 19, 2017
When I was young I remember waiting impatiently for my dad to get home one day. The second I saw his truck I was out the door running to it. I distinctly remember bombarding him with questions before he even opened the truck door. We had been assigned to do a little research. You probably […]
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Withdrawal Of The Senses – WHAT?
Posted on October 19, 2016
In January I started writing about the Eight Limbs of Yoga with a post called More To Yoga Than Just Asana. They are 1-The yamas, 2-The niyamas, 3-The asana, 4- Pranayama, 5-Pratyahara, 6-Dharana, 7-Dhyana, and 8-Samadhi. I finished posting briefly about the niyamas in April. So it has been six months since I visited any […]
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Svadhyaya – The Fourth Niyama
Posted on March 21, 2016
I’m still looking into the Eight Limbs of Yoga (1: The yamas – restrictions/restraints/ethical principles 2: The niyamas – rules/observances/spiritual practices 3: The asana – the poses 4: Pranayama – breath work 5: Pratyahara – withdrawal of the senses 6: Dharana – concentration 7: Dhyana – meditation and 8: […]
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More To Yoga Than Just Asana
Posted on January 13, 2016
I have often mentioned how Nia is a cardio dance exercise that you can take to another level and make it a practice, like yoga. Yoga is an exercise that you can take to another level by practicing some of the other limbs of yoga. Yoga has eight limbs. These limbs are things that one […]
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Practice Makes It Possible
Posted on December 10, 2015
I’ve been thinking lately about when a student once asked me what exercises to do so that s/he would be able to do yoga. My reply was to just do the poses. I explained that doing the pose in the way that s/he could at that moment is the way to “do yoga”. I got […]
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Equal Breath
Posted on September 3, 2015
You may be familiar with yoga. You know those stretching exercises people do? That is what many people think of as yoga, stretching and bending and making your body a pretzel. Well, the poses, the postures, the asana are a part of yoga. That is really only one part of eight. There are eight limbs […]
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