...Ours support group met 9/28 at about 12:30PM-1:00PM. This group was led by Heather. Heather focused the group on self-care. Specifically, she led a session of yoga for the group. She informed us on the benefits of yoga in our lives, and showed us a quick morning routine we could complete. Observations Everyone in the group was respectful during the time that Heather led. Heather had brought us a treat of cut up fruit while she told us about the benefits of yoga. We were all occupied with eating during the time she was giving us handouts on yoga. She also informed us of how important healthy eating is for our overall physical and mental health. Everyone in the group listened attentively. Participation It was beneficial to have a group that discussed another self-care option. Yoga may not...
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...Different Types of Yoga Paper Due in Dropbox March 26th by 11:59 pm 15 Total Points Bikram Yoga is comprehensive workout that includes all the components of fitness: muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular flexibility and weight loss. This is the only yoga style that performs in a heated environment. A gold medal Olympic weight lifter is the founder of this style. Individuals looking for an intense workout or fast weight loss. Benefits are you get a good sweat it, and may lose weight. A risk may be that the room may get to hot. Hatha is a basic form of yoga that incorporates: posture, breathing, and meditation into its workouts. It has become very popular in America as source of exercise and stress management. Individuals started out or need a time to relax would enjoy this style. Benefits would be better flexibility, posture, and a relaxed feeling. With any yoga, injury may occur it you over do it. Yin Yoga is recognized for its long held poses. It’s more for the joints than the muscles, it directs the stimulation into areas deeper than the muscular tissues. Individuals looking to strengthen their joints may practice this style to benefit stronger joints. A risk may be over doing a move. I would love to try these, I think they would mix things up. I’ve heard about doing yoga in a hot room, and it’s always made me nervous, but I’d still try it. References Yoga discipline (2000-2015) http://www.matsmatsmats.com/yoga/yoga-disciplines.html...
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...Reflection Paper- Yoga Soccer is one of my greatest passions. I play in three outside of school leagues. I play one game on Monday and two on Fridays. My sophomore year in high school I decided to try out for the soccer team and it change my future plans completely. After playing soccer for Edinburg North High school, I understood that I wanted to become a soccer coach. Currently, in college I started my Kinesiology curriculum and I have learned many things about the benefits of being physically fit. Aside from soccer, I enjoy getting involved in many other fitness activities. Some of the activities I like to be involved in are rock climbing, flag football, and running. This semester I decided to take the yoga class as an elective. I really liked that we got to learn many yoga poses that were easy to learn step by step, and that we can practice at home. Something I really is that we also learned many pilates poses. I can’t think of anything that I disliked this class was motivating to me in many ways. I loved the extra credit that was offered, and it makes us, the students, want to keep on doing this activities. I had never tried to do yoga before, but I had heard that it was very helpful for your body, mind, and soul. I didn’t engaged in yoga because ignorantly I felt it was not going to benefit me at all. After being in yoga class with professor Rocha, I understood that it was actually a though workout. Yoga can make you become stronger, flexible, toned, and helps a...
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...strange. But I am in fact just listing some of the yoga poses. I have been practicing yoga for the past two years and if it weren’t for yoga, I too would hate Mondays, as I get to practice yoga every Monday morning. Over the next few minutes, I’m going to discuss the physical benefits, and mental benefits, as well as ways that you can incorporate yoga into your daily lives. To begin with I’m going to start of with the physical benefits of yoga: Yoga is a great therapy for fatigued muscles. It relives tension, joint pain, and helps with muscular imbalances. Muscular imbalances happen when you use the dominant side of your body over the other side. Such as holding a bag on your right shoulder all ay, or being an athlete that uses your left hand. Each pose and posture requires balance, which helps to elevate these imbalances. Also because yoga alleviates muscle pain, various athletes like to use yoga in their daily lives. Athletes such as LeBron James and Shaquille o Neil. According to the American Cancer society website, Article titled Yoga, published in May 2008, there is evidence that suggests that yoga might be helpful when used as medical treatment to help relives symptoms of asthma, cancer, , diabetes, dug addiction, high blood pressure, heart disease and migraines. This man right here is Arthur Boorman, and he a veteran of the gulf war. He was crippled in his knees and back and after 10 months of intensive yoga treatment, he was able to loose 100 pounds, and not...
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...differences between the four paths of yoga? And relate the four paths to other philosophical or religious traditions? The four paths of yoga are jnana yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and raja yoga. Even though the four parts of yoga come from Hindu philosophies each has its own way that can make people live spiritually and comfortably by choosing a certain path that an individual is comfortable with. Everyday people will use techniques that were born with yoga and not even know they are using a basic form of yoga. Each type of yoga is different from one another in a lot of different ways. Jnana yoga is learning from others. Karma yoga believes doing work unselfishly will lead to good deeds happening for one. Bhakti yoga is expressing yourself. Raja yoga is the art of meditation. Jnana yoga or knowledge yoga is based on learning from teachers who have a lot of knowledge with jnana yoga. As such priests and intellectuals will prefer this type of yoga so they can learn and then teach it themselves. Reading the bible is also considered jnana yoga since you will gain knowledge by doing this. This type of yoga was refined by a school of philosophy that is still being done today the school of Vedanta. The Vedanta school uses the ideas of the Upanishads as its primary inspiration. Upanishads is defined as which come at the end of the Vedas. All other forms of yoga do not incorporate learning or teaching in they way they express themselves. Jnana yoga can relate to numerous religions that...
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...1) Using the full spectrum of segmentation variables, describe how Sports England has segmented the sports market? In order to understand the British people’s attitudes and motivations about sports, Sport England has built 19 sporting segments all around the United Kingdom to target its customers in the sports market. In the segmentation process Sport England worked closely with Experian Business Strategies consulting group. Sport England along with the help of the Experian Group analysed data of the English people aged 18 and older. They collected and collated information about specific sports involvement; desire to do sports and the obstacles they faced in doing sports. The analysis further included the collection of data on media consumption and communication channels, social capital, health indicators, and involvement in wider cultural activities. Sport England completed this survey with the collaboration of Action People Survey. This was one of the largest ever sports survey conducted and carried out in Europe by the company. The survey provided Sport England with the levels of participation of people in different groups in the community specifically. The company had designed the questionnaire to find out and analyze the broad range of demographic information, such as people’s genders, social classes, ethnicity, household structures, ages and disabilities. Their survey also included how involved people in each segment were in other recreational activities....
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...Yoga in Iloilo Yoga practice in Iloilo. At last I am writing about something very personal that I am very passionate about. It’s been a long time since I have written something from the heart so I hope you guys would bear with the scattered thoughts and clumsy words. Here it goes. Why do yoga Jane? What made you decide to practice yoga? Why not just go to the gym, exercise, jog or do aerobics? Well honestly I have tried all of that but none of them captured my interest for long. Sorry but if I am not really into what I’m doing I tend to ignore it and deliberately forget about it. And all of them had temporary effects on my body. Take note I only said body. I need something more than that. I need to do something that I am very passionate about and that does not only benefit my body but influences my mind, psych – my whole well-being. So what is yoga? In contrast to the pursuit of your desire as a means to happiness, the purpose of yoga is aimed at the monumental, life-changing discovery of who and what you truly are. This is how yoga works; this is how yoga makes me feel great. Yoga is helping me discover and experience the truth, my truth – which I am discovering, is goodness. That my basic nature is happiness. Yoga truly complements my beliefs. Have you noticed that it is so easy to lose touch with who we are, that core essence with which we were born between home, work and all of the demands and stresses in between? Because of all the activities we do it sometimes feels...
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...Yoga is a scientific system of physical and mental practices that began in India more than three thousand years ago. Its main purpose is to help each one of us achieve our highest potential and to experience enduring health and happiness. It helps extend our healthy, productive years far beyond the accepted norm and, at the same time, improve the quality of our lives. There is a branch of yoga that is called Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga begins by working with the body on a structural level, helping to align the vertebrae, increase flexibility, and strengthen muscles and connective tissue. At the same time internal organs are toned and rejuvenated; the epidermal, digestive, lymphatic, cardiovascular, and pulmonary systems are purified of toxins and waste matter; the nervous and endocrine systems are balanced and toned; and brain cells are nourished and stimulated. The end result is increased mental clarity, emotional stability, and a greater sense of overall well-being.Because Yoga works on so many different levels, it has great potential as an effective therapy for chronic diseases and conditions that do not respond well to conventional treatment methods. According to the book “Yoga for the Special Child” children with Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities who practice Yoga often surprise their parents and teachers with their quick mastery of basic motor, communicative, and cognitive skills. The same Yoga routine can help children with learning disabilities develop greater...
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...Project Helps to Spread Yoga to African Communities In an inspiring illustration of the power that one selfless act has to change the world, one woman’s African vacation started a chain of events that is changing the lives of schoolchildren, incarcerated women, orphans, women entrepreneurs, and others living in poverty in Kenya. In 2006, former NYC yoga teacher, Paige Elenson, was on safari with her family when she saw a group of kids doing handstands from her vehicle. She hopped out of the car and joined in with her yoga practice. This simple act of being playful and present in the moment eventually led to the creation of the Africa Yoga Project, whose mission is “to use the transformative benefits of yoga to empower vulnerable communities in Kenya.” Read More Add Comment (0) Thursday, March 08, 2012 by Tosca Braun Yoga's Relationship to (Sexual) Desire: Broadsided New York Times journalist William Broad’s contentious claim that the origins of tantric hatha yoga reside in “medieval sex cults” was crucial to set the frame for his subsequent and inaccurate equation of yoga with sex. This was explicitly rendered in his assertion that yoga practice is responsible for the recent sexual misconduct of Anusara founder John Friend and other philandering yoga gurus. In a further misstep intended to provide credibility to his questionable thesis, Broad provides little more than old and obscure research that allegedly shows yoga to increase sexual desire. Read More Add Comment...
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...heated Bikram yoga studio where many athletes and everyday people are going to cure and prevent aches and pains. Yoga, as a way to achieve higher self-awareness, was around as early as 200 B.C. in India and has been gradually growing in popularity in the western world over the past four decades. Traditional styles of yoga, including Hatha yoga, which consists of thousands of poses, have long been studied as an effective form of complimentary or alternative medicine (CAM). The biggest yoga boom has occurred over the past decade according to statistics from the International Association of Yoga Therapists. The Association estimates there were 20 million Americans practicing some form of yoga in 2002 compared to 6 million in 1994. Increased awareness of yoga as a healing method along with high-profile celebrity endorsements have contributed to the growing numbers of yoga users recently. Madonna and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are some famous yogis that have been students of Bikram Choudhury, who founded his own style of hot yoga in India. Dina Lancour, a Hatha yoga instructor from Agawam, Massachusetts, took a Bikram yoga class under Choudhury. “It reminded me of Indian sweat tents,” Lancour said. “It becomes very meditative and deep.” Proponents of Bikram yoga and medical specialists have noted the health benefits of hot yoga. Other yoga practitioners and teachers have expressed concerns about the safety of practicing yoga in a hot room and some ‘yoga purists’ question...
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...Health and Yoga: Benefits of Yoga Related to Human Health About a year ago this month I injured my back working out at my local gym. My injury was just a pinched nerve in my lower back so it was nothing serious or to be worried about in the long term. The problem I was faced with was that after I healed, which took a couple of months with no exercise, I couldn’t get motivated to go back to he gym and continue working out. After two months of doing nothing the last thing I wanted to do was start all over again with my workouts and it was frustrating when I would try. I then began trying different home workouts such as insanity, but at home there are so many excuses not to workout so this experiment didn’t last long. By this time it was the middle of winter and I had began to notice some odd things with my health and overall mental well-being. I gained about ten pounds, I felt tired all the time, my body ached, and my mood was dull. One day I had been talking with one of my friends about my recent observations of my health and told him that I thought the reason for my decline in health was that I wasn’t getting any physical exercise. His response was, “try yoga.” He didn’t say anything else to me and I started to fire off excuses why I didn’t want to. His wife is a yoga instructor in my home town and when I came back for spring break he gave me a weeks worth of free passes to try it out. After that week I felt as if my whole perspective was changed about Yoga. I then enrolled...
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...How yoga works Scientists don't know exactly how yoga produces its healthful effects. Some say it works like other mind-body therapies to reduce stress, and others believe that yoga promotes the release of endorphins (natural painkillers and mood elevators) from the brain. Studies show yoga can lower heart rate and blood pressure, increase muscle relaxation, and increase breathing capacity. All branches of yoga mentioned in this report incorporate three major techniques: breathing, exercise (asana or postures), and meditation. These three techniques have been shown to improve health in many ways: • Breathing lessons -- in yoga, breathwork is known as pranayama. Pranayama increases blood circulation and reduces oxygen consumption, which brings more oxygen to the brain, and improves the efficiency of oxygen use in the body. Also, as lung tissue becomes more elastic and the surrounding muscle more flexible, the practice of pranayama can also increase lung capacity. Getting ample air into our lungs helps us feel alert and focused. • Asanas (postures) -- provide a gentle-to-intense workout that enhances strength, flexibility, and balance. Some asanas are designed to massage the internal organs, improve circulation, hormone function, digestion, and other body processes. • Meditation -- stills the mind and induces both physical and emotional relaxation. In so doing, it reduces blood pressure, chronic pain, anxiety, and cholesterol levels. The benefits of yoga Yoga improves...
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...YOGA: A PATH TO HEALING AND RECOVERY 1 Yoga: A Path to Healing and Recovery Leonel H. Herrera WGU 5/23/13 YOGA: A PATH TO HEALING AND RECOVERY 2 Yoga: A Path to Healing and Recovery In the introduction to Horton’s book 21st Century Yoga Culture, Politics, and Practice it illustrates how in the past 15 years yoga has gone from a cultural eccentricity to a $27 billion industry and is taught everywhere from spas to prisons (Horton, 2012). According to WEBMD Yoga has been practiced for more than 5 thousand years and 11 million Americans are experiencing improved health, strength, and flexibility from its practice (The Health Benefits of Yoga, 2012). Nevertheless, is yoga everything it promises? Are people healthier physically and mentally? Are there dangers to practicing yoga? Is it safe? (Bee, 2012) Research suggests that yoga is a highly therapeutic means of exercise because it provides beneficial physical results, leads to positive psychological effects and poses few risks. Physical Benefits of Yoga Yoga bestows several physical health benefits such as lowering blood pressure, lowering heart rate, decreasing blood glucose levels, and mitigating the effects of stress. Cade’s study found that adding yoga reduced resting blood pressure by 4 points compared with the control group (Cade, et al., 2010). McCaffrey and Hatthakit’s study found systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as heart rate all significantly declined over an 8-week yoga intervention (McCaffrey & Hatthakit...
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...Introduction The history behind yoga is rooted in its physical and also the emotional importance it has on the people who happen to practice it. Just like any other form of exercises, pursuing yoga also comes with a lot of advantages accrued to it. The following are some of the benefits one can derive as a result of pursuing yoga Relieves depression and anxiety The practice of yoga is very beneficial in relieving depression in people. Through acquiring skills like breathing and relaxing, it ensures that there is comfort of the body for normal body functions (Woodyard, 2011). It will be important to also note that the art of yoga ensures that one focuses on acquiring these skills which are very vital in the relief of anxiety and depression. It is also with no doubt that one can only get focused in doing something in condition that the body is comfortable and free from depression and anxiety and therefore yoga becomes a beneficial practice. Maintaining weight Yoga comes with intense practice which greatly poses an impact in the body’s balance and maintenance of weight. In this way one can be able to handle strenuous activities that otherwise could make one be overwhelmed when carrying the out (Woodyard, 2011). Also important to note is that the art also tends to bring people together in practice and thus individuals can form supportive groups which would otherwise sensitize on using the art to maintain weight. Those who at any time may feel intimidated due to their weight...
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...thoughts.” These are some of the things that may come to mind when one thinks about Yoga and Meditation and all that their practices entail. However, there is much more to Yoga and Meditation than calm breathing, squishy mats, soothing music and downward dog. “Yoga is a combination of both physical and spiritual exercises, entails mastery over the body, mind and emotional self, and transcendence of desire (hafsite.org).” Yoga, when combined with certain religious practices, like Hinduism and Taoism, takes a person places where they are able to see beyond their problems and fills themselves with inner peace and tranquility. The Yoga’s of Hinduism and Taoism play a very important role in their respective religions and how they help the individual transform spiritually, mentally and physically, as well as, achieve their ultimate goals. The Yoga’s seen in Hinduism involves the typical exercise yoga, Raja yoga, one sees at gyms and fitness centers. Raja yoga involves “bodily postures and controlled breathing techniques combined with mantras and meditation (Notes).” There are three other types of yoga and meditation forms that are not as well-known as the Raja yoga. They are, Jnana yoga, “the way of wisdom (Notes).” This form of yoga uses rationality to overcome ignorance and to understand by studying and discussing texts (Notes). Many people in the world could benefit from implementing this form of yoga in their life. So many people jump on band wagons and are quick to disagree or judge...
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