PALLAVI YOGA IDEAS

Yoga these days have become kind of basic need as well as part of life as numerous people throughout the world. Having said that, we can easily understand that Yoga is in huge demand, in other words it is highly in trend. This has opened door for yet another source of income rather profession for the growing tribe who are passionate about Yoga and want to make their career in that very field. The craze for yoga has grown so much since past few years on the back of a boom in wellness and fitness sector. Further, the inception of International Day of Yoga on June 21, 2015 Yoga has received so much of limelight.  From yoga centres to yoga accessories or demand for yoga teachers/ trainers, yoga becomes the flavour of the season, especially during the period of June-July. The celebration of International Yoga day serves as a festive season for the businessmen engaged in manufacturing and supplying Yoga accessories. Some said that their revenue increases by 30-40 per cent in June and J...

The Initiative  We all are aware of the fact that, the date June 21st  has been declared as the " International Yoga Day " by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 2014.  It was India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi who gave the proposal to observe this day as International Yoga Day  during his address to UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014.  Yoga is an ancient physical, mental and spiritual practice that originated in India and today it is practiced in various forms around the world and continues to grow in popularity.   International Yoga Day  is a great effort to emphasize the importance of inculcating this ancient Indian art in our lives.  International Yoga Day aims to raise awareness worldwide of the many benefits of practicing yoga. Logo of International Yoga Day Here, folding of both hands in the logo Symbolise Yoga, the union, which reflects the union of individual Consciousness with that of univers...

Yoga for Fitness It is a well known fact that we human beings nowadays have a really busy and hectic life. This causes  a lot of stress and ultimately leads towards several kinds of physical problems such as high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, obesity, asthma and so on. All these stuffs make it necessary for all of us to include Yoga in our daily lives and live a healthy and happy life. Yoga contains rhythmic breathing which enables to release the stress from our system and it gradually improves our physical fitness. You must be surely unaware of the fact that even the yoga positions which look simple gives a complex, effective and multi-dimensional toning to the body along with maintaining its proper shape. Such as in the positions done on the floor: you simply lie and hold a position while you breathe and during those 40 (or more or less) seconds that the position lasts, your whole body gets a complex workout where most of the muscles of the body is trained and to...

As we know very well that Yoga is kind of a deep ocean wherein there exists  a wide variety of yoga disciplines to choose from. Yoga can  be practiced  to improve your strength, flexibility or just to remain fit and balance your health. It further helps to release stress, quietens your thoughts, and helps you loosen up, summed up together it gives you mental peace. People often get confused on the Yoga style to be followed. Well, I would say one should  choose a style that is in sync with your current fitness levels and your personality. By knowing what you hope to achieve through your yoga practice will also help you figure out one of the styles that suits you best. Firstly, think over it, you want to practice yoga to improve your health, release your stress, gain strength, to make your brain active, lose weight or relieve some kind of pain.As soon you get the answers to this, your job is done. All you need to do is to come out of your comfort zone and challeng...

Brief Overview of Yoga Philosophy Yoga  is said to be one of the six classical schools of Indian philosophy. All thoughts are being spread through mostly by the general mind, by Paramatma . Paramatma is omnipresent  and this makes the individual human mind, Jivatman or Jiva, a part of it. Jiva means the individual self which defines the Atman, and gives life to the physical and subtle body. Yoga Sutra which is widely known as the authoritative text on yoga, is a collection of aphorisms, outlining the eight limbs of yoga. These "threads" of wisdom offer guidelines for living a meaningful and purposeful life. Moksha  / Mukti basically means the enlightenment that represents the last goal of one's life. The most important philosophical text, the Bhagavad Gita , describes in chapter siz that the mind, the intellect, and the self (Ahamkara) what refers to the self-consciousness or identity-consciousness of a person without any reference to its specif...

Who was  Maharshi  Patanjali and why this name often appears in the field of Yoga? Basically, there is no such detailed information available on Patanjali. However, they say that he was the person who wrote all those Yoga Sutras  ( guidebook of classical yoga), written approximately 1,700 years ago. It is  made up of 195 aphorisms/sutras, or in easy ter ms  words of wisdom.  Though Yoga was being practiced in the pre-Vedic period, the great Sage Maharshi Patanjali systematized and codified the then existing practices of Yoga, its meaning and its related knowledge through his Yoga Sutras. After him, many other Sages and Yoga Masters gave whole lot of contribution for the preservation and development of this field through their  literature and  well documented practices. The existence of Yoga can be found through h istorical evidences  in the pre-Vedic period (2700 B.C.), and thereafter till Patanjali’s period. The main sources of infor...

You might have heard of the term " Yoga " many a times in your routine life. But, are you actually aware of it in true sense? Want to know what is it all about? In this article, we will take you through what Yoga is, its history,types,benefits and many more. Meaning of  Yoga Yoga is lot more than just an exercise form.  It  is a Sanskrit term which means "union" i.e to join and unite together. The major motive of yoga is to unite rather bring together body, mind and spirit into a harmonious whole.   Union basically means something that brings you to the ultimate reality, where individual manifestations of life are surface bubbles in the process of creation. Origin & History The practice of Yoga can be traced back 5000 years to Indus-Saraswati civilizations in India. Patanjali, a hindu teacher was the one to record the first and basic principles of Yoga called Yoga Sutras.  Varieties  of Yoga forms have been developed since then. ...