Yoga For Health

Yoga is a developing from many years ago. Yoga, by definition, is a training or a remedy, that improves on the current of spirituality. Yoga improves health, muscles, increases flexibility & calmness. Yoga is a medically approved that reduces anxiety as well as sharpens the mind. Fourty types of yoga used today. Hatha yoga, one of the oldest and most popular styles of yoga. It emphasizes techniques of breathing incorporating various poses. Hatha yoga is ideal for those persons who experience stress or fatigue and need relaxation.

Popular styles of Hatha yoga include breath of fire yoga, made to measure yoga, Amotion yoga, mediation yoga, heat yoga, prelude to meditation yoga, and precision yoga. Choosing the yoga styles that best fits your needs is not as difficult as it may seem. Determining the right style is merely a matter of evaluating your goals and current fitness level. If you have never tried yoga, make sure you take it slowly. Yoga is about progression. Before you know it, you will see real results and reach the goals you've set.

Achieving long and healthy life requires strict daily regimen in terms of diet and medical supplements. This will slow down aging process. Following are ways of achieving a long and healthy life.

The word 'kaya' means body and 'kalpa' means stone. The meaning of 'kayakalpa' is to sturdy as a rock and ageless. Some good kalpa herbs are Ginger, Date Palm, Tulsi, Lemon, etc. Kalpa drugs are manufactured from inorganic compounds also, e.g. poorna Chandrodayam contains gold, mercury and sulphur. Kalpa drugs have rejuvenating powers and are believed to retard the aging process. Kalpa Yoga

The eight steps of Kalpa Yoga are identical to the eight stages of yoga prescribed by Patanjali. 1) Iyama: This is a moral code, which advocates truth, non-violence, honesty and continence. 2) Niyama: This is a code for internal and external purification by study and selflessness. 3) Asana: This is concerned with physical postures that improve bodily strength and endurance. 4) Pranayama: This is the regimen for regulating breathing. It keeps the body healthy and the mind calm. 5) Pratiyakara: This refers to the withdrawal of the mind from worldly affairs and the control of the senses. 6) Dharana: This is the art of concentrating on a specific object. 7) Dhayana: Deep meditation. 8) Samadhi: This is the highest state of yoga where, one's consciousness identifies with the super-consciousness.

The practice of yoga holds the promise of slow aging and a long and healthy life.

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Be the Change You Wish To See

This quote from Gandhi is usually invoked to silence the complainer. You know, if you cant put up, shut up.

Recently, I received the full quote, Be the change you wish to see in the world, at the bottom of an email from my Wednesday night yoga instructor, Tracy. Each time we begin and end a class, we sit in silence and think about our relationship to the natural world and the other creatures in it. Its a good centering activity for remembering our mutual interdependence and our responsibility for shepherding the good in life.

Having this intention during each class helps me to work on the different poses with more concentration and success. and, I leave most classes humbled by my struggle with the physical practice and also the notion that there is so much more I could do to improve life for myself and others.

But then Im quickly back in my usual day to day, regularly noting all of the things that are amiss in the worldour dependence on oil, global warming, corrupt politicians, inequity in health care deliveryand not doing much of anything about it all. Except grouse and complain.

Noticing What Needs Attention
Most days, I take my dogs for a circular four mile walk near our home. We begin and end on dirt roads, but the middle of our walk is along a relatively quiet paved road that connects Hillsboro and Washington, NH. It is a residential area, abutting woods and for the most part very pleasant.

However, months ago, out on my own on a slightly rainy day when I left the dogs at home, I counted over sixty bottles and cans, assorted plastic containers, and other stray articles along the route. The counting was simply an exercise to pass the time and a curiosity to me that this tranquil area could be so heavily trashed when so lightly trafficked. Angry that others could be so insensitive and selfish, I promised myself that I would get back out there within the week to clean up what I had noticed. I did not.

With three leashed pups in tow on subsequent walks, I let myself off the hook for picking anything up. It would be nearly impossible to carry a big trash bag while busy tending my charges. Besides, I would pick up stray plastic six-pack holders, so that a bird wouldnt get its neck caught. And Id also snare pieces of broken glass in the road so another dog or walker wouldnt get cut. I was doing something. But each day I took that walk, I felt a tug of guilt over my failure to follow through on cleaning up the wake of castaways now buried beneath taller grass.

Vindication by Taking Responsibility
There is much in the world that seems outside of our control. By myself, I cant change a culture where so many drivers consider their personal automobile space more important than the natural world. Alone, I cant end teenage drinking. Without everyone agreeing to use fewer disposable products, I cant stop roadside deposits of refuse.

We often complain on a general level that the world is going to pot, but we know to make any more noise would call attention to the fact we havent done much toward fixing the things that need attention. Thats a sneaky, contributing source to apathy. How can we stop intense consumerism, blind disregard for the safety of others or make other accountable for their actions in any meaningful, if we fail to take responsibility for what we see?

I can shake my fist and scream, Dont be such a pig! Because its not my trash, and I obviously care about the natural world. But where does that get me? Once I see what needs to be done, its up to me alone to follow up in any way that I can. If I take action, then I can claim positive contribution and be more at peace knowing that I did make a difference. And then I really can raise a hornets nest of complaint, and urge others to do as I have.

Moving from Complaint to Action
So much of what is out of whack is within our control, if we break what seems large and overwhelming down into smaller tasks or projects. Or simply take responsibility for doing our small part.

It took me twice as long to walk that four-mile loop, when I finally stopped to pick up all the trash Id been noticing for months. My haul was substantial: 60 aluminum cans, 10 whole or broken bottles, 20+ assorted plastic and paper containers, and an ugly pile of other tangible evidence that I noticed and did something about it.

Picking up trash along the side of the road may not seem like much. But every day I take that walk, I enjoy my surroundings that much more knowing that Ive chosen to be an active steward to keep it clean. If I find a new can or bottle in the days ahead, it will be only one I need to pick up to preserve what is beautiful and shared by all.

Where is Your Next Move?
We can choose to buy and consume differently. We can tutor those who need help. We can teach others what we know how to do. We can give our time and money to causes that respond to our sorrow or outrage, and our sense of what the right thing is to create change. Through our actionsboth large and small, we can be the change we want to see in the world.

Each of us notices what needs attention as we move through our days. We really do know what we can do make a difference.

Complacency is easy. What will you do?

2007 Andrea R. Williams

Andrea Williams, personal and small business success coach, is the creator of the Fearless, Fabulous Project, a 12-week, step-by-step discovery and rejuvenation process to help you gain clarity and commitment about what is most important to you. If you're ready to pump your life with more fun & fulfillment, check out Andrea's coaching programs and resources now at http://www.FearlessFabulousLife.com and sign up for Fearless, Fabulous Female, her free ezine on personal reinvention at midlife.

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