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Yoga and positive thinking
Posted: March 22, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Positive thinking is considered in yoga a success sine qua non condition, whether it is about success in yoga practice or in any other benefic action we want to. The reason why yoga puts such a high price on positive thinking is the knowledge of the occult law of resonance. According to it, our thoughts put us in resonance (energy subtle connection) with different force secret spheres of the Universe and facilitate, thus, a transfer of energy from them to us.
By these mechanisms, which are perfectly real and infallible even if they are secret, man gradually becomes what he thinks he is, as the yoga wise aphorisms say. We create our success or failure in any direction we go with the help of our thoughts. We are the ones creating our happiness or misery; we are the ones responsible for our inner developing and our external behaviour.
The thoughts of success and score put us in resonance with the energy of success while chaotic, predominantly negative thoughts put us in resonance with energies of failure, mistake, and disappointment. If you carefully analyze the lucky or the successful ones, you will notice they are full of optimism and self confidence.
Positive thinking in Hatha-Yoga practice In order to easily progress in yoga practice, you must learn to think positive and to be optimistic. Never tell yourself: this yoga exercise is much too difficult for me. On the contrary, think yoga is a scientific discipline, that is, anyone who does it right reaches the mentioned results. By practice, patiently, you will be able to realize even the most spectacular asanas, the most difficult pranayama techniques.
Here is a very efficient practical modality: while you do a certain yoga posture that you cannot do very well for now (due to stiffness, lack of equilibrium), visualize yourselves or mentalize yourselves perfectly doing that asana. The subtle effects of the asana will be much increased and your progress will soon be visible!
Positive thinking in concentration and meditation exercises The same thing applies to any yoga exercises. If you are someone who does not focus very well, your mind being dispersed, if you cannot feel very well or at all the energy wheels or if you are not very good at the meditation techniques, perseveringly apply the principle of positive thinking! It is a way of proclaiming your confidence in yoga practice efficiency and in yourselves.
Always approach the meditation and concentration techniques with optimism and joy, feeling the freshness they produce when the mind is calm. Every time joyfully think with anticipation that meditation is an exercise that you like very much and that you can do better and better. All great yogis successes can be repeated and actualized in your being! For those who cannot directly feel the energy wheels or some of them, we have several supplementary positive ideas: all yoga trainees gradually come to feeling their energy wheels sooner or later. It is a thing certified by direct practical experience with yoga trainees. The wheels of energy can be felt in different ways: vibrations, pressure sensations, warming but other specific feelings also.
For instance, love is an obvious expression of Anahata Chackras dynamism. All persons who are in love feel something in their heart in Anahata Chakra actually! Think positive as you will succeed waking up and feeling your wheels of energy sooner! And do not neglect the importance of finding information on this topic; you must study very well the theory on the energy wheels.
Supernatural accomplishments? Why not? It is true, advanced yogis do not have the fascination of supernatural powers at all. But since some of them are very useful (empathy, telepathy, previous lives recognition), it is good to know that positive thinking can act here as a powerful engine propelling us towards success. So, think positive in everything good you want to do and study the example of those who already achieved that.
And in the end, a fundamental aspect: the goal of yoga practice is reaching the state of oneness with God, the ecstatic fusion with God Father, reaching the supreme spiritual absolution. Yoga definitely tells us it is perfect possible to reach this fundamental goal of life and yoga practice in this very life, on Earth, no matter the karmic conjunctures we were born with and we live in now. Do not think for just a minute that this is not possible! This is the power of the authentic spiritual paths. This is why you must think positive: you can reach the ultimate spiritual absolution in this very life if you want to and if you practice yoga with perseverance and devotion!
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Yoga pants seller Lululemon 4Q net climbs 34 pct
Posted: at 3:20 pm
NEW YORK (AP) Yoga clothing seller Lululemon Inc. said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit jumped 34 percent on strong demand for its pricey wares. But its earnings outlook for the year fell shy of analyst estimates, and shares dipped.
For the quarter ended Jan. 29, Lululemon earned $73.5 million, or 51 cents per share, up from $54.8 million, or 38 cents per share, in the same three months a year earlier.
Revenue rose 51 percent to $371.5 million from $245.4 million.
The Canadian company's results beat Wall Street predictions. Analysts expected a profit of 48 cents per share on $360.2 million in revenue, according to a FactSet poll.
Revenue at stores open at least a year jumped 26 percent when the effect of changing currency values was excluded, while online sales more than doubled to $50.1 million.
Revenue at stores open at least a year is a key measure of a retailer's health because it excludes sales at newly opened or closed stores.
The company, which sells $98 yoga pants, has outperformed many of its competitors due to high demand for its yoga, running and other athletic gear. For the full year 2011, Lululemon earned $184.1 million, or $1.27 per share, up from $121.8 million, or 85 cents per share, in 2010. Revenue rose to $1 billion from $711.7 million.
But like other retailers, it's been dealing with higher costs and the effects of cautious consumer spending.
Lululemon projected a first-quarter profit in line with analysts' predictions, but its full-year earnings estimate fell short.
The company said it expects first-quarter net income of 28 cents or 29 cents per share on $265 million to $270 million in revenue, while analysts are predicting profit of 29 cents per share and $256.2 million in revenue.
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New yoga studio opening in Redlands
Posted: at 3:09 am
"Namaste" is often used in yoga practices and is a term that Amy Brown is very familiar with.
The gesture namaste represents the belief that there is a divine spark within each of us that is located in the heart chakra. The gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another.
Brown, a certified Iyengar yoga instructor, will open Divine Yoga Studio on April 2 at 590 Nevada St., Suite C, in Redlands.
Brown attended a UC Riverside Extension program from 2004 to 2010 to become certified.
Brown then worked closely with mentor teachers through assessment curriculum and had to pass eight board assessments within four years.
Divine Yoga studio will offer Iyengar classes for the first-time
590 Nevada St., Suite C, Redlands
Information: http://www.divineyogastudio.com 909-647-3964.
Iyengar yoga is based on the teaching of B.K.S. Iyengar, who through his teaching and work in the theory and practice of yoga brought yoga to the West in the 1970s.
His book is "Light On Yoga."
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Workout of the week: Mommy and Me Yoga
Posted: March 21, 2012 at 7:57 pm
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Yoga with Yaga, Dance Dimensions, 638 Main St., Studio 1, Longmont, 303-818-9883, yogawithyaga.com
Instructor: Yaga Richter, a Longmont mother, who has been teaching yoga for about a year. She has basic yoga teacher training from Core Power in Boulder and was trained in prenatal and Mommy and Me yoga at Yo Mama Yoga in Boulder.
Last summer, she taught Yoga for Moms outside in the park near a playground, where older kids could play (and were watched by a designated babysitter).
Richter, who was born in Poland, plans to move her current class outside in June or so, when it warms up. Specific location to be determined. This fall, she hopes to move into the new Family Garden building, scheduled to open in Longmont in May. The Family Garden will be a nonprofit prenatal and parent support facility, offering childbirth education, nursing groups and other classes.
What is the workout? A yoga class for moms and their children of any age (typically from about 6 weeks old to 5 years). Class focuses on restoring the body after pregnancy, strengthening the core and glutes, opening the shoulders, improving strength, posture and flexibility and helping moms find their "inner calm." Part of the class typically focuses on poses for the moms, and another part involves activity for the kids.
"It's all done in a safe manner," Richter says, keeping in mind common postpartum challenges, such as the diastasis recti (an abdominal separation common after pregnancy).
Richter started the Mommy and Me class in late February because she didn't know of any other yoga classes focused on moms and kids in Longmont.
She says her classes fall in between challenging Core Power classes and slower, more restorative and socially focused "mommy and me" yoga classes.
Class starts with a short check-in, when moms introduce themselves and can share challenges and advice, but the class is designed to be a workout, not a social hour. If the kids cooperate, a class typically runs like this: warm-up, basic sun salutations, standing poses, core work, floor strengthening poses and gentle stretches. Sometimes Richter reads to the kids or plays with them at the end so the moms can relax while lying on their backs in the shavasana pose.
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Christian yoga: Trading 'om' for 'amen'
Posted: at 7:57 pm
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Holy Yoga combines worship with yoga postures.
By Kristin Kalning
Jessica Heller liked what power yoga did for her body. But she loves what Holy Yoga does for her body and spirit.
Heller, 29, found the Christian-based yoga practice when she moved back to her native Phoenix from Denver. To her, the environment was more inviting, and more like a community than at a regular yoga class. And, it brought in a spiritual element that aligned with my personal belief system and resonated so much more deeply, she said.
Millions of Americans do yoga for its well-known mental and physical benefits. But some devout Christians are uncomfortable with yogas Eastern roots, and its association with Hinduism. Holy Yoga, and other Christ-centered practices such as Yoga for Christians, Scripture Yoga and Praise Moves offer the advantages of yoga, without all the "om"-ing.
We can absolutely service the people who are afraid of yoga because they thought yoga was incompatible with Christ, said Brooke Boon, founder of Holy Yoga. An avid yogi since 1998, Boon stopped practicing when she first came to her faith. But then she began spending alone time with the Lord, on my mat, and it totally awakened my practice. And in 2003, Holy Yoga was born.
Classes begin with a Bible scripture that forms the theme for the class. The poses are the same ones youd see in a secular yoga class, though instructors sometimes opt not to use the Sanskrit names. Chaturanga becomes high-to-low push-up, and Savasana is "corpse pose."
Holy Yoga classes are, according to Boon and Heller, as good or better than any class youd find in a studio. Even world class yogis will say this is amazing yoga, said Boon. And its popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, with 400 instructors in 43 states and 10 countries.
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Hot yoga gaining steam in Billings
Posted: at 7:21 am
Six months ago, the only way you could find hot yoga in Billings was if youd taken an outdoor class over the summer.
Fast forward to today and organized classes in a room where the heats cranked up to 105 degrees and the humidity sits at around 40 percent at two studios in town are a hot topic in fitness circles.
I think Billings was just ready for it, said Lea Jacobson, the owner of Bikram Yoga Billings and one of four instructors there. This is a workout that just surprises everybody. Its a tough class and youre leaving knowing youve worked hard.
The idea behind hot yoga is to go through a routine based on traditional yoga poses in a room with what at first seems to be near-unbearable heat.
Instructors and practitioners tout it as a total workout with great benefits for the mind and body. They say it helps with focus, concentration, stress, flexibility, strength, balance, circulation and release of stored toxins.
Everything thats in here, its very healing, said Melissa Vuletich, owner and instructor at Sumits Hot Yoga Montana.
The two studios are relatively new. Bikram was the first, opening in October.
Popularized and pioneered in America in the 1970s by Bikram Choudhury, each class at the Billings studio, at 2049 Broadwater Ave., is 90 minutes and goes through 26 set postures and a pair of breathing exercises.
Each of the four instructors has at least 500 hours of training for certification before leading classes, which see a regular attendance of as many as 60 people, said Jacobson.
Eighteen years ago, Jacobson had surgery for thyroid cancer and for a lot of years, I didnt feel good. Shed done traditional yoga before and in early 2009, shortly after her son persuaded her to switch to a vegan diet, tried out Bikram.
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Yoga studio: A new start to pure bliss
Posted: March 20, 2012 at 8:20 pm
By Maryanne MacLeod maryanne.macleod@macombdaily.com; @maryannemacleod
Theresa May
It was either wine or yoga for Cindy Neville, 47, of Chesterfield Township, when her marriage of 22 years came grinding to a halt 2-1/2 years ago.
At about the same time, yoga teacher Teresa May of Chesterfield Township was opening her first studio, Santosha, located in the Kingston plaza on Gratiot, just south of 22 Mile, also in Chesterfield.
The timing, was ideal for both of them.
"I went to my first class and cried in Savasana," recalled Neville, a tax accountant. "I thought: 'I've finally found my way.'" Savasana, or "corpse pose," is a pose of total relaxation, in which students lie on their backs, toes pointed toward either corner of the mat, palms upward.
As for May, "When I told people I was starting a new business, they couldn't believe it - 'Not in this economy!' they said," recalled May, a former manager for a chiropractic office, who dipped into her 401K to realize her dream.
These days, Neville practices yoga at least three times a week at the studio, and additionally, is also half-way through a 200-hour, teacher training program led by May.
And May? She relocated Santosha to an existing storefront -- double the size of her old studio -- in the same plaza, but slightly farther north. Business has been booming.
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For veterans, yoga can offer peace
Posted: March 19, 2012 at 3:17 pm
One week into his second tour of duty, U.S. Marines Sgt. Hugo Patrocinio was wounded by a suicide bomber who drove a dump truck stocked with 1,000 pounds of explosives into a house in al-Anbar, on the outskirts of Fallujah. He had been attacked before, hurt before, but this time Patrocinio was just 20 feet from the explosion.
He would eventually recover from the wounds the shrapnel in his foot and leg, the severe concussion but the psychological injuries lingered. His nights were soon crowded with re-runs of the bombing that injured 10 other platoon members. Often, he didnt sleep at all, tormented by searing memories of friends killed in the war. He was angry, prone to headaches and mood swings, one of thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq or Afghanistan suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, one of the masked casualties of war.
In the 18 months of Patrocinios spiral, he eventually turned to yoga after learning about it during group therapy as a way to quiet the inner noise. He found the discipline, the poses, the breathing and especially, the stillness worked to restore what had been taken that July in 2006.
I didnt understand yoga but I knew it was helping somehow. I was in a horrible place, a fog, says Patrocinio, 29, who was awarded a Purple Heart medal for his military service. There is no magic pill that can erase your past or what you have seen but the practice helps me to cope. Now I am not afraid to go to sleep.
Patrocinio is part of a wave of returning veterans with thousands more expected as the United States continues its military pullouts from two decade-long wars who are embracing yoga as a calming therapy. For many, it is a companion medical treatment, to ease the symptoms of post-traumatic stress on the mind and body. For others, it is simply a way to relieve the stress of reintegrating. Some are turning to the poses and deep breathing of yoga. Others to the quiet of meditation.
Through yoga or tai chi or some other discipline, the vet can create a space of calm. And that is a place that the brain can return to when faced with a trigger, said David Frankel, executive director of Connected Warriors, a nonprofit offering free weekly yoga sessions to veterans and their families in South Florida. More than anything, the vet returning from a trauma needs a sense of peace.
Faced with a growing national health crisis, military officials and the medical community are exploring other methods to help treat psychologically wounded soldiers. Between 11 and 20 percent of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have PTSD, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
In 2005, the U.S. Department of Defense conducted a narrow feasibility study at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center on the effectiveness of Yoga Nidra, an ancient meditative practice, on soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD symptoms. After eight weeks, all the participants symptoms were reduced. Buoyed by the results, research was expanded to several VA hospitals and centers, including the Miami VA where a study of meditation was conducted on veterans. The local study has been completed but not yet published. The program used in the study, eventually renamed Integrative Restoration or iRest, was added to the weekly treatment for soldiers at dozens of centers across the nation.
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Yoga: Separating fact from fiction
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In the chapters between, he tries to parse fact from fiction, true health benefits from hype: Can yoga cure depression? Cause weight loss? Improve sex? Help arthritis? Diabetes? Rotator cuff injuries? Can it bolster creativity? Cause strokes?
It's about time that such an analysis was done, says Broad, himself a longtime yoga aficionado, given the flourishing, unregulated yoga industry, with growing legions of toddlers doing downward-facing dog and moms sweating in steamy Bikram yoga studios.
The two halves of my own brain approached this book with contradictory feelings. I've practiced yoga for nearly three decades, after discovering early on that it reduced my writer's shoulder aches by making me mindful that I was scrunching up my muscles. I love my weekly class with one of the deans of yoga in this region, Hari Zandler, who has studied with great gurus in India. I credit the strength of my back, my good balance, and my flexibility to his teachings.
I didn't want to read a book that undermined my convictions. And I worried it would take some of the rosy afterglow out of the experience.
On the other hand, as former medical editor of The Inquirer, I should be open-minded to what science has found, another part of my brain argued.
Dutifully, I read on. As feared, there's some bad news.
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