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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-24
As we enter a new millennium, more and more people are seeking lifestyle changes that foster mental and spiritual well-being as well as physical fitness. As a result of this trend, the ancient discip...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-24
Strict changes in diet and lifestyle can not only prevent heart attacks, but can reverse the clogging of the arteries, according to a small but pioneering study. The study showed that a vegetarian di...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-24
It increases muscular strength. It reduces tension and stress. It has a low potential for injury, and it doesn't even look like exercise.Why, then, don't more people practice yoga.People think of yog...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-22
Turbaned gurus, sing-song mantras and bodily contortions . . . the promise of true enlightenment and omphaloskepsis (contemplation of the naval) completes the cliche. But don't knock yoga till you've...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-22
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras is a text that covers many aspects of life, beginning with a code of conduct and ending with the goal of yoga, a vision of one's true Self. The Pantajali'sYoga Sutras is pro...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-22
First described as ``shaking palsy'' the disease that now bears his name, medical science has thus far been unable to unravel the cause or causes of most Parkinson's cases or to devise a cure. Noneth...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-22
Today's society is much faster paced that ever before. People have more stress problems which lead to more health problems, mental and physical. There are more concerns with toxicity in the food ...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-22
The word Kundalini is a familiar one to all students of Yoga, as it is well known as the power, in the form of a coiled serpent, residing in Muladhara Chakra, the first of the seven Chakras, the othe...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-22
Yoga is a 3,000-year-old, Hindu discipline of mind and body that became known in Western society with the hippie generation of the Sixties and early Seventies. Its image as a mystic practice is disapp...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-17
Yoga is a challenging discipline for the beginning to the advanced person. The asanas, or postures are slow and steady and are not meant to be painful, but this does not mean that they are not challe...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-17
POSE OF THE MOON (Shashankasa)Sit on your knees with palms on thighs. Close eyes and relax, but keep spine and head straight.Inhale deeply and lift arms above head, keeping them straight and shoulder...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-17
Dynamic Yoga - Exercise 1 & 2 SWAYING PALM TREE POSE (Tiryaka Tadasana)Streamlines the waist and develops balance. Stand with feet 8 inch apart and fix eyes on a point directly in front of you. I...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-17
Diabetes in various forms affects up to 5percent of the world population with 12 million diabetics in Western Europe alone. Of the different ways in which diabetes presents, noninsulin-dependent diab...
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by Nicholas Tan - 2008-10-17
Yoga in a popular position Yoga, one of the world's oldest forms of exercise, is experiencing a rebirth in our stressful modern world. You wouldn't think that a 3000-year-old exercise could increase ...
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by Sitagita.com - 2008-10-07
A flat tummy and a slim waist is the dream of every woman; but very few attempt at having and maintaining such a figure. There is no need to despair as we can easily turn to yoga for this. These yoga...
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by Yogi Cameron - 2008-10-06
Yoga is of the mind as ayurveda is of the body. As the mind is being constantly bombarded with information and going through thoughts, we have created many more diseases which we have to contend with....
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by Christopher Schwebius - 2008-10-03
In the fast moving world of today, the most common problem faced by one and all is body pain and stress. People spend loads of money to be relieved of these problems. Yoga is the most widely used form...
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by Andrew Tomkinson - 2008-10-01
Yoga originated from India about 4000 years ago. It has been continually practised but it is only in the present century that its use and practise has become more widespread. Yoga has an effect on the...
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by Huda - 2008-09-28
How yoga builds self-esteem, awareness and moreYoga is a way to escape from everything and go into your own little world it will help you to forget all the things that are stressing you for a short wh...
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by Anmol Mehta - 2008-09-28
It is not surprising to those of us who are long time yoga practitioners that the popularity of this profound spiritual science is now exploding on a world wide scale. Unfortunately though some of t...