Showing posts with label Yoga and Wellbeing. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

BANDHA YOGA ~ If You Are Interested In Health You Will Find This Incredible! ~




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Anatomy for Vinyasa Flow and Standing Poses

Anatomy for Backbends and Twists

The Key Poses of Yoga

Monday, February 28, 2011

Bikram Yoga ~ Benefits of Postures

Standing Pranayama Breathing
  • Mental relaxation
  • Detoxification
  • Works the   nervous, respiratory and circulatory systems
Half Moon
  • Helps lower back pain, constipation, obesity of stomach, bronchi distress, scoliotic,   deformities, frozen shoulders
  • Works deltoid, trapezius, pectoralis major and hamstings
  • Exercise the colon, pancreas and kidney
Awkward Pose
  • Helps to open   pelvic area, alleves joint pain and arthritis of the knees, strengthens lower   limbs, relieves sciatica, improves flexibility in toes and ankles
  • Works quadriceps and deltoids
Eagle
  • Strengthens lower extremities, joint mobility for hip girdle and all 12 major joints. By creating pressure in the joints and releasing allows fresh blood supply to flow   in.
  • Control of sexual energies, improves function of central nervous system
Standing Head to Knee
  • Improves concentration, avoids sciatica by improving circulation and flexibility, reduces   diabetes, strengthens back muscles and nerves
  • Works the muscular, skeletal, reproductive and digestive systems
Standing Bow
  • Increases circulation to the heart and lungs
  • Improves elasticity of the spine by compressing the spine
  • Helps with lower back pain
  • Opens diaphram and lungs
Balancing Stick
  • Increases blood flow all over the body at the same time
  • Clears arteries
  • Builds strength in lower extremities
  • Works the pancreas, kidney and spleen
  • Works muscular, reproductive, nervous, and circulatory system
Separate Leg Stretching
  • Helps for constipation, abdominal obesity and hyper-acidity
  • Increases circulation to the brain and adrenal glands
  • Good for small and large intestines
Triangle
  • Good for kidneys
  • Helps chemical imbalances in the system
  • Helps colitis constipation, hip and back pain, spondilitis, general mobility and menstrual   disorders
  • Cardiovascular benefits
  • Works   circulatory, digestive, immune and reproductive systems
Standing Separated Leg Head to Knee
  • Helps abdominal obesity, diabetes, thyroid, blood and sugar balance, pancreas and kidneys
  • Works endocrine, reproductive, and digestive systems
  • Works obliques, iliosoas, quads and deltoids, trapezius, biceps and triceps
Tree Pose
  • Creates hip and knee mobility
  • Releases abdominal tension
  • Helps inflammation of the lower back
Toe Stand
  • Creates balance in the body and the mind
  • Strengthens stomach muscles
  • Helps with arthritis, knee problems and gout pain
  • Strengthens weak joints
Floor   Wind Removing Pose
  • Helps   constipation, flatulence and hyper acidity
  • Massages   ascending colon, descending and transverse colon
      The Cobra Series (Cobra,   Locust, Full-Locust and Bow)
  • Works to compress   and open up the spine
  • Each posture   works a specific section of the spine
  • Creates spinal   changes, helps lower back pain, scoliosis and cervical   spondylosis
Fixed Firm
  • Strengthens and   improves flexibility of lower spine, knees and ankle joints
  • Helps to cure   sciatica, gout and rheumatism in the legs
  • Helps varicose   veins
  • Helps to cure and   prevent hernia
Half Tortoise
  • Provides maximum   relaxation
  • Cures   indigestion, constipation and flatulence
  • Stretches lower   part of the lungs – good for emphysema and asthma
  • Helps   diabetes
Camel
  • Strengthens   muscles in the back and shoulders
  • Produces maximum   compression of the spine, stimulating the nervous system
  • Improves   flexibility of the neck and spine
  • Relieves   backache
  • Helps   kypho-scolitic deformities
Rabbit
  • Stretches spine,   maximum extension – opposite of Camel
  • Helps maintain   mobility and elasticity of spine and back muscles
  • Nurtures the   nervous system, brings blood to the brain, helps cure depression
  • Helps   diabetes
  • Helps with colds,   sinus problems, chronic tonsillitis, sore throats and strep throat
  • Good for thyroid,   parathyroid and larynx
Head to Knee with Stretching
  • Helps to balance blood sugar level, especially good for diabetes
  • Good for the immune system, stimulates the thymus
  • Improves kidney function
  • Increases circulation to the liver and the spleen, pancreas, thyroid, thymus and   intestines
Spine Twisting
  • Only posture that twists the spine from top to bottom at the same time
  • Improves flexibility of spine and hip joints
  • Helps prevent slip discs
  • Increases circulation and nutrition to spinal nerves, veins and tissues
  • Helps sciatica
  • Improves digestion
  • Helps tennis elbow
Kapalbhati Breathing
  • Helps to rid body of toxins
  • Good for emphysema and other respiratory ailments
  • Stengthens, massages and increases circulation to the abdominal organs and muscles,    including the diaphram
  • Good against high   blood pressure and good for the heart
http://www.bikramyoganyc.com/health_benefits.htm