It’s August. Around now, everyone is trying to squeeze a vacation in before the school year starts a new round of ‘stay at home’ weeks. So when you leave the house, do you drop your yoga practice? Or, do you think ahead a little and bring a block, a strap, a travel mat, and or a blanket or two?
There is no right answer, but listen in as we talk about the pros and cons, and maybe cover how to make a little preparation so you can enjoy your vacation even a little more!
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The Vedas (Sanskrit véda वेद, “knowledge”) are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. Hindus consider the Vedas to be apauruṣeya (“not of human agency”). They are supposed to have been directly revealed, and thus are called śruti (“what is heard”), distinguishing them from other religious texts, which are called smṛti (“what is remembered”). In Hindu tradition, the creation of Vedas is credited to Brahma.
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Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between “work” (career and ambition) and “lifestyle” (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation). The work-leisure dichotomy was invented in the mid-1800s. Paul Krassner remarked that anthropologists, use a definition of happiness that is to have as little separation as possible “between your work and your play”.Some theorists suggest that this blurred boundary of work and life is a result of technological control. Technological control “emerges from the physical technology of an organization”. In other words, companies use email and distribute smartphones to enable and encourage their employees to stay connected to the business even when they are not in the office. This type of control, as Barker argues, replaces the more direct, authoritarian control, or simple control, such as managers and bosses. As a result, communication technologies in the temporal and structural aspects of work have changed, defining a “new workplace” in which employees are more connected to the jobs beyond the boundaries of the traditional workday and workplace. The more this boundary is blurred, the higher work-to-life conflict is self-reported by employees.
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What are the advantages of living in the digital age & what are the disadvantages as it relates to the practice of Yoga? Is ‘being online’ taking us away from the wholeness that Yoga offers us? Is it possible to have both, or is that just wishful thinking?
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Yoga has all sorts of benefits for athletes. For starters, it can help with muscular fitness and flexibility, says Ralph La Forge, a physiologist at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina: “Low-resistance hatha yoga is ideal for relaxing muscles that are tight from competition.”
But the mental steadfastness that the practice bestows may be its biggest benefit, La Forge says. Researchers studying this area have found that, of all yoga’s components, the one with the most influence on sports preparation and recovery is breathwork. It can help you become both relaxed and focused at the same time.
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One of the problems that yoga continues to face is the Westernization-commercialization issue, which is not new, but seems to be increasingly prevalent in some circles. There’s no doubt that the practice today, in its myriad forms, is significantly shifted from the one practiced by men in India in past millennia. Present day yoga has branched practically exponentially from the handful of original schools, as has the trade-marking of these derivatives. That yoga has lost some of its oomph as it becomes more a business and less a practice is no secret. But whether this change is a good or bad thing is up for debate.Interested in learning more? Tune in… for more in this exciting episode!
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Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat – red meat, poultry, seafood and the flesh of any other animal.Vegetarianism can be adopted for different reasons. Many object to eating meat out of respect for sentient life. Other motivations for vegetarianism are health-related, political, environmental, cultural, aesthetic or economic. There are varieties of the diet as well: an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs, and an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products. A vegan, or strict vegetarian, diet excludes all animal products, including eggs, dairy, beeswax and honey. Some vegans also avoid animal products such as leather for clothing and goose-fat for shoe polish.Interested in learning more? Tune in… for more in this exciting episode!
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Ok, we’ve been locked up all winter, and after a lingering spring, it’s time to get outside. Hey, maybe I’ll skip yoga class… Don’t do that! How about a nice simple personal practice that keeps you on the yoga path, and gives you the ability to go outside and ‘smell the roses’, too?How about the best of both worlds? What do you do, and how do you handle these ‘conflicting’ interests?
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Yoga is an increasingly popular form of meditation and exercise in the U.S., and the public is split on whether it is first and foremost a spiritual practice. The Huffington Post notes that, according to recent Pew Research Center surveys, 49 percent of the general public thinks yoga has a religious element, while just 28 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans agree.Where do you stand on this question?Have an opinion? Join in by sending an email, or a tweet, using the links below…
Yoga series consist of asanas done in sequence. The most common yoga series is Surya Namaskara or the Sun Salutation, originating in the Hatha Yoga system.Sequences can potentially create a benefit that is greater that the benefits of the sum of the individual poses.We’ll be discussing sequences and what you should know to create or practice them.
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