...What do you call a yoga guru who eventually succumbs to heart attack? An ignorant fool who’s been performing mythical yoga for decades? Is yoga then not some kind of trashy art form that has millions of people duped into practicing it? A perplexed reader posted this question in Yahoo! Answers [quoted in full]:

Recently Sri Vedathri Maharishi, who founded ‘World Community Service Center’ passed away due to heart Attack at the age of 96. He preached and practiced Yoga throughout his life. He established 300 Yoga Centers all over the world. He wrote 80 books on Yoga out of which many became Text Books for Universities and Colleges. How come a person who practiced Yoga throughout his life can die due to heart Attack like a common man? If Yoga has real effect on those who practice it, should the practitioners not die naturally? Similarly, recently I read about Sri Subbudu (the famous Carnatic music Critic from India) who is also above 90 and who has also been practicing Yoga since his childhood, that he suffered a heart Attack. I request Yoga Experts and Doctors who have knowledge on this to explain. I may be wrong. If...more

Yoga: Adding Balance to Your Life

...For 5,000 years, yoga has been a path to good health and conscious living. Would you like to increase your physical vitality, mental clarity, and heighten your spiritual awareness? Regardless of your age or physical condition, yoga can bring you these benefits.

Yoga is training in listening to our bodies. By tuning in through awareness of our breath, through conscious movement in the poses and in the transitions between the poses, we can receive an amazing amount of information from our bodies.

The stuck places, the places in our bodies where energy is blocked, cause us discomfort in order to get our attention. What is that stuck place in your body trying to tell you? You can mentally go inside that place, breathe into the area, expand it with your breath, then relax, open your mind and ask your body what the stuck area is trying to tell you. Be open to the message and you may find the discomfort beginning to melt away.

What are the benefits of yoga?

Yoga has been clinically shown to lower blood pressure, increase circulation, build muscle tissues, increase flexibility, relieve stress and stress-relat...more

Yoga in Practice - Solutions for Negativity

...fits of all this positive energy.

It is easy to develop a thick crust and refuse help. To go off into a corner and refuse to change is quite natural for some of us. What can you do if a person has refused help? You can explain that negativity is the source of is his or her isolation, but an outright refusal is an indication that you have done all you can, for the moment.

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Why Yoga Should Be a Part of Your Daily Fitness Routine

...werful muscles are prone to injury. So one of the major benefits of yoga exercises is the prolonged stretching found in many of the yoga positions and poses.

2. Balance -- especially as we get older balance becomes more critical. It also allows you to move more easily and comfortably. Most yoga positions stress some form of balance in order to maintain the position.

3. energy level -- higher levels of energy often come through higher levels of relaxation in the body. Tension on the other hand is an energy killer. Yoga exercises help lower stress and tension and and improve oxygen flow in the blood. All of that helps lead to...more

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