yoga changed My Life:

I started practicing yoga for the first time on my Wii Balance Board with Wii Fit Plus. I was getting over the brutal ending of my five-year relationship, and my Wii console offered me some desperately needed escape from endless thinking and analyzing. I soon figured out that the yoga practices on Wii Fit Plus helped quiet my mind even more than skateboarding or basketball, and soon I wanted more… urgently. My brother joked at the time and said I was like an addict – "chasing the white light." He was right in some ways – I was chasing the white light – the divine white light that yoga would bring into my life.

Fast forward a few years and yoga is now such an integral part of my life I don’t know how I ever survived without it. These are the lessons yoga continue to teach me every day:

Yoga changes my life 

1. New beginnings.

Every day is an opportunity for a new beginning. My yoga practice is different every day. Poses that are hard on one day are manageable or even easy on another. I just have to accept what is happening on the mat for me today. I appreciate what I have on each given day… and know I can start again tomorrow.

2. The value of the pause.

A friend once described me as a "quick thinking, fast talking" person. Having a million-miles-an-hour mind has its perks, but when that chatter becomes destructive, it’s hard to stop the snowball effect. Yoga taught me to pause and be still. I appreciate nothing more than those golden moments when I am moving, fluidly, in a dreamlike state, aware only of the flow of my own breath. Finally, my mind gives it a rest and I become free from its bondage.

3. Expression of my soul.

Savasana has become an amazing opportunity for an encounter with my true self. Seated meditation is still a challenge for me but in savasana I connect with my soul. I don’t think, but things come to me. Insights into myself and I am left in awe of what is in my heart.

4. No more paralyzing fear.

Challenging postures taught me that my fears and doubts paralyze me. When I doubt, I fall out and when I’m scared to fall, fail, or get hurt – I just don’t do anything. It’s my strategy in life too. So now I fall, I get hurt, and I get up… because it’s so important to DO something. When it doesn’t work out the way I planned, it’s never as significant as I thought it would be.

5. Releasing and letting go.

In a posture, when you hold on, you tighten up, constrict and contract, and there’s little room for moving forward. Sounds a bit like life – surprise, surprise! Letting go of what you don’t NEED is essential to move forward. The tension is self-inflicted; become aware of it, then release it.

6. Loving the bod.

Yoga has me seeing my body as a team. All my organs, cells, glands, and me – we have a little support group going on. I look after them, and they look after me. We chat and listen, and I learn so much from all of them because this body knows endlessly more than I could ever fathom. We heal each other every day.

7. Acceptance.

My practice teaches me to be at peace with what is, even if it’s not exactly how I had envisioned it. I will be on a mission to conquer one of my nemesis postures, without progress to get excited about, when suddenly, without warning, I will get into another posture for the first time. Just like that. For every pose that has eluded me, yoga has given me another just as lovely instead.

8. My endless potential.

I have expanded my body in yoga in ways that had me realize how much more there is to me. It’s a journey during which I am expanding my body, my potential and my understanding of the limitlessness of being human.

9. Physical body improvements.

I am no spring chicken, but I’m in better physical shape than I've ever been. I am strong and I am healthy. No diet, no starvation, no extremes – just me and my "support group" doing the work as a team!

10. Happiness.

Yoga has made me happy. I get a sense of intense joy when I roll out my purple mat and get into that first Downward-Facing Dog. I come home – centered, peaceful, and happy. I am being with what is. I am.

Was ist Yoga?

Yoga, die Disziplin bedeutet, wurde im Jahr 300 von einem indischen Hindu namens Patanjali entwickelt. Sein Zweck ist es, die Muskeln zu dehnen, den Körper zu stärken und zu erhöhen Konzentration. Es kann auch helfen, zu entspannen, wenn Sie Probleme tun haben.

Kein Wunder, dass diese alte Disziplin geworden unter den modernen Entertainer und Sportler beliebt. Je nachdem, wer sie praktiziert, kann Yoga einfach eine Reihe von Übungen oder insgesamt Weg des Lebens sein.

Einige, die Yoga praktizieren, genannt Yogis, versuchen Sie, die Disziplin zu verwenden, um ein hohes Maß an Bewusstsein zu erreichen. Sie respektieren bestimmte Enthaltungen (die Dinge nicht zu tun), wie nicht lügen, stehlen, gierig oder Schädigung anderer Menschen. Sie üben auch bestimmte Gedenktage (Dinge zu tun), wie sauber sind, Inhalte selbst kontrolliert, fleißig und widmete.

Physische Steuerung ist auch in Yoga wichtig. Yogis trainieren sich in voller, tiefe Atemzüge zu nehmen. Sie betrachten die Atmung eine Lebenskraft, Zählen einer Lebensdauer nicht in Jahren, sondern in der Anzahl der Atemzüge gemacht.

Im Yoga Sie in Abschnitte zu erleichtern, niemals zwingen, sich selbst. Der Spruch no pain no gain-einfach nicht gelten. Sie haben nur die besten können Sie im Moment, und zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt werden Sie noch mehr tun.

Alle Yoga-Posen und Nachfrage. Und da kann man nicht ausgleichen, wenn Sie über die letzte Nacht der TV-Show denken, Yoga erfordert auch Konzentration. Lernen Sie in Yoga zu konzentrieren, und werden Sie besser in der Lage, im Baseball, Tennis oder auch Schule konzentrieren.

Yoga exercises copy nature. Many yoga poses can be traced to the shapes of creatures, such as the cobra, cat, dog, tortoise, crab and eagle.

All yoga exercises promote strength and calmness. Each move’s effects on a muscle, a gland or a nerve centre are carefully thought out.

You can choose certain exercises to rid yourself of particular pains, such as back pain from back-packing or leg pain from jogging. Yoga can help condition you for skiing or help you control feelings of depression or fear.

Any good book on yoga will describe various asanas and tell how each works. You may even have done yoga exercises already. Ever done a handstand, or the wheel. Many exercise programs borrow from yoga.

Yoga : From the Eye of an Investor

“Mutual Funds are sub­ject to mar­ket risk. Please read the offer doc­u­ment care­fully before invest­ing”.

Aren’t we familiar with the above lines? The disclaimer which finds its place on all mutual fund policies, investment bonds, shares. This is not to discourage you from investing; it’s to make you understand where the fundamental of investments lies. You start somewhere with the fundamentals of investments and make a small start which gradually reaps you fruits in future. Keep an eagle’s eye on the market and you start tapping the market. Investment is all about wealth building. The wise used to consider health as one of the investment which urged them to come up with a proverb “health is wealth”. Yoga is a tool which can help you to invest you in health.

Everyone is becoming aware about yoga postures and its offerings. People have started realizing the importance of yoga.In both the fields the best practice is to start young. Autobiographies of great investors suggest that they started young. Autobiographies of yogis suggest they started young too. Both the practices need to have strong fundamentals to grow as change is the only permanent thing in this world. One helps to achieve things which matter in our daily life whereas the other helps you to reduce the list of things that matter in our daily life. End result – Savings. The list of similarities would go on because they both are so very closely connected and part of our day to day life. Here I try to put down a few observations which are useful whether you are at a stock exchange or at your yoga studio.

 

“Yoga benefits are sub­ject to your own risk. Please start investing in yoga today”.