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Become Familiar With These Yoga Techniques

If you are considering including yoga into your workout program, you can begin by learning the basic techniques within the three segments of the yoga system. Yoga is a wonderful means to good health, which is achieved by working your mind, spirit and body in harmony. By learning a few of the most important yoga techniques, you will be able to go right into a regular yoga routine fairly quickly, and see positive results within a matter of weeks. Yoga can pave the way to a healthier, happier, more balanced you. Yoga is one of the best types of exercise for flexibility, and will also include yoga techniques for relaxation and stress reduction.

Yoga Meditation

Yogic meditation is a way of training to tune yourself to the workings of the Divine Being. This discipline, above everything else, is the essence of yoga meditation. The central principle of such meditation is to concentrate your mental faculties upon the object of quest. But it requires long hours of practice for the mind to be able to attain such sustainable levels of concentration and absorption.

Yoga Meditation Technique

Sitting comfortably with an erect spine, preferably in a specific yoga posture such as the padmasana or the Lotus posture. Energize your breath through pranayama. (see below) Hold a visualization for a few minutes to clear and focus the mind internally. This may relate to peaceful colors, geometric designs (yantra), natural images or that of a deity or guru. Now repeat an affirmation or prayer to increase positive thought power. Repeat a mantra such as 'OM' to still the mind. Ideally one should repeat a mantra at least 108 times before the meditation begins. Silently observe your mind and let it empty itself out.

Depending on your natural temperament, it may help to try and establish contact with either God or a Higher Consciousness through the natural movement of your heart.

Learning Asanas

The purpose of these yoga techniques is to increase blood flow to rejuvenate the various areas of the body. Most of the asanas that you will learn to perform will successfully and effectively work various body parts at once.

The asanas are one of the first yoga techniques that you will learn with this practice, and are basically the postures or stretching exercises that work to balance the mind and body.These benefits are seen three different ways: through increased blood circulation, massaging the organ or gland by gently squeezing it, and deep breathing and visualization. You will also enjoy an increased flexibility to the spine by practicing these yoga techniques, which will benefit the entire body in terms of fitness and health.

Pranayama Technique?

Yoga breathing is beneficial to the body for a number of reasons, including an increased vitality, a centering of the mind, and an increase in the elimination of toxins. Pranayama refers to the group of yoga techniques that assist in the process of deep breathing. Good yoga breathing techniques will help your mind to focus and your body to fight off illnesses more effectively. Through these exercises, you will achieve a higher level of rejuvenation and vitality, by producing a large storehouse of energy for the body to use as necessary. Pranayama yoga techniques are essential for yoga exercise to work at maximum effectiveness.

Meditation and Visualization

While asanas will strengthen your body, and pranayama will create balance, meditation and visualization will center the mind to bring the greatest benefits of a yoga workout. The third prong of yoga techniques is that of meditation and visualization. Meditation is a yoga technique that will help to keep your mind from outside distractions as you are performing your workout. Sometimes, focusing on the ticking of a clock will be enough to help you concentrate completely on the exercise at hand. Visualization, on the other hand, is a yoga technique that will help you to actually see your body in your mind getting healthier and stronger. By combining these three types of yoga techniques into your workout, you will be giving yourself the best exercise and the maximum benefits.

Yoga Philosophy

Vedic philosophy, is also known as Ashtanga Yoga (the yoga of eight parts or limbs) and is closely related to Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy. Ashtanga Yoga is the practical manifestation of both these philosophies. This practical system attempts to understand the nature of the elusive element we know as 'the mind' its different states of being, impediments to growth, afflictions and the methods of harnessing it for the achievement of absolute self realization.

 


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