September is National Yoga Awareness Month!
2. Improves Circulation: Poor circulation is the cause of over 1000 diseases! From a healthy heart to a good sex life, the proper flow and circulation of blood in our arteries is one of the most important things we can do to maintain good health and push back the aging process. There is a common denominator between good arterial health and disorders such as heart attack, obesity, diabetes and high glucose levels, as well as sexual health. That common denominator is blood circulation.
3. Increases Flexibility: Yoga is the way to a more pliable, flexible body. It creates a supple and more resilient muscular structure, suited to react quicker to falls, accidents or for any kind of sports. As we age, the flexibility improved by doing yoga has shown to be a deterrent in injury related accidents.
4. Quiets the Mind: A disciplined mind is a free mind. Gain control over your thoughts and you maintain control over your life. Retrain your mind and you regain your freedom. Calming the mind is a behavioral technique used to interrupt, minimize and eliminate "psychological noise". Obsessive, repetitive thoughts and fears are all apart of negative, self-destructive patterns that benefit from the power of yoga and mind quieting.
Incorporating Yoga into Your Life
by Andrew Pacholyk, MS L.Ac
from his exciting new book, Lead Us To A Place ~ your spiritual journey through life's seasons.
from his exciting new book, Lead Us To A Place ~ your spiritual journey through life's seasons.
Incorporating yoga into your life can be one of the most rewarding and fulfilling experiences you can take on your journey! A nurtured yoga practice can transcend you by creating a disciplined mind, a strong and physically fit body and (no matter what religion you practice), yoga can be a bridge to enhancing your spirituality.
Practicing yoga is associated with establishing harmony, balance and conscious awareness. It has been well-publicized in mainstream media, recommended to patients by their doctors, and praised by practitioners.
1. Creates Discipline: Discipline is a necessity in life. Discipline is essential for achieving any kind of success in your life! It is the secret to the most effective, efficient and well strategic plan you can give yourself! Being successful, losing weight, maintaining relationships are not tasks that come easy for most people.. They are all things we must work hard at creating, keeping and maintaining! Yoga assists in understanding this process.
2. Improves Circulation: Poor circulation is the cause of over 1000 diseases! From a healthy heart to a good sex life, the proper flow and circulation of blood in our arteries is one of the most important things we can do to maintain good health and push back the aging process. There is a common denominator between good arterial health and disorders such as heart attack, obesity, diabetes and high glucose levels, as well as sexual health. That common denominator is blood circulation.
3. Increases Flexibility: Yoga is the way to a more pliable, flexible body. It creates a supple and more resilient muscular structure, suited to react quicker to falls, accidents or for any kind of sports. As we age, the flexibility improved by doing yoga has shown to be a deterrent in injury related accidents.
4. Quiets the Mind: A disciplined mind is a free mind. Gain control over your thoughts and you maintain control over your life. Retrain your mind and you regain your freedom. Calming the mind is a behavioral technique used to interrupt, minimize and eliminate "psychological noise". Obsessive, repetitive thoughts and fears are all apart of negative, self-destructive patterns that benefit from the power of yoga and mind quieting.
5. Improves Breathing: Breath is life! Exchange of electrons. Flow of energy. Your breathing is the voice of your spirit. It's depth, smoothness, sound, and rate reflect your mood. If you become aware of your breath and breathe the way you do when you are calm you will become calm. Yoga helps us to practice regular, mindful breathing and can be calming and energizing. With the addition of music and its rhythm, the "musical breath" can even help stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders. Fall into the rhythm of the music and breathe. Focus on your breathing as you move through your yoga poses.
6. Brings Awareness: Through your yoga practice, you can gain a broader perspective in self-awareness. Being able to open up your mind, allowing a free flow of thoughts and ideas can be liberating. Welcoming a new opinion or way of doing something can bring new meaning to your life. If you give up your closed thoughts and make way for a different opinion, you may be surprised at the outcome. Through your yoga practice, you learn to strive to meet difficult goals as you are pushed to stretch the horizons of what you think is impossible. This is conscious living.
7. Improves Nutrition: The source of fuel you find to nourish you on a daily basis changes as you become a yogi. The demands for a healthier diet make your journey more important. The Ayurvedic science of food is based on incorporating the 6 flavors (salty, bitter, sweet, pungent, sour and astringent) into each meal. The Three Humours or Tri-dosha are the Ayurvedic body types that classify a diet and lifestyle routines that are best suited for you.
8.. Betters Your Sex Life: As mentioned earlier, a healthy heart and the proper flow and circulation of blood in our arteries is one of the most important things we can do to maintain good health and a satisfying sex life. Not only that, just think how much more limber you will be. Not to mention, stamina.
9. Improves Your Quality of Life: You are now breathing better, are more flexible, have found a new sense of purpose, drive, and direction in your life. Welcome, change! Through this gateway, your idea of nourishment has changed. Not just what you put in your body, but what you allow or don't allow in your life anymore. Yoga is like the lotus flower. It teaches us to unfold one petal at a time in order to reveal the raw beauty underneath.
10.. Brings You Closer to Nature/Spirit: Finding spirit and a higher sense of purpose comes to you as you evolve in your yoga practice.. Yoga can show us what is truly important in life. It allows all those "things", that monopolize our time, to have less value or stress-inducing effects on us. Especially, as we grow as a yogi practitioner.
Gemstone:
A Hindu Dance
"All I ask is that you choose to find a path to lead you down,
where travels are, fulfilling, true, for many paths exist to reach ~ your liberation, bound…
to find just what you're looking for, a unity with God, you see. It's how you break the cycle here, of birth and death no more.
The Divine resides within us all, regardless of your choice.
We all have the ability to achieve this liberation.
Let go the pain and suffering and release your passive voice.
No one person is condemned, to suffer due to class or place, but rather earns the fruit of their own actions, words and grace.
To advance your spirituality by acting on these facts, in accordance with their righteousness, and this, which we attract."
~ Andrew Pacholyk MS. L.Ac
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