Get the Most out of Your Yoga Class For many people, yoga is an excellent way to stay healthy and relieve stress. Follow these simple tips to maximize your enjoyment during any yoga class: Dress for comfort Select clothes that allow your body to move freely, but fit tight enough to stay in place as [...]
Lower Back Pain Feelings of discomfort and pain in the lower back area are a leading cause of missed workdays – with up to 80 per cent of all adults suffering from some type of spinal discomfort during their lifetime. The majority of these injuries are caused by problems with the muscles, [...]
With Yoga becoming more popular, there has been a rapid increase in the number of brands selling products related to it, which include Yoga Mats, Yoga Blocks, Yoga Pants, even Yoga Socks. If we take a deeper look into the origins of the practice, however, we will be surprised to find that all of [...]
Life is busy –Too busy most days, almost like time is speeding up. We want things now. We want things yesterday. We want things fast. With the evolvement of mobile phones, internet and other modern tools, we are constantly being bombarded with outside stimulus. And when we are not being [...]
Svadhyaya is one of the Niyamas (restraint to cultivate inner integrity) of the 8 Limbs of Yoga and focuses on learning, knowledge and particularly self-awareness and a deep knowledge of our innate character as an integral aspect of our growth as a Yogi and as a human being. The cultivating of [...]
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014), better known as B.K.S. Iyengar, was the founder of the style of yoga known as “Iyengar Yoga” and was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. “Yoga means union. The union of the [...]
To help celebrate QLD Mental Health week we asked some of our Yoga and Pilates Instructors to tell us how their class can help your whole self stay healthy “All exercise is mood enhancing because of the endorphin’s that are released through movement. I feel that my vinyasa flow [...]
Feel free to drop a few lines about your first yoga experience. Here is mine. I was a Uni student at the time. I turned 20 and the year before I had a strong calling to go vegetarian. Thinking about me back then, I was a bit strange young girl; I read Bhagavad Gita and Tibetan Book of the dead. [...]
Yin & Yang are opposites that create balance in Life. One cannot exist without the other. One gives value to the other. When ‘Yin’ is slow cool & still, ‘Yang’ is fast, hot & moving. Yang Yoga is movement of blood through the muscles contracting. Sometimes elevating the [...]
When I began meditation almost 20 years ago I had no idea how beneficial it would be. I had no idea how it could help me physiologically, psychologically and spiritually. Meditation is effective in so many different ways! You may not feel any different during a session in the beginning, but [...]