Discover How Yoga can Improve Workplace Safety and Health
...crease productivity as office employees recharge their batteries.
Within a manufacturing or shipping environment, employees face many risks. Shifting and lifting objects can cause many accidents or repetitive motion injuries. There is also the potential for injury when employees who monitor machinery become less aware of hazards around them. Yoga practice helps employees to increase their awareness on the job.
Repetitive motion injuries can occur on any job. The cost of workers compensation claims is enough to make any business take preventative action. Yoga classes and Yoga safety programs offer employees methods for preventing injuries. Installing a Yoga program does create a positive atmosphere in the workplace.
Stressed out employees will benefit from any Yoga exercises or techniques. The fact is that stress will cost every company a fortune in health insurance premiums and potential claims. Think of the sick time, lack of production, poor morale, potential office turmoil, and workers compensation claims. In each case Yoga offers a low cos...more
Yoga Meditation to Envision Success
...f them. Yoga meditation can help you in many ways by creating inner stability. In effect, Yoga meditation can lead to positive personality development. This results in self-confidence, improved self-image, better self-esteem, and a Yoga student who is successful in life.
Please bear in mind that success can be many things. couples, who have a successful marriage, strong family ties, and good friends, might not be materially rich, but they do have wealth and a deep purpose in life.
Do you wonder about your purpose in this life? When your purpose is noble, there is no harm in envisioning success. Yet, you must still find your purpose, calling, or Dharma. Positive energy, without a purpose, can easily be wasted.
When we discuss positive ...more
Explore The History Of Yoga - The Beginning
...of different schools of thought. All share a common origin in the Vedas and all have certain characteristics in common.
They differ, however, in what they emphasize as the primary goal or road to enlightenment. For example, karma yoga focuses on service while raja yoga concentrates on transformational knowledge. Hatha yoga is the practice of physical postures and breathing exercises while those engaged in dhyanya yoga meditate on the absolute.
The father of yoga
Patanjali is sometimes known as the father of yoga. Between AD 200 and 200 BC, this noted physician and sage recorded 195 sutras or aphorisms. We can trace the history of yoga back to these concise guidelines, which continue to serve as relevant guidelines to anyone hoping to integrate yoga more fully into his or her life.
The eight limbs of Patanjali
1. Yamas: The five yamas are social behaviors or moral guidelines: non-violence, truth and honesty, non-lust, non-stealing and non-possessiveness. If you have a Judeo-Chri...more
Yoga and Weight Training - Never the Twain Shall Meet?
...e of the being, then, both body and mind must be focussed or joined to an integral viewpoint.
In a more general sense, the Eastern science of body-mind interaction further implies that all diseases of the body can be cured through the power of yoga. Yoga is not just about the physical body. Yoga incorporates many mental techniques for gaining command over the physical body. Breathing exercises were developed to gain control over ones own mind. Many different breathing exercises were developed in order to produce different physical results. All of them have warnings attached to them for special populations. In fact physical yogic positions or asanas are also limiting to certain special populations. Each such exercise needs to be taught in more detail to participants, rather than in a haphazard way as a general method for fitness to all populations. The exceptions should be understood so that people do not experience negative effects from the yoga asanas. It is therefore important to have a teacher who is aware of contraindicated populations for all exercises. This information is well known for traditional resistance training, but is not taught to populations studying yoga.
The beauty of yoga is its absolute dependence on nothing but the human being. No external equipment is necessary. However, it is important ...more
