7 Simple Tips For A Successful Ayurvedic Yoga Practice
To help condition your body it is recommended that you practice some form of yoga postures or exercises.
Yoga is not only stimulates the brain but, it keeps your body strong, supple and flexible.
Practicing Ayurvedic Yoga (I am referring to yoga postures with an Ayurvedic mindset) quickly enhances your health and gives you vigor, vitality and strength.
It can also lead you into the deeper energetic aspects of Yoga and Ayurveda.
Remember there is specific types of yoga doe your dosha type: yoga for Vata, yoga for Pitta and yoga for Kapha.
But, for now, here are 7 tips for having a successful Ayurvedic yoga practice.
1. Let go of the need to achieve a posture. Remove any aggression that pushes you too deeply and can injury you.
2. Less is often more. Practice doing less and become more conscious and aware of what you are practicing.
3. There is no hurry. Have patience and take your time to feel the postures.
4. Do not over power or over exert your body. Treat yourself gently and don’t move into any strain or pain. Continue reading
Yoga Therapy For The Elderly
Yoga postures help prevent but also help treat muscle imbalances, bone conditions, structural distortions and degeneration of bone tissue as you get older.
People who are in their later stages of life (the Vata stage) can practice yoga postures to give them physical strength and help build tissues such as muscle.
Yoga postures also helps relieves forms of Vata conditions such as coldness, dryness, stress, nervousness, fear and anxiety which are held in the bones, nerves and joints.
After the age of 65 but sometimes even after the age of 40, the Vata stage of life inevitably kicks in and many people at this time suffer from disease and conditions related to the muscle, bones, ligaments and joints.
Arthritis is a growing concern and condition which is starting to happen at earlier ages.
Practicing yoga postures are extremely effective and important in treating arthritis and other conditions.
Yoga postures or asanas are extremely important to keep you in balance and to prevent these conditions from getting worse (especially after 50 and 60).
It is the best form of exercise for them and it should be applied in a gentle and slow manner, avoiding strain and sudden movements that can cause injury.
Structural considerations of Yoga therapy Continue reading
Yoga For Kapha Dosha
If you are a Kapha type or have excess Kapha, should have a dedicated yoga practice that is stimulating, warming, moving, energizing and light.
The right yoga postures will help you increase your metabolism, decrease your mucous in the regions of the chest, lungs and other areas.
The yoga postures will also help you stimulate and sharpen your mind which often results from a sedentary lifestyle rather than an active one.
Overall, yoga will increase your internal body heat, which is much needed for Kapha.
Tips for practicing yoga asana – Kapha dosha
1. You should learn to accept your body physique and not try to force your body into postures and movements unnatural to you.
2. You should practice more active postures with movements and exercises that stimulate your metabolism and increase your circulation.
3. You should practice postures that emphasize the chest and lung region, the main sites of Kapha.
4. You should increase your exercises and stimulating postures in a slow and incremental manner especially if you are over-weight. Continue reading
Yoga For Pitta Dosha
If you are a Pitta type or have excess Pitta, should have a regular yoga practice that is gentle, cooling, relaxing, forgiving and surrendering in nature.
The right yoga postures help you maintain good strength, flexibility and circulation without over-heating themselves.
The yoga postures will also helps you calm your mind, release aggressiveness, decrease competitiveness and channel any anger or irritation if practiced properly.
Tips for practicing yoga asana – Pitta Dosha.
1. You should perform asanas in a way that is cooling, nurturing and restoring.
2. You should be careful not to turn your full practice into a strong workout in which too much sweating or heating occurs.
3. You can have a strong practice but should compensate it with cooling postures and Pranayama (breathing exercises).
4. You should practice asana that emphasizes the middle abdomen area, the small intestine, and the liver – the main sites of Pitta accumulation
Types of postures for Pitta dosha
Inversions – (except headstand) but especially Shoulder stand and plow. They allow for the reversal of energy; moving from the navel to the soft palate (salivary secretions) where a cooling and moistening effect creates more lunar energy rather than solar energy Continue reading
A Healing Exercise For The Mind And Body – Kapalbhati Breathing And Benefits
Kapalbhati is a breathing technique known to heal the mind and body of many negative conditions and diseases.
When used in conjunction with Neti or Nasya Kapalbhati breathing can help to treat and prevent colds and other sinus, throat and lung conditions.
Kapalbhati increase your consumption of oxygen and elimination of carbon dioxide in the blood, purifying and cleansing your whole respiratory system.
The practice increases red blood cells and haemoglobin in your blood which in turn increases your heart rate, blood circulation and the concentration of oxygen – stimulating a greater level of whole body activity.
It is an excellent practice for Vata, Pitta and Kapha types but, especially for Kapha Dosha or those who have excess Kapha.
Kapalbhati is also practiced to enhance your nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system and digestive system.
It balances both your sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system and revitalizes all the cells of your body.
The breathing technique brings a sense of calm, peace and tranquility to those who practice it.
It often leads to a thoughtless state of mind bringing balance and bliss. Continue reading
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