Chances are at least one person in your life—a family member, someone you work with, or a good friend—has high blood pressure and takes one or more pills a day to bring it under control. Why so likely? Because high blood pressure—what doctors call hypertension—affects one in three adults in the United States. Elevated blood pressure, which increases the risk…
Shri Ramakrishna – one of the greatest yogis of the 19th century – often remarked that all, what we can perceive by the senses and for what we can find a name (the nama-rupa concept) is far from the Essence that cannot be named or seen. Further, that this is what keeps us anchored on the basic level of human existence. He also mentioned the kamini kanchan theorem…
We’ve all been there… you’re working on a project and you have to wait for someone else to finish their part of the work before you can get started on yours. Every day (or maybe every hour) you spend valuable time checking in on their progress. Or maybe you assume they’ll let you know when their piece is done, only to find out they’d finished it last week, and…
Because the practice of yoga includes learning so many new postures, yoga asana images are great learning tools both for remembering the postures as well as learning to execute them correctly. Using Yoga Asana Images Taking yoga classes with an experienced instructor is the best way to learn yoga properly, but supplementing these yoga classes with your own at-home…
Downward Facing Dog Photo Credit: iStock.com Come into a plank position, bend your knees, and push your bum up and back like a dog having a big stretch, while keeping your spine straight. Benefits: Builds strength in arms, shoulders and legs Prevents bone degeneration Inversion poses bring blood to brain, improving brain activity and awareness Cobra Lie down…