In Hindu mythology, the sun is revered as a source of health and immortality. The sun symbolizes light and knowledge, and the salutation to the sun (also known as Surya Namaskar) is understood as a dance or ritual to open up to this source of life and well-being. In fact, the salutation to the sun is born from a ...
Yoga is a specialty that hooks more people every day thanks to its benefits applied to health and physical and mental well-being, something that has not gone unnoticed by many elite athletes, who have included yoga in their training mainly to avoid injuries and increase your athletic performance. This is the case of ...
In our current society, the pace of life has multiplied compared to previous decades. The overload of tasks, the work demand or only valuing the present moment, among other evils, leads us to a life full of tension, frantic and excited. In short, we live most of our time stressed.
Stress, in short, mainly affects ...
We are born, live and die and during this process we think about many things that affect us: stress, what we eat, what we drink, the medications we take, pollution…. and many other issues that we try to change to improve our lives. And among all these thoughts that we have, how many times do we think about the ...
The name Malasana comes from ‘mala’, which in Sanskrit means ‘garland’. This position is suitable to favor an intense opening of the hips.
After several hours sitting at a computer, this asana can be a relief. It can also relieve lower back pain that is often caused by overly stiff hips.
Opening the hips ...
Kakasana or the raven pose is one of the most recurrent balance asanas in Yoga. It helps us to gain strength in the arms and wrists, to find our balance point, to work the internal muscles of the abdomen and also to improve our proprioception and our body control.
If we try to carry out this posture without ...
There are different ways to reach the same destination, the goal of Yoga, the supreme self-realization of the Self and union with the Divine.
There are four main ones. As Yoga is union, in the end aspects of each end up integrating into the other
Karma Yoga. The path of action
Here the word karma means ...
In the integrated practice of asana and Pranayama, then, there is a silencing of limiting patterns: of vrittis.
Practice tests us for life. Life is the Great Test. Or the place of Great Practice. When the body shows us its impressions, traces and fixations emerge just as quickly on the rational, emotional, ...
Beneath the physical body there is a more subtle layer or sheath, the energetic sheath, through which prana circulates, through small channels or vessels - some as thin as a hair, the masters say - called nadis. They are up to 360,000.
The main one, Sushumna Nadi, is located throughout the entire spine. The care ...
Why are there so many styles of yoga? What should not be the same essence regardless of style? In the end, all yoga consists of doing poses on a mat, isn't it? Yes and no. The essence of yoga actually goes far beyond a few semi-circus positions. Yoga as such is over 5,000 years old and did not start with a group of ...
The six mother poses of Yoga are the main asanas that collect the inspiring principles of the rest of the asanas, which are variants of one of them or a combination of two or more.
The six mother poses are:
Padmasana (padma = lotus)
The first mother pose. Seated upward stretch. As the mother posture of ...
Yoga is a practice that has multiple benefits: it connects the body, the breath and the mind. This practice uses physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation to improve overall health. Yoga developed as a spiritual practice thousands of years ago.
The physical dimension
As we have seen, then, the ...
