Accepted wisdom states that a longer, healthier, illness free life depends on regular exercise but many of us resist starting and committing to regular exercise due to the effort and pain of working out, time commitments and numerous other barriers. These barriers can be easily overcome by choosing a simple but effective activity that will have you coming back every day for more - yoga.
Yoga delivers health benefits to everyone, regardless of age, gender or fitness making it ideal for less active people as well as fitness addicts. Even a relatively basic yoga routine increases heart and breathing rates (essential for cardiovascular health) as well as strengthening and toning muscles and increasing fat burn. In a cycle of continuous development, as your fitness and strength develop, you become able to hold yoga poses much deeper and for longer further increasing your fitness and strength. Through regular practice you'll experience improved health, weight loss, muscle tone, relaxation, improved sleep, increased energy, increased mental abilities, increased self-confidence and many other benefits that will make you feel and look great in no time.
Yoga comprises specific poses that use body weight resistance and stretching to increase your heart and breathing rates, strengthen, stretch, massage tone and stimulate every muscle, joint, nerve and organ to awaken and enrich mind and body. The health benefits of yoga are so great through this stimulation of all aspects of the body.
Although it sounds so simple, for yoga to be most effective for health and healing each pose needs to be performed correctly and poses performed in the correct sequence. Study and experience teaches yoga masters how to design yoga routines that deliver all the health benefits of yoga. Most people (including many yoga teachers) simply lack the understanding needed to receive the health benefits they desire.
Since the key to success is knowledge, how great would it be to have internationally renowned teachers passing their yoga knowledge to you, whenever you want to learn. Well that's precisely what you get when you join the Total.Yoga.Practice online yoga club. With more than 20 years of yoga experience each, our yoga teachers have dedicated their lives to sharing yoga with those committed to living a healthier life. As a club member you'll get access to a collection of resources to help you on your yoga journey including books, articles, yoga pose pictures, descriptions and benefits.
Your online yoga club membership gives you:
Online yoga video instruction - professional instruction anywhere 24/7. Get unlimited access to a library of yoga online videos instructing traditional Hatha yoga passed down by Indian yoga masters. Designed and performed by our professional instructors, each streaming yoga video demonstrates an hour-long yoga class of the poses that deliver increased fitness, mental calmness and emotional balance.
Professionally recorded in beautiful locations, using the latest technology you get full screen streaming yoga videos over the internet in yoga DVD quality, our yoga videos ensure you can see and hear everything you need for an invigorating yoga practice. It's all you need for the perfect workout wherever you are, 24/7.
Transform your health by breathing properly. Pranayama yoga online video instruction. Breathing delivers essential fuel for life - oxygen. Without it we would die within minutes. Despite the importance of breathing few people do it properly. Now you can learn the secrets to improved relaxation, mental wellbeing and physical health achievable by just sitting and breathing properly. Our pranayama yoga online videos will show you what you need to know.
Fast-track yoga tips and hints. Many times in yoga how you get to the final pose has greater significance that the final pose itself. Understating how to get to the pose prevents injury, and helps you get deeper into the poses to deliver greater benefits. Our Monthly e-zine has articles that teach you how to do yoga poses, what the poses do and how they do it. The knowledge and tips help you understand how to improve your practice - and your health.
Mainstream medicine, proving what we already know. As yoga continues to demand attention from the medical community and a growing number of scientific studies are being performed to prove and understand the science behind yoga. Our regular newsletters will keep you up-to-date on the latest yoga research findings giving you the proof that yoga really works.
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