Calming your nervous system: the short answer To calm your nervous system you have to switch it from the fight or flight side to the rest and digest side. The fastest reliable lever you have is the breath, and the most durable one is a regular body and breath practice. That is what yoga is […]
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Pranayama: the short answer Pranayama is an ancient practice of sound and breath meditation. Prana means energy. Pranayama means the extension, expansion, regulation, restraint, control and prolongation of the breath. You lie or sit, supported, and you work with the breath deliberately rather than letting it run itself. It is breath meditation, not breathing exercises. […]
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Restorative yoga: the short answer Restorative yoga is the prop-supported, long-held practice that B.K.S. Iyengar developed for healing. You lie on bolsters and blankets, you stay there for minutes rather than seconds, and your body is held so completely that it can finally stop working. It looks like doing nothing. It is not. It is […]
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Yoga for strength and yoga for bone strength run on one mechanism: a pose held still, with the muscles on both sides of every joint pulling against each other. That is isometric yoga. It works muscle, loads bone and makes energy in the same thirty seconds. Plain English, six diagrams.
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The ABC says meditation can harm. We check where the numbers actually come from, name the one real caution, and set out what Iyengar yoga has said about pranayama safety for sixty years.
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