Sentences with phrase «practice yoga say»

In fact, over 85 percent of people who practice yoga say that it cuts down on stress.

Nearly one in 10 Americans practices yoga, and 45 % of adults who don't practice yoga say they are interested in trying it.

Not exact matches

I am now officially responsible for my dernomination's downward spiral into the abyss of apostasy because I said there is nothing wrong for a Christian to practice yoga exercises or do karate when it isn't accompanied by the eastern philosophy.

I practice yoga, I want to say every day, but I'd say it's more five to six days a week.

She told me on the way home that she came up with a plan for a tasty vegetarian dinner during our final Shavasana - who ever said you can't meditate over food to close out a yoga practice?!

«Many people practice yoga for its health benefits, including asthma sufferers,» said Holger Cramer, PhD, lead author of the study.

Hatha yoga is an ancient spiritual practice that involves meditation and focused breathing while an individual moves through a series of stylized postures, said Neha Gothe, who led the study with University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Edward McAuley.

The similarity of yoga and exercise's effect on cardiovascular risk factors, say the investigators, «suggest that there could be comparable working mechanisms, with some possible physiological aerobic benefits occurring with yoga practice, and some stress - reducing, relaxation effect occurring with aerobic exercise.»

«Insula gray matter size correlates with pain tolerance, and increases in insula gray matter can result from ongoing yoga practice,» said Bushnell.

«Practicing yoga has the opposite effect on the brain as does chronic pain,» said Bushnell.

Dr Bilderbeck, who practices yoga herself, cautions: «We're not saying that organising a weekly yoga session in a prison is going to suddenly turn prisons into calm and serene places, stop all aggression and reduce reoffending rates.

The research, based on the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, looked at data from more than 13,000 respondents who said they had never used acupuncture, chiropractic, natural products or yoga, four common CAM practices.

Yoga is a daily practice and your intuitive healer (i.e. psychic) says your life will be filled with abundance and love.

It's not all bad, I have to say — goat yoga sounds glorious to me — but have we also lost sight of the essence of this 5,000 - year - old practice?

Yoga is as much breathing as it is pose, and you can harness the same practices throughout the day to battle stress or start the day with more energy and awareness, says Pandya.

Clairvoyant says: Hot yoga will go beyond sweaty poses and include complementary cultural practices such as chanting and Sanskrit.

Before you say namaste, it's important to understand the basics during your yoga practice.

With Kareem Abdul - Jabbar's yoga practice and current head coach Phil Jackson's emphasis on meditation, one could say that the Los Angeles Lakers...

At the ashram where I took my first yoga class 25 years ago and became a yoga teacher in 2002, there's a saying: «The physical practice of Asana is the door to the rest of yoga.»

Miranda Kerr is a big fan of all three practices, saying, «Yoga is so important to me.

Yes, Ashtanga yoga is an intense practice, and it tends to attract people who are somewhat... driven, to say the least.

Although Kundalini yoga has been practiced for thousands of years in the Eastern regions, Sikh leader Yogi Bhajan first brought it to the United Stated in 1969 — and I think it's pretty safe to say we're all glad he did.

When I first started practicing yoga, I thought this statement had to be false, and that it was just a saying that instructors would use to get their students to lie down for a few minutes without fidgeting or getting up to leave.

«Savasana can be the most challenging part of our practice because we're required to do nothing but breathe,» says Chelsea Jackson Roberts, PhD, a yoga instructor who leads teacher trainings and blogs at chelsealovesyoga.com.

If you have practiced yoga with an instructor, you have likely heard him or her say that the final relaxation pose (savasana or corpse pose) is the most important or most beneficial posture in your practice.

She started practicing 25 years ago when she first became pregnant and says that yoga has «totally transformed her life» in according to an interview with the UK's Yoga Magazyoga has «totally transformed her life» in according to an interview with the UK's Yoga MagazYoga Magazine.

She says of her yoga practice: «My legs got leaner,» and «my arms got strong.»

I'm aware of the importance of morality in yoga, but many great teachers, including my own, have said that the two most important principles are Satya, which is benevolent truthfulness, and Ishvarapranidhana, which is the cultivation of love and surrender to God through the practices of meditation, chanting, pranayama and asanas.

As we've said before, celebrities pictured practicing yoga always seems to motivate people to begin a practice.

But adding complementary therapies like supplements (specifically, omega - 3 fatty acids found in fish oils), Tai Chi or yoga, mind - body therapies (such as biofeedback), and even spiritual practices (including forgiveness), to conventional medications for heart disease is getting a lot of attention and can lower risk, says Victor Sierpina, MD, chairman of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

«I practice yoga myself, and there is a class out there for everyone, regardless of health or existing fitness level,» she said.

That's probably because they didn't keep up their chair yoga practice at home, says Park.

«If you aren't incorporating mindful nutrition and practices like meditation, yoga, and open, positive communication within your home, I'd start there,» she says.

I've always been super interested in wellness and even fell in love with the amazing practice of yoga as a young teenager, but when it came to figuring out the nutrients I need for my body to run best and which products work best for my skin and body from the inside out — well... let's just say it's been a journey.

«That being said, yoga — when practiced carefully — can be really great for osteoporosis,» Betz adds.

I can say this, because the practice of yoga has been a tremendous gift in my own life.

While Śrī K Pattabhi Jois, or Guruji, was often quoted as saying, «Yoga is 99 percent practice and 1 percent theory,» he did not mean that we should practice blindly and ignore the underlying philosophy of yoga explained in the śastras, the ancient texts that contain the authoritative teachings of yYoga is 99 percent practice and 1 percent theory,» he did not mean that we should practice blindly and ignore the underlying philosophy of yoga explained in the śastras, the ancient texts that contain the authoritative teachings of yyoga explained in the śastras, the ancient texts that contain the authoritative teachings of yogayoga.

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If you are facing difficulties during your Yoga practice you can say, «My body is strong, flexible and balanced,» or if you're feeling stressed you can repeat, «Life flows smoothly and perfectly.»

«Yoga intervention: breathing, meditation / mindfulness, and physical practice, was found to reduce tension, anxiety, and (the incidence of) trigger events,» said Matthews, an exercise science professor at Miramar College, San Diego.

The Bhagavad Gita says, «On this path (yoga) no effort is wasted, no gain is ever reversed; even a little of this practice will shelter you from great sorrow.»

Kush says that ever since he began his yoga practice he developed a sense of calmness, contentment, lightness of spirit and intuition.

«I just wanted to stay there forever — this pause feels so comfortable and peaceful,» said one of my students after a yoga practice designed around Patanjali's yoga sutra 1.34: «The mind attains serenity through prolonged Exhalation and Suspension of breath.»

«Tibetan Yoga is little known and practiced exactly because it is so doggedly focused on conscious training and liberation,» says Chris Kilham.

For this reason, says Katz, Westerners have been relatively slower to seek out traditional Tibetan yoga practices than to adopt Buddhism's more ethereal components.

Her competitive spirit rarely says no to sand volleyball, but gets chilled out by practicing yoga.

The famous Yoga teacher BKS Iyengar said, «When I practice, I am a philosopher, when I teach, I am a scientist, when I demonstrate, I am an artist.»

There isn't a science to dog yoga poses, and I wouldn't say it's comparable with the different types of yoga practices.

Although his teachings to us Westerners were mostly based on asana, Guruji recognized the limitations of the physical body and encouraged us to look deeper, saying, «Yoga is an internal practice.

It is said in the yogic text Hatha Yoga Pradeepika and others that practice of pranayama make the body slim and fit.