Yoga Breathing Helped Me Lose Weight – Pat’s Success Story

Posted on January 5th, 2012 in Diet & Weight Loss,Yoga,Yoga Pranayama by Anmol Mehta

Yoga Helps You Lose Weight

Help for Weight Loss

Next time someone asks you, “Will yoga help me lose weight?”  You can say, “Yes, it sure can!” And for proof you can go ahead send them this article link :-).  In fact, as you will see below, you don’t even need a full fledged yoga workout in order to lose weight, you can do it by simply practicing Yogic Breathing!

Today I received an email from a long time reader who had undertaken the serious practice of Kapalbhati Yoga Breathing Exercise with the objective of burning fat and losing weight.  So did Kapalbhati help her lose weight?  It sure did and here is her success story in her own words.



Tips for Yoga Pranayama

Posted on July 19th, 2011 in Yoga Pranayama by Anmol Mehta

Yoga Pranayama Tips

 

Tips for Yoga Breathing Exercises

One of the best parts of yoga is yogic breathing exercises or yoga pranayamas and you will find a huge collection of them in the following section, Free Online Yoga Breathing Exercises. There you will find detailed instructions as well as videos on how to do these life transforming techniques. In this article I will offer some tips on how to get the most out of these yoga pranayamas



Unusual Yoga for Detox

Posted on July 8th, 2011 in Detox & Cleanse,Yoga Pranayama by Anmol Mehta

Detox Yoga Pose

How to Detox Your Body with Yoga

Yoga breathing exercises bestow many benefits, including energy, tranquility, clarity, evolution, etc, but another great benefit of some of the techniques is their ability to detox and cleanse the body.  Of the breathing exercises which do promote detoxificaiton, the one I will provide a video for in this article, is quite possibly the best of them all.  It is called Panting Breath of Fire and is a vairation of Lion Yoga Pose.

You will find full detail of this unusual yoga pose in the article, Cleanse and Detox Your Body with Powerful Yoga, so head over to that article for all the details of this technique.



3 Powerful Yogic Breathing Exercises for Energy

Posted on April 25th, 2011 in Diet & Weight Loss,Yoga Pranayama by Anmol Mehta

Yogic Breathing

Powerful Breathing Exercises

To boost your energy levels, both short term and long term, there is almost no better method than the regular practice of yogic breathing exercises (pranayamas).  These exercises have been developed and honed over thousands of years to bestow their powerful benefits, so if you are looking for more vitality and energy, I strongly recommend establishing a consistent, daily pranayama practice.



Great Stress Relief Meditation Technique

Posted on March 25th, 2011 in Kundalini Yoga,Mantra,Meditation,Yoga Pranayama by Anmol Mehta

Meditation for Stress Relief

Stress Management Technique

Shadb Kriya works by combining the powerful stress reducing ability of yoga breathing exercises and known relaxation benefits of mantra meditation into one great technique.  The end result is that if you are suffering from anxiety, stress, insomnia, excessive worrying, negative thinking, etc, this meditation technique demands an opportunity to help cure you of these disruptive ailments.

In the article Easy Meditation Technique for Total Stress Relief, I presented this technique but I do think a video demonstration is particularly helpful as there are many dimensions to this technique.  Shabd Kriya utilizes hand mudras, eye mudras, yoga pranayama as well as mantra meditation to help attack stress from all angles.  And how to combine all this correctly is what I show in this video.



Yoga Pranayama Breathing for Energy Video | Surya Bedhi Pranayama

Posted on February 10th, 2011 in Stress, Anxiety & Depression,Yoga Pranayama,Yoga Videos by Anmol Mehta

Yoga Pranayama Free Video

Surya Bedhi Yoga Pranayama

Pranayama is a yoga breathing exercise and there are many different pranayamas for a variety of different purposes.  There are pranayamas to help calm the mind and prepare it for meditation, there are paranayamas for increasing lung capacity, there are pranayamas to promote weight loss, to name just a few.  You will find all these excellent breathing exercises is the following 2 free collections here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga – Free Online Yoga Pranayama Videos and Free Online Yoga Pranayama E-book.



Basic Yoga Technique to Start Your Yoga Routine

Posted on January 27th, 2011 in Health and Wellbeing,Yoga Pranayama by Anmol Mehta

How to Start Yoga

Simple Exercise for Starting Your Yoga Practice

One of the great things about yoga, is how effective even simple techniques can be for your health and well being.  In this article, I will detail one such basic yoga exercise, which is excellent to use prior to starting your yoga practice.  It is formally called The Nasal Cleansing Process (Shwasana Marga Shuddhi), and it is a great breathing exercise to use before beginning your yoga routine.



Free Kundalini Yoga DVD for Download – Part 2

Posted on January 12th, 2011 in Kundalini Yoga,Yoga,Yoga Pranayama,Yoga Videos by Anmol Mehta

Kundalini Yoga DVD

Free Kundalini Yoga Video

In part 1 of this series Free Yoga DVD for Beginner’s, the first 12 minutes of this Kundalini Yoga DVD was presented and the breathing exercises and yoga poses were explained in detail.  The dvd is that of a Kundalini Yoga class I conducted and in this part I will present the next 12-15 minutes of the class and explain the contents as well.

In case anyone is curious, the reason for breaking up the dvd into these chunks is due to YouTube’s limit of 15 minutes for the free videos that can be uploaded .  So below you will find the next section of the DVD.



Free Yoga DVD for Beginners – Part 1

Posted on January 11th, 2011 in Kundalini Yoga,Online Yoga Meditation Classes,Yoga,Yoga Pranayama,Yoga Videos by Anmol Mehta

Free Yoga DVD

Beginner Yoga DVD for Download

Although there are many free yoga exercise videos on the website already, what I have not uploaded until now was a complete yoga dvd for you.  So I have created the following series of videos from a beginner’s yoga class dvd that I taught, and in this article I will post the first part of that dvd for you.  Over the course of the week I will post the rest of the dvd as well.  Of course, like all the other videos, this dvd is also free for you to download. 



Hot Yoga Exercises for December Practice

Posted on December 15th, 2010 in Yoga,Yoga Pranayama by Anmol Mehta

Hot Yoga Techniques

Yoga to Raise Inner Body Heat

With most of the US in a deep freeze and cold weather gripping us here in the Northeast as well, I thought we ought to do some hot yoga exercises to get warm in December.  As the regular readers know, every month I present some yoga exercises that we do together to enhance our practice, and for this time of year, I can think of nothing better to do that yoga techniques that raise the body heat within.



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