Post Natal Exercise to Lose Weight

Post Natal Yoga Workout

In continuing the mission to create the most comprehensive, free yoga website out there, it is time to expand into the areas of prenatal, pregnancy and post natal yoga, and provide you with yoga exercises known to be very helpful during these phases of childbirth.  My wife, Trupti, is a certified pre/post natal yoga teacher and she will be helping create many of the workouts that I will be publishing here in the next few weeks.

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Yoga for Stress Management

Yoga Postures for Stress and Anxiety

Yoga is quickly becoming the default prescription for those suffering from stress, tension, high blood pressure and anxiety.  Even if you were to visit your medical doctor and he diagnosed you with stress, there is a high probability that he is going to suggest you take up some yoga and meditation .  And why not?  It is well established now that yoga is excellent to relieve stress and is an excellent system for achieving physical, mental and emotional peace and harmony.

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Yoga Strength Exercises

Free Lower Back Yoga Poses

Of all the different types of fitness exercises, yoga postures and poses are perhaps the best for helping to strengthen the back and help cure back problems and back pain.  In a future article, I am going to summarize for you, all the great yoga exercises for helping you get your back strong and healthy, but in this article today I am going to present you with a fantastic yoga pose, which is perhaps the best posture for targeting the back and lower back muscles.  It is called Yoga Bridge Pose and it will become a part of the Free Yoga Postures E-book hosted here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga.

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Morning Yoga Stretches

Surya Namaskar Yoga Illustrations

Morning is undoubtedly one the best times to practice yoga and the perfect morning yoga set is Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation, as it incorporates some excellent poses to help stretch the entire body.  Surya Namaskar should probably have been the very first article on this blog, instead of now four years later, but hey, better late than never .

Surya Namaskar is a set where you flow from one yoga posture to another.  This style is called Vinyasa or Flow Yoga and it is a wonderful way to practice yoga.  Flowing gracefully from pose to pose, when done with full awareness and attention, allows you to extract the calming and harmonizing aspects of yoga, in addition to it’s well known physical benefits.

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Yoga Pose for Strength

Simple Yoga for Flexibility

The pose I will detail for you today, Triangle Pose, is one of those yoga poses that gives you a great many variations to choose from.  From the base position you can take multiple postures and derive a wide range of benefits from each.  These many variations to Triangle Pose give opportunities to both beginners and experts to find positions and movements that suit their level, which is why this is one of the most common poses you will find in yoga.

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Exercise for Fast Abs

Yoga Sit Ups for Building Abs

One of the important factors to optimize fitness gains is to introduce variety in the exercises you use to target various muscle groups, and in that way abs and stomach muscles are no different.  Not only does variety help keep your fitness and yoga routines fresh, but it also help to challenge the muscles in different ways which is essential to their development and strength.  So I think for those who have been doing the various ab exercises and workout already on the blog, such as Core Abdominal Power Yoga Set or the Terrific Yoga Ab Exercises and Workout for Shaping Stomach, it is time to introduce you to the another excellent technique for getting a fast ab workout, the potent Yoga Situps.

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Hand Yoga Gestures

Free Hand Yoga Illustrations

In part 1 of this series I detailed 5 important Yoga Mudras for you, which I will include in this Free Comprehensive Guide to Hand Yoga.  So below you will find Yoga Mudras Part 1 and following it are more illustrations and details of yoga hand positions and how they can enhance your personal spiritual practice.  In the future, as I add more yoga mudras to the website, I will include them here in this guide so you have complete access to this wonderful science all in one place.

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Yoga Mudras Picture Gallery

Understanding Yoga Mudras

An important aspect of yoga is the subtle, but key practice of hand, body and eye postures, to invoke certain flows of energy and create certain states of consciousness, called yoga mudras.  In last month’s newsletter I introduced you all to yoga mudras and provided 5 important mudras to start with.  In the newsletter I also mentioned I would be creating a comprehensive guide to yoga mudras, and this is the first part of that guide.

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Your Yoga Pictures Wanted

The most important aspect of yoga and meditation is TO DO IT .  Unless you get down to real practice, you are not going to enjoy the great many benefits that these profound sciences bestow.  One of the popular articles on the website is the Golden Rule to Stop Excuses and Start Meditation, which says don’t try to be perfect, instead if you can do something even at 70% just go ahead and start it.  Once you begin, things will start to take care of themselves.

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Best Yoga Exercise for Weight Loss

Lose Weight with Basic Yoga

In this final part of the series on Best Yoga for Weight Loss, I will include part 1, and also complete the Basic Yoga for Weight Loss Set that I had started in part 2, so you will have a complete illustrated guide of yoga poses and exercises to burn fat, lose weight and get fit.

(Part 1 is below)

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