tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376829568804970632024-03-13T13:11:08.152-07:00The Best Yoga For YouBikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-7847798490000021132013-03-15T17:48:00.001-07:002013-03-15T17:48:42.975-07:00Esak Garcia visited Guelph<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you everybody who attended! We are very lucky to have him in our studio!BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-82729182292496136022013-03-13T23:33:00.000-07:002013-03-13T23:33:00.313-07:00Kapalbhati in Vajrasana - Blowing in Fixed Firm Pose - For BeginnersThe usual problem in this exercise is coordination. Again, its like patting your head while rubbing your stomach. Pulling the stomach in while blowing out will at first seem contrary to what is natural.<br />
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Pretend there is a candle about a foot in front of you. Put one hand on your abdomen just above your waist, then vigorously blow that candle out. Did you feel the midsection move inward? Contracting the stomach muscles is the only way to force a strong enough gust of air out of your lungs to extinguish a candle. That exhalation, with the accompanying inward movement of the abdomen, is all you are being asked to do.<br />
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But oh, the comical gyrations your stomach will go through as it tries to more in the right direction at the right time. So to help things along, start with the stomach completely relaxed and hanging out. Come on, this is no beauty contest. Let every muscle go. You may have to push it out to get it to sag if you've dedicates your life to holding it in.<br />
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Now look down at your midsection so you can see when you're getting the proper coordination. Blow out the candle and watch it contrast. Don´t blow out another candle till it has returned to its extended state. Adjust your rhythm to about one exhalation per second - or the time it takes to move your ''bellows'' in and then to let it relax<br />
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The only other catch to the Blowing Exercise is that those stomach muscles are the only part of you that is supposed to move - no shoulders, arms, or lower back jumping in sympathy with the abdomen. You'll get the hang of it quickly enough. And you're forcing every last drop of carbon dioxide out of your lungs, making room for fresh oxygen and improving elasticity. Your body isn´t used to such good treatment!<br />
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This last breathing exercise strengthens all the abdominal organs and increases the circulation. It also makes the abdominal wall strong and trims the waistline. <br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-70848567176978508882013-03-06T23:18:00.000-08:002013-03-06T23:18:00.108-08:00Ardha-Matsyendrasana - Spine-Twisting Pose - For BeginnersFirst you may have difficulty wrestling the curious appendages you think of as legs into the position. Once into the position, the knee on the floor lifts slowly and steadily, the foot thrown over that knee is carried along, and there you are - the Amazing Tumbling-Over-Backward Toy<br />
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If you still have trouble, then simply rock forward and to the side, repeatedly forcing the right buttock closer to the left heel on each rock, until you stretch the necessary muscles and can touch comfortably.The second essential part of maintaining the proper weight distribution is to keep the knee on the floor. It must not raise. If you have both buttocks flat, it will be much easier to keep the knee down.<br />
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You'll feel even more like a backward-tumbling toy at this point, but if you're done your groundwork properly you can fight the tendency. And in a surprisingly short time your muscles will strengthen and balance won't be a problem. You can then devote yourself to twisting with full gusto. Normal breathing helps the twisting no end. On each exhalation, twist around just a fraction more. Exhale loudly, that helps, too. For opposition in the twists, use that straight left arm to press your knee farther father backward as you twist more and more to the right. And if you can reach all the way around to grasp the opposite thigh, really take hold of it and use it to pull yourself around.<br />
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The Spine Twisting Pose is the only exercise that twists the spine from top to bottom at the same time. As a result, it increases circulation and nutrition to spinal nerves, veins, and tissues, and improves spinal elasticity and flexibility and the flexibility of the hip joints.<br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-55705523163048616982013-02-27T22:33:00.000-08:002013-02-27T22:33:00.245-08:00Janushirasana and Paschimotthanasana - Head to Knee Pose and Stretching Pose - For beginnersSome people's legs don't seem to bend this way at first. Just do your best. Soon you'll discover what ''inflexibility'' really means.<br />
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The first fact that will strike most of you is that either your arms are too short or your legs are too long. Whichever it is, wiggling or no wiggling, you cannot reach your toes. You probably think we are insane thinking that you could reach your toes without bending your legs. The fact that Ruth seems to be able to do it makes no difference whatsoever to you. So, as any level-headed person would do, you bend the knee of your extended right leg upward until you can grasp the toes.<br />
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Remember Standing Head to Knee Pose? Well, as with that pose, kicking forward through the heel while pulling the toes back toward you, causing the leg to bow downward, is exactly what you are going to do here. The nice thing about the sitting version of the Standing Head to Knee pose is that you don't have to balance on one leg!<br />
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The inequality of your sides will be very apparent here. The left will either be much more difficult or much easier.<br />
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As a beginner, it will probably be impossible for you to touch your elbows to the floor and lay your body out along your straight legs - much less touch your forehead to your toes. Let's be realistic: bending the legs will help some. Then pull hard on the toes while releasing them back toward you and pushing toward the mirror through the heels. Put your forehead to your bent knees and try to straighten then downward. Make it pull behind the knees.You must stretch those sciatic nerves!<br />
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<b>Benefits</b><br />
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The Head to Knee Pose helps to balance the blood sugar levels. It improves the flexibility of the sciatic nerves, ankles, knees, and hip joints; improves digestion; enhances the proper functioning of the kidneys; and expands the solar plexus. The Stretching Pose relieves chronic diarrhea by improving the circulation of the bowels. It also increases circulation to the liver and spleen and improves digestion.<br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-30930344044338067282013-02-20T21:55:00.000-08:002013-02-20T21:55:00.238-08:00Sasangasana - Rabbit Pose - For Beginners<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6NcnXdrOKkICgKRNLF64Kl_xTT0iCmnF5tZaME9TzmjBmd6mKxvjLY7B7bAIVjXGNNTkunz9gcJQaP3f9frFANn2BMYIcNHJdH8M2EYt5Zbw1N8phhE_uc_HlPIQSs4wOcD-PUNsjDY/s1600/rabbit+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6NcnXdrOKkICgKRNLF64Kl_xTT0iCmnF5tZaME9TzmjBmd6mKxvjLY7B7bAIVjXGNNTkunz9gcJQaP3f9frFANn2BMYIcNHJdH8M2EYt5Zbw1N8phhE_uc_HlPIQSs4wOcD-PUNsjDY/s200/rabbit+1.png" width="200" /></a>It is absolutely essential, for reasons that will be explained, that your grip is secure in this pose. To help you hold the heels securely ( they can be very slippery) fold the edges of your towel over your heels and grasp the heels and the towel together.<br />
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This is a problem for most , but if you bend forward as you grip the heels, rather than sittings straight-spined like Herb, you´ll find you are already halfway there. You have only to tuck that chin down into your chest and curl inward with a passion, as through reaching with the top of your head for the interior of a nautilus shell<br />
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Once you begin to lift the hips and pull hard with the arms, don´t let your hands slip off your heels. If you feel your hands slipping, immediately lower your hips and decrease the pull.<br />
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The secret to the whole pose is in the arms. You must pull with all your strength on the heels of both to do the posture fully and to keep your weight where it belongs. But should you lose your grip, you could do an unexpected somersault and get yourself a stiff neck. So hung on.<br />
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If you find you must walk the knees forward to meet your forehead, it shows that your back is not yet supple enough to stretch all the way. If you still cannot conquer the space between forehead and knees, time, patience , and persistence! If you feel dizzy the first day in this head-down position, you can hold it for ten seconds, then gradually work up to twenty. But the choked feeling in your throat is no reason to stop. In fact, the more choked the better.<br />
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The Rabbit is neither exhausting nor painful and doesn't require great body strength or agility. You therefore don't have many excuses to avoid buckling right down and performing it properly. The object of the pose is to stretch the spine out slowly - as through the vertebrae were beads strung on elastic - nourishing everything on the band and aligning it, and then to release the tension slowly and let it all come together again. When stretched in a full Rabbit, it is not unusual for a spine to measure fourteen inches longer than usual. <b> </b><br />
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<b>A camel and a Rabbit a day generally keep the chiropractor away.</b><br />
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The Rabbit produces the opposite effect of the Camel, giving maximum longitudinal extension of the spine. As a result, it stretches the spine to permit the nervous system to receive proper nutrition. It also maintains the mobility and elasticity of the spin and back muscles. The Rabbit improves digestion and helps to cure colds, sinus problems, and chronic tonsilitis.<b> </b>And it has a wonderful effect on thyroid and parathyroid glands. The Pose improves the flexibility of the scapula and the trapezius and helps children reach their full growth potential.<br />
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<br />BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-25509529478506399202013-02-13T21:25:00.000-08:002013-02-13T21:25:00.609-08:00Ustrasana - Camel Pose - For Beginners<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoAhJmHtmQA2mK4CqPHu2N6FPOmVVagE0UG5RCNLkPfI_88vN4OH85xseZk9LrjNwQ48yUtZKFNCahyVu1bb1ilEM1lP4sjccSkYhq360zUK19n0cl1cNZ04nK715T7zMA20hwzrq4a4/s1600/camel+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoAhJmHtmQA2mK4CqPHu2N6FPOmVVagE0UG5RCNLkPfI_88vN4OH85xseZk9LrjNwQ48yUtZKFNCahyVu1bb1ilEM1lP4sjccSkYhq360zUK19n0cl1cNZ04nK715T7zMA20hwzrq4a4/s320/camel+1.png" width="180" /></a>If it´s more comfortable for your knees to be a little farther apart, that´s okey. But keep your feet only six inches apart.<br />
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The first day you will probably not be able to go any farther than
gripping both heels. But it' s a good beginning done correctly, so be
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One Good thing about triangle of pig iron you will resemble is that you can' t get any worse.<br />
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And so.. concentrate on the area from the top of your thighs to your
waistline. Push it up and forward with everything you got! Exhale and
push <b>harder. </b>That mid-section will eventually begin to seem like an accordion, stretching with each exhalation.<br />
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When you have pushed forward as far as you can go that day, then change
your focus of attention to the small of the back and try to release
those tensed muscles. I say "try" because everyone is so convinced that
he or she is going to break, that all the muscles fight the relaxation
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The day you finally gather your nerve and let the back release, the
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Once you begin to get a good forward push, take care not to "cheat" by
letting your hands creep upward off the heels. Keep your fingers well
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<b>Benefits </b></div>
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<br />BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-11762835033531241162013-02-06T20:28:00.000-08:002013-02-06T20:28:00.786-08:00Ardha-Kurmasana - Half Tortoise Pose - For BeginnersThose of you who had difficulty doing this in the Fixed Firm will have the same problem with the Half Tortoise - a gap between buttocks and heels. As suggested before, take every opportunity that presents itself to get down on your knees and bounce gently to stretch out your atrophied muscles, joints, and tendons. For the moment, however, sit down as far as you can and concentrate on keeping a downward pressure on your buttocks throughout the posture. <br />
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Half the benefit of this stretch comes from keeping your arms locked and touching ears as you bend forward in the next step. So, make sure you don´t drop your steeple.<br />
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The Half Tortoise feels like pure Heaven after the Purgatory of the Fixed Firm. Not that the Half Tortoise is simple, which fact you will grasp the moment you find that no way will your buttocks stay touching your feels as you bend forward. In all likelihood, the gap will be just as large once you get your forehead on the floor. Even Jeff still has an inch to go.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVO6kz2m3wSIgXfW8_yk1VTKb1gFc-EHRYQ5xofl4fU4qAmthVhzgJ9m9xVnQoPc9-BZY3Cphxec18Gg132WHaFdHbsUouGSLro44mxBIh0EFFm-WpP7Iq7IeIV7RiPDLvJ3mIvcSxVLA/s1600/half+tortoise+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVO6kz2m3wSIgXfW8_yk1VTKb1gFc-EHRYQ5xofl4fU4qAmthVhzgJ9m9xVnQoPc9-BZY3Cphxec18Gg132WHaFdHbsUouGSLro44mxBIh0EFFm-WpP7Iq7IeIV7RiPDLvJ3mIvcSxVLA/s320/half+tortoise+2.jpg" width="124" /></a>Next, you'll discover that you probably don´t have enough spine strength to go all the way down with a perfectly straight spine. Resurrecting those crocodiles you met in the Balancing Stick in Chapter will help; they´re just where your face and hands will touch the towel. So it behooves you to go down slo-o-o-o-wly and to keep your face and hands off the towel till they absolutely must touch.<br />
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Not only will this slow stretch rapidly strengthen your back muscles and keep your spine as straight as possible at your particular point of development, but it will also keep your buttocks in contact with your heels longer. You'll learn that exact point to gauge your progress with each passing day.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK9hBBW4RoqTqLAO3HCa6tHs1bAsGhRAg1T8HdNLKWpVE0txYqqqlkoYmcvsskgYyGo5bRJhLtFQQhOltGqCvHDIJQ-jPsDTZy57y0RDHkSSpaDQMYbWzOncyT7NOqiRqVmKNssnv41c/s1600/half+tortoise+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK9hBBW4RoqTqLAO3HCa6tHs1bAsGhRAg1T8HdNLKWpVE0txYqqqlkoYmcvsskgYyGo5bRJhLtFQQhOltGqCvHDIJQ-jPsDTZy57y0RDHkSSpaDQMYbWzOncyT7NOqiRqVmKNssnv41c/s320/half+tortoise+3.jpg" width="320" /></a>To get the best stretch with your steeple, as the sides of your hands touch the towel, slide them forward. When they won´t slide any more, then walk them forward with side-to-side, rocking-crawling movements, until your arms and shoulders are stretched to what seems the breaking point. Then lower your forehead to the towel - and relax. Because relaxation is the aim of the posture, it works magic on tense neck and shoulders.<br />
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It is east to have buttock-to-heel contact by buckling in the middle as you lift up. It is not easy to keep that contact when you come up like one solid chunk of steel from fingertips to tailbone - but that is the correct method. And the only way you are going to do it is as slowly as a pregnant snail.You must generate a tremendous amount of lift in your hands and arms and back muscles and keep that lift going all the way or the arms will sad and you will buckle. When done properly your whole spine, from top to bottom, will be working and strengthening. You´ll feel it every step of the way, and it will be very satisfying.<br />
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The Half Tortoise provides maximum relaxation. It cures indigestion and stretches the lower part of the lungs, increasing blood circulation to the brain. It firms the abdomen and thighs. And it increases the flexibility of hip joints, scapula, deltoids, triceps, and latissimus dorsi muscles.<br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-55622118395040213622013-01-30T20:03:00.000-08:002013-01-30T20:03:00.550-08:00Supta-Vajrasana - Fixed Firm PoseMany people at first are unable even to sit on their heels. And then to get the buttocks to the floor between the heels can take weeks. But when finally they do, they feel as though they have conquered Everest. And in a way they have. For once people prove to themselves they can do something, which only the day before seemed impossible - there is no stopping them.<br />
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Some people - especially men - have great difficulty going anywhere in this posture with the knees together. If you find that this is the case with you, sit with the knees a little apart at first, and then force them back together after you have become proficient.<br />
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As for putting your hands on your feet, if you cannot even get your buttocks down to your heels as yet, you won´t be able to reach the toes. But try. It will increase the stretch.<br />
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But you can be confident of one important thing: the discomfort is occasioned by the newness of the position, not because you are injuring yourself. Only if you jerk into or out of the position too quickly is there the possibility of pulling something. Do everything slowly. That advice can´t be repeated too often.<br />
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You may, as a beginner, put your hands flat on the floor behind you, rather than on the toes. This will allow you to get down onto the elbows with more security and to take some of the weight off your poor legs and feet and onto your arms and hands instead.<br />
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There are two stages in this posture where almost everything gets stuck. The first is at the point of getting both elbows lowered onto the floor. For a few days, you don´t go ant farther because you are legitimately stretching our all the muscles from chest through abdomen, hips, thighs, calves, and feet. But after that, freezing in this position is just plain fear.<br />
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Finally you summon your courage and actually drop your head back to the floor. Yet, there you freeze again, still bearing most of your weight on the elbows, not quite sure what to do next and afraid to try anyway.<br />
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The solution to both problems is to relax. Realize that by fighting the act of touching your shoulders to the floor, you are making it triply difficult for yourself! Let go completely. Let those elbows slide out from under you and relax the shoulders and upper back onto the towel. Your legs and feet will complain, but bear it as long as possible and come up slowly.<br />
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Now that you are in the final position, begin trying to keep your knees absolutely together and flat on the floor. Then turn your attention to feeling as though your buttocks have turned to lead and are dropping right through the floor. Once you get the knack of that relaxation, you COULD FALL ASLEEP in the Fixed Firm, it´s that comfortable.<br />
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<b>But Yoga doesn´t ask for heroes or fools. Do as much as you can each day and then hold it there for the count.</b><br />
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Despite the discomfort of this pose, it´s wonderful therapy to moan and groan and complain. The noises some people make should be recorded for posterity. And the axiom about misery loving company must first have been said about a class of Yoga students doing Fixed Firm - though everyone always seems to end up laughing instead of crying.<br />
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<b>Benefits</b><br />
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Fixed Firm Pose helps cure sciatica, gout, and rheumatism in the legs. It slims thighs, firms calf muscles, and strengthens the abdomen. It also strengthens and improves flexibility of lower spine, knees, and ankle joints.<br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-18515084001011107062013-01-23T19:17:00.000-08:002013-01-23T19:17:00.694-08:00Dhanurasana - Bow Pose - For BeginnersOnce into this position you sometimes have the uncomfortable feeling that someone is going to come along, stuff an apple into your mouth, and start turning you on a spin. Indeed, the first few days some people can do nothing more for twenty seconds than lie there, clinging to their feet and looking helpless. (Which is at least better than the occasional person who can´t even reach the feet).<br />
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But not discouraged. You have hordes of company. This is the position that presents the most problems in the most people. It is where everyone´s inflexibility really shows, and where we seem to have the most difficult getting the messages from the brain to the muscles.<br />
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It´s a fairly easy to lift the torso - indeed, in this trussed position the torso could hardly be anything but raised. It´s those legs that sometimes refuse to budge off the floor, no matter how you kick backward or try to lift them.<br />
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To overcome that problem, first make sure that you have a good firm grip on your feet, then center your attention on the small of the back and your buttocks and forget that you are supposed to lift the torso and legs. Instead, imagine that you are going to push your abdomen, buttocks, and lower back right down trough the floor. To do this you must make the muscles tight like rocks. Now push downward. More. Simultaneously press up and back against your hands with the tops of your feet just as hard as you can. <b>Up. Push. Hard!</b><br />
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Your torso, by now, will be well lifted and you should be feeling the first stirrings of lift in your thighs and will recognize the muscles you need to lift them - not in the legs but in the buttocks, lower back and abdomen.<br />
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As an added tip, once you do get the legs up off the towel, become aware of how stiffly you are holding your shoulders. Let the arms putt the shoulder blades backward. You might even have to force the shoulders back the first few times to get the fell of it. But releasing the shoulders - and rolling your body weight forward on the abdomen - will allow everything to get higher, farther, and increase the stretch and benefit.<br />
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The Bow Pose combines the difficulties of the Cobra, Locust, Full Locust, Standing Bow Pulling and Balancing Stick. But you are also combining all those wonderful benefits, which should make your rest sweeter.<br />
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If you can´t go the full 20 counts the first few days, hold it for ten counts to begin and add 2 counts each day. A raw beginner´s lack of endurance, bad cramping, high blood pressure and real complaints as from a trick knee are, however, the only permissible excuses for quitting short of 20 counts. Besides the Bow Pose is pretty once you get it. Doesn´t that make you feel better?<br />
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The Bow improves the functioning of the large and small intestines, the liver, kidneys and spleen. In helps straighten rounded spines, relieves backaches, and improves pigeon chest by opening the rib cage, permitting maximum expansion of lungs and increased oxygen intake. The Bow also revitalizes all spinal nerves by increasing circulation to the spine. It improves digestion and strengthens abdominal muscles, upper arms, thighs and hips.<br />
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Get those arms up and back, hands always on a level with the shoulders. This means for each inch you lift your torso, the hands must lift he same distance.<br />
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The Full Locust is a subtle sneak. Remember we mentioned doing Cobra by raising the torso without supporting yourself with hands and arms? Unmask a Full Locust and you will find a snake in the grass.<br />
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And what´s this business about raising your legs off the floor till you´re balanced on your belly button? Didn´t we just do that in the Locust, but with hands and arms to help keep us up and balance us? Now we do the same thing without benefit of arm strength, front or back.<br />
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There are no shortcuts or easier ways to develop this posture. Mastery takes sweat, strain, and determination. If sacrifices must be made (and as a beginner, the sacrifices are seemingly endless), sacrifice height in the legs in favor of getting the torso and arms arched up, and swept back just as high as possible. The ultimate will see legs and torso raised equally, but in the beginning stages accept the fact that the legs will lag behind. Just try honestly to get the legs off the floor a speck higher each day.<br />
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Other than that - have a GOOD FLIGHT :)<br />
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<b>Benefits</b><br />
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The Full Locust has the same therapeutic value as the Cobra Pose and the same upper body benefits as the Standing Bow Pulling. It also firms abdominal muscles, upper arms, hips, and thighs.<br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-34502791967872828972013-01-09T06:00:00.000-08:002013-01-09T06:00:08.202-08:00Salabhasana - Locust pose - For BeginnersThe undulations, heavings, rollings, and gruntings as you try to maneuver your arms into this new and unusual position are marvelous to see and hear. Try this technique: From your position of relaxation on your stomach, push your right toe into the floor to lift right hip and roll your body slightly to the left. Then slide the right arm directly under you with the palm flat on the floor. Lower your right hip onto the hand and arm. Then push with the left toe, roll your body onto the right arm, lift the left hip, and slide the left arm under you, palm down. Get the little fingers touching and elbows as close to each other as possible. Then lower your left hip onto the left arm.<br />
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You will thus have both arms nicely pinned, and you will suddenly feel like a trussed goose. Your head will be bobbing around trying to look casual, and your elbows will most likely begin to protest the position in which they find themselves. Put your chin solidly on the floor and wait for what follows.<br />
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Yoga Catch 23: the raising leg of a beginner is always followed by an attached hip. Why? Because raising the hip makes it easy to lift the leg. However, Yoga isn´t interested in what is easy. So keep both hipbones touching your forearms.<br />
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As with the Standing Bow Pulling and Balancing stick, this is a straight up-and-down, forward-and-back pose, no ballet turnouts. The bottom of the raised foot and the back of the leg and knee move straight up toward the ceiling, while the leg remaining on the floor stays totally relaxed.<br />
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At the same time, feel as though someone has hooked your big toe to wild horses and they are pulling it through the back wall. In the other words, stretch, not height, is the important thing.You may feel cramps at first. Flex and wiggle the foot to relieve them.<br />
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If you aim or a slightly pigeon-toed feeling you will produce the perfect "straight-up-and-down." A pigeon-toed feeling will also allow you to keep both hips on the arms more comfortably.<br />
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It is, of course, entirely possible that you won't be able to lift the legs off the floor at all. It is possible you won't even be able to figure out how to lift them. Don't give up hope. It's a simply a matter of patience. Almost like a person recovering the use of limbs after paralysis or illness, you must keep at it until the brain muscle linkage is reestablished and you can send messages to the correct muscles at will. The ideal way for those legs to go up is for the muscles of the lower back and abdomen to pick them up. So talk to tour belly as well as to your spine and lower back.<br />
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Try pressing the floor hard with palms and arms, use the grimace of your face, mighty grunts - anything to lift your legs. Try lifting on exhalation instead of inhalation. Getting them totally off the towel by hook or by crook and holding them there for ten honest counts is the name of the game<br />
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Despite the temptation, don't drop your legs to the floor. Also, collapsing out of this one could put a dent in the floor.<br />
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There is some GOOD NEWS!! First off your elbows won´t hurt after about a week, and neither will your tennis elbow, if you happen to have had on. Second, your legs are always much higher in actuality than they feel to you. After a few weeks of practice, sneak a peek sideways into the mirror. You will be pleasantly surprised - and spurred on to even greater accomplishments.<br />
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The Locust Pose has the same benefits as the Cobra, but it is even more potent in the cure of any back or spinal problem, such as gout, slipped disc, and sciatica. It cures tennis elbow and it also excellent for firming buttocks and hips!<br />
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<br />BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-17528873879415064972013-01-02T06:00:00.000-08:002013-01-02T06:00:01.849-08:00Bhujangasana - Cobra Pose - For beginnersAs soon as you tighten your muscles, you may be attached by cramps in legs and feet, the cramps continuing throughout the floor poses. If it should happen to you, grin and bear it. Flex and wiggle the affected parts, then renew your efforts. The cramps subside as the days go by.<br />
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You probably won't be able to find a spinal muscle in that disused maze back there, much less mobilize one. As a hint, the muscles you use to arch backward when you have a backache are the very ones that lift the torso in the Cobra.<br />
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Now, just for the fun of it, try lifting the torso without putting any weight at all on your hands. You might even raise the palms slightly to prevent cheating. This will enable you to feel the muscles of the lower back and understand not only how weak or strong they are but recognize the "contact" that must be made to eventually go all the way up with spine strenght alone.<br />
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Whether you can lift five inches or no inches without weight on the hands, you do have your hands and arms to fall back upon. As a beginner you will make good use of them!<br />
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Do not collapse back onto the towel. Use your spine strength and arms to lower yourself smoothly,<br />
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The Cobra is one of the best ways to maintain the body in perfect condition. It increases spinal strength and flexibility helps prevent lower backache, and helps cure lumbago, rheumatism, and arthritis of the spine. It also relieves menstrual problems, cures loss of appetite, helps correct bad posture, and improves the functioning of the liver and spleen. The Cobra strengthens the deltoids, trapezius, and triceps.<br />
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<br />BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-38904167211387931102012-12-26T22:41:00.000-08:002012-12-26T22:41:00.013-08:00Sit up - For beginnersFrom where you are in Dead Man Pose, raise your arms up over your head simultaneously inhaling, and sit up, keeping legs straight and heels on the floor. Use the force of throwing your arms toward your toes to help you sit up. Just before you reach the upright position, start exhalation and dive forward, reaching for your toes, which are flexed back toward you. Grasp them, laying your whole body and face out flat on your legs or at least touching your forehead to your knees. Touch the floor on either side of your legs with elbows. <br />
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Some people at first can find no way in the world, no matter how hard they try, to sit up - as though something big and fat is sitting on their chest. Others can do it, but their feet bounce two feet into the air as they do so (This is all right. You can even lift the feet farther and use their downward thrust to sit you up if you are having a great deal of trouble). Others can sit up keeping the feet firmly on the ground, then can't grasp their toes, much less touch even the forehead to the knees.<br />
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Do not let your particular state of unfitness discourage you! Give each sit-up your honest effort and in two months maximum you will do it exactly as we described.<br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-21156741550018066012012-12-19T22:26:00.000-08:002012-12-19T22:26:00.266-08:00Pavanamuktasana - Wind Removing Pose - For Beginners<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a beginner, you'll find it easier to do is you move the leg a little bit outside of the body before pulling down to the chest. Don't be surprised, of course, if you can get the knee nowhere near the chest at first. Just pull as hard as you can, while concentrating upon relaxing, letting everything go, in the right hip joint. When you really try, there is fast progress in this pose. (If you don't feel the pull in your hip joint, you aren't really trying.)<br />
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It is essential to keep the calf of the left leg touching the floor. If it gives you difficulty, flex the toes up toward you; the calf will then touch.<br />
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Those of you who can get the leg down to the chest should use a more advanced grip. Instead of interlacing fingers, catch the raised right knee in the crook of the right arm,raise the left arm and grasp the opposite elbows, keeping them square, as though they were holding both knees. With shoulders on the floor, pull straight down toward your chest.<br />
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As in many of the other poses, you'll probably find more flexibility in the knee and hip joint on one side than on the other. So, keep urging the less flexible side by pulling harder, but with a slow, steady pressure.<br />
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If you are unable to get the legs far enough down toward the chest to grasp opposite elbows, then grasp forearms, wrists, fingers, a skyhook, or anything you can manage.<br />
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As you now see that all three sections of this pose are a bit like rubbing your stomach clockwise with one hand, patting your head with the other, while wiggling your ears. You have three separate and opposing things to think about - pulling down on the knees with all your might, keeping the chin tucked firmly down onto the chest, and either keeping the calf of the leg touching the floor or lowering the tailbone to the floor. While working on one task, you invariably forget the others.<br />
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A deceptive pose, indeed. It looks so simple, yet requires concentration and effort. Just keep in mind your two main goals: to open up your stiff hip joints and to push every single vertebra into the floor.You should feel a pull in your hip joints while you are doing the pose. But you may also feel the real effects when you release and lower your legs to the towel. So release slowly.<br />
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<b>Benefits</b><br />
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The Wind Removing Pose cures and prevents flatulence, which is the source of most chronic abdominal discomforts. It also improves the flexibility of the hip joints and firms the abdomen, thighs, and hips.<br />
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We never fully realize what reservoirs of tension we are until we are given the seemingly simple instruction to completely relax. Your hands will twitch and your feet are full of as much nervous energy as are your hands. And how about the muscles of your legs, buttocks, pelvis and spine - especially your neck and shoulders - not to mention that convoluted gray mass called brain? Suddenly you notice how many parts of you want to be tight because they're used to it.<br />
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The object of this pose is to consciously let go of as much tension as you possibly can. But trying to relax each part of you separately is akin to plugging a weakening dike. The minute you get your fingers pacified, the tension will pop up in your toes; if you manage to relax the buttocks, you'll find that your calf muscles have tightened, and so on. You could lie there and chase the tension for hours on end and still not catch and contain it.<br />
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It is far better to concentrate on relaxing the body as a whole unit. Let the floor support you. Pretend that all the spark has left your body. You would fall through space like a chunk of a lead if the floor were not there, pressing upward, holding you easily. There's no need to worry, no need to be tense; the floor can do it all. Let it!<br />
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Benefits<br />
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The Dead Body Pose returns blood circulation to normal. It also teaches complete relaxation.<br />
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BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-46504202577897704602012-12-05T06:00:00.000-08:002012-12-05T06:00:04.077-08:00Padangustasana - Toe stand - For beginners<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRccKTfR7n91gaaAQ56pZ3aK0iFnSqSIBH2AufVugUO1it1DPxqfOj45af0G7HXI_WcQYMIIcbamJplcr371sMRkgv3B8WoIJbhlcyvQIihOge6zcjva7V6t2rx22rJ3QmlXVYHx-nR8/s1600/toe+stand+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRccKTfR7n91gaaAQ56pZ3aK0iFnSqSIBH2AufVugUO1it1DPxqfOj45af0G7HXI_WcQYMIIcbamJplcr371sMRkgv3B8WoIJbhlcyvQIihOge6zcjva7V6t2rx22rJ3QmlXVYHx-nR8/s200/toe+stand+1.png" width="117" /></a>It is handy that your hands should begin the Toe Stand in a praying position. Because if you've looked at what comes next - first you will pray your knee will not break and then that you won't fall over onto your nose and become disfigured. Believe me, the praying is unnecessary. The Toe Stand is really the Lion Who Could Not Roar. It only looks fierce.<br />
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Once you have conquered your fear and become accustomed to sinking down using your hands for support, try to go all the way down without touching the hands to the floor. Your goal is to keep your hands in the praying position throughout.<br />
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The straighter the spine and the more parallel the crossed leg is with the floor, the better your balance will be. Also vital is concentration on that one spot in front of you. Balance in the Toe Stand is really only a matter of patience and concentration. Waving your arms as though you were directing traffic can be helpful in finding balance. Also, learn to use the toes of your balancing foot just like fingers to grip the floor and help you keep your balance.<br />
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If the method just described hasn't worked for you after a few weeks, you can still practice the Toe Stand. Squat down, put one foot up on your thigh, and proceed to try for balance, first using both hands and then only one until you feel solidly set<br />
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To bolster confidence in the strength of the knees, go back up to the standing position on one leg, foot still on thigh, by putting your hands on the floor, weight well forward, then rear your buttocks up and backward and push the standing leg back, locking the knee. Gradually, you gain confidence, balance, and strength.'<br />
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<b>Benefits </b><br />
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The Toe Stand develops psychological and mental powers - especially patience. Physically, it helps to cure gout and rheumatism of the knees, ankles and feet. It also helps cure hemorrhoid problems.<br />
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<br />BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-30030741773700338672012-11-27T20:23:00.000-08:002012-11-27T22:27:31.543-08:00Tadasana - Tree pose - For BeginnersAs you have just observed, balance can be your first problem here, but now you know how to solve it. You may also find it impossible, as yet, to get the heel up to the hem of your costume. Just do your best. Gradually, the flexibility in your hip and knee joints will increase.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlbNBWXKEpRFulUl5a8xRRxx65gE6iYcaKtKQEolzhOU9-gx08r91HqgPFV4dmlDgwp0QknPclewk0sXIrPW0gRbwgUOU6sZP-554nYpeLyMBT-38I4MS4jMQxpwGHYXj8baIBXhciko/s1600/tree.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlbNBWXKEpRFulUl5a8xRRxx65gE6iYcaKtKQEolzhOU9-gx08r91HqgPFV4dmlDgwp0QknPclewk0sXIrPW0gRbwgUOU6sZP-554nYpeLyMBT-38I4MS4jMQxpwGHYXj8baIBXhciko/s320/tree.png" width="167" /></a>The essential thing here is for that foot to be <b>high</b> and knee forced down as much as possible. And so, as pretty and and dramatic as the praying position looks, as much as you yearn to look like Buddha - ignore the temptation to pray and instead hold the foot securely in place with your left hand until the heel remains touching at least the bottom of your leotard/trunks when you let go of the foot.<br />
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Some yogis, after a year, still have to hold the foot up with one hand, putting the other hand to the breastbone in half prayer. This is perfectly okey, as long as you keep trying honestly to keep the foot up there without either hand and are not just being lazy :)<br />
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So, <b>up</b> with the heel,<b> down</b> with the knee, <b>in</b> with the buttocks, bear the pain, keep your balance for ten seconds!!!<br />
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Since your knee has been forced into unusual activity, treat it with care - shake it and wiggle it around a bit before reversing the pose.<br />
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<b>Benefits</b><br />
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The Tree Pose improves posture and balance and increases the flexibility of the ankles, knees, and hip joints. By strengthening the internal oblique muscles, it prevents hernia.<br />
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about this poses benefits, pictures, video and tips from <a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2012/02/tadasana-tree-pose-and-toe-stand.html" target="_blank">HERE</a><a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2012/02/dandayamana-bibhaktapada-janushirasana.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></a></span></div>
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and info from "Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.</span></div>
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<br />BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-70448189771356321702012-09-23T02:16:00.000-07:002012-09-23T02:16:15.400-07:00My Everything hurts - First Bikram class after a long breakMy everything hurts - that is how I felt day after my first Bikram Yoga class!<br />
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I have been doing Bikram Yoga since September 2009. That is 3 years! And in 2010 I did a 100 day challenge, where I took a class every day, for 100 days in a row. That totally changed my life! But why did I take a long break recently? Because I got pregnant last November. I was going to do the pregnancy series, but I was working a lot (4 different jobs) that after a work day I just wanted to go to bed (being pregnant makes you extra tired. Now I have a 2 month year old beautiful daughter and my 10 month break from the HOT room is over!!!!<br />
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How was my class? It was pretty hard. Heat wasn't bothering me. I was still friends with humidity. I remembered all the poses. BUT. I was super stiff!<br />
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1) Trying to lock the knee almost felt impossible again. My muscle was wobbling ...almost vibrating, when I desperately tried to lock the knee.<br />
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2) I used to be so good at Half Moon´s last part - but not this time. My hamstrings were very tight!<br />
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3) Awkward pose was the only one I didn't listen to the dialogue and did the second part first. lol. Oh and my ankles made such load cracking noise that i bet every yogi heard it!. (It startles my little one too at home..when I am trying to quietly leave the room when she is sleeping)<br />
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4)Standing head to knee used to be my favorite. Well.... with jelly instead of muscles.. it was impossible to keep the knee locked. AND I got a little cramp in the legs too.<br />
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5) Triangle was very hard to do. AGAIN - out of shape me, got a cramp!<br />
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6) Locust pose. The one teacher always say to new people " your arms will hurt like hell". And every time I used to think "no it doesn' t". Well now I know that hurting feeling. Now I know how new people feel. (and my hubby who comes once in 3 months. hehe). And this pose was little hurtful because of the pressure on my chest (breastfeeding!).<br />
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All the rest of the poses went great!! I felt amazing after class. Plus it was the first time I was away from my daughter for 2 hours (She does sleep too, but this time she was up and being babysat by daddy).<br />
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And now the the "how I feel 1 day later". Every muscle in my body hurts. I missed it. I love all the muscle pain, except one part of it. My NECK! I think Bikram Yoga is the only exercise where you get a short-lasting neck muscle pain. It comes from the first Breathing exercise. But it will go away soon.<br />
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I am so happy to be back in the hot room. After the class I felt I could fly. I was energized and super happy for the rest of the night. And now I can´t wait to be back. To all of you who have taken long breaks and hesitate to go back - DO IT! You will thank yourself for going.<br />
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Here is my little gem. And the photo at top is taken while I was on my 100 day challenge. The last photo is from when I was pregnant and we had a little photo shoot in the studio.<br />
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Even though I didn't do any yoga throughout my pregnancy - my baby delivery was amazingly quick. Hour and 40 minutes of painful contractions and 20 minutes of pushing. I would do it again in a heart beat!<br />
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This pose gives many of the same slimming and tightening
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benefits</b></div>
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The benefits of this pose are the same as Hands to Feet
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Read more
about this poses benefits, pictures, video and tips from <a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2012/02/dandayamana-bibhaktapada-janushirasana.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>here! </b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Drawings
and info from "Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.</span></div>
BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0Bikram Yoga Guelph, 126 Woolwich St, Guelph, ON N1H 3V2, Canada43.5476795 -80.249773243.536170500000004 -80.2695142 43.5591885 -80.230032200000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-77979442875602350822012-08-29T06:00:00.000-07:002012-08-29T06:00:14.982-07:00Trikanasana – Triangle Pose – For Beginners<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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You’ve been prepared by the Standing Separate Leg Stretching
for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">big side ward step</b>, so be
sure to take a huge one. If you don’t, you will have to adjust your stance in
the middle of the pose.</div>
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The injunction <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to keep
your hips level and facing forward and the instruction to lunge down to a
parallel position and/or hold it there</b> will both seem ridiculous to you the
first day. Cheer up. Things will get worse.</div>
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Despite my directions, beginners usually do put weight on
their fingers at first to keep from falling over or collapsing. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Just try as best you can, though, to bear
all the weight on the bent leg, which will probably be trembling from the
strain. </b>And if you feel like the Tin Man (or Woman) when you try to touch
chin to shoulder, don’ t worry. Oil can is on the way.</div>
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The triangle is quite simply a killer for most beginners<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. Just trying to hold it for ten seconds
will at first preclude pushing stomach and right hip forward and upper body and
left hip backward, not the mention pushing the right knee backward</b>. You’ll
be surprised after a week, though, at the strength you have developed. Then
work on the refinements.</div>
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One side is always easier. If you’ re lucky, this may be it!</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1vKaOWaFFwCrZbHa3VU3p0DtF1EjYCbMwAtHxWeB6bBeQTFIRaXku4nKqRJdGC4kcHY5uKbyWuGA9RGYdhNBQdYIK__mXyhhxKyn4CWeRbVMNWHAr0fHGV4g-8GAUX4lIDpNOP0g698/s1600/triangle+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1vKaOWaFFwCrZbHa3VU3p0DtF1EjYCbMwAtHxWeB6bBeQTFIRaXku4nKqRJdGC4kcHY5uKbyWuGA9RGYdhNBQdYIK__mXyhhxKyn4CWeRbVMNWHAr0fHGV4g-8GAUX4lIDpNOP0g698/s320/triangle+4.png" width="261" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Soon you’ll begin to
feel like that flower opening to the sun. Just trust the process.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benefits</b></div>
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The Triangle is the only posture in the world that improves
every muscle, joint, tendon, and internal organ in the body. At the same time,
it revitalizes nerves, veins and tissues. It helps cure lumbago and rheumatism
of the lower spine by flexing and strengthening the last five vertebrae, and it
improves crooked spines. This is the most important pose to increase the strength
and flexibility of the hip joint and of the muscles of the side of the torso.
It also firms upper thighs and hips, slims the waistline, and improves the
deltoid, trapezius, scapula, and latissimus muscles.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Read more
about this poses benefits, pictures, video and tips from<a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2012/01/trikonasana-triangle-pose.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> here! </b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Drawings
and info from "Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.</span></div>
BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0Bikram Yoga Guelph, 126 Woolwich St, Guelph, ON N1H 3V2, Canada43.5476795 -80.249773243.536170500000004 -80.2695142 43.5591885 -80.230032200000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-19028865606824205452012-08-22T06:00:00.000-07:002012-08-22T06:00:04.737-07:00Dandayamana – Bibhaktapada – Paschimotthanasana – Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose - Fot Beginners<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The wider the stance
you take, the easier the stretch. </b>And
the slightly pigeon-toed stance helps keep your feet from slipping outward and
almost automatically makes your legs bow backward, putting weight on the heels,
where it should be. </div>
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Those of you who have trouble taking a sideways step of at
least four feet – keep trying, be patient.</div>
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Once you get the idea of this pose, your body position and
weight will do most of the work, allowing you to just hand there and stretch.
You could almost fall asleep<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. How to
reach this mini-Nirvana?</b> Good news! It’s not hard<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. All you need is the patience to push it an inch farther each day,
plus a few pointers.</b></div>
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The first day or two, once your legs are positioned
properly, you might wish simply to put your hands on the floor in front of you,
about twelve inches apart. Then, keeping your legs straight, bend your elbows
toward the floor and roll your body forward like a wheel, reaching for the
floor with your forehead. That way you begin to stretch yourself out and get
the feel of the posture and the balance.</div>
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Now, it’s obvious that to get your forehead to the floor you
are going to need every inch of body you can find. Luckily, the body is hiding
all kinds extra stretching in tight muscles and tendons. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Once stretched out – do you remember Rubber Man in the comic strips?
Like him, you will soon find yourself bending absolutely double from the base
of the buttocks.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benefits</b></div>
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The Standing Separate Leg Stretching cures and prevents
sciatica by stretching and strengthening the sciatic nerves and the tendons of
the legs. It helps the functioning of most of the internal abdominal organs,
especially the small and large intestine, and improves the muscle tone and
flexibility of thighs and calves and the flexibility of the pelvis, ankles, and
hip joints, and of the last five vertebrae of the spine.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Read more
about this poses benefits, pictures, video and tips from <a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2012/01/dandayamana-bibhaktapada.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>here! </b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Drawings
and info from "Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.</span></div>BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com1Bikram Yoga Guelph, 126 Woolwich St, Guelph, ON N1H 3V2, Canada43.5476795 -80.249773243.536170500000004 -80.2695142 43.5591885 -80.230032200000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-80007619375254731772012-08-15T06:00:00.000-07:002012-08-15T06:00:02.398-07:00Duladandasana – Balancing Stick Pose - for beginners<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Get yourself set just as surely and solidly as you did with
the Standing Bow Pulling<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. Straighten
your steeple and move the head and shoulders back as far as they will go,
farther than ever, allowing the chest to puff forward.</b> That is exactly the
torso position you are going to keep throughout the pose – at least you can <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">try.</b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3C8YQCLpPGxwMvTTwuLr_THbjXTDxD4eQmNLBkPFM_aSybLcH1Sg7qmiVhI6nRKun6Gm7WbOdVdJydX42PokB8jw4m60DYkSCpcFGUxCvjEjao6aZk6-QQzp7NXaV2vt1Q4OdhVjDo3U/s1600/balansing+stick+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3C8YQCLpPGxwMvTTwuLr_THbjXTDxD4eQmNLBkPFM_aSybLcH1Sg7qmiVhI6nRKun6Gm7WbOdVdJydX42PokB8jw4m60DYkSCpcFGUxCvjEjao6aZk6-QQzp7NXaV2vt1Q4OdhVjDo3U/s320/balansing+stick+1.png" width="320" /></a>As in the Standing Bow Pulling, this is a totally front to
back, up and down, parallel position. So, as you take your big step forward
with the right foot, check your left hip<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.
If you have allowed it to angle slightly left, adjust both hips and torso to
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As you pivot forward, use all your strength and
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all in one piece</b> (that means maintaining exactly the position you started
in). To make this easier<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, pretend the
floor is a pit of hungry crocodiles. </b>Your standing leg is in no danger,
being quite fortunately encased in crocodile repellent. But every other bit of
you is in grave danger. The only way to keep your tummy and chest and left leg
safe is to stretch your torso forward like crazy by lifting, ever lifting your
arms and head, while you stretch more and more backward with the pointed foot
and ever more forward with the fingertips, all the while lifting at front and
back.</div>
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If you can pivot forward only two inches today, so be it.
Tomorrow it will be ten. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Remember to
keep that left hip level.</b> The more you press it down, the more pull you are
going to feel in the back of your standing knee. This is good. Pull more</div>
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Everybody wants to let their hands collapse and rest on
their heads for an instant before doing the pose to the left. For reasons of
stamina and discipline, do not succumb to this temptation!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By now you realize
how difficult it is not the feed the crocodiles!!!</b></div>
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<b>Benefits</b></div>
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The Balancing Stick perfects control and balance by improving physical, psychological, and mental powers. In addition, it firms hips, buttocks, and upper thighs, as well as providing the same benefits for the legs as the Standing Head to Knee. It increases circulation, strengthens the heart muscle<b>, </b>and stretches the capacity of the lungs. It is one of the best exercises for bad posture; strengthens the flexibility of latissimus, deltoid, and trapezius muscles; and improves the flexibility, strength, and muscle tone of shoulders, upper arms, spine and hip joints.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Read more
about this poses benefits, pictures, video and tips from<a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2012/01/tuladandasana-balancing-stick.html" target="_blank"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">here! </span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Drawings
and info from "Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.</span></div>BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com0Bikram Yoga Guelph, 126 Woolwich St, Guelph, ON N1H 3V2, Canada43.5476795 -80.249773243.536170500000004 -80.2695142 43.5591885 -80.230032200000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-7409851201642250262012-08-08T06:00:00.000-07:002012-08-08T06:00:11.295-07:00Dandayamana-Dhanurasana – Standing Bow Pulling pose - For Beginners<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Iq19IJLs5yAXE-IR_fCMI8NtDvJ4L36XC0OpAjTlIWxQr3Y3QZlw3bvjO7hsQZe1MoB6vmh0wuF2kPfgNktH1WiPrBmAcBlG1Ys77IJ21hnztrdV0Z222w0xdUEyoJ5jivomm0D9S2U/s1600/standing+bow+pulling+pose.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Iq19IJLs5yAXE-IR_fCMI8NtDvJ4L36XC0OpAjTlIWxQr3Y3QZlw3bvjO7hsQZe1MoB6vmh0wuF2kPfgNktH1WiPrBmAcBlG1Ys77IJ21hnztrdV0Z222w0xdUEyoJ5jivomm0D9S2U/s320/standing+bow+pulling+pose.png" width="130" /></a>Almost everyone gets the grip wrong at first. <b>Your wrist
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As in Standing Head to Knee Pose,<b> the standing leg must
remain absolutely straight. </b>So as a beginner, do only as much as you can while
keeping your knee locked. Remember also not to let your arm drop. Think of it
as a Siamese twin to your head.</div>
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As impossible as this pose seems the first time you try it,
it is the pose people seem to resent the least and are the most anxious to
perform and perfect. It just looks so <b>pretty</b>!</div>
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<br /></div>
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The most important advice we can give you here is<b> don’t be
in hurry to dive into this position.</b> Get yourself firmly set! <b>Set your eyes on
one spot, lock your standing knee, level your hips, and drop your raised knee
toward the floor. Both of your thighs will then face directly forward, the
bottom of your raised foot will point directly at the ceiling, and the toes
will point directly at the back wall – all perfectly up and down, forward and
back. </b>No ballet “turnout” in Yoga. Only after you have done the above should
you commence pivoting forward, at all times reinforcing the straight
up-and-down, forward-and-back angles you began with.<b> Most important, don’t let
your lifted knee swing to the side<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-
like a chicken wing.</b></div>
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Remember, the name of this pose is the Standing Bow Pulling
; use your body exactly like a bow being strung and drawn by an archer. This
means <b>you must arch your head and spine even more backward as you pivot
forward. </b>If you begin to lose your balance, raise your arm and head higher and
kick harder upward and backward against your hand – in effect tautening the
“bow” even more, or “picking yourself up by the bootstraps.” You’ll be amazed
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Naturally, you must make it hurt in the back of your
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Once you get your abdomen truly parallel to the floor – and
only then – will you achieve the graceful standing split!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benefits</b></div>
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Standing Bow Pulling is a perfect example of the “damming”
effect in Yoga, because it transfers the circulation from one side of the body
to other, and then equalizes it – circulating fresh blood to each internal
organ and gland to keep them healthy.</div>
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Like the Standing Head to Knee, this pose helps develop
concentration, patience, and determination. Physically, it firms the abdominal
wall and upper thighs, and tightens upper arms, hips, and buttocks. It
increases the size and elasticity of the rib cage and the lungs and improves
the flexibility and strength of the lower spine and most of the body’s muscles.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Read more
about this poses benefits, pictures, video and tips from <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2011/12/dandayamana-dhanurasana-standing-bow.html" target="_blank">here! </a></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Drawings
and info from "Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.</span></div>
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<br /></div>BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com1Bikram Yoga Guelph, 126 Woolwich St, Guelph, ON N1H 3V2, Canada43.5476795 -80.249773243.536170500000004 -80.2695142 43.5591885 -80.230032200000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-26398581748068603412012-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:002012-08-01T06:00:01.243-07:00Dandayamana - Janushirasana – Standing Head to Knee Pose - For beginners<br />
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You may find that your foot is much farther away than you
thought it was! But once you grab it, you will want a good grip, so if your
feet or hands are wet with perspiration, wipe them with the towel first.</div>
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As a beginner, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">keeping
the standing leg tight and locked is the most important thing, even if that is
all you can do the first day. </b>Also, the concept of “straightening” the leg
is incomplete. You will find progress if
you think in terms of bowing the leg backward rather than straightening it. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7zx-U831KNQbrR2qtMGHGpLNsnb6lW8EYrEpG31NfgFhKAiUbe_hJ4NnvM3WLrtIn_IWmKsndppDgtLOgObSFhyphenhyphenLNsEIyCJi-0V1IdLFKPc5ahJRrm8PcCZZEuyeG9nZYxJe5K9uv84/s1600/standing+head+to+knee+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7zx-U831KNQbrR2qtMGHGpLNsnb6lW8EYrEpG31NfgFhKAiUbe_hJ4NnvM3WLrtIn_IWmKsndppDgtLOgObSFhyphenhyphenLNsEIyCJi-0V1IdLFKPc5ahJRrm8PcCZZEuyeG9nZYxJe5K9uv84/s320/standing+head+to+knee+1.png" width="230" /></a>Relaxation comes into play here. People tend to translate
instructions to “straighten and stretch” as “tense and tighten.” But not until
you fully relax the standing knee, letting it bow right backward, will it
really straighten. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don’t fight it. Don’t
be scared. Let go!</b></div>
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Don’t be discouraged if you feel ten months pregnant and
trying to tie your shoelaces as you attempt to straighten your raised leg out
parallel to the floor. Even ballet dancers in tip-top condition have trouble
doing it at first, plus not falling over in the process. So why should you be
any different?</div>
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The fact is, straightening the extended leg has nothing to
do with the leg itself; the leg is only there to connect your foot to your
body. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your focus of attention must be on
your foot, pulling hard on the toes until they point back toward you, pushing
the heel forward with all your might</b>. In addition, you will never get the
toes pulled fully back, the heel thrust fully forward, and thus the leg fully
straightened unless you - again –
relax!! Give it your honest effort each day. But be patient with yourself. This
is a toughie.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMSnVRjWP1_DyY7rEroG9prWFFl6llE7zC3M30tv13RPT9JPGGAT11b5oobwxj7uwTVCUrvGJOF5Obr1LOv9rg_bz_f5Vc46V5ydEk8nL6ks9-mciEtvf4TGI5DnicM6-W6moH2_BH24/s1600/standing+head+to+knee+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMSnVRjWP1_DyY7rEroG9prWFFl6llE7zC3M30tv13RPT9JPGGAT11b5oobwxj7uwTVCUrvGJOF5Obr1LOv9rg_bz_f5Vc46V5ydEk8nL6ks9-mciEtvf4TGI5DnicM6-W6moH2_BH24/s320/standing+head+to+knee+2.png" width="228" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do not attempt to
bend forward and touch your head to your knee until you can straighten the extended
leg and lock the knee. This is an absolute rule!!</b></div>
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Do, however, get those elbows down toward the floor from the
very beginning, almost hugging your leg, rather than letting them point outward
like chicken wings. This makes balance easier, increases the pull on your toes,
and will speed your progress in touching head to knee.</div>
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If you keep losing balance, it is because you are not
keeping gaze fixed, as though your eyeballs had turned to stone, on one spot
either in front of you or on the floor. Experimentation will find the spot that
works best for you.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To start getting
forehead down to the knee, use brute strength, gallons of perspiration, and
whatever huffing and puffing makes you feel good.</b> Once your muscles and
tendons become fairly flexible and you are about halfway there, you can cheat a
little. Hold your position to the count of eight, bent as far as you can go.
Then the last two seconds of the posture, pull your leg upward more strongly
and reach with your forehead even more, trying to touch the knee if only for a
split second.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9GFs4E4w3n0wrr5c-xRKiHM8XpMSTtNGe-8ZEgKSei4fQ7mCTYwqahGb2I9cRtvJsnDaeVI6w2JwCWD2DzcqWaAP31mSocky_RvzWIoFRaIbPHDjh9UYf_2l1ksb-tqAstgkD5yEYhE/s1600/standing+head+to+knee+3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9GFs4E4w3n0wrr5c-xRKiHM8XpMSTtNGe-8ZEgKSei4fQ7mCTYwqahGb2I9cRtvJsnDaeVI6w2JwCWD2DzcqWaAP31mSocky_RvzWIoFRaIbPHDjh9UYf_2l1ksb-tqAstgkD5yEYhE/s320/standing+head+to+knee+3.png" width="287" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You may fall over the
first few times, but your body and your muscles will begin to remember and to
figure out what they have to do to eventually make the contact and hold it.</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Balance in the final stages of the Standing Head to Knee is
accomplished by bowing everything farther and farther and pulling more firmly
upward, toward, and “into” yourself. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Another trick to remember is relaxing
everything in the hip joints, buttocks, and the lower spine.</b></div>
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<b>Benefits</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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The Standing Head to Knee helps develop concentration,
patience, and determination. Physically, it tightens abdominal and thigh
muscles, improves flexibility of the sciatic nerves, and strengthens the
tendons, biceps of the thigh muscles, and hamstrings in the legs, in addition
to the deltoid, trapezius, latissimus dorsi, scapula, biceps and triceps. </div>
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Read more about this pose benefits, pictures, video
and tips from <a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2011/11/dandayamana-janushirasana-standing-head.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Drawings and info from
"Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.</div>BikramYogaGuelphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06050924895507512241noreply@blogger.com2Bikram Yoga Guelph, 126 Woolwich St, Guelph, ON N1H 3V2, Canada43.5476795 -80.249773243.536170500000004 -80.2695142 43.5591885 -80.230032200000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437682956880497063.post-89185848846791318612012-07-25T06:00:00.000-07:002012-07-25T06:00:11.161-07:00Garurasana - Eagle Pose - For beginners<br />
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As you might have noticed, this is not the most natural
position in the world; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">every muscle and
every bone is being asked to reverse itself and go someplace that, for a few
days, it will refuse to go!</b> Men especially have problems because of larger
biceps.</div>
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Try it this way: first extend your arms to the sides and
then swing them together, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">wrapping the
right arm as far around the left as the force of the swing will throw it.</b>
You will then find that the best way to work on the palm to palm is to get the
pads of your fingertips together by whatever necessary contortion and, using
your fingertips as leverage, push them against each other until – eventually –
the palms will touch.</div>
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Making a proper Eagle’s beak under your nose will be beyond
you while you are still wrestling with the wrapping of the arms and the
touching of the palms. But even if your hands and arms are not right yet, pull
downward with the arms as hard as you can till the arms touch the chest. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One of the greatest benefits of this
posture is the flexibility and strength developed in the shoulders by this
pulling.</b> It also releases all those neck and shoulder tightness’s that give
stiff necks and tension headaches.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The trick in getting
your toe wrapped around under your calf muscle is an opposite technique to the
“swinging” of the arms into place.</b> Bend your legs and get yourself good and
set. Then ever so slowly lift your right leg up really high and reach as far
left with the whole leg as you can, lowering in on the far side of the left
thigh and deliberately wrapping it as far around the left calf as it will go. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Use the toes of your right foot, especially
the big toe, just like fingers to reach and grasp with, even if you can´t reach
your ankle yet.</b></div>
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Some people have so much difficulty with one-legged balance
at first that they have to steady themselves against a wall, get the leg
wrapped as well as possible, find their balance, and then wrap the arms.</div>
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As a general rule, however, is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">you concentrate on one point in front of your face and then sit down as
much as possible and straighten your spine, you’ll find passable balance after
a day or two.</b></div>
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sit even more deeply, and creating the “nut-cracking” opposition in the legs
are refinements that you will be able to concentrate upon fully only after
you’ve found solid balance.</div>
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Your initial success at this pose will depend upon the
length of your leg from knee to ankle as well as your balance and flexibility.
People whose forelegs are shorter must make up for lack of length by gaining
even more flexibility than the rest of us. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benefits</b></div>
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The Eagle supplies fresh blood to the sexual organs and the
kidneys, increasing sexual power and control. It helps firm calves, thighs,
hips, abdomen, and upper arms. It also improves the flexibility of the hip,
knee, and ankle joints and strengthens the latissimus dorsi, trapezium and
deltoid muscles.</div>
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Read more about this poses benefits, pictures, video
and tips from <a href="http://bikramyogaguelph.blogspot.ca/2011/11/garurasana-eagle-pose.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Drawings and info from
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