Upward Plank Pose (Poorvottanasana)

Posture of the Day: Upward Plank Pose (Poorvottanasana)
 

To learn the posture benefits for your body, the injury warnings and step-by-step instructions for this yoga pose (plus more HOT  photos...) keep reading!!

Posture Benefits:

• Strengthens the wrists, arms, shoulders, back, and spine.
• Stretches the legs and hips.

Seven Ways to Prevent Joint Strain

Pain is never part of the result to a great yoga practice. Aside from breathing, alignment is the key principle to yoga and a successful workout.

Here are a few pointers to keep it all aligned, pain-free, injury free and to experience far less joint strain, in every pose.

Seven Core Cues of Yoga, from Sadie Nardini:

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5 Healthy Eating Habits for a great YOGA bod!!

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1. Natural is BEST: Choose foods the way nature made them whenever possible: a whole apple instead of applesauce. Edamame beans instead of tofu. Wine instead of heavy desserts - but eat the grapes too!!

2. Clean not Chemicals: Eating chemicals and processed foods simply is not as healthy as organic. Avoid degenerative diseases by eating organic food. Grow a garden on your balcony. Buy free-range only. Insist on antibiotic and hormone-free. Try sulphate-free wine.

The Benefits of Practising Yoga Outdoors

By Hazel Hoyle

Practising yoga outdoors yields many benefits to improve your balance, strength, posture alignment, breathing, meditation and overall well-being. This article will deal with three areas that are most positively affected by outdoor practise.

Easy Pose: Sukhasana

Seated Postures, by Hazel Hoyle.

A good place to start your yoga practice after brief relaxation is with sitting postures. Sitting postures will tone your abdomen, massage your internal organs, and relieve pain in your lower back pain.

Today’s posture:
Easy Pose (Sukhasana)

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The Meaning of Namaste

...As spoken by Yoga teacher Aadil Palkhivala:

The gesture Namaste represents the belief that there is a Divine spark within each of us that is located in the heart chakra. The gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another.