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This is the story of a woman who thought she had it all until she lost her beloved mother to cancer. Trying to process and understand her profound grief, Suzanne embarked on a journey and turned to a deeper practice of yoga. Along the way, she discovers what yoga is. Suzanne's journey led her to India, where she studied various disciplines of yoga and met with respected gurus. During her visit, she came face-to-face with a near death experience and...
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Yoga For Busy Moms volume 1
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Here's a chance to get comfortable with some of the key poses of yoga and their variations. Poses will be held for a little longer than you may expect and are designed to give you a chance to really explore each pose and find your best variation.
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Great Courses volume 1
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Explore the roots of hatha yoga, the form of yoga widely practiced in the West. Focus on the three principles of hatha yoga - breath exercises, physical postures (called asanas), and meditation - which promote a healthy mind and body. Get started with some simple yoga exercises.
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Great Courses volume 7
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In the first of five lectures on different styles of yoga, experience a beginner sequence of Iyengar yoga. Named for pioneer yoga teacher B. K. S. Iyengar, this practice makes extensive use of props. Practice nine essential asanas, with optional props such as a wall, chair, strap, and blocks.
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Great Courses volume 9
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Yin yoga is a complementary practice to a yang form, such as power yoga. The goal is very simple: Assume a shape with your body, relax with gravity, and rest in stillness. Unwind with yin poses that gently stretch your connective tissues, including tendons, ligaments, and fascia.
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Great Courses volume 11
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Developed by American yoga teacher Ana Forrest, Forrest yoga is known for helping people deal with emotional issues, trauma, and addiction by creating a calm and untroubled internal state. Discover a new way of tuning into your feelings, using many techniques and postures you have already learned.
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Great Courses volume 8
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Transition to a more aerobic form of yoga - power vinyasa - in which a sequence of poses is strung together at an energetic pace. This is the form of yoga taught in many health clubs and gyms. Try a challenging flow, modifying the poses where appropriate for your level of fitness.
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Great Courses volume 10
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Explore the spiritual dimension of yoga through an Anusara practice, which combines the Iyengar system of alignment with elements of Hindu spirituality. After a Sanskrit invocation, follow a sequence of asanas that emphasizes awareness of energy flow and muscle action in your body.
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Great Courses volume 12
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Draw on the poses and routines presented in the course to develop a personalized yoga routine that will work for you in the everyday realities of 21st-century life. Keep sight of three principles: Breathe deliberately, move in non-habitual ways, and pursue mindful awareness.
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Great Courses volume 5
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Discover how yoga and attention to the body's sensations can aid in breaking the vicious cycle of addictive behaviors. Perform patterned breathing, side bends, cat/cow, downward dog, lunges, forward fold, and reclined twist. End with savasana, the traditional closing posture in a yoga practice.
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Great Courses volume 3
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Consider some key tools used in yoga to address physical pain: attention to breath and sensation, release of chronic muscle contractions, and healthier movement patterns. Practice asanas for each of these pain reduction techniques - including a chest opener, yoga pushup, plank, and staff pose.
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Great Courses volume 2
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The tension we accumulate every day tightens the muscles in the upper body, making it hard to breathe. Practice a mini yoga class that highlights mindful breathing to relieve this stress. Then add three new asanas to your yoga routine: warrior 2, bound angle, and downward facing dog.
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Great Courses volume 4
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Yoga can lead to a healthier heart by providing a transition from a more sedentary lifestyle to a more active one. Trace the steps that will help you gradually build your yoga practice. Learn two new breathing exercises together with asanas that include warrior 1, knee-to-chest, and bridge.
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Great Courses volume 6
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Examine how mindful, moving yoga can help interrupt the physical and psychological habits that lead to depression. Focus on sun salutations, a series of movements and poses linked by one breath per move. Perform the classic sun salutation, and then Surya namaskar A and B.
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Yoga for Health with Jenny Cornero is a series of programs based on the hatha yoga tradition, which is designed to improve the quality of life of those who are in search of an alternative path to healing. The series is designed to promote health, well-being, beautiful bodies, and peace of mind and is set up to be as easy to follow as participating in classes-but with the benefit of doing so from the comfort of your home! In this basic program, Jenny...
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Yoga for Health is a series of instructional videos to be used as a tool for your own comprehensive holistic approach to better health. Bowels need to move regularly, if not, one suffers from constipation. Exercising the abdominal organs through yoga poses will restore their normal function.
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Yoga for Health is a series of instructional videos to be used as a tool for your own comprehensive holistic approach to better health. Yoga as a holistic therapy system acts on arthritis through simple but continuous movement, which increases circulation in the joints, promoting the prevention and reduction of stiffness.
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Yoga for Health is a series of instructional videos to be used as a tool for your own comprehensive holistic approach to better health. Regular practice of yoga reduces symptoms of diabetes greatly. The poses will work mainly to stimulate the pancreas, which helps release the insulin hormones that support metabolism.
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Yoga for Health with Jenny Cornero is a series of programs based on the hatha yoga tradition, which is designed to improve the quality of life of those who are in search of an alternative path to healing. The series is designed to promote health, well-being, beautiful bodies, and peace of mind and is set up to be as easy to follow as participating in classes-but with the benefit of doing so from the comfort of your home! Yoga has been proven to successfully...
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