tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58408680411325624892024-02-20T04:05:52.226-08:00Yoga for real lifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885209558084535350noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840868041132562489.post-14850067475977688392013-04-09T11:15:00.000-07:002013-04-09T11:16:35.322-07:00A Skinny Cow Is Not Yet A Gazelle…
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><b>A
Skinny Cow Is Not Yet A Gazelle…</b></span></span></span></div>
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Get dressed in hot items!</span></span></span></div>
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Lose weight or got your muscles well exercised!</span></span></span></div>
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Good makeup can do wonders!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">This
is the list of the most popular answers to the question of how one
can make oneself look more beautiful. Here we shall note that people
usually judge about their own appearance standing in front of the
mirror or looking at the picture. And in this way they forget that
the adequate perception of a person as a whole is possible only
subject to observing the dynamics of the moves of his body, his
facial gestures and the structure of his speech. One’s natural,
well-coordinated and easy movements without neurotic gestures and a
well-disposed facial expression make it possible to perceive the
person as the one of natural beauty. Unlike the market pattern of
beauty that emphasizes only the sexuality of one’s appearance that
requires a good deal of both time and finance for its maintenance.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">In
my opinion one should start to improve oneself with working out the
dynamics of one’s body, with mastering the easiness of movement of
every part of it. And frankly speaking, it does not matter much what
way you choose to start doing it with: trying various kinds of sport
in turns, trying different dance styles or doing yoga – the main
point here is that you should enjoy it and it should not be
detrimental to your health. Moreover, it is such doing different
kinds of exercises that will help you avoid a specific deformation of
body posture that is characteristic of some particular kinds of
sports. It would be also good to periodically change the whole
lifestyle as well, but this is already the next question to discuss.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">When
start working on your body, you should first define which part of it
is not that harmonious-looking. In order to do this you can use
video, and it’s not necessary to shoot the exercises. You can take
the movie of any event where you behave in your natural way. It would
be even better if you were unaware of your being filmed. Try to
analyze the way you stand, you walk, gesticulate, what poses you
strike when talking to people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">For
instance, if you find out that wearing nice high-heeled shoes makes
you look like a “wounded grasshopper”, you should start with
mastering the smooth gait without heels and with your foot flat on
the ground, adding up the equilibrium poses and evenly distributing
the body weight on the foot. Such skill can also come as a result of
doing various sports that train the balance-keeping.</span></span></span></div>
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you’ve discovered that the clothes that were fitting so nice when
trying them on have suddenly started to pucker up. Perhaps, you
natural desire to look “more stately” in front of the mirror
cannot transfer into the habit of imposing walk due to weak muscles
of your back or chest. In this case some proper work should be done
with your spine.</span></span></span></div>
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is a number of methods you may use for this purpose. But for already
mentioned sports and dancing you can also get some result from
physiotherapy, physical exercises and massage. But it’s probably
only yoga as spiritual exercises that helps to understand the
psychological backgrounds of disharmonious body posture and to
proceed with conscious choice of the target and direction of your
development, without falling into “dependence” upon a fitness
instructor, a massage therapist or the social patterns.</span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885209558084535350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840868041132562489.post-4663070335259422902013-03-27T07:13:00.000-07:002013-03-27T07:13:05.997-07:00The Guidelines for Those Who Start Practicing Yoga
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Depending
upon various understandings of the targets of yoga there exist a
number of various styles and methods of yoga practice. Here I would
like to give some explanations concerning my view of the initial
practice of the yoga that I call </span><span lang="en-US"><b>yoga
for life</b></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those
who start practicing yoga should take into account the initial
condition of their organism that depends upon numerous factors, the
basic of them been: the medical condition, the sports habits, the
age, the body type. And it is not only the physical load on body but
also the proper consequence of the methods of working with this body
that should be correctly matched in consideration of these aspects.
So, here are a few words about these factors.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A
person having some serious diagnosis should start from therapeutic
yoga groups or, if the case is even worse, from the doctor-led
rehabilitation therapy. A competent yoga instructor knows the list of
diseases that can entail negative results if practicing in scope of a
standard group. I shall remind here that in defining the category of
health the World Health Organization considers not only physical,
psychical and moral well-being, but takes account of the social and
material as well. And in one’s preparation to yoga practice of
advanced level one should consider the situation in all of the said
aspects. The required basic level of the strong organism ready for
yoga practice assumes the availability of time, energetic and
material resources. In this case the person shall not be driven by
the desire to merely escape to yoga from his everyday problems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
our reference to sports habits we obviously mean the kinds of sport
that actively engage the whole of physical body. That is, the body
has been formed under the influence of the respective physical loads
and it’s as if been “sharpen” for them. Usually this is the
level of the 1</span><sup><span lang="en-US">st</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
sport category and higher. Even in case there were some athletic
injuries or occupational health problems in the sphere of sport the
sportsmen usually come as already rehabilitated persons, or at least
they know how to deal with it. As a rule, these people have a good
feeling of their body and in scope of matching the exercise load
their age limits can be increased by another few years, so that such
people can be suggested visiting the basic yoga group ca. up to their
age of 40. However, here we should also consider the remoteness of
the person’s professional sport activity.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As
an instructor, in terms of intaking the groups of those who want to
practice I usually focus on people aged 20 to 35 (here a rather mean
the biological age than the one given in passport) – this is the
basic group. I shall explain the figures. Though in this country the
person officially comes of full age at 18 and some people only start
living when they turn 35, for me such choice is not random. The young
generation of our age is characterized by some later emotional
maturation. And it is only by one’s 20’s that one may have some
moments initiating to adult life, so that the person starts to think
and take decisions on his own. One shall then proceed to accumulate
the life experience, while there is some solidarity in interests of
the people belonging to the ‘up to 35’ (approximately) age
category. Besides, the condition of the physical body in this period
is more or less the same, and it makes one’s practicing in one
basic group more comfortable.</span></span></div>
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my mind, further effective division of groups in compliance with age
scale shall be approximately the following: 35-45 years, 45-55 years
and so on.</span></span></div>
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also depends upon both the age and the medical condition of the
person – whether the work with one’s body should be of training,
maintaining or therapeutic character.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within
the process of mastering yoga techniques one should always take
account of the specific features of one’s body (first of all I mean
the muscular tissue to adipose tissue ratio). It’s not always that
the person who starts to practice yoga can sort this out himself. For
instance, one usually becomes alerted when having excess weight or
being skinny. But don’t you make haste in getting rid of the
overweight by means of increasing the physical load without
establishing the reasons of the excess kilograms. This may be the
consequence of puffiness or some disease of the cardiovascular
system. Sometimes the excess adipose tissue may come as a result of
hormone disregulations or other malfunctions that assume
contra-indications against abrupt increase of exercise load. The
proper diagnosis should also be established if one’s figure is too
gaunt (you can at least start with general blood test), especially in
our time when the line between telling the slender body from the
sickly thin one is too vague.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">I
don’t adhere to yoga practice treated only as the means of
upgrading the capabilities of one’s physical body. I shall be
satisfied with the minimal required level of my organism’
survivability that can provide my life with colours and my body –
with pleasant sensations.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some
of the wise men used to compare the body with a camel that the soul
rides during its life journey. Should the camel die early, the soul
will be unable to see all the delights of its journey. But it will be
a great disappointment and regret if the whole journey turns into
mere process of taking care of the camel and combing out his hair.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885209558084535350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840868041132562489.post-23750203590607664942013-03-27T07:11:00.003-07:002013-03-27T07:11:45.749-07:00On Good Old Kumbhaka...
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">It’s
not for once that one comes across a delusion circulating within the
circle of the people practicing yoga that the more intensive is the
muscular and volitional strain the practicing person is able to
maintain the longer shall be the ceasing of breath at inhalation.
However, as a rule, these are not only the muscles keeping one from
exhaling that are strained in this case, but the panic-stricken body
as a whole. And we all know the fact that the strained muscle
consumes much more oxygen that the relaxed one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Therefore
in order to master the Kumbhaka technique one should first of all
practice relaxation and get the habits of overcoming the breathing
stereotypes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Here
is another method of mastering Kumbhaka. While standing breast-deep
in a swimming pool or some outdoor water body one should breathe out
the whole of the air with one’s head above the water and in relaxed
manner dive into water. The task is to remain relaxed to the maximum
as long as possible. This should be repeated in series and
periodically, with gradual increase of the time spent under water. In
scope of performance one should overcome the stereotype of compulsory
inhale before diving (the breath holding when in water comes as an
unconditioned reflex) and get the organism accustomed to refraining
from panic as long as possible in the situation when one lacks air
and has no possibility to breathe.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885209558084535350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840868041132562489.post-86476793908389272252013-03-27T07:09:00.003-07:002013-03-27T07:09:08.901-07:00Dedicated to my Teacher...
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span lang="en-US">Praise
to Soviet pioneers of Yoga who</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">have
implanted the idea of Life in the mournful </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">process
of the Soviet people’ surviving. May their </span>
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directed at the attempts to distort the </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">understanding
of the essence of existence </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">remain
free from despair. May the force and persistence </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">be
with those who have infused the ideas of </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">spirituality
into human thoughts.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><i>(a
cry from the depth of a person who has been practicing yoga for
almost a quarter of a century)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">A
man of today is active and energetic. Almost all his needs are
“cultivated” by models to emulate. He has the proper example of
the level of income, the example of appropriate clothes, the specimen
of regular figure, the patterns of upright behaviour for getting
married and a number of other “appropriatenesses” the person is
perplexed with every other moment of his life. And if somebody by
chance drops out from the dense layers of the fussing crowd, having
become contented with the available amount of stuff and the number of
sexual partners, he will get the opportunity/the risk of feeling the
desired essence of his existence. One may continuously think about
the sense of life in scope of the existing “patterns” as well,
for there is such a model supported by public opinion, but I am sure
that one cannot comprehend the sense of one’s life. This sense can
only be felt, and becoming aware of this sense comes as the process
called Life.</span></span></div>
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