Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 In : Yoga Styles
Om Yoga is a novel form of Yoga. It offers an
approachable, nurturing and playful style of yoga which concentrates more on
alignment and right technique at its 3 New York centers. Om Yoga style was
developed by Cyndi Lee. She is a long time Yogi, who has been practising and
teaching Yoga for more than 20 years. The Om Yoga center is staffed with more
than 50 teachers, all of whom are certified by Om Yoga’s extremely revered
teacher training program.
This, by the way, is
considered one of t... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 In : Yoga Styles
Ishta yoga is actually an acronym which stands for Integrated Sciences of Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda. This discipline was started by Alan Finger. The meaning for ‘ishta’ is ‘individual’. Ishta yoga concentrates on the individual to make them comfortable in themselves.
Hatha:Hatha is the main physical part of Ishta yoga. The poses are created to revitalize and strengthen the physical body. Tantra : Tantra is the philosophic part of Ishta yoga. Tantra comes from two words trayati and tan... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Monday, November 19, 2012 In : Yoga
 There are many different forms of yoga and Power
yoga is one of them. Power
yoga is a term coined in the
West and it describes a vigorous fitness based approach to the Vinayasa style
of yoga. The word “power” in the phrase describes the intensity this kind of
yoga involves. Most of the exercises in Power yoga are modeled on the Ashtanga
style of yoga. Both these kinds of yoga (Power and Ashtanga) use the Vinayasa
poses.
Vinayasa poses link
together the principal poses in a yoga class. U... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 In : Yoga Styles
 Tantra
Yoga is a holistic technique of studying of the macrocosm from the point of
view of microcosm. It is the study of the universal through the study of the
individual. Tantra Yoga brings into play all the sciences - astronomy,
astrology, numerology, physiognomy, physics, chemistry, alchemy. Further it is
also inspired by Ayurveda (the traditional medicine of India), psychology,
mathematics, geometry, so on and so forth. All this in a bid to
provide a practical means of realizing the high... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Monday, November 12, 2012 In : Yoga
 The Sanskrit word
Anusara literally means to follow or flow after. It also means to flow with
grace, to go with the flow, or go with the follow of the heart. This is an
integrated style of Hatha Yoga that is unique, inasmuch as it combines a
Tantric philosophy of intrinsic Goodness with Universal Principles of
Alignment. Anusara Yoga is an inspiring and enriching experience. You
manage to discover your individuality and creative self-expression through its
practice. Further, Anusara Yoga enh... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 In : Basic Yoga Exercise
There are a numbers of contemporary physical culture systems. All of them are designed to develop the muscles through mechanical movements and exercises. However, Yoga is different, inasmuch as, it considers the body a vehicle for the soul on its journey towards perfection. Yoga's physical exercises are specially developed to build up not just the body, they even broaden the practitioner's mental faculties as well as spiritual capacities.
The Basic Yoga exercises are Surya Namaskar, spot joggi... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Monday, November 5, 2012 In : Yoga Styles
Tantra Yoga is a holistic technique of studying of the macrocosm from the point of view of microcosm. It is the study of the universal through the study of the individual. Tantra Yoga brings into play all the sciences - astronomy, astrology, numerology, physiognomy, physics, chemistry, alchemy. Further it is also inspired by Ayurveda (the traditional medicine of India), psychology, mathematics, geometry, so on and so forth.
All this in a bid to provide a practical means of realizing the high... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Saturday, November 3, 2012 In : Yoga Styles
To begin with, Iyengar Yoga is learnt through the thorough study of Yoga poses(asanas) and breathing exercises (pranayama). Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar has organized in excess of 250 classical yoga Asanas and several different types of breathing exercises from the easy pranayamas to the extremely difficult ones. They have been arranged and classified in such a way that the beginner can advance surely and safely from basic practices to more advanced ones as they increase their flexibility, strength and ... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Thursday, November 1, 2012 In : Yoga Styles
Nada Yoga involves experiencing the subtler vibrations caused by the internal music and sounds of the body. By tuning in to these sounds, a practitioner is able to attain a state of complete silence and peace. Nada yoga is more of an experiential form of yoga and hence one can delve into it without any intellectual understanding of the practice. According to the philosophy of Nada yoga, there are external and internal sounds. External sounds are those which originate from elements outside the b... Continue reading...
Posted by Vicrram Theipanaathan on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 In : Yoga Styles
 If you’ve tried conventional Yoga practices and
found them too slow, you probably need Vinyasa Yoga. This is because you are, without any reason,
losing out on the wonders of Yoga. Vinyasa Yoga is so fast it can make the
practitioner’s head spin. The word Vinyasa stands for breath-synchronized
movement. Meaning to say, here the guru instructs the pupil how to proceed from
pose to pose on an inhalation or an exhalation.
This method –
sometimes also referred to as Vinyasa Flow, or just F... Continue reading...
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