Happiness at every age

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In Today's Email: 

• The Practice of Hatha Yoga: Why you should try it out…

• Benefits of Goji Juice: Is it going to be the next big juice trend? 

•  Happiness at every age: These balancing poses leave you feeling centered, calm, and ready to conquer the world.

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The Practice of Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga is mainly practiced for health and vitality. Hatha Yoga was introduced in the 15th century by Yogi Swatmarama. This form of yoga focuses on the purification of the physical being which leads to the purification of the mind or vital energy. The exploration of these physical-spiritual connections and body-centered practices led to the creation of Hatha Yoga. Today In the West, hatha yoga has become wildly popular as a purely physical exercise regimen divorced from its original purpose.

Whatever the historical details, Krishnamacharya has become the undisputed father of modern-day hatha yoga. Krishnamacharya’s first lessons in yoga were from his father and his grandmother and passed on through generations of practice.

Hatha Yoga follows in that vein and thus successfully transcends being particularly grounded in any one religion. This exploration of these physical and spiritual connections and body-centered practices led to the creation of Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga has been included in the lifestyle of these traditions. The classes tend, among other things, to emphasize physical mastery.

Hatha also means a force or determined effort, and yoga, of course, translates as yoke or joining together. The very name hatha yoga, a combination of “ha,” meaning sun, and “tha,” meaning moon, denotes the union of opposites. Through the practice of yoga an individual can gain information about physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well being.

It also represents opposing energies: hot and cold, fire and water following the theme of ying and yang, male and female, positive and negative. Hatha yoga attempts to balance the mind and body. The balancing of the mind and body is brought about via physical exercises (also known as asanas), controlled breathing (pranayama) and relaxation or meditiation.

Pranayama refers to breath control in yoga. In this yoga is defined as a means of binding or controlling the breath and the mind using the syllable Om. In this case yoga has extremes, practices of fasting, breath control, and postures to transcend the body, and not cultivate it. Asana body postures that are contemplative in nature and are designed to align the body and bring about the optimum situation for relaxation.

Traditional yoga is a holistic yogic path and is becoming wildly popular.

Benefits Of Goji Juice  

Modernization is wonderful, but there are also other factors in the modern life we live in that may subject our bodies to harm. Understanding what can harm us and what will help us will be our best defense. Free radicals, our body’s natural enemyy subject our body to more than 10,000 hits during a normal day.

If our body is not able to combat the harmful effect of free radicals, then it may give us disease and prematurely age our body including our skin.

The pristine valleys of Tibet and Mongolia have a solution to this problem. What do you think is their secret?

Introducing goji juice, made from goji berries grown in the remote and unpolluted hills and valleys of Tibet and Mongolia. Experts who want to save the people who live in this modern society studied what must be wonderful about these Himalayan diets and why do they live so long and free from diseases.

Their studies prove that their diet perpetually includes goji berries. Further studies on goji berries prove that they are nutritious and contain vital nutrients necessary to combat free radicals.

Goji juice contains potent vitamins, and minerals like no other berry. Goji juice also contains 18 amino acids, 8 of which are essential for our bodies, but having all 18 adds to the beneficial characteristic of this wonderful red juice. Based on studies by numerous health professionals including Dr. Earl Mindell, the author of The Vitamin Bible, goji juice made from goji berries can give your body all the nutrients it needs to help keep a healthy and happy life.

Goji juice aside from the 18 amino acids also has 21 trace minerals, vitamins B1, B2, B6 and Vitamin E. All of these can help give you healthy and active life. Some of the beneficial effects of drinking goji juice are:

Energy and Strength – goji juice is considered as an adaptogen. It increases exercise tolerance, stamina and endurance. Goji juice may also enhance the recovery of ill patients.

Cholesterol level balance – goji juice may also help manage your cholesterol level because it contains beta-sitosterol, which can help in your cholesterol level balance. It will also help avoid cholesterol deposit in the blood vessels, thus heart problems may be eliminated.

Normal Kidney Function – your kidney is the vital organ that may possibly control the brain and other organs in the body. It is thus essential for better health that you keep your kidneys functioning properly. Goji juice is believed to be helpful in keeping this essential organ functioning properly.

Supports General Health – as mentioned earlier, free radicals harm our body in many ways. Thus, eliminating this natural enemy will help keep our body strong and avoid illnesses. Goji juice is a potent antioxidant that may keep our body healthy.

Other beneficial factors which may come from goji juice are enhanced sexual function, blood sugar level balance and vision problems. This is because goji juice contains more beta-carotene even compared to a carrot.

The vitamin C contents of goji juice, which is 500 times more in weight than orange, will help keep the immune system functioning properly to avoid illness.

These are only a few of the helpful and beneficial functions of goji juice and because goji juice is safe even for children. If drinking this sweet and tasty juice excites you well enough, you can also eat goji berries with your food. You can eat them fresh or the dried goji berries are also available. You may use your imagination as to how you can enjoy these wonderful and amazing berries.

Happiness at any age

These balancing poses leave you feeling centered, calm, and ready to conquer the world.

AS YOU PRACTICE Rather than bearing your weight in your wrists, think of lifting out of the wrists and drawing energy up through the arch of the hand. When you stretch the hamstrings, draw the thighbones up and into the hip joints to isolate the stretch in the belly of the muscles.

Reflection: You are training your mind in “one-pointed attention,” with the surprising result of happiness. “Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do,” said B.K.S. Iyengar, founder of the Iyengar Yoga style.

Additional benefits: Releases tension in the wrists and forearms; strengthens your core; stretches your hamstrings.

1.       Cat-Cow Pose, variation- Come onto all fours with fingers pointing backward. Inhale, lift your gaze and sitting bones to the ceiling. Exhale and round your spine, bringing your gaze to the navel. Repeat five times.

2.       Adho Mukha Svanasana (DownwardFacing Dog Pose)- Turn your hands so that your fingers point forward. Tuck the toes. Inhale, and lift your sitting bones up and back. Exhale, and lengthen the sides of your torso

3.       Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend) variation- Step the feet together and roll forward. Soften your knees to relax the hamstrings; rest your chest on your thighs

4.        Malasana (Garland Pose), Wide Yogi Squat Twist variation- Step feet forward outside your hands. Lower your hips. Press your right upper arm into the inside of your right leg. Walk the right fingertips past the right toes. Reach the left hand up. Return to center and do the other side.

5.       Plank Pose- Bend your knees, place your palms flat, and step back into Plank Pose. Lift the sides of the waist to engage your core. Lengthen through the spine, reaching the crown of the head forward and extending your heels back.

6.       Vasisthasana (Side Plank Pose), variation- Pivot to the outer edge of the right foot. Step the left foot in front of the right knee. Press through the right hand and left foot to lift the hips; extend the left arm. Return to Plank and do the other side.

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