Jul 14

Pranayama or breath control is an important bridge between the external practices of yoga such as asanas, yoga and the internal practices of devotion. There is a link between body and spirit, between conscious and unconscious. By focusing on breathing, the mind becomes calm and balanced.Practice of Pranayama controls the mind and breathing slows down, so that increasing the life force can occur. It consists of deepening and expansion of prana or life force until it leads to a state of peace. Read the rest of this entry »

Jul 13

Yoga has healing properties and many health benefits. Yoga comes from India where Buddhists were yogis who practiced spirituality and harmony to achieve. You can float on the images of yogis in the air, his legs crossed and his eyes remained closed and examined its implications. The idea behind the picture is very simple. Yogis believe that there was such an extraordinary lightness of body and mind in meditation, the body floats in the air like a feather in the wind reached.
Yoga is still as popular there as in the dark ages, but modern yoga does not float in the air, but focuses more on health and fitness of body and mind. Read the rest of this entry »