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...Yoga promotes and improves fertility. There are a few specific yoga practices that can be used for it. They have been known for a long time and there is mention of these special yoga practices in the ancient papers.

The practices include specific postures, mantras and breathing techniques. These exercises enhance fertility by stimulating hormone levels and improving blood and nutrients supply to reproductive organs like ovaries, eggs, tubes, uterus, testes and prostate. In doing this they maximize the vitality of these organs.

For older mums and dads yoga exercises can slow down the aging of organs and tissues like eggs and sperm which is detrimental for the ability to get pregnant.

Here are a few yoga postures you can do in the comfort of your own house.

1. Supported Bridge Pose :
- Lie on the back and bent your knees with feet flat on the floor ,
- Move your feet to your bottom as close as possible,

-Inhale and exhale deeply 4 times, then slowly lift your pelvis and buttocks off the floor while keeping your feet flat on the floor,
-Clasp your hands b...more

Yoga Therapy for Increasing Self-Worth With Mantra, Japa, Affirmation, or Prayer

...n environmentally safe solution, but lacks the self-esteem to follow through, a brilliant idea remains "locked up in the vault" of his or her mind.

Yoga has many solutions for restoring or creating self-worth. Yoga practice enables millions of practitioners to safely stabilize their mental and emotional health. Let's look at mantra, japa, affirmation, or prayer, for building self-confidence and self-worth.

Depending upon which type of Yoga you study, you may learn mantra, japa, affirmations, or prayers, in class. These are very powerful filtering tools for the mind. When you practice mantra, japa, affirmations, or prayers, you allow only positive messages and images to enter your mind.

If you learn to practice any of these methods in ...more

What Should a Hatha Yoga Teacher Know about Pranayama?

...d all of them should be presented with the same enthusiasm as impressive physical feats.

Hatha Yoga teachers should still take the time to explain the laws of prana to new students. Prana is more than just air, but proper breathing is the best method for cultivating it. If a new student has difficulty grasping the theory or philosophy of Prana, and Pranayama, at least he or she will learn how to absorb extra oxygen and oxygenate the blood much more efficiently.

For all of us, air is the most important resource we absorb. Water and food are also significant, but none of us will last long without air.

Copyright 2006 paul Jerard / Aura Publications

Yoga in Practice: In search of the perfect Yoga - Part 2

...g on the couch? If you are a Yoga teacher, do not encourage this kind of thinking. Yoga teachers are very often familiar with many styles of Yoga, so we should know better.

If you are a student, please open your mind by trying other styles of Yoga. You will find more treasure each time you visit a different Yoga class. Always come back to your root practice, and teacher, but leave your mind open.

Are seniors really getting anything out of Chair Yoga?

The very first person who said this to me is now a Chair Yoga teacher. You can imagine the convincing I had to do, including her participation in Chair Yoga classes. The energy, and enthusiasm, wit...more