Friday, August 22, 2008
Yoga Ethics For Instructors
...on the body and opening of the body and a measure of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual release. Instructors often must touch their students to assist or correct a physical posture.
All of the students are paying close attention to the movements of the instructor. Some students will become infatuated, or attached, as they associate their release of tension, and spiritual growth, with that person. A compassionate yoga instructor is a guide, who shows his or her students, that the true teacher is already within each student.
Copyright 2008 - Paul Jerard / Aura Publicationsmore
Yoga for beginners: The First Step of Yoga Practice
... Yoga teachers are content to teach improved health for body and mind.
Therefore, when you choose a book, or local Yoga teacher, be aware that the Yoga teacher or Guru is a guide - but you have a right to know which direction you are being guided to. The Yoga practitioner learns to expand his or her mind and make independent decisions along the way.
Yoga is non-threatening to religion. If a Yoga instructor teaches intolerance, of any kind, that is not Yoga. Unity is not sectarianism. We have to learn to appreciate diversity, and we should never tolerate prejudice. Prejudice and intolerance are often the cause of crime and wars.
On the Grand Scale, the goal of Yoga is world peace through unity.
Copyright 2006 Paul Jerard / Aura Publicationsmore
How to Become Regular in Your Yoga Practice
...People come to yoga looking for various things: peace of mind, stress reduction, improved concentration, and weight loss. Yoga can help you to accomplish all of this, but yoga works, if you work! You have to do the practices on a regular basis in order to get the results
If you have bought some books on yoga and meditation, dont let them gather dust while you sit around thinking that maybe one day you are going to practice. If you have purchased my electronic book, dont let it gather electronic dust.
Yoga postures and basic meditation exercises are simple enough to learn. In fact, I teach them to children and they pick them up quite easily. So, I am sure that you can learn what to do fairly easily and quickly. The big problem for most people is to establish the habit of doing the practices on a regular basis. Here are a few tips which may help you to do your yoga and meditation on a daily basis.
1. Start with Firm Determination: Yoga beg...more
Tips For Finding The Right Yoga Teacher
...People start yoga for many reasons. They may want to increase their levels of health, fitness, and flexibility. Or improve their muscle tone. Reducing levels of stress and anxiety are also high on the list, as is personal development, and the desire to follow a more spiritual path. Some may have a particular medical condition or health problem they want to address.
One's reason for starting yoga may have a bearing on both the type of yoga that makes a 'best fit', as well as the particular teacher chosen within a yoga discipline. Whilst the different types of yoga obviously suit some aims better than others, the teacher you practice with will also make a difference to achieving what you want with yoga. Or not.
Foe example, if you have a specific medical condition, it would be better to informally interview prospective yoga t...more
