Learn Yoga Online - Yoga Teaching to Improve Abilities and Transform Health
Based on ancient Indian philosophies and medicine, yoga offers many and wide ranging health benefits - but only when practiced correctly. High quality and frequent instruction are key to getting the greatest benefits to body and mind. It's now possible to access that high quality instruction wherever you live - it's just a mouse click away.
San Francisco, CA, September 02, 2007 --(PR.com)-- More than 16 million people practice yoga and understand firsthand its effectiveness at increasing fitness, weight loss, stress relief and improved relaxation as well as improving general health and well being. For many, attending scheduled yoga classes with the frequency required to achieve the health benefits of yoga can be a significant challenge. To address this challenge Jez Heath and TotalYogaPractice.com have launched an innovative service that helps yoga practitioners follow professional yoga instruction in their own home. Through a library of online yoga videos streamed over the Internet it's possible to follow a well-rounded yoga routine for any ability level.
The health benefits of yoga are many and wide reaching from increasing strength and muscle tone to relieving back pain and treating serious medical conditions. To achieve all the benefits for mind and body that yoga has to offer is not as simple as doing a bit of stretching. To be most effective, yoga requires the practitioner to follow a well-designed routine of poses and their counter-poses. That's why most people go to classes and one of the obstacles to practicing yoga at home - except for the most experienced students and teachers - is knowing the right poses and the order to practice them.
For very good reason, yoga videos or yoga DVDs are the most popular aides to practicing yoga at home since they provide visual and audit instruction, making them easy and effective to follow. However, the instruction aides are not without their limitations, as Jez found.
"When I started practicing yoga at home I tried videos by some of the big names in western yoga but I wasn't really satisfied with what I found. First the routine on a DVD obviously doesn't change so as my abilities and curiosity developed I was quickly outgrowing the yoga DVDs that I'd bought. That combined with the repetition of always doing the same poses in the same order was causing my motivation to drop - so I practiced less frequently. More fundamentally, I didn't feel that commercial yoga DVD were giving me the same effects that I got from my regular yoga teacher Varun Veer."
What Jez wanted was access to a wide range of high quality yoga routines so that he got the benefits of a yoga class and the choice and variety to keep up his motivation. The problem was that there was no such thing as a yoga video lending library - until now.
"I saw a snippet of an aerobics video on the Internet and the pieces of the jigsaw fell into place. By providing yoga instruction videos streamed over the internet, I'd found my way to provide a library of yoga videos to anyone looking for a home instruction aide."
The importance of yoga as more than just exercises is emphasized at TotalYogaPractice.com. Through their carefully constructed yoga routines of long deep stretches TotalYogaPractice.com emphasize physical development, breathing, concentration and regulation of internal organ function. This approach helps to develop and strengthen the central nervous, cardiovascular, endocrine, digestive and other major systems of the body in accordance with the traditional Indian teachings about yoga asana.
"The fast flowing vinyasa, ashtanga or power yoga so popular in the west primarily focuses on building cardiovascular and muscle strength which is very important." explains Varun Veer, TotalYogaPractice.com's engaging native Indian guru or teacher.
"But these yoga styles are more like calisthenics exercises that use the yoga poses. Yoga has so many more benefits to offer beyond just cardiovascular fitness.
"True yoga requires attention to the physical body, breathing, internal organ health and mental health. In the simplest terms yoga has 2 key concepts of Prana or life force and Nadis or energy channels. Yoga is about learning to control Prana and clear Nadis for improved health.
"Only by holding the poses for longer is there the time to really get into the pose and find the right alignment to deepen the stretch to improve suppleness, stamina and muscle tone and strength. Through deep stretching and breath control it's possible to control Prana and unblock Nadis to energize the body, calm and relax the mind to receive health and inner peace.
"There are many layers to the benefits of yoga that people cannot experience by learning from a book or by following less experienced teachers. My lifelong devotion to my own yoga practice and learning has helped me to develop an understanding of yoga and the experience needed to bring the benefits of yoga to my students. This is what I bring though my yoga classes and what I bring through my yoga videos."
Varun's traditional yoga teaching is now available exclusively through www.TotalYogaPractice.com via their online yoga video library containing a large selection of Varun's yoga videos.
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The health benefits of yoga are many and wide reaching from increasing strength and muscle tone to relieving back pain and treating serious medical conditions. To achieve all the benefits for mind and body that yoga has to offer is not as simple as doing a bit of stretching. To be most effective, yoga requires the practitioner to follow a well-designed routine of poses and their counter-poses. That's why most people go to classes and one of the obstacles to practicing yoga at home - except for the most experienced students and teachers - is knowing the right poses and the order to practice them.
For very good reason, yoga videos or yoga DVDs are the most popular aides to practicing yoga at home since they provide visual and audit instruction, making them easy and effective to follow. However, the instruction aides are not without their limitations, as Jez found.
"When I started practicing yoga at home I tried videos by some of the big names in western yoga but I wasn't really satisfied with what I found. First the routine on a DVD obviously doesn't change so as my abilities and curiosity developed I was quickly outgrowing the yoga DVDs that I'd bought. That combined with the repetition of always doing the same poses in the same order was causing my motivation to drop - so I practiced less frequently. More fundamentally, I didn't feel that commercial yoga DVD were giving me the same effects that I got from my regular yoga teacher Varun Veer."
What Jez wanted was access to a wide range of high quality yoga routines so that he got the benefits of a yoga class and the choice and variety to keep up his motivation. The problem was that there was no such thing as a yoga video lending library - until now.
"I saw a snippet of an aerobics video on the Internet and the pieces of the jigsaw fell into place. By providing yoga instruction videos streamed over the internet, I'd found my way to provide a library of yoga videos to anyone looking for a home instruction aide."
The importance of yoga as more than just exercises is emphasized at TotalYogaPractice.com. Through their carefully constructed yoga routines of long deep stretches TotalYogaPractice.com emphasize physical development, breathing, concentration and regulation of internal organ function. This approach helps to develop and strengthen the central nervous, cardiovascular, endocrine, digestive and other major systems of the body in accordance with the traditional Indian teachings about yoga asana.
"The fast flowing vinyasa, ashtanga or power yoga so popular in the west primarily focuses on building cardiovascular and muscle strength which is very important." explains Varun Veer, TotalYogaPractice.com's engaging native Indian guru or teacher.
"But these yoga styles are more like calisthenics exercises that use the yoga poses. Yoga has so many more benefits to offer beyond just cardiovascular fitness.
"True yoga requires attention to the physical body, breathing, internal organ health and mental health. In the simplest terms yoga has 2 key concepts of Prana or life force and Nadis or energy channels. Yoga is about learning to control Prana and clear Nadis for improved health.
"Only by holding the poses for longer is there the time to really get into the pose and find the right alignment to deepen the stretch to improve suppleness, stamina and muscle tone and strength. Through deep stretching and breath control it's possible to control Prana and unblock Nadis to energize the body, calm and relax the mind to receive health and inner peace.
"There are many layers to the benefits of yoga that people cannot experience by learning from a book or by following less experienced teachers. My lifelong devotion to my own yoga practice and learning has helped me to develop an understanding of yoga and the experience needed to bring the benefits of yoga to my students. This is what I bring though my yoga classes and what I bring through my yoga videos."
Varun's traditional yoga teaching is now available exclusively through www.TotalYogaPractice.com via their online yoga video library containing a large selection of Varun's yoga videos.
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