have u ever practiced """" yoga"""".......................?????

yoga makes me feel good and gives me energy. it calms me down adn releases stress ad improves my balence and posture. its low impact but can work all of your muscles. i think yoga is fantastic, and if you haven't tried it, you should.=]

I was very much interested in Yoga for over 30 years now. I can nicely meditate in the Lotus position even now at the age of 50. I am also healthier than even young people and take herbal medicines for small ailments like infuenza.

ufortunitly I did not practice yoga, but may be I will do sometime

I just started to practise yoga. At first I went to a class with a friend, after that I decided to learn at home by myself. I find it really good as it doesn't only help me to stretch my body, but also to relax myself. Some poses, you might you won't be able to do them, as they look too difficult for you. But after awhile of practices, you are able to do them. This is the joy of learning yoga too. It's not only an exercise, but also a meditation method. I really enjoy doing yoga.

You should give it a try too.^_^

Yoga for a beginner is an exciting time when you start to discover all of the wonderful benefits that yoga has to offer. When you first begin yoga, there are several things you can do to make your experience positive. The following are ideas you might want to consider as you begin your yoga journey. It is a good idea when you are doing yoga as a beginner, that you choose a style that matches your fitness level, personality, and health condition. Review what each type of yoga has to offer so you can choose a class that is best suited to you. Yoga for a beginner is best practiced under the supervision of an experienced teacher. It is important to maintain proper body alignment. A good teacher will make corrections so you don’t injure yourself and can also offer modifications if you have any physical restrictions. A teacher can also help you go a little deeper into a pose so you get the most from your practice.

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Benefits of Yoga

At the physical level, yoga and its cleansing practices have proven to be extremely effective for various disorders. To get a sampling of how yoga benefits health disorders, please visit the Yoga Therapy section.

More importantly, yoga is extremely effective in: Increasing Flexibility – yoga has positions that act upon the various joints of the body including those joints that are never really on the ‘radar screen’ let alone exercised.

Increasing lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons – likewise, the well-researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body.

Surprisingly it has been found that the body which may have been quite rigid starts experiencing a remarkable flexibility in even those parts which have not been consciously work upon. Why? It is here that the remarkable research behind yoga positions proves its mettle. Seemingly unrelated “non strenuous” yoga positions act upon certain parts of the body in an interrelated manner. When done together, they work in harmony to create a situation where flexibility is attained relatively easily.

Massaging of ALL Organs of the Body – Yoga is perhaps the only form of activity which massages all the internal glands and organs of the body in a thorough manner, including those – such as the prostate - that hardly get externally stimulated during our entire lifetime. Yoga acts in a wholesome manner on the various body parts. This stimulation and massage of the organs in turn benefits us by keeping away disease and providing a forewarning at the first possible instance of a likely onset of disease or disorder.



One of the far-reaching benefits of yoga is the uncanny sense of awareness that it develops in the practitioner of an impending health disorder or infection. This in turn enables the person to take pre-emptive corrective action



Complete Detoxification – By gently stretching muscles and joints as well as massaging the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body. This helps in the flushing out of toxins from every nook and cranny as well as providing nourishment up to the last point. This leads to benefits such as delayed ageing, energy and a remarkable zest for life.

Excellent toning of the muscles – Muscles that have become flaccid, weak or slothy are stimulated repeatedly to shed excess flab and flaccidity.

But these enormous physical benefits are just a “side effect” of this powerful practice. What yoga does is harmonize the mind with the body and this results in real quantum benefits. It is now an open secret that the will of the mind has enabled people to achieve extraordinary physical feats, which proves beyond doubtthe mind and body connection.

Yoga through meditation works remarkably to achieve this harmony and helps the mind work in sync with the body. How often do we find that we are unable to perform our activities properly and in a satisfying manner because of the confusions and conflicts in our mind weigh down heavily upon us? Moreover, stress which in reality is the #1 killer affecting all parts of our physical, endocrinal and emotional systems can be corrected through the wonderful yoga practice of meditation.

In fact yoga= meditation, because both work together in achieving the common goal of unity of mind, body and spirit – a state of eternal bliss.

The meditative practices through yoga help in achieving an emotional balance through detachment. What it means is that meditation creates conditions, where you are not affected by the happenings around you. This in turn creates a remarkable calmness and a positive outlook, which also has tremendous benefits on the physical health of the body.

These are just some of the tangible benefits that can be achieved through yoga.

Having seen this, it is educative to note why the ancient yogis performed yoga and the interdependence of yoga and meditation. The ultimate goal of the yogis was “self realization” or “enlightenment”, a concept, which perhaps is quite esoteric to you and me.

But what is interesting is that for this they had to meditate for extensive spells of time – days,weeks and much more. This required tremendous physical fitness, energy and the capacity to subsist on next to nothing. Yoga positions or asanas provided them the fullest fitness with the least metabolism or stress and meditation in turn provided them the strength and will to perform these asanas effectively – a virtuous cycle of cause and effect. This mutually symbiotic relationship helped them in their path.

Yes.In fact I am practicing yoga.I practice Raja Yoga.Its a practical yoga because it is actually a lifestyle.Its knowing the real you and connecting with the Source.You may visit www.bkwsu.org. .
This organization offers free meditation/yoga lessons.

It was decades of years ago yoga some of friends and I learnt yoga from an Indian yoga master who was very good in yoga. We came to know him from a yoga show he performed. Later we learnt that he also taught those who were interested during his temporary stayed in my country. Certain steps I learnt from him are still practiced by me regularly as they could keep my body fit.

Yoga is non-religious and non-mystic spiritual practicing. It is so real and so human. yoga exixts several milleniums, that means it was before religions. In the centuries ago the practice was given only to chosen persons, to who could be beleived. They were practicing far away of people, of villages and towns, generally in caves, monastires or any remoted places. And there was a truth in it, that any person can be switched with his mind into himself only if he will not be disturbed by just anything, neither by his/her relatives, friends, or any kind of material thinking.
Now yoga is close to anybody without any prohibition or any secret exercises.