What is the purpose of prenatal yoga?

If you’re getting ready for your first or second child, you might be experiencing some blended feelings and nervousness about birth, turning into a mother. You may find aches, tightness, and inconvenience in your back, hips, pelvis, and legs. You will experience...

How to Teach Yoga to Senior Citizens

The realities of teaching Yoga to the elderly: Yoga can help them in this transitional process of finding a place in today’s society and a reason for living through body awareness, breath awareness, relaxation, preventing stiffness in the joints, and mental...

Understanding the Five Koshas of the Human Body

Patanjali divides human being personality into five seeds and five bodies. Each body has specific purification methods, and after purifying each body, you will get access to another higher body. Yama’s and Niyama’s also have a significant role in purifying...

What is Ashtanga Yoga (Eight Limbs of Yoga)?

Patanjali’s yoga is usually called the Eight-limbed (Ashtanga) Yoga. In Sanskrit, ashta means eight, and Anga means limbs. (Yoga Sutras 2:29). These are the eight steps and stems. Every branch is important; skipping any step would keep the yoga journey incomplete....