Healthy Lifestyles

Bliss Yoga: The Yoga of Ecstasy

Bliss Yoga is the name given to a style of yoga that seeks to achieve, like all yoga, a balance of peace in mind, body, and spirit. The schools that go by the name “Bliss Yoga” tend to emphasize flowing vinyasa movements combined with a meditative approach. Here are a few resources for Bliss Yoga: Bliss Yoga World Yoga means union and... [Read more of this review]

Health Benefits of Yoga Convincing Skeptics in Churches

Like many Christians who practice yoga, I am hardly a purist. You could even call me a “cafeteria yogi.” I pick and choose among the various yoga practices that fit my overall lifestyle, level of fitness and religious beliefs. Fortunately, at every single yoga school where I have studied, without exception, the other students are exactly... [Read more of this review]

Anthony De Mello and Christian Yoga

Anthony de Mello, SJ, was a famous Jesuit priest, psychotherapist and seminar leader who sought to fashion a “Christian spirituality in Eastern form.” Anyone interested in Christian Yoga should definitely check out his many books — especially his seminal and fascinating text, Sadhana: A Way to God. He was born in Bombay in 1931... [Read more of this review]

A Beginner’s Guide to Christian Yoga

Many people are crazy about yoga. The reason most people practice yoga is that it makes them feel better and feel more in shape. The different poses and postures make their body flexible and healthy. Yoga for most is the best natural way to relax and unwind. If you are interested in keeping your body in shape, this might be the best exercise for you. Did... [Read more of this review]

Experts Say Yoga the Key to Health, Rapid Weight Loss

A recent randomized, controlled, six-month trial of yoga practice among healthy seniors found significant benefits in physical health but no improvement in cognitive tests.  It appears that a regular practice of hatha yoga does result in better health and even weight loss, the researchers found. Yoga is a commonly practiced, mind-body approach that... [Read more of this review]

Yoga Instructor Reveals Yoga Weight Loss Routine

New York yoga instructor Sadie Nardini, a columnist for many top Internet yoga sites, demonstrates a vinyasa routine that can help you lose weight quickly and easily. Sadie calls this a “calorie torching” sequence that “tones and stretches you whole bod.” Sadie critics yoga for keeping her weight down and giving her a healthy,... [Read more of this review]

Yoga Weight Loss Secrets

You can lose weight quickly with 5,000-year-old secrets from yoga. Have you ever wondered why the people you know who practice yoga are so thin? It’s not an accident. Yoga practice, combined with the “green,” organic diet followed by many yogis, seems to burn off weight faster than almost any other weight-loss approach. Unfortunately,... [Read more of this review]

Christian Yoga and John Paul II’s Theology of the Body

According to rabbinic tradition, the first commandment God gives Adam and Eve in the Garden is to have sex: Pru vehravu, “be fruitful and multiply.” It’s little wonder then that Christian theology has pondered for centuries the place that human sexuality and bodily existence have in God’s plan for the universe. On the one... [Read more of this review]

How to Become a Vegetarian the Easy Way

While being a vegetarian isn’t for everyone (and neither is Pamela Anderson), I talk to lots of people every day who tell me they’d like to become vegetarian, but it seems like it would be too hard, and they don’t have the willpower. But becoming a vegetarian, for me and for many others, is the easiest thing in the world. If you’re not interested... [Read more of this review]

Yoga Promotes Flexibility, Strength and Balance

PHOTO: Sonia Monteiro of DeRose Antas School, Porto, Portugal When I first started doing yoga, decades ago, many people thought it was a slightly feminine undertaking. And I have to admit, even today the majority of the students at my local yoga school are women — although that is changing. But the only people who think yoga is not a rigorous,... [Read more of this review]

The Daily Discipline of Pushups

The first thing I do every morning when I get out of bed is to do 30 pushups. It’s also the last thing I do every night before I climb into bed. That may not sound like a very “yoga” thing to do, but it’s a discipline I adhere to that I believe has been very good for me. I’m 50 years old so, if you’re younger, you can do more. I will probably... [Read more of this review]

Yoga Weight Loss Diet

Lose weight with natural yoga health recipes. For fast and easy weight loss, you can’t beat the yoga diet! That’s because the ancient principles of nutrition taught by yoga for 5,000 years can help you lose weight even when western-style diets fail. Yogis have known for millennia that exercise alone is not enough. You can exercise all day long... [Read more of this review]

The coming of a New Age

Scotland on Sunday, Nov. 17 ,2002 http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/ Dani Garavelli There are two ways of looking at the Findhorn Foundation, the religious community in the north-east of Scotland dubbed the Vatican of the New Age. You can dismiss its members as a bunch of wackos, who grow giant cabbages for God and scan the skies for the spaceships [...] Read More →

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