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Online Yoga and Stress ManagementYoga and stress management go hand in hand. Yoga relaxes the body, stretching the muscles, oxygenating the blood and relieving sore, tense knots. Having a relaxed body will automatically lift your mood. And in addition, yoga helps train your mind to be quiet by focusing on your pose. You concentrate on one thing, and all the little worries of the day melt away. You become grounded and peaceful with yoga. Stress Management becomes automatic. How to Begin with YogaSometimes yoga poses create an inner battle. A teacher can help you with this. Years ago, every time I sat in Gomukhasana (Cow Face Pose), I would go nutty. My stomach would clench; I would tense my jaw; I felt like crawling out of my skin. Having a teacher helped me through the pose. In class I stayed in the pose longer, and gradually I learned how to cope with it. Without my teacher, yoga and stress management would have been contradictory. Once you know how to do yoga, the next ideal yoga and stress management plan is to have a personal practice. Practicing on your own allows you to go deeply and listen to your body and inner voice. As ideal as classes and personal practices are, they are not always practical. The cost is high; the time commitment often impractical. Sometimes, you can't find local classes. And we don't always have the discipline to practice yoga entirely on our own. The bridge between having a teacher and an active personal practice is an online yoga class.Online Yoga and Stress ManagementOnline yoga classes offer an excellent way to practice yoga, have instructions and do it at your own pace and convenience. You are both alone and supported. Yoga and stress management both become possible.
Online yoga gives you training wheels to start your own personal practice. By using videos or audio instructions, you practice practicing on your own. You have guidance and independence. There are 2 online yoga programs I recommend, each for different reasons. Gaiam Yoga ClubThis is a 12 week course, designed to be followed at your own pace with forums and blogs from Rodney and Colleen for support. It is especially instructive because it follows a progression, week by week, through the poses. I have taken classes from Rodney, and he is an excellent teacher. Because you take from only 2 instructors, the techniques you learn go deeply into the study of the poses. I recommend this is you want a focused, in-depth program. Read more of my review about the Gaiam Yoga Club. My Yoga Online
Here you have many different instructors with many different backgrounds. You can see videos of many yoga practices, but they are not presented in a learning progression. Instead, you view the videos as you wish, in any order, at any time. It is really a library of yoga sequence videos. Typically, the videos are a voice over while one or two people do the pose. Many of the videos are yoga sequences--one yoga pose flowing to the next and the next. My Yoga Online has a huge wealth of information, from yoga philosophy to healthy living to physiology to how to use a neti pot. If you want to know anything about yoga, I'm sure you can find it here. Clicking through the site is an entire yoga course and then some. Read more of my review about My Yoga Online. Combine Yoga and Stress ManagementYoga is a great gift to quiet your mind. Stopping the blah, blah is one of the first steps to stress management. Yoga and stress management are truly two great sisters for your health. My Two Top Recommendations for Online Yoga:Gaiam Yoga Club Review My Yoga Online Review For more information:
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