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The story of Yoga : from ancient India to the modern West
How did an ancient Indian spiritual discipline turn into a.
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Yoga in the Early Elementary Classroom: A Narrative Inquiry
This research focuses on the introduction of yoga into two elementary classes. The yoga sessions were delivered over the course of three months, and included a breathing practice, followed by the reading of a children’s book, and then a yoga practice. Employing a narrative inquiry methodology, data were collected through three methods: student journals and related artifacts, classroom observations, and individual interviews. Using an inductive process and thematic coding, three common salient themes were constructed through the data collection: students’ understanding and experience of yoga, story and yoga, and yoga in the world. Relying upon the lotus flower as a metaphor, a discussion of these results is offered. This discussion focuses, primarily, upon the following six broad topics: mitigating challenges, consistency and routine, body and mind, being versus doing, yoga and story, and yoga in the world. This discussion and subsequent conclusion offer affirming evidence and potential applications related to the introduction of yoga into early elementary classrooms.
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Yoga for everyone : 50 poses for every type of body
For years, yoga books have asked readers to bend over backward (literally!) to conform to their physical demands. It's time for the opposite--for readers to demand that yoga conform to their individual needs. It's time for a yoga book to reflect the broader population that would benefit from a yoga practice geared toward them. It's time for Yoga for Everyone! This book offers yoga for every type of body: those who are big, small, elderly, pregnant, or of various physical abilities--everyone. No matter who you are or what you look like or what your abilities are, you can do all 50 poses in this book. The variations to classic poses in this book will also allow you to perform all 10 sequences, which combine different poses into one singular experience and focus on specific physical and mental benefits. So forget what you've heard. Yoga isn't just for the privileged few. It's meant to be enjoyed by everybody and every body. Yes, you can do yoga--and Yoga for Everyone will show you how!
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How We Live Our Yoga: Personal Stories
How We Live Our Yoga collects fourteen frank, moving, and thoughtful personal essays by passionate yoga practitioners on why they began to practice, what it has brought to their lives, how their relationship to yoga changes and evolves, and more. Judith Lasater looks at the unexpected relationship between yoga and parenting. Award-winning poet Stanley Plumly ponders the connection between his Quaker upbringing, his writing, and his yoga practice. The well-known Sanskritist Vyaas Houston tells the story of his first guru and their difficult relationship. And philosopher and conceptual artist Adrian Piper comes out as a yogic celibate.
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Is the body the temple of the soul? : modern yoga practice as a psychosocial phenomenon
\"Hatha-yoga in Western culture is often perceived as the practice of physical exercises (practice of the asana position), usually done to improve one's health and emotional state. Even if that is the case, it is still based on the rule of \"the silencing of the modifications of the mind.\" It is about a containment of mind dispersion in terms of non-important, minute, everyday issues, which are not important for the basis of our existence, balance and inner harmony, the unity of body and mind. even if we train only for our health and for improvement of our physical fitness, then the end result, in the case of many physical and sports activities, is stopping mind movement. The full concentration on one action, on one point in space, might not have any metaphysical meaning for us, but it still remains full concentration. This can be achieved by patiently practicing hatha-yoga.\"--Back cover.
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CUSTOMISED SPORT INJURY REHABILITATION WITH YOGA AND PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR ACL - 12 WEEK REHABILITATION PROGRESS OF AN INJURED YOUNG ALPINE SKIER
Perception of the usefulness /value of yoga as an adjunct intervention is a significant factor for the injured athlete's adherence to the customised sport injury rehabilitation program. The findings from 12 week rehabilitation progress assessment post Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction of an injured skier, highlight improvement in the injury rehabilitation goals which influence the performance goals of the injured athlete. A customised program was designed for the injured athlete with a 30 minute yoga protocol as an adjunct intervention, thrice a week along with 90 minute physical therapy session. IKDC score improved from 49.4 to 63.2. Range of Motion (ROM) of the injured right knee improved from −3 to normal, knee flexion increased by 20 deg, external rotation flexion enhanced (active 20 deg and passive 10 deg), passive hip flexion increased by 15 deg. Muscle test for hip extension increased from 4 to 5, flexion (from 3+ to 5), knee flexion (from 3 to 4), knee extension (3+ to 5). The perceived value of the injured athlete to practice yoga as part of rehabilitation is 5.8 whereas the perceived choice is 3.9 on a 7 point scale of Perception of Activity. While yoga and physical therapy improve flexibility, muscle strength, stability and balance of the injured athlete, perception about usefulness of the customised yoga and physical therapy influences adherence to rehabilitation and effective participation in the rehabilitation program. Biopsychosocial model (Brewer et al 2002) helps to understand rehabilitation of sport injury rehabilitation. Yoga and physiotherapy as a combined intervention, could enhance the biological and psychological factors that have a significant effect on the intermediate biopsychological outcomes. In this research, knowledge about usefulness of yoga in sport injury treatment could benefit the sport medicine and physiotherapy fraternity to include yoga as an adjunct intervention. Collaboration of physiotherapists, yoga professionals, doctors and coaches with an athlete-centric approach might help injured athletes to enhance adherence to sport injury rehabilitation programs. Further studies are warranted to measure long term effect of yoga on sport injury rehabilitation and prevention of non-contact injuries of athletes.
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The Yogasutra of Pataõnjali: A New Introduction to the Buddhist Roots of the Yoga System
This book offers a systematic and radical introduction to the Buddhist roots of Patañjala-yoga, or the Yoga system of Patañjali. By examining each of 195 aphorisms (sutras) of the Yogasutra and discussing the Yogabha?ya, it shows that traditional and popular views on Patañjala-yoga obscure its true nature. The book argues that Patañjali's Yoga contains elements rooted in both orthodox and heterodox philosophical traditions, including Sa?khya, Jaina and Buddhist thought. With a fresh translation and a detailed commentary on the Yogasutra, the author unearths how several of the terms, concepts and doctrines in Patañjali's Yoga can be traced to Buddhism, particularly the Abhidharma Buddhism of Vasubandhu and the early Yogacara of Asa?ga. The work presents the Yogasutra of Patañjali as a synthesis of two perspectives: the metaphysical perspective of Sa?khya and the empirical-psychological perspective of Buddhism. Based on a holistic understanding of Yoga, the study explores key themes of the text, such as meditative absorption, means, supernormal powers, isolation, Buddhist conceptions of meditation and the interplay between Sa?khya and Buddhist approaches to suffering and emancipation. It further highlights several new findings and clarifications on textual interpretation and discrepancies. An important intervention in Indian and Buddhist philosophy, this book opens up a new way of looking at the Yoga of Patañjali in the light of Buddhism beyond standard approaches and will greatly interest scholars and researchers of Buddhist studies, Yoga studies, Indian philosophy, philosophy in general, literature, religion and comparative studies, Indian and South Asian Studies and the history of ideas.
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