(ARA) – Megan Johnson did something at 33 that she’d dreamed of since college — she entered a bodybuilding, figure and fitness competition and placed a respectable seventh in the figure category.
What’s the big deal? In addition to her age — the average female figure contestant is about 28 — she’s a mom of four: [...]

Yoga is all about finding balance – in a position, in your health and in your place in the universe.  But a lot of the concepts surrounding yoga can be very hard for a beginner to grasp – especially a beginner raised in Western Civilization.  Although you at first should get classes from a yoga [...]

Traditional yoga is focused more on improving one’s mind than the physical state of a person. Of course, the physical state improves with the mental state but the main goal of yoga is the betterment of one’s life through mental dealings and the communion of the body and mind. These days, a yoga workout can [...]

There are several advantages to practicing yoga including busting up much of the stress that has built up in your mind and in addition, with proper yoga training you can also blast the unwanted fat out of your body. This aspect to yoga has thus opened up many new methods of staying in good shape [...]

Women can benefit a lot from yoga, no matter what stage of their life they are in.  There are even yoga programs and DVDs for pregnant women, but we’ll just stick with non-pregnant women here.  If you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant and taking yoga classes or performing your usual yoga technique, [...]

Today, there are numerous choices available when it comes to choosing the best yoga teacher training programs and so it will definitely pay to learn more about what various programs have to offer before picking any one program. For example, you even have an opportunity to go for online yoga teacher training programs that may [...]

Before you even start to think about becoming a yoga teacher, it is necessary to first of all understand that there are several different forms of yoga that each will mean following a different path. Thus, whether you choose to become a yoga teacher who teaches Bikram yoga, Hatha yoga or even Vinyasa yoga, the [...]

There is more to the practice of yoga than just the physical benefits and so, it also requires understanding the yoga sutras as written by Patanjali. In fact, if you want to derive the most out of these verses that help you reach a higher level of self discovery there are as many as one [...]

The aim of any good yoga shala should be to honor the classical yoga disciplines including the Hatha Yoga as well as other related disciplines. For the uninitiated, Hatha Yoga refers to an ancient as well as comprehensive science that works the entire body as well as a person’s breath in order to transform the [...]

First off, you won’t be kicked out of a yoga class just because you are not wearing yoga sandals.  A lot of people prefer to do yoga barefoot.  Keeping your balance is essential in doing almost any yoga position, so your feet need to have a good grip with the ground or a yoga mat.  [...]