Starting Your Yoga Practice
Starting Your Yoga Practice Here’s your comprehensive guide to getting started. You’ll learn how to find a yoga class and a good teacher, how to practice on your own at home, what to wear, when to practice, and how to fit yoga into your busy schedule. You’ll also find tips for changing the way you think about exercise, from banishing the “no pain, no gain” adage from your mentality to learning how your breath can […]
The Muscle and Bone Connection
The Muscle and Bone Connection If we go skin deeper, we get to your bones and muscles. IYO Yoga postures make more sense if you know a little bit about how your body works. Your particular physical challenges will also become more specific to you if you understand your anatomy. Your skeleton is your frame. It supports your fat, muscles, and organs. It contains 206 bones. Connecting the muscles to the bones are tendons. Muscles […]
Your Body and IYO Yoga 101
Your Body and IYO Yoga 101 IYO Yoga can help you optimize the particular physical body you’ve been given, but your physical makeup isn’t the whole picture. You are also animated by energy. Your cultural background determines the way you may see or understand your body in all its layers and complexities, and your own personal level of confidence and trust in your own body can teach you even more about the complex package otherwise […]
The Shape You Are In
The Shape You Are In (Posts from International Yoga Organisation) To know your body is to love your body, with all its unique characteristics. Whether you tend to be muscular, curvy, slim, or some combination, look around and you’ll see others with many of the same qualities—and different physical characteristics of all kinds, too. But knowing your body type can do more than make you feel satisfied that there are plenty of other people who […]
International Yoga Organisation-Yoga Means Connection
International Yoga Organisation-Yoga Means Connection IYO-Yoga taps into your inner power, connecting your body with your mind. It’s easy to fall into a pattern of associating fitness with the body alone. We run, do aerobic dance, bicycle, and perform sit-ups and pushups—all for our bodies. What does your mind have to do with it? But the yogi will soon see the absurdity of this notion. Body and mind are one, and although they can become […]