The world of yoga is taken over by the trends of animals involving in the yoga session, like the Goat yoga,Dog yoga,Cat yoga ,even Horse yoga and now the latest trend is Bunny (rabbit) yoga.
In 2015 a British yoga gym started charity benefit for abandoned rabbit called the charity Bandaids for Bunnies, which became a internet viral trend and rest is history.
This trend is just funny idea by Sunberry Gym owner Julia Zu,but after holding only two classes the group surprisingly raised $1,000.
Some people may think its meaningless internet trend, others may think its for good cause to protect innocent animals from homeless issues.But what i suggest to all is if you are an animal or pet lover , who likes cute rabbit bunnies , then forget about silly trend or noble cause try to have enjoyable and relaxing time with cute little rabbits and awesome yoga session thank you.
In the world of yoga trends, its never going to be shocking anymore about the topic of doing yoga with animals first it was Dog yoga.After that the Goat yoga has became a global trend among yoga practitioners.
Even the Cat yoga is becoming a trend with cause for adopting cats from the shelter, but the Horse yoga trend is travelling to another level yogic practice with the popularity among some yoga groups and community.
Angela Nuñez’s is another example for the horse yoga movement enthusiast , she is a registered yoga teacher of 200 hour training in yoga practice.
Human and Horse Scientific studies :
According to Beth A. Lanning, Ph.D., associate chair and associate professor of public health in Baylor's Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences says "The PTSD is very hard to treat by therapeutic Horse riding program gave a better mental health condition.
The study is About Therapeutic Horse riding program For Military service members with PTSD.
She also said that veterans felt less stressed,depressed and anxious than before the intervention.The soldiers felt more self confident,Gratitude and hope with increased patience level. (Source link)
Even children with autism spectrum see amazing benefits from equine or horse therapy, researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have shown a Better reduction in irritability and more positive social and communication impacts on children with autism spectrum through therapeutic horse riding (Source link).
One scientific study published by the University of Sussex and the University of Portsmouth says that Horses can even learn our human emotion and remember human emotional state(Source link).
To answer the question, we have see how the world of yoga are changing rapidly over the years with Crazy or funny or weird trends popping up the main stream news like my previous post about the Goat yoga (yoga around goats),Doga yoga (Dog yoga) and Beer yoga (Drinking Beer while practising yoga asanas).
Just like these previous yoga trends, the cat yoga is simple like that doing yoga around cute and adorable cats or kittens.
In the year 2015 Catmosphere introduced a yoga session with cats, its a Space Cat Café in Sydney, Australia.
Where you can do yoga for 60 minutes and play with cats for 15 minutes to have and enjoyable time with pretty cats.
And also P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center in Camden, Maine, offers free cat yoga classes to promote cat adoption for the yoga lovers.
Jeanette Skaluba at Homeward Bound Pet Shelter (HBPS) launched a website for love of cats in the name of Yoga for cats.
Big Apple’s first cat cafe named Meow Parlour located in newyork city.
New Cat Yoga Cafe opened in Dubai's own Ailuromania Café Where you can enjoy your time with cute little kitties and relaxing yoga session.
Pause Cat Café in Old Christchurch Road Opened by Jaya Da Costa, he says the main motive for opening this cat cafe is bring awareness among people about crisis of Anxiety and Depression. Spending quality time with pet can reduce the stress hormone and increase the feel good hormone of Serotonin.
Scientific Studies about Cat and Human Relationship:
In 2017 study done by three researchers from both Monmouth University and Oregon State University found that cats are more similar to humans than we imagine. (Source link)
In that experiment researchers used two groups of cats, one living with humans and others living in the shelter.After that both group cats are separated for two and half from the living place.
And then they were given four choices of food, scent, toy and human interaction.The researchers found variation in the choice of stimulus from cats.
But most of cats around 65% of them chose their human interaction more than the other stimulus of food, scent and toys.
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What is sahaja yoga Meditation, Does it really work for you?
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Origin and History of Sahaja Yoga :
Sahaja Yoga is Religious Yoga Movement and it also became a Meditational movement for State Awareness to be achieved.
Sahaja in sanskrit meaning saha - with you and ja - born,Which means Spontaneous and born, denoting the kundalini is born in us and can be awakened spontaneously.
According to this movement the state of self awareness can be gained by awaking the Kundalini, which is said to be thoughtless awareness or mental state.
This Yoga Meditation movement is Founded in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (Called by her followers as Mother).
Nirmala Srivastava acclaimed to be Holy reincarnation of Hindu God Adi Shaki.
Sahaja Yoga is majorly based on the hindu religious practice with influence of other religions.
Sahaja yoga ashrams (Yoga schools) are in various countries like India, Italy, Kuwait, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America,Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany and more.
In Sahaja yoga is based on the belief in apart from the physical body there are various Nadi's - channels and Chakras - Energy centres in human body.
By Balancing the Chakras the Kundalini can be awakened in sacrum bone, which is considered to be the mother energy.
In accordance to belief of Sahaja yoga, when sahasrara - top most Chakras is pierced by kundalini that person will feel a cool breeze in his head and hands.
Sahaja yoga is approximately practised around the world by followers of 100,000, and Yoga centres are around 95 - 140 Countries.
And also Sahaja yoga International school of sahaja in Dharmasala annually around 250 students are accepted.
If you read about Inspirational world's oldest yoga teacher post from my previous content, it can be helpful to motivating to learn yoga.
Who is Nirmala Srivastava , Life and biography of Sahaja Yoga Founder :
Nirmala Srivastava was Born on 21th March 1923 in Chindawara, Madhya Pradesh, Called by sahaja yoga followers as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.
Her Father Prasad a scholar of fourteen languages , he is hindu religious follower and mother Cornelia Salve is the 1st women in india to got honors in mathematics degree , She is a christian religious follower.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava descended from the royal Shalivahana dynasty.
In her youth Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava stayed in ashram of great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi ji.
She is too involve in Freedom struggle for indian independence along with her parents in that time.And also got arrested in Quit india movement on 1942.
Shri Mataji married Chandrika Prasad Srivastava who worked as high ranking indian civil servant in that time of 1947 before independence.
Shri Mataji Had two daughters Kalpana Srivastava and Sadhana Varma.
Shri Mataji is more concerned by raising more false Gurus in this spiritual practise.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava established the International Sahaja Yoga Health and Research Centre in Mumbai in the year 1996.
Honors and recognitions given to Shri Mataji Nirmala are in 1986 she was declared as the personality of the year bu Italian Government, in newyork she was invited to speak about world peace for continously 4 years (1990 - 1994),in St. Peterburg, Russia, 1993 Shri Mataji Appointed as prestigious Honorary Member of Petrovskaya Academy of Art and Science,Shri Mataji was Awarded Honorary Doctorate in Cognitive Science by head of the Ecological University Bucharest by Country Romania in the year 1995 and even honors where given all around the world in her name.
In 23 February 2011 at the age 87 Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava Died in Genoa, Italy.
Can read about some of yoga's controversial topics of Goat yoga and Beer Yoga in my blog post.
Health Benefits of Sahaja Yoga Meditation :
Sahaja yoga has ability to balance and Improve your energy of human body
This Yoga method can be able cure many emotional problems , by improving the emotional intelligence of a person.
Some people even believe it has the ability to heal various Mental Disorders and health conditions.
It can improve and helps in recovering from most additive behaviours like smoking,Drugs,Alcoholism and more.
Sahaja Yoga is most beneficial in Awakening the ultimate Yogic power of Kundalini by meditation.
It can give a person a sense of inner peace by mind relaxation and calming effect.
It can Increase blood flow and also slows the heart rate.
Improves the High blood pressure medical conditional people.
Sahaja yoga has the ability to enhance the immune response.
Its gives more stamina,strength and endurance.
Decrease the Effects of premature and whole process of rapid ageing in general.
Aids in Breathing problems like Asthma,sinus and other issues.
Increases the serotonin level in brain ,to uplift the mood.
Helps you in better concentration and focus in any given task.
Even makes you Smarter , by increasing the intelligence of a person.
Can cure aggressive,Depressive and stabilise emotions.
Increase the sleep quality with better relaxation.
Most importantly calms the Over or Excessive Thinking mind to be stable.
Gives you Compassion,Tolerance, Self awareness,self discipline and spirituality.
Gradually improves the grey matters in the brain according a scientific study.
Reduce the Anxiety and fear from the external conditions.
Can be able to cure some of harmful Chronic Health problems.
Good for heart health with Regularise the heart function.
Cures common allergies and improves tolerance
Make you feel Mindfulness and gratitude towards life.
Heals Common cold,headaches and Migraine relief.
Eliminates the causes of Insomnia and other sleep disturbances.
Can make you more active and energetic in Sports and physical exercise.
Decrease infertility and improves fertility issues in both men and women.
Helps you in day to day activities like relationship,workplace,friends in better emotional outlook.
Scientific Research Based on Meditation:
According to Plos One source, Researchers long term effects of Sahaja Yoga Meditation and found that meditation practitioner experiences a state of mental silence, in this Research 23 meditation practitioner and 23 non meditation practitioner are subjected to SMRI. And the results found that meditation practitioner brain have more Grown Grey matters, when compared with the non meditation practitioner.
And a research conducted by Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE) in San Francisco united school district , the findings suggest that the participated Office staffs over the peroid of time of 4 months have practiced transcendental meditation reported less perceived stress and improved emotional intelligence , when results are compared with the control group.
In a Research with MRI Brain scans of Depressed people by Gaëlle Desbordes an instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) , in 2012 Desbordes conducted a FMRI scan on depressed patience who are Mediating , even when they are not in a meditation state their before and after an eight-week course in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, when they used negative words to describe and positive words showed a significant improvement in their mental health.
How To Do The Sahaja Yoga?
Place your right hand against your heart and ask yourself, 'Mother' am I the spirit?
Lower your hand to lungs and ask yourself, Mother am I my own master?
Then Lower your hand to your hip and ask, ‘Mother, please give me the pure knowledge.’
After that Raise your hand to your lung and say, ‘Mother, I am my own master.’
And Raise it to your heart and say, Mother, I am the spirit.
Then Raise it further to the back of your neck and say, Mother, I am not guilty.
Raise it to your forehead and say, Mother, I forgive everyone.
Raise it to the back of your head and say, Mother, please forgive me for whatever my wrongdoing.
Finally Raise it to the top of your head and say, Mother, please give me my self-realisation.
Things to do Before starting Sahaja Yoga practice :
If you know about Weight Loss Yoga read my previous post for knowing how to loss weight using yoga?
Before beginning the Sahaja yoga session that person has to do some spirituality ritual of chanting holy Bandhan.
These Bandhans can be helpful as a positive affirmation for preparing mind for practice of yoga to a higher state of consciousness.
And also theses chants act as psychological positivist for creating a beautiful mindset to begin the mindfulness practice of sahaja yoga.
How to effectively use yoga asanas for weight loss
Today we are going to learn about the capability of yoga not only for weight , but as a whole functions of yogic abilities , the above video can be inspirational weight loss motivation from one of DDP Yoga student, you can learn from the video itself he starts with this worst shape anyone imagine possible to the best shape ever with pure dedication and faith about yoga.
According to experts not only yoga has the ability for weight loss, but also can Many healthy benefits like
Benefits of Daily Yoga Practice:
Increased flexibility
Improve Muscle strength and tone
Improve Respiration
Protect from Physical injury
Increase Athletic performance
Enhance body Mobility
Strengthens Bone
Improve Blood flow
Cardio benefits
Mentally - Better focus
Self Awareness
Relax your whole body from tension
Improve Mood with emotional stability
Rapidly Boost your Immune System
Prevents from various Chronic Disease
Decrease Fertility problems
Improves Arthritis conditions
Increase Metabolism
Reduce Inflammation problems
Helps to recover form addictive behaviours
Uplifts Brain Health
Slows the ageing Process
Increased Energy and stamina
Helps for spiritual enlightenment
Decrease irritation and mood swings
Aids in Memory Power
Makes your intelligent with better mind power
Meditation helps with unwanted over thinking issues.
And above listed benefits are very few of yoga power, it can do more to your mind and body. So people all have the same question of asking why most people practice yoga didn't get results faster.Because yoga its not like most exercise form or methods , for example if you go gym and start working out by lifting weights , you will begin to see results in daily routine, you cannot achieve the physical ability of a athlete within days, you have to work continuously for years to get results.
To get results from you have practice yoga as a Way of Life.To ripe the benefits of yoga , you have to be more patience with great disciple to follow the path of ancient yogis.
As you can see the Above video will clearly show that yoga doesn't fit you any particular Body type Skinny,Average,Plus size or what ever shape exist can do yoga.
Step 1 (time management) :
The first step for starting beginner Yoga class , the most factor is the mindset for staring the yoga life style , always remember to have clear positive thought before starting your yoga session .Always don't be in a hurry plan you time correctly or else you will some discomfort of time management with sense of hurry.You can read about amazing story of 100 years old World's Oldest Yoga teacher from my previous post to get inspired from here incredible life story.
What is the best time for doing Yoga Practice ?
The Best time for practising yoga is Early morning or Brahma Muhurta (4.00am - 5.00am) , But due to the lifestyle and work time issues , i recommend to pick a time that is more relaxing and free from any disturbance.Try to Practise yoga in a empty stomach , because if you had eaten after 4 - 6 hours will be taken for the complete digestion of the food materials.
Morning is considered to be the ideal timing for yoga , if not try evening (5.00pm - 6.00pm), try to practice in the same time to make your body adapt to that time for practice.
Step 2 (Choose best place for Practice) :
What is the best place or Environment to Practice Yoga ?
The place where you practice yoga is one of the most important factor to consider , because the environment influence our mood and state of mind, Imagine if you in a library where people using large speakers to listen music, what would happen, the peaceful environment for reading books will become nonsensical place to be around.
Just like that always find a place where you can remain quiet peaceful without any distractions like even a tv, pc, sound system or anything that disturbs you focus on yoga practice.Try to find a open place where the air is pure for pollution,free from unwanted or sounds,If it helps try to practice alone without others distracts you.
Yoga environment should be closer to natural environment, if you cannot find any open space, try to you have plants or small trees around the place of practice.To uplift and eliminate a small disturbing sounds , use your own sound system with gentle clam and relaxing peaceful audio music to enhance the atmosphere of yoga.
Step 3 (Yoga accessories and Attire):
What are the Best accessories and attire for Yoga ?
Try to wear cloths that are short or air free flowing with loose fittings to feel comfortable during yoga poses, men can wear shorts and women can wear yoga tights or pants to feel comfortable.
Find the right Yoga Mat for your practice which has to be more durable,Grip,less cost with more quality product.Yoga Blocks are more helpful for balancing and other special poses where it aids in comfortable handle of Asanas for the practitioners.
Yoga Straps can be useful for students and people with some issues with back and other conditions.
And the Yoga Foam Roller can be a real help for people with more muscle stiffness and back issues , it helps a great deal for yoga students.
Always try to keep your yoga accessories neat and clean for better maintenance of products.
Step 4 (Meditate after Yoga Session) :
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - Lord Buddha
Meditation is the most underrated part of the Yoga practice session, and also the meditation is the most important part of the yoga life style.There are various scientific studies backing that the mediation is having vast amount of positive effect in humans.Depression is becoming more common form of harmful mental issue for majority of people in this world, the best solution for curing various mind disease is meditation.
Some research suggest regular practice of meditation can be helpful in emotional intelligence which can be major factor influencing the mental health issues in most people.You should meditate at least 10 - 20 minutes a day for having the benefits.
Can Yoga for Weight Loss be practised in Home ?
The answer is little complicated, in this age of internet are number of free platforms for learning yoga is available in youtube,facebook etc.And also yoga popularity grows in a good way and also has is grey area of some crazy or weird trends like Beer yoga,Goat yoga and Dog yoga.
So try to find perfect and best options for practising from the internet world.In ancient times real yogis teach their students in the gurukulam, master and apprentices kind of teaching method, But today's the yoga has evolved in to more a institutional level of learning with certifications.
I suggest people to first learn from a proper yoga master , then after certain period you can move your practice at home for convenience.
Best yoga Asanas routine for weight loss and belly fat
The above video is from Yoga Basics Brand of yoga youtube video.This video little intermittent yoga but it can be more effective for Belly fat burner yoga workout.If you feel this video is too hard to begin i will post another beginners video below to try for more comfortable practise.This video is from Psychetruth youtube channel by Jen hilman Yoga instructor.
10 minutes yoga for weight loss morning and evening routine for beginners :
You can also search for more easier Yoga routine for practice , but always remember to easy on the start and don't force too hard your body, try to gradually increase your level of difficulty with regular yoga training.
Yoga weight Loss Diet Plan :
Try to Avoid Meat and become veganism or vegetarianism.
Add more fruits, legumes, and whole grains to your diet
Increase number of meals from 3 to 5 smaller meals
Eliminate Junk food from your diet
Include healthy nuts like Almonds,cashews,peanuts and pistachios for healthy protein and fats
Have sufficient amount of water intake
Chew your food slowly and properly
Cut sugar and too much salt from Food
Avoid alcohol and smoking habits
Drink more natural Fruit juices
Try to avoid too much oily food items
Add sprouted beans to diet for fiber intake
Take probiotic fermented foods like Sauerkraut,yogurt,Kefir,Kimchi etc.
Drink Green tea
Have healthy seeds like chia and flax seeds
Avoid sodas and artificial flavoured cool drinks
Intake healthy herbal spices like turmeric,Ginger and cumin
Eat healthy whole grains
Replace with healthy oils like Coconut,Olive,sesame,peanut and Ghee
Avoid vanaspati, fast food, highly processed foods
Be consistent in timing to food intake
Try to have homemade foods as possible
Pay attention to your while eating , avoid distraction
Include more cooked food to diet for better digestion
Prepare healthy snack for hungry times.
Is diet that important in Weight loss ?
Yes , When compared to exercise or yoga or any physical workout is useless, if you don't follow correct healthy diet plan.Try to follow all or as much as you can in the above listed dieting tips list to increase to chance to reduction of unwanted fat from your body.These foods and habits have the ability to detoxify your body and gives nourishment to health.
Yoga Weight Loss Motivational Stories :
Ankita Srivastava a consulting physiotherapist was diagnosed with PCOD/PCOS , she Lose with Yoga and diet 32 kg in 9 months.She is from India.
This Story is from womenshealthmag.com , its about Parisa Anahid when she was 17 years old diagnosed with Crohn’s disease , Then by the year 2016 she started by diet with Aerial yoga and Belly dancing class for strength and endurance.And she has lost more than 100 pounds with this routine.
This Inspirational Weight lose story is from rd.com about Karl Burr who has lost 310 pounds following running, CrossFit, yoga, Pilates, and other routines.
The Story is from popsugar.com about Michelle , 48 years old women who lost 70 pounds , she followed weight training with yoga for Weight loss.
This story is from popsugar.com about Rachelle, she has lost with workout and yoga in between , lost 120 pounds in 8 months.
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Tao Porchon-Lynch in her wonderful 100 years she has been a Book author,Movie Actor,Dancer,Yogi,International model as a teen,Activist and True inspiration to all.Did you know she has won not only world guinness records for world's oldest yoga teacher, but also won 750 first prizes at international dance competitions.So let celebrate and wish her for long and Happy inspiring life.
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Yoga is the practice of uniting your mind and body with controlling your breath, yoga is now transforming in rapidly in recent years due to the western followers. Nowadays there are various trends in this age of internet , some of trends are interesting,cool ,funny and some are weird.
Around the world new trends are spreading like wild fire even fitness yoga challenge are becoming viral all social platforms like facebook,youtube and twitter.There are some many weird yoga trends like Goat yoga or even Beer yoga. Today i am talk about the Topic of Dog Yoga (yep its a real thing).
I am not talking about the dog yoga pose of Downward facing Dog aka (Adho mukha śvānāsana), i am going to talk about the latest trend of yoga where you do yoga with your own pet friend dog.Dog yoga practitioners believe that it creates a emotional and spiritual bond between the dog and master.
Some people around the yoga community its weird like Goat yoga (where you yoga around goats), because yoga is a pratice of discovering the meaning and awareness of Self , which become eliminated in these latest trends of yoga methods.
Origin :
Its actually created by Mahny Djahanguiri (Yogini / yoga teacher) in the year 2012.As she has said to Times the dogs are natural healers whenever i am sad they helped be cheer up and uplifted my mood.
Whereas there many are weird trends like the Beer yoga , in which you enjoy yoga practice with your favourite beer in hands.
The Untold Secret To BEER YOGA In Less Than Ten Minutes
What is Beer Yoga ?
Yoga is the practice of various styles of Vinyasa,Bikram,Power flow or hatha, you may heard of new trend of GOAT YOGA (i know its hard to believe but its True learn to live with it lol) which was my previous post. But now there is new wave of trend spreading like wild fire BEER YOGA (i'm not kidding friends).Its became my cool phenomenon among youngsters around the world.
Yoga followers of this new Beer yoga claims that it gives benefit of both beer drinking with the joy doing yoga, so they hold the beer bottles in hands during the practice of yoga.In Berlin’s yoga studio called the BierYoga promotes and take classes for these beer yoga coaching, where the trends spreads to germany following the foot steps of berlin.
There are various backlash on this trend of drinking beer during yoga , Louise Wallace from Yoga Alliance Professionals said to Times that people are making money out of this trend, yoga loses its meaning in this useless trends.
Things Everyone Knows About GOAT YOGA That You Don't
Origin:
Lainey Morse is the Founder of this new trend of GOAT YOGA , which took the world but storm with its rapidly growing popularity about Yoga practitioners.The concept of Goat yoga started in Muskegon native lady names Lainey Morse on 2016.
How to do Goat Yoga ?
Its actually pretty simple people do yoga with goats, Mostly small child goats are joining during the yoga practice. And the idea of doing yoga with goat become more popular due to calm nature of the adorable goats roaming around the yoga students, which give people a fun and relaxed time with nature.
The fun part of this Yoga concept is goat climbing on your backs during the practice of yoga.You can try this classes with your best friend to explore a new feeling and calm relaxed state with your loved ones.
Lainey says that the Goat helps people with feeling comfortable and therapeutic for enjoying the moment with cute animals. Lainey Morse’s Oregon Farm is the place where the goat yoga started and she is continuing her marketing to grow the goat yoga business to another level of success . You can also checkout about another weird yoga trend of Beer yoga on this post i have talked about the growing popularity of practising yoga while drinking Beer.
