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...up for sore muscles, strains and possible injury.

Cross-training during the summer and fall months is invaluable and will give you a leg up when November arrives; swim, play tennis, bicycle, run to keep you in shape and interested in fitness through variety. Then, add yoga to improve flexibility and strength. Keep it up after the season has started to stave off any injury and fatigue for those tough, but fun, double black diamond days.

You can purchase yoga videos, take a local, weekly class or watch for special shows on cable often featured on FitTV and OLN. I like to take an occasional class and use videos, they both offer diversity, privacy and instruction.

Have a great summer; I'll see you on the colorado slopes in a few short months.more

Get Relief Information - Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Yoga

...Although medical science has developed greatly and life expectancy has increased many times, the overall health of the population is not necessarily improving. Irregular diet and increased stress have together taken a toll on the health of many people. With our high stress lifestyles and increasing dependence on processed and high fat diets, disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome have affected millions around the world. So, most doctors tend to be of the opinion, when asked for information, Irritable Bowel Syndrome is caused by either physiological or psychological reasons, or sometimes both.

The vagueness is simply because the cause of IBS is not known. What is known is that a number of studies have shown that the percentage of people who get treated for IBS, who also have a psychological disorder is high. In fact, one study showed that between 50 90%os people who have IBS also have a psyc...more

Understanding Yoga and Pranayama

...Yoga is a scientific system of physical and mental practices that originated in india more than 3000 years ago. It is not just physical fitness training. Yoga is an ancient Indian philosophy that enhances personal growth and well being of the practitioner. It is extremely powerful stuff and is part of the Hindu religion and a way of life.

Yoga is one of the six orthodox systems of Indian Philosophy. It is a science that has been practiced for thousands of years. Yoga is anything but aerobics, not gymnastic. There are those who think Yoga is nothing else but standing on one's head or sitting somewhere in a buddha-like posture without moving. Or they believe it is a religion. Yog...more

Three Reasons You Should Not Do Headstand

...SIRSHASANA (THE HEADSTAND)

The Headstand is called the King of all asanas because of having tremendous benefits for the body and the mind. All our physical and mental activities are governed by the brain which is the seat of intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, discrimination and power. As the Headstand increases the blood flow to the brain it revitalises the entire body and the mind and also regenerates the nervous system. When the reversed flow of blood goes into the legs it helps to regen...more