Enhance your emotional resilience through yoga

Brings mind and body closer and triggers a sense of positivity

When the going gets tough, the tough needs to get going. This certainly applies to the current prevailing times, where amid a pandemic, the need to find solace and emotional resilience is at its peak. We have seen people around us trying different hobbies, coping mechanisms, and therapies to keep the lives running. However, there is an easy and proven way to strengthen your emotional resilience through Yoga.

Since the most ancient times, Yoga has been known to be a way of life, rather than a practice. Many experts and practitioners in the modern time insist that its positive impact goes far beyond the physical being.  Yoga is a powerful way for building your emotional strength and regulation. It can help you overcome overwhelming emotional state of mind. This is so because Yoga in its very nature awakens a communication between body and the soul, bringing us closer to our emotional wellbeing and spiritual sides.

In layman’s terms, yes, Yoga makes us feel calmer and is a stress buster. This is Yoga’s prime benefit, which goes far beyond physical fitness and body positivity. A regular routine of its master poses or asanas, can help us keep our minds right and sane, when we battle to see some positivity around us.

Yoga is proven to have therapeutic benefits, which constitutes a combination of physical and breath work. The idea is to choose these right poses, posture or breathing that help stir the right sensations in the body and allow you to reconnect with yourself. For instance, a person battling depression, may often feel fatigued, so less aggressive, and more mindful poses, and meditation will help them restore their emotional balance over a period of time. A constant discipline of yoga practice, will teach us to untangle our inner knots of pain, suffering, anguish, and frustration, help us deal with crises, and deal with heavy meltdowns. Whether there is fear or irritation or even disappointments, yoga practices provide an awareness, awakens compassion within us to perceive and empathise better. Apart from the poses, meditation and mindfulness are key ingredients that help our minds be more relaxed, and collected, help us to sit through boredom, mental anxiety and combat our emotional upheavals.

Some of the master poses which are key for better emotional resilience include Pranayama, along with other stress relieving exercises such as child’s pose, corpse pose, leg up the wall pose, dolphin pose, puppy pose, spine twist and standing forward bends. You could also practice and devote more time in breathing exercises, i.e., Pranayama, meditation, i.e., Dhyan and Samadhi, or Shavasana and to have a holistic impact on your emotional wellbeing.

Positive affirmations combined with mindfulness helps in strengthening the self-awareness. It is indeed proven that daily yoga practice can improve cortisol awakening tendencies in human beings, and combat stress resilience. With this, Yoga also helps in healing the mind and body and makes us healthier from within. In the process, it also reduces our mental stress and makes us feel lighter.

While it is easy to miss a day of Yoga, or meditation for a day, but habit is a beautiful thing to master. Building resilience starts with discipline and habituation, which will involve daily commitment to the routine to connect with one’s own self. Yoga’s miraculous power lies in helping us overcome emotional traumas and complexes with a simply an hour of daily practice. So next time, if your mind tells you to skip a yoga session, remember that practice makes you perfect!

Nida Zakaria.

Let us Begin with the Basics of Yoga

How often do we think of practicing Yoga in our everyday lives but don’t know where and how to start from? Well, it’s time to bring the thought into practice. Making Yoga part of your daily routine can help in experiencing a profound sense of harmony within yourself and the surroundings around you. Whether you are young or old, fit or fat, Yoga is for all. Its essence lies in the combination of Physical, Mental, and Spiritual health.

Starting with Yoga practice may seem overwhelming in the first place, but it doesn’t have to be intimidating at all. The focus should be on learning it step-by-step and discovering its beauty. Before starting, here are few pointers to keep in mind to optimize Yoga practice.

1. Getting to know it all- Remove all the Yoga myths before starting the Yoga practice. Being a beginner one’s goal should be calming and strengthening body and mind with easy and effortless exercises. It isn’t advisable to hop onto complicated exercises at the beginning. The whole purpose is to enjoy the process and seamlessly have fun while doing it.

2. Joining beginner level classes- It is best to start learning Yoga by joining Yoga studios or classes to learn the correct way of exercises. Beginner-level classes will help in training from the basics and will in setting up a strong foundation for Yoga practice.

Learning from experts will also reduce the chances of getting an injury and learningthe poses properly. The idea is to have an open approach to witness an enhanced Yoga experience.

3. Dressing up comfortably- There’s nothing worse than practicing Yoga in an uncomfortable piece of clothing. It is advisable to wear easy and comfortable clothes while starting with Yoga practice. Loose clothes offer the right balance of comfort, breathability, and flexibility. One should avoid wearing excessive jewellery or belts as it can hinder Yoga practice.

4. Start with Meditation and intention- A yoga practice should have an intention or goal attached in order to it to make it more holistic. Intentions can be any sentence or mantra that resonates with one’s self. While starting a practice, take few minutes to ground, center, and focus inwards with Meditation which will help in keeping up the momentum. The idea is to focus on the present and gain a new perspective on stressful situations.

5. Learning basic Yoga poses- The physical aspect of Yoga practice can be started from learning basic yoga poses. The building blocks of Yoga are the poses and practicing it continuously can benefit physical and mental health. One can start with Postures or Yoga asanas such as Child’s Pose, Downward facing dog, Tree pose or Shavasana, etc.

Each pose should be held for a few, slow breaths before moving on to the next one.

6. Ending the session with Relaxation poses- After completing Yoga asana practice, one should not be in hurry to call it a day off. Always end the practice with relaxing asanas and exercises like Shavasana. Such poses help in relaxing the body, rejuvenating the energy produced through yoga practice, and transitioning back to the world.

It is rightly said that “Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years” as it is an amalgamation of yoga asanas, ancient philosophy, pranayamas (breathing techniques), and meditations, where one participates in deeper spiritual experience. While starting the Yoga Journey, one may feel awkward and uncomfortable in their starting days of practice, but continuous Yoga practice can help in overcoming the phase and enriching the whole experience. Most importantly, one should stay in present, accept the limitations, and patiently wait to get accustomed to the practice.

Nida Zakaria

Six Simple Ways to Clear Negative Energy

In our day to day life we come across various sort of energies which influences our mood and mind. These energies comprises of both – the good and the bad. There are moments when we find ourselves engulfed by some bitter, toxic vibe and knowingly or unknowingly that ‘vibe’ destructs and disrupts our mind and body.

This can be termed as negative energies.

Negativity is poisonous to our entire system and one must find ways and method to combat with these energies for a holistic well-being. It can make us feel gloomy, heavy, upset, anxious and emotionally and physically feeble. It’s very important for all of us to get rid of this energy as it deeply affects our mind and body. Here are some easy methods to be incorporated in our daily routine.

SIX WAYS TO CLEAR NEAGATIVITY

 1. Practise Yoga : Yoga has proved to be helpful in combating negative energies since time immemorial. It is often advised by doctors and mental health therapist for clearing negative energies. 

 The following  yoga poses must be practiced for clearing negative energies

A) Urdhva Mukha Svanasana (upward facing dog) :

 This pose is not mentioned often but it is considered to be the best yoga poses for clearing negative energies. It helps in fighting depression and fatigue.

 B)   Marjaryasana (Cat-to-Cow) :

The Cat-to-Cow pose is beneficial as it calms the mind, relieves stress amd releases tension in the shoulders and neck.

C) SUKHASANA (Easy Pose)

The “Easy Pose” is one that helps in bringing peace to the helm. A forward bend, when practiced correctly, can aid in bringing calm.

Some of the other poses recommended for clearing negative energies are :

· Bound Angle Pose

· Supported Headstand

· Standing Forward Bend

· Tree pose

· Plank pose

2. Accepting Nature : 

 Nature is the mother of purity hence extremely beneficial for cleansing our souls. The beauty of ‘mother' nature can make it very difficult for any negative energies to come around if you go for a walk in the park on a daily basis.

You can bring nature into your home by surrounding yourself with flowers and plants. 

3. Meditation :

Meditation has a powerful healing effect in both mind and body. Self-fulfillment can be attained by eliminating all distractions and focusing on yourself. Great method to zone out spiritually from the worldly affairs and clear that negativity.

4. Keep your space clean

 Take quick and practical steps to get rid of something that isn’t adding value to your life. Bad vibes are attracted to clusters and an urorganised atmosphere, so sweeping and keeping the surroundings clean does wonders.

 5. Include Essential Oils in your daily routine

 Essential oils have been used to help release negative energy and foster positivity since ancient times.  They have the ability to change your present mood and transport you to a more optimistic state of mind. There are hundreds of oil to choose from, so trust your intuition and  your spirit lead you to the ones right for you.

6. Bathe in salt water to cleanse and dispel negative energies.

 A relaxing soak also aids in relaxation to help relieve tension and negativity by removing built up lactic acid and provising relief to sore muscles. While you are soaking, set a goal to release all negativity and aid in the cleansing of your body and aura.

As humans, we are constantly surrounded by force, whether negative or positive, and it is always there, even if we don’t realize it. You can maintain positive energy simply by accepting responsibility for your mistakes or appreciating the good in others and yourself. Simple exercises, meditation, yoga, passing a smile and cutting the cord to the past have always been successful in clearing negative energies.

 Nida Zakaria

Best Poses for Pain Sufferers

Yoga has proven to be extremely useful to reduce body pain. One can tackle pain both physiologically and psychologically with regular yoga practice. Often, body pain is due to several reasons including prolonged screen time, stress, anxiety, and unhealthy dietary and sleep patterns etc. And what sets yoga apart from most other exercise programs is that it places a great emphasis on achieving physical as well as mental fitness.

Can yoga help with chronic pain?

There have been several medical studies which indicate that yoga can be effective in dealing with chronic pain issues such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, migraine, lower back pain, and several other chronic pain conditions. According to a study that appeared in Annals of Internal Medicine, 313 people with chronic low back pain, who took a weekly yoga class, had enhanced mobility when compared with standard medical treatment for the condition.

Research also suggests that yoga responds to chronic pain on a neural level, improving the endurance of grey matter in the brain. Another meta-analysis of 17 studies conducted on over 1,600 volunteers suggests that yoga can be extremely beneficial to improve daily function among people with spinal and lower back pain issues. Moreover, yoga also improves mood and psychosocial well-being.

Thus, it offers a holistic care to an individual.

Poses for Pain Sufferers

1. Downward Dog: It calms the brain and helps in stress and depression. A must yoga for arthritis, headaches, fatigue, and back pain. It has good results for high blood pressure and asthma too.

2. Child Pose: Child Pose is a beginner yoga pose often practiced and suggested by trainers for lower back pain. This posture takes the pressure from your lower back by stretching and aligning the spine, giving your body a nice stretch. Child pose helps in promoting flexibility, stress relief and helps circulation to the muscles, joints and disks of the back.

3. Diaphragmatic (Belly) Breathing:  This pose has a ton of benefits for people who complain of health issues and pain. Our nervous system calms down when we breathe with our diaphragm. In doing so our body deals smoothly with our aches and pain. Belly breathing helps in strengthening our diaphragm which in turn reduces depression and anxiety related issues, helps in lowering our blood pressure and improves core muscle stability.

4. Cat/Cow Pose : The Cat/Cow Pose is an excellent way to warm up the spine. Talking about the physical benefits of this pose it helps in toning the gastrointestinal tract. This posture is helpful for relieving menstrual cramps and lower back pain. Cat/Cow Pose increases flexibility of the neck, shoulders, and spine. The movement also stretches the muscles of the hips, back, abdomen, chest, and lungs.

5. Supine Twist : This posture is extremely beneficial for entire back pain. It also helps in increasing the flexibility of the hips, upper back shoulders, and ribs. Adding to it, this pose does wonder for painful bladder syndrome.

6. Leg up the wall: A wonderful posture for tired feet and it also helps in easing lower back pain, headaches, and fibromyalgia.

There are many other postures that will surely help you in relieving pain and aches. Next time do consult your trainer or check our blogs for more inputs. And remember miracles don’t happen in just a day so it’s very important for every individual to be determined, giving the body the time to heal with these brilliant yoga positions.  Definitely practice and patience is the key to success and happiness.

Nida Zakaria

How Yoga Compliments and Strengthen Athletes Training Regimen

INTRODUCTION

The practice of Yoga usually involves exercises like asanas, pranayama, breathing modification, meditation, and sometimes chanting. It is a great inclusion to any exercise regimen, accompanied by a multitude of benefits that will help improve exercise performance.

One of Yoga's unique features is that athletes of all ages or experience can partake to ensure better mental and physical health.

For example, many yoga poses are most effective when breathing matches movement. By matching breathing with movement, endurance athletes such as cyclists, runners, and swimmers will benefit from the exercise.

How Yoga Compliments and strengthens Athlete’s Training Regimen

●    FLEXIBILITY: Flexibility is most beneficial to athletes; Yoga improves joint and muscular flexibility, vital to the body's overall structural effectiveness. Enhanced joint and muscle pliancy makes certain movements easier.

 This increased range of motion provides a greater ability to relax the mind and body, sharpen concentration, free the spirit, and condition muscle strain. Beyond physical flexibility, Yoga builds mind flexibility as the peculiar poses, breathing exercises, and meditation practices encourage better focus.

 Maintaining flexibility in such areas that are prone to holding tension enhances ease of movement, which means that you'll be able to maneuver your body in more ways than usual.

 ●    INCREASED CORE STABILITY: Asana's practice increases core stability, which is important to sport performance and injury prevention in sport. This practice focuses on proper muscular and skeletal alignment. The outcome of a systematic Asana practice is an increased sense of balance and strength for whole-body movement.

 ●    INCREASED RELAXATION: Sports demands a lot from your heart, bones, joints, mind, muscles, etc., not to mention the anxiety and pressure that accompanies competitive sports.

The yoga session usually ends with 5-10 minutes of relaxation in a corpse pose (Shavasana). During this pose, the mind/consciousness is trained in such a way that it can be indrawn/internalized.

 The importance of this relaxation to an athlete cannot be overemphasized, as this relaxation ensures that muscles return to a balanced tone allowing the athlete to flush those stress hormones from the body.

 ●    STRENGTH: Yoga strengthens the whole body as a unit. The exercises involved are all closed-chained and can be performed with hands and feet in contact with the floor. Yoga increases an athlete's core strength and helps to create whole-body functional strength.

 While your sport can make you strong only in specific areas as required by your sport, Yoga practice tailored for your sport builds your undeveloped muscles and restores balance to your body by promoting full-body strength.

 ●    BALANCE: Yoga enables balance; such balance will strengthen your lower legs as an athlete and hone your proprioception such that you'll grow to be more aware of where your body is in space.

 Yoga poses also teaches you ways to be aware of your body's center of gravity in different positions. Also, it gives you dimensional balance.

 ● INJURY PREVENTION: The strength, flexibility, and improved body mechanics you achieve from constant yoga practice help your body maintain a healthy body and healthy joints. These joints are often prone to injuries due to repetitive training.

Suppose there is an imbalance in the body that causes it to function out of alignment. In that case, continuous athletic training with this abnormality can lead to inflammation of the body and excessive wear on the tissues. However, constant yoga practice helps align the body by correcting the soft tissues' strength and flexibility.

 Yoga poses can also enable a self-awareness that can help you as an athlete notice your skeletal misalignments.

●    MENTAL TRAINING: Most athletes are constantly training to exceed their physical limits, but it is often an athlete with a great mental strength that perseveres.

 Yoga practices and poses like the back-bending pose, sitting quietly in mind and body for 30minutes regardless of uncomfortable sensations, teaches you mental toughness. This skill is very valuable, especially when you encounter a similar intensity in your athletic training.

 Yoga practice makes you put yourself in challenging situations and teaches you how to cope with these challenges.

●    CONTROL: Yoga helps with every aspect of control, such as breath control, mind control, and movement control. Mind control is developed from the objective of Yoga, which is to stay present and focused.

Movement control is acquired from an improved mind-body connection. When you control your breath and accurately pair such control with your movement, it will improve your oxygen intake and output, efficiency, and muscle function and help you reduce muscle fatigue.

Yoga in sports is vital as it complements and strengthens athletes' training regimen in multiple ways and on different levels. It can help athletes have an evenness and control over their mind, movement, and thoughts even during stress. Yoga plays a key role in cultivating concentration, which helps athletes perform at their peak.

Gravity impacts our yoga practice. Find out how

We all know the benefits of yoga and the ones who have adopted it fully have transformed their lives.But not many, including those who practice it regularly, gravity can affect your yoga practice! If you have never heard this before, you sure have hit the nail right.

It is indeed true that from exercises like weightlifting to slumping down on your bed to even walking on the ground- everything we do, is governed by gravitational forces of the Earth. This includes our Yoga practices too. so, if you well versed with how gravity impact your yoga mat, you would perhaps be able to alter your moves to get the maximum benefit of your yoga session !

Gravitational forces of the earth give us the base and context to work with. So, imagine, in space, when there is no gravity, you cannot move or do any of the poses because there is absolutely no gravity. You cannot even support your own body weight. This has the pull gravity has on us. When one is dancing, gravity is affecting their pose and their movement.

Yoga does that by first helping us find our centre. Gravity basically picks the muscles that will be at work, and which will not. In Yoga too, this movement literacy certainly gets impacted against gravity. When you have the knowledge of how the specific movements and muscles get impacted with gravity- you become at practice, help eliminate pains and create more flexibility in the body.

For instance, in many poses, raising your leg up uses hip flexor muscles that are found on the front of the body. When one lifts their legs against gravity, muscles will see a shortening contraction. Therefore, the more metabolically efficient your body is, the lesser energy you require to move with gravity, than against it. This means during any yoga pose, your centre of gravity affects the pose, and the move for any practioner.

Another example is the Tree Pose, where the pelvis shift occurs naturally to balance ourselves on a straight body. The leg and spine muscles automatically adjust themselves to the power of gravity. These kinds of poses which take benefits of gravity help in muscle extensions and flexions.

In the same way, inverted poses like Shoulder Stand or Legs Up the Wall go against gravity and have their own benefits too. These kinds of poses have long term effects on skin, improve circulation amongst other. When we do asanas against gravity, the forces exert a pull on your muscles, spine and skin. The poses that go against gravity benefit our health as it prevents sagging of our skin, and make our skin look younger and vibrant for a longer time.

Practicing aerial yoga, is another example where we work against gravity. Though a much recent phenomenon. Aerial yoga or Fly Yoga is an activity which is counter gravity based and allows the muscles to relax and joints to have more space and be flexible, making them stronger in turn. So, whether we are practing a dance routine, playing a sport or doing yoga – any of these physical activities, gravity has an indispensable role to play. Coming back to the zero-gravity scenario – we can understand the role it plays in our lives and our spiritual journey. It is time we understand the purpose and use it to our full advantage and improve our health.

Nida Zakaria

How Can Yoga Help You Recentre Yourself

These are the most unprecedented and difficult times we all have ever face. With the new COVID strain and another lockdown life is just not getting back to normal. These are the times when our mind is stressed beyond measures, with such grave changes happening in day to day life. And this is when yoga comes to our rescue.

Practicing yoga definitely helps us in focusing inward with compassion to reduce stress and recenter.

Here we will be talking about a few yoga postures that helps to de stress. But before you begin it’s important to focus on your breath and your surroundings, once you have calmed down take a deep breath and center your thoughts to make a start.

EIGHT POSES TO RECENTER

1. Sukhasana (Easy pose)

The Easy Pose considered being a great posture that helps in calming down the mind and eliminating anxiety. Mental and physical fatigue stays under control if we regularly practise ‘sukhasana’.

2. Standing Forward Bend (Uttanasana)

Forward bends helps in increasing the exhalation and relieving stress. In addition, with the arms behind the back, we discharge shoulder pressure. Uttanasana also helps in releasing the hamstrings which might get attached up when we are stuck in fight or flight mode. Traditionally it is also said to relieve insomnia.

3. Rabbit Pose (Sasangasana)

Yogis find the rabbit pose an extraordinary pose when stressed, panicked or exhausted. This pose gives a feeling of unwinding of the breathe out and solace of being nestles into a ball., We also get a shoulder release while we add the hands intertwined behind the back and lifting & lowering of hips.

4. Wide-Legged Standing Forward Bend (Prasarita Padottanasana)

As mentioned above forward bends helps in increasing the exhalation and relieving stress. In addition to it the wide legged forward bend help in releasing some of the pressure in the head.

5. Paschimottanasana (Seated forward bend)

Paschimottanasana stretches the spine, hamstring and lower back, helping to open up the hips. It is also considered to be a calming pose which helps in relieving stress, reduces fatigue and improves our mood.

6. Balasana (Child’s pose)

Balasana is helpful for our lymphatic system and nervous system. It helps in calming our mind and releasing stress.

7. Ananda Balasana (Happy baby pose)

This pose helps in stretching the inner groin, hamstrings and the lower back. It is also beneficial in calming the mind and getting rid of fatigue and stress. On doing this you will definitely get the attitude of happy baby.

8. Plow Pose (Halasana)

Halasana helps in stretching the spine, shoulders and back of the legs. A great pose for reducing stress and fatigue. Plow releases the neck, head, shoulders, and hamstrings. It also increases the exhale and turns one inward.

So, yogis the above are only some of the poses that can help you recentre yourself. Indeed yoga is a wonderful way to calm our mind and body. Then, what you are waiting for. Give it a shot.

Practice Yoga & Stay Calm.

Nida Zakaria

New to practicing Yoga? Here is a checklist for the beginners

“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory”

Once in a while many of us come across the idea of practicing yoga but just couldn’t begin with
it of all the many reasons. Some think that yoga is not their cup of coffee others might feel that
they are too inflexible for the poses or too old to join yoga class.
Whatever your reason might be always remember yoga is for every age and every body type. So
let the myth go away and if determined for a healthy mind and body enroll yourself for yoga
session.
There are some important things that you as a new yogi must know before hitting the mat. So
here is a list of things you beginners need to check before you don your yoga pants –

1. How and where to practice Yoga- You can perform Yoga anywhere and anytime, with
yoga props (need mats and the stretchy gear). While you can do Yoga, easily, at the
comfort of your home, there are yoga studios that conduct sessions which may involve
equipment like straps, belts, and blocks. So, it is up for you to decide how you want to
start with the Yoga practice. With virtual yoga becoming a thing today, one can simply
log in and follow various yoga experts who run videos series on YouTube and Instagram.

2. How often to practice Yoga – The purpose of yoga is not same as the purpose to join a
gym. Yoga provides calmness, strength, flexibility, and balance to your body. While you
may not have to dedicate an hour to yoga every day, but a three- four hours per work
works well for anyone who is starting with their Yoga practice.

3. Don’t even think about starting with pretzel poses from the very start- Yes, yoga is
all about being flexible and bendy, but that doesn’t imply to over exert and hurt your
muscles in doing advanced poses or asanas (arm balancing, inversions and backbends)
right from the start. As a beginner, one must begin from simple ones and gradually
move to higher levels. This is not a competition, this is Yoga !

4. Yoga is not just about exercising and body movement – Yoga as the world knows is a way of life. It is far more complicated than half an hour on the mat every day. While the essence of Yoga is in the practice, one must also try and understand the purpose behind it. Cultivating a regular practice will have a positive impact on your body, your lifestyle and overall outlook on life.

5. Which Yoga poses to begin with? – This is again connected to how one should approach practicing yoga. While starting directly with complex pretzel poses can make you fatigued, one can choose from a variety of simple asanas. In the end, it all depends on what your body is capable of and comfortable. Listen to your body, is the first basic rule to practice Yoga! It is necessary to start with fundamental poses first. Some of these can include the Mountain, Warrior, Plank, Chair, Lunge, Dog, Lifts and folds, Locust pose and many more.

6. Follow your teacher: Your yoga trainer eventually gets to know your body movement and alignment better than you. Therefore have faith in your Guru and religiously work on his/her advises.

7. Be flexible with the basics: Once you join in as a new yogi your instructor will first train you with the foundational poses of yoga. As a beginner you should be familiar and comfortable with poses like: child pose, mountain pose, downward dog pose, baby cobra pose, corpse pose, plank pose etc.

8. Mind your breath: Yoga is solely linked with your breath. If you learn the skill of focusing on your breath while practicing any basic or complicated posture you simultaneously establish a connection with your body and mind. The breathing exercise (Pranayama) helps in reducing anxiety and develops concentration.

9. Savasana is important: Savasana is the final resting pose at the end of your session. Generally many of the yogis skip this vital pose but as a beginner you should understand that savasna helps your body and mind to relax and rejuvenate after that hectic yoga session. Therefore it’s advisable to lay down for a couple of minutes and never skip Savasana.

10. Never give up: The fact is you won’t start loving yoga in a day but once you do there is no escape from it. Keep practicing until you make it a daily routine.

You do not have to be intimidated with complex inversions or backbends while researching yoga - you shall get there!

The key to become a true Yogi is years of practice and adherence to discipline. Yoga is not just a workout to lose weight or remove fat! Yoga is health and life – one must be cognizant how one approaches Yoga practice. A day of stress, and nerves in pain – all could be cured with regular Yoga practice.  While starting out, one needs to choose their style as per one’s fitness and flexibility levels. The first few times could make you feel challenged but as the body warms up and opens to the idea; you would feel a new sense of enlightenment with regular yoga practice.

Nida Zakaria