What Are Heart Opening Yoga Poses? What Are Their Benefits?

Heart opening yoga poses
We have all heard about the importance of ‘core fitness’, and about strengthening the body’s core. We know that this helps prevent pain and injuries and enhances endurance. Heart opening yoga poses or asanas can similarly help the body increase strength in the back, shoulders, and stabilising muscles. Let us look at the importance of this facet of yoga, as well as the yoga pos...
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Protect Your Throat Chakra, Start Speaking Up!

Throat Chakra
As most of us know, there are various chakras located at different points in the body. These are the focal nodes of the non-physical or ‘subtle’ (spiritual) body which regulate the flow of energy within the body. Meditation, yoga, mudras, kriyas, breathing exercises are all oriented towards maintaining proper balance of the chakras and towards the normal and unrestricted flow ...
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The Throat Chakra – Express Yourself & Change Your Life

Throat Chakra
In Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditional belief, the human body has ‘chakras’ or focal points of the subtle body. The chakras are in our physical body but they originate from our mental and spiritual selves. We believe that the body’s chakras are connected to certain electromagnetic fields. For a yogi, it is important to understand the concept of the chakras in general and the t...
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Yoga and the Chakras – How Are They Connected?

7 Chakras and Yoga
Chakra as we all know is the wheel – in Indian religious and philosophical thought, the chakra refers to the centre of the subtle body (as opposed to the physical body). It is the psychic energy center or the focal point of the body’s energy. Different faiths such as Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism embrace the concept of chakras and yoga though the context and the number of chak...
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Understanding Chakras

body chakras
Chakra means wheel or disc, i.e. the wheels of energy that reside throughout our body. Negative feelings obstruct the spin of these chakras which results in sickness and disease. Thus chakras are vital energy centers that direct our psychological qualities. Types of Chakras There are more than 114 chakras in our body. In that, there are seven main chakras, which align the spi...
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