Welcome to Gentle Yoga 

Welcome to Wellness Yoga

When you are exhausted, stressed out, in constant chronic aches and pains or just tired and frustrated after a long day’s work, a power ‘work out’, may wear you down further, and the longer you overexert yourself, it will create a long-lasting detrimental effect on your physical and emotional health & wellness, giving rise to various ailments as you age.

Practicing mindful gentle, subtle yoga has loads of benefits that will help you relax your tired mind and body, restore and balance your energies and improve your metabolism and streamline your physiological and psychological processes to make you more aligned and resilient.

It’s a complete wellness package. These techniques will help you relieve pain, reduce your anxiety, improve overall energy level and metabolism, aide better sleep and bring joy and happiness to your life.                                                                                                                                                                  

Important Note:

Please avoid a heavy meal before the yoga session.

Maintain a gap of at least 3 hours between a meal and yoga session

If you feel hungry after a yoga session, please eat a light healthy snack after 30 minutes following a yoga session

Vajrasana (diamond pose) is the only asana one could do anytime after having a meal. A few minutes of this asana helps in good digestion.

WHAT IS YOGA AND WHAT IS NOT YOGA?

 

Shoulder Care

What is Holistic Yoga?

According to Dr. BM Hegde,

“Yoga has eight limbs- astaanga Yoga. They are

  1. Yama,
  2. Niyama,
    Relax like a duck
    A beautiful Duck family relaxing in a serene pond.
  3. Praanaayaama,
  4. Prathyaahaara,
  5. Dhyaana,
  6. Dhaarana,
  7. Samaadhi, and
  8. Aasana.

A real practitioner will have to observe certain codes of conduct. Regular exercise, moderation in food habits, preferably vegetarian sattvic diet, truthfulness in dealing with the world, overcoming the desire for what does not belong to oneself, concentration and meditation, pranayama, the breathing techniques of various kinds and, Samadhi. The last simply connotes the state of mind that the authentic practitioner attains if one follows the other rules. Asanas, the various postures that are sold to the gullible public as the be all and end all of Yoga, are only meant to help one to attain constant ease, the pre-requisite for practicing the other seven limbs of Yoga. When one equates the postures, the asanas, to the whole science of Yoga, the result could even be counterproductive, although muscle stretch alone might produce mind-calming endorphins from the muscles!|

Dr B. M. Hegdecardiologist, medical scientist, educationist, yoga practitioner/teacher, author, and the Editor in Chief of the medical journal, Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes.  In 2010, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan India’s third-highest civilian award.

http://www.bmhegde.com/what_yononga.htm