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Yoga promotes change in the habits and overall well being of an individual. It offers various advantages from self-realisation, relaxed mind, better control and coordination between mind and body. In order to gain benefits from Yoga it is also essential for an individual to understand the following things about him/herself.

1. Figure out how to "feel" yourself.

First off, figure out how to join back to your quick sensations and sentiments. Regardless of the possibility that this sounds bizarre, it is less vital what those sentiments are to start with, however more essential to just feel yourself. Recognize how you feel! Realize that there WILL be emotions that you won't care for, or have not felt effortlessly. Be that as it may, don’t give up, it's a piece of a characteristic clearing procedure. In time, your own direction framework gets initiated once more, and you can utilize your felt faculties and quick feelings to give yourself data, direction, and instinct about what's occurring and where you're going next. Each time you join with yourself, you're making space for new development, letting yourself turn out to be more porous to new arrangements.

Exploration proposes that rehearsing Iyengar yoga may yield particular medical advantages. Here's a glance at some key study discoveries:

1) Osteoarthritis

In a pilot study distributed in 2005, researchers found that Iyengar yoga may decrease torment among individuals with osteoarthritis of the knee. The study included 11 yoga tenderfoots with osteoarthritis, every one of whom were appointed to eight weeks of Iyengar yoga preparing (including one hour and a half session every week). Notwithstanding encountering huge diminishments in torment, the seven members who finished the study demonstrated an abatement in joint solidness and change in capacity.

2) Lower Back Pain

Iyengar yoga is a standout amongst the most prevalent types of yoga in Europe and United States. Made by Shri B.K.S. Iyengar, this kind of yoga is especially appropriate for individuals with back issues and for individuals who experience the ill effects of anxiety (two conditions that regularly go together). Iyengar yoga has been around for more than 60 years, and since it is a type of yoga, it depends on practices that are a great many years old. It is a standout amongst the best yoga shapes for individuals who need to adapt to mental and profound anxiety. Astounding stance, equalization, and unwinding are real purposes of accentuation in Iyengar yoga. In spite of the fact that individuals with particular back issues or issues with anxiety incline toward this sort of yoga, anybody can profit by Iyengar yoga.

Iyengar yoga accentuates on enhancing stamina, adaptability, fixation, and parity. Contemplation is nearly interwoven with the asanas (postures). Yama, the first standard, stresses forbearance from savagery, which assists with bodying oppose yearnings and materialistic wishes. The second rule, Niyama, underscores purging the body and brain of anxiety brought on by unfulfilled cravings. The third rule depends on the Asanas, which assist with bodying enhance quality and adaptability and battle physical disquietude. The fourth standard, Pranayama, underlines profound, moderate relaxing. Pratyahara and Dhyana, alternate standards joined into Iyenga yoga, stress calming the psyche and accomplishing solidarity with the heavenly. Fitting arrangement of the asanas is critical for this style, and a considerable lot of the stances utilized are found as a part of different sorts of yoga.

When you rehearse yoga, you are NOT REQUIRED to quit smoking. In any case, in all decency I need to specify that after you start your practice, you may find that you would prefer not to keep smoking.

Yoga stresses fitting breathing and can enhance your oxygen limit. You may see the advantages and changes are more evident in other people who don't smoke, and after that choose to surrender smoke yourself.

This is altogether an individual choice.

Changes

You may think about whether you have to change your way of life to practice yoga. The answer is NO. It doesn't require that you quit or decline. You don't need to end up a vegan or change your diet. Nor do you need to surrender drinking or smoking. Then again, you may see that your tastes change after you start to practice yoga. As you get to be more subtle and tuned into your body, you MAY feel distinctively about the effects indulging, smoking and drinking liquor have on your body. Having practiced yoga for a long time have the greatest alteration in lifetime about the more mindful choice of dietary rules.

For any medicine go to the doctor and for a natural cure, come to the yoga!
Like in every sphere, yoga has also been proved effective in decreasing and curing the hair fall. There’s never a NO when it comes to the magnificent role of yoga relating to the treatment of any ailment.
Alopecia is an abnormal baldness or thinning of hair which brings a very annoying and low esteemed feeling in a person. Hair loss can result from surgery, radiation, severe illness, drugs, endocrine disorders, vitamin or mineral deficiency (especially iron), poor form of diet, stress, wrong lifestyle, certain form of dermatitis, pregnancy. These are some of the most common hair loss causing factors. Beware though, it is normal to lose about forty to eighty hair strands per day.

There are certain yoga asanas which have been proved very potent in dealing with the hair loss:

1. Sarvangasana (Raised Feet Pose) (please note that at the Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre we practice only Hanging Sirsasana):  Being upside down for 10 minutes or preferably more is the best pose for encouraging the blood circulation to the scalp and hence, stimulates the hair follicles, allowing them to grow again.
2. Vajrasana: (Diamond pose): sitting on the mat and putting the buttocks on your heels  and both the palms on your knees. It’s a very relaxing posture for the mind, beneficial for the hair growth and cures the digestive fire as well.
3. Apanasana: This asana is one of the best for detoxifying the digestive tract. Hence, relieves constipation. Also purifies the blood, thereby, improving blood circulation to the hair follicles and promotes hair regrowth.
4. Balayam Yoga (Prasanna Mudra): Balayam Yoga acts as a hair tonic for the hair, thus, curing almost every hair related problem. Be it the dandruff, male pattern baldness or premature greying of the hair, this yoga practice helps creating a pressure that boosts the hair follicles with a stimulating effect whenever the nails are rubbed hard against each other. This is because the root of the hair follicles of the scalp are connected to the fingernails. It is also known as Prasanna Mudra.

Other General Recommendations:

• A rinse of scalp with apple cider vinegar or sage tea can help hair grow.
• Another beneficial method is to massage the scalp with ginger root juice tonic.
• Lying on a slant board with the head lower for 15- 20 minutes per day will cause the blood to flow to the scalp.
• Use only natural hair products; avoid using harsh chemical products on hair.

Stimulating hair growth from within by the foods you eat is even more important than what you put on the scalp and hair. One may need to make certain dietary modifications to encourage the hair growth:

• Include plenty of foods rich in sulphur containing amino acids, L-Cysteine and Z-methionine, which are found in eggs are especially rich source, legumes and cabbage.
• Cut down on sweets as too much sugar especially (fructose) can cause balding on the sides of forehead.
• Include foods rich in D vitamins with special emphasis on choline. Choline is plentiful in eggs, wheat germ, legumes (beans, split peas and lentils), oatmeal and brown rice.
• Essential amino acids.
• For brittle hair, supplementing the diet with flaxseed oil is beneficial.

Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre
Dr. Shruti Bhardwaj