Popular yoga poses and questions

Actress Chyler Leigh in a half lotus pose, meant for yoga beginners. A popular and well-known yoga pose it brings up the question: yoga looks easy but I need something that challenges my body? When people get around to doing yoga, it dawns on them: my body is sore all over, why's yoga sooo hard?? Yoga is an all round exercise system that builds strength, flexibility, balance, and yes it burns

Exercise away menstrual cramps

Menstrual cramps are pains in the stomach and groin regions as a result of a woman's menstrual period. Menstrual cramps most often occur in a girl who has just started having her periods, or after the first year. Surveys reveal that over 90% of adolescent girls report having menstrual cramps. But happily menstrual cramps tend to improve with age, and among adult women only one in seven report

Yoga helps soldier lose weight

KITV has a story on how a disabled former soldier, 47-year old Arthur Boorman, used yoga exercises to lose weight and walk again without crutches! He joined a unique yoga class online, Diamond Dallas Page, which had the former soldier doing high-intensity yoga poses combined with a healthy lifestyle. This yoga exercises and diet program helped him to lose weight to the amount of one hundred

Learning to teach Yoga

Pretty Swedish model Elsa Hosk (left) learning yoga with a teacher at the YogaWorks SoHo studio for the 'Yoga With PINK' event on January 26, 2012. YogaWorks has trained hundreds of yoga teachers since 1990 and is the industry leader in yoga practice and teacher training. It has studios all across the United States: in Los Angeles, Northern California, New York and Orange County. YogaWorks is the