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Student Review: My Yoga Training at Yoga India Foundation Rishikesh

I’m Camille, a 26 year-old adventure lover, globetrotter and yogi on a mission. When my mother passed away at the early age of 40, I was completely devastated. I totally lost all joy in my life and desperately searched for a way to relieve my grief, pain and loss. I was in deep depression and didn’t know how to get out. At 22 I had my bachelors degree, but was feeling like the last years have only passively passed away. During my studies I didn’t even socialise much and never went to party or anything like that.

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Minimizing The Ego

Bye Bye Ego! Minimizing Your Ego

Yoga has a huge impact on you once you practice for some time. It makes you more sensitive, aware and conscious. You can use this sensitivity and increased awareness to create a more joyful and meaningful life.

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Mudra

What is a Mudra and why do we use it in Yoga?

The Sanskrit word mudra is translated as gesture or attitude. Mudras can be described as psychic, emotional, devotional and aesthetic gestures or attitudes.
Yogis have experienced mudras as attitudes of energy flow, intended to link the individual pranic force with the universal or cosmic force.

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Yoga Relax Time

How Yoga can help heal a broken heart

Sometimes it lasts in love and sometimes it hurts instead” was singing Adele, an English singer and songwriter, in 2011. She is not the first and won’t be the last to sing about the pain love can cause.

Heartbreaks can indeed have devastating effects on the mind and the body: at best you lose some self-esteem, feel less grounded, get some anxiety. At worst you fall into depression, abusing your body with alcohol, junk food and inactivity, and abusing your mind with negative thoughts about yourself, the people around you, and the Universe. It feels like your whole world has collapsed, you don’t know who you are anymore or where you’re going, you feel lost.

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yoga teacher training

Are you ready for a Yoga Teacher Training?

If these points appeal to you, you should consider yourself as ready for a yoga teacher training.
Even if you are not intending to teach yoga professionally, a yoga teacher training can open the door to countless opportunities as you will gain mental clarity, strength and a well-balanced practice.
It’s an investment into your soul that nobody can take away from you. Becoming familiar with the correct asana alignment, benefits, anatomy and history of yoga allows you to incorporate your new knowledge into your daily life and practice. Living according to the yogic path, means living with more peace, inner joy and controlling the fluctuations of the mind.

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Learn to practise The 6 Most Efficient Yoga Postures to Start Your Morning Right

The 6 Most Efficient Yoga Postures to Start Your Morning Right

Get your day started with these 6 most efficient yoga postures to start your morning. These are the perfect postures to practise every morning in order to feel fresh, energised and ready for the day!
Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation)
Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation increases the blood flow in your body and makes sure that all of your muscles wake up, fill with prana and release stiffness from the night. It’s a highly effective flow of 12 asanas that stretch and counter-stretch your body while taking deep breaths and releasing accumulated carbon dioxide.

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Yoga Teacher Training in India

Searching for A Yoga Teacher Training in India – My Advice to You

Yoga has some truly magical properties when we are looking to transform, soul search and grow into a happy individual. How has yoga been helping you to just live with more peace in your everyday life?
How long have you been practising yoga? My yoga journey started at the beginning of August in 2017 when I joined a yoga retreat for beginner. It’s been a wonderful week of getting to know my body a little better and eating healthy vegetarian food. I didn’t know that I could feel so many different parts of my body precisely.
After the retreat something clicked inside of me and I decided to set a foundation of a healthier and more yogic path.

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traumatic experience

How yoga can help you overcome traumatic experience

In this essay I am going to explain how yoga can help you overcome a traumatic experience. Many people experience a traumatic situation at some point in their life. Often this is not really looked at and integrated in the biography leaving blockages and emotional wounds inside of you that don’t heal. You can move on with your life but you will never be balanced and happy. It may show in insecurities, unexplainable behaviour in some situations or health issues. You can adapt and pretend that everything is alright, but you won’t be whole until you heal that trauma. That is why I want to write about this topic.
From my own experience I can say that yoga can really help in this healing process. Because yoga can give you strength and help you regain your inner balance. It reconnects you with your body, a connection you often lose when you are shaken by a traumatic event.

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