Everybody wants to feel and appear their best. Yoga is a good way to do that, and it works for more than just relaxation and strength, it can tone your entire body, particularly if you do power yoga. Power yoga isn’t like normal yoga in a number of ways, but the goal is the same, to make your body look good.

Power Yoga is a reasonably new form of yoga that has been influenced from two different kinds of yoga known as Ashtanga and Vinyasa. Power yoga is a mixture of these forms of yoga poses and exercises. Power yoga is a challenging, physical workout, that might test and push physical, psychological and emotional limits. The power yoga workout is a test of the person’s concentration and physical abilities.

In standard yoga, poses should be followed in a selected sequence, but power yoga differs, as this is not the case, making this a very unique yoga style. Power Yoga works alongside the person’s body to increase stamina and does not need to be done in any order, in truth, each power yoga class is as unique as the coach who teaches it.  Read more... (538 words, 1 image, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Passive versus Active Exercise

During passive exercise the patient’s limbs etc. are moved by the therapist during active exercise, the patient is solely responsible for such movement.

Here we discuss some of the basic asanas of Hatha Yoga
and explain just how they can be used as a form of active exercise for the treatment of certain muscular and articulatory problems.

Normally, a therapist is present to advise the patient on the correct application of active exercise, but once the patient is in possession of the facts, treatment can continue as a kind of “Do-it-yourself” therapy, which can be carried out daily without the therapist being present. The advantages of this type of D.I.Y. therapy can also be enjoyed by therapists when they fall victims to some of those conditions for which they normally administer treatment to their patients. Whenever muscular or articulatory problems make treatment necessary, they are always well equipped to treat themselves.  Read more... (431 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)