Free Yoga Video: Zen Centering Meditation

My Yoga Online - Experience this Zen Centering Meditation Video with Shakti Mhi. Use this meditation to refocus during the day. Take pause and embrace the stillness this meditation may bring to you and allow your mind to become aware of the now, displacing any strong emotions or stresses that have invaded your day.

Focus on Back Bending Yoga with Nico Luce

My Yoga Online - Check out this sample of Nico Luce's Back Bending With Grace Yoga Class. It can be viewed and practiced in its entirety in our Yoga Classes section for our members.


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MyYogaOnline.com Relaunches with New Full-Screen Video Streams

MyYogaOnline.com has re-launched its website with improved Flash Streaming Video technology. The latest version of Flash Streaming Video not only improves the picture quality of MyYogaOnline.com’s video lessons, but also the speed and ease of use for PC and Mac formats. The new enhancements at MyYogaOnline.com ensure that all videos stream in full screen near DVD quality at DSL and cable accessible speeds on all web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.

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Make Your Coffee a Green Coffee

Before you drink coffee and tea, keep these tips in mind:

1. Think Local Brew

Seek out the coffee and tea that have traveled the least distance to reach you and also aim at supporting local, independent farms, cafés, and roasters.

2. Mug shots
Find that perfect mug and make the investment. Not only is a reusable mug more pleasurable to sip out of than a paper cup, but it will replace an untold number of disposable cups, plastic sippy tops, “java jackets,” and other disposable paraphernalia. Make a quick tally of how many disposable coffee or tea cups you use in a month…yeah, it’s probably a lot...

Greening Coffee and Tea

New Yoga Video - Padma Beginner Class

We are pleased to announce two new videos available on My Yoga Online featuring Padma of Padma Yoga and Meditation:
Mountain - Classical Yoga postures and breathing to develop a gentle foundation.
Ocean - Classical Hatha Yoga flows creating fluid movement and rejuvenation.

Yoga Poses - Exploring Warrior 1

Virabhadrasana 1 (Warrior 1 pose) is a wonderful warming yoga posture that can be enjoyed in most hatha yoga practices when aligned mindfully. Yielding numerous benefits Warrior 1 pose strengthens the shoulders, arms, thighs, ankles and the muscles of the back; expands the chest, lungs and shoulders; stretches the hip flexors, abdomen, and ankles; develops stamina and endurance in thighs and core muscles; stimulates abdominal organs and digestion; improves balance, concentration, and core awareness.

Exploring Virabhadrasana...

Health Benefits of Nuts

Enjoy our latest nutrition article, "Health Benefits of Nuts" reviewing the numerous nutritional and health benefits of nuts. Nuts are excellent sources of protein, minerals, healthy mono-unsaturated fats and other nutrients as well they're good for promoting a healthy cardiovascular system.

Yoga And Meditation Practice

As we explore our Yoga Meditation practice, we can learn various techniques and applications to bring us to places of greater connection. A useful tool to create this greater connection in our Meditation sessions is Jiva Bandha. Jiva means "soul or the consciousness of the living being" and Bandha means "internal lock". Jiva Bandha is the subtle locking of the tongue to the palate.


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Protecting Your Neck in Hatha Yoga

Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand Yoga Pose) and Halasana (Plow Yoga Pose) are the most common Yoga inversions that move the neck into a deep forward flexion. These inverted Yoga postures provide wonderful benefits in our Yoga classes:
* tones the legs, buttocks, back, and core muscles
* stretches the shoulders and improves flexibility of upper spine...

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Hatha Yoga Balancing of Flexibility and Strength

Hatha Yoga explores various methods of expanding into the muscles and joints creating freedom and healing properties. As much as we enjoy creating flexibility from our Yoga poses, we need to understand the necessity of balancing this growing flexibility with strength and endurance.

There is a growing interest in restorative and passive-style Hatha Yoga classes like Yin Yoga. These Yoga practices incorporate a beautiful method of creating layers of physical, mental and emotional release. Yin Yoga is designed to move flexibility through the muscle tissues into the connective tissues.

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Sustainable Seafood

An estimated 90% of all large, predatory fish are already gone from the world's oceans.

It is so important that we conserve what remains in the oceans, and harvest and consume seafood in a sustainable manner.

To help consumers and restaurants make more informed choices when selecting the seafood they consume or serve, the Vancouver, British Columbia Aquarium has developed programs to help identify sustainable seafood choices.

What does sustainable seafood mean?

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Yoga Poses for Back Pain Prevention

Hatha Yoga has an array of back bending or back arching Yoga exercises that deliver a wealth of health benefits when done correctly. Back bending Yoga poses can be intimidating to those who have low back pain or previous low back injuries. When performed with the right intention and alignment techniques, back bends can be safe, effective, and revitalizing.

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Benefits of Yoga and Weight Loss

An important part of a balanced health and wellness program is managing your body composition and understanding what is a healthy body weight for your body type. A consistent Yoga practice, Yoga diet and observance of Yoga principles and lifestyle habits can help you find this balance in managing your body weight..

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