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Kundalini yoga uses the image of a coiled serpent as a metaphor. Within each of us, a coiled serpent lies waiting at the base of our spine. Through Kundalini, we can waken this serpent, tapping into her power and making it our own. Finding ... more »

How to Target Calves With Yoga

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Yoga is a great way to enhance overall fitness and target specific parts of your body. If you do the right poses, you can use yoga to enhance and tone your calves. You'll enjoy the additional calf leg strength and stamina along with the inner ... more »

How to Target Feet With Yoga

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While it is important to include diverse poses in your yoga routine for a full body workout, occasionally our bodies need attention in a specific area. If you suffer from foot pain, either chronic or temporary, there are several yoga poses which ... more »

How to Target Hamstrings With Yoga

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Stretching and building your hamstrings will improve strength and response and can make you more flexible for sports. Here's how to use yoga to target those hamstrings while enhancing your overall calm and inner peace... more »

How to Target Hands With Yoga

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If you work with your hands and feel stiffness in your fingers, tension in your forearms, pain in your elbows or experience sore shoulders, you may benefit from yoga poses that target the hands... more »

How to Target Hips With Yoga

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Once you have a basic knowledge of how to perform yoga poses, you can use specific poses or categories of poses to target specific areas of the body. The hips are once place to focus since they carry the weight of our bodies and often are tight ... more »

How to Target the Bladder With Yoga

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When considering the physical benefits of yoga, most people consider only the muscles; however, yoga stimulates the entire body, including internal organs. For example, you can add the majority of poses that work the pelvic area to regular yoga ... more »

How to Target the Brain WIth Yoga

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If you thought that yoga was improving your physical fitness, it may surprise you to know that yoga also stimulates brain function. Yoga poses which increase blood flow and oxygen supply to the brain can calm anxiety, improve concentration and ... more »

How to Target the Chest With Yoga

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People have used yoga for hundreds of years to improve their flexibility and strength and to get in touch with themselves. If your chest is an area you want to improve, employ yoga poses to target the core of your body... more »

How to Target the Diaphragm With Yoga

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Because yoga focuses on deep, steady breathing, just the act of practicing yoga targets the diaphragm. However, anyone with shallow breathing, singers or athletes who want to improve endurance can use yoga poses to open the chest and target the ... more »

How to Target the Groin With Yoga

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With over 200 poses to choose from, not including their modifications, there is literally a yoga pose for every need. If you have tight groin muscles or would like to strengthen your groin muscles, there are several yoga poses that target that ... more »

How to Target the Liver With Yoga

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A number of yoga poses can stimulate your internal organs. Yoga poses which work to stretch and strengthen the abdominal muscles also gently massage the internal organs, such as the liver, to stimulate detoxification and overall health of the organ... more »

How to Target the Lower Back With Yoga

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While it is important to include a wide variety of yoga poses in your routine to work the entire body, targeting problem areas can reduce or even eliminate acute or chronic pain. If you suffer from lower back pain, there are several poses you can ... more »

How to Target the Lungs With Yoga

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For anyone with asthma, recovering from a cold or simply looking to increase lung capacity, yoga may offer a way to improve breathing. Practicing yoga and yogic breathing work out the lungs and numerous poses target the chest and lungs... more »

How to Target the Neck With Yoga

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Whether you want to recover flexibility from an injury or increase your performance in some sport or other physical activity, yoga can tone your muscles. Your neck has many muscles, and you should target them to maintain flexibility and range of ... more »

How to Target the Pelvis With Yoga

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The pelvic area, including the hips and groin, is often the tightest area of the entire body. Tense pelvic muscles cause low back and hip pain and may affect normal function of the internal organs, causing indigestion, severe menstrual cramping ... more »

How to Target the Shoulders With Yoga

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Yoga may enhance your calm and enhance your flexibility. You can use poses to increase the strength and mobility in your shoulders, a part of your body that comes into play with most physical activities, from swinging a softball bat to taking out ... more »

How to Target the Shoulders With Yoga

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The time-honored practice of yoga can enhance your calm and your flexibility. Some activities require that you have added mobility and strength in your shoulders. If you target your shoulders with yoga, you'll have a better tennis serve and knock ... more »

How to Teach Kundalini Yoga

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Exercises based on awakening five different chakras in the practitioners' bodies form the core of kundalini yoga. Postures designed to kindle an individual's life force, or prana, combine with chants and spiritual practices to improve well-being. ... more »

How to Tighten Tummy & Abs Sitting at Computer Desk! Article # 3

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Please read Tighten Tummy & Abs Sitting at Computer Desk! Article # 1 and # 2 ..... .. GREAT EXERCISE for abs, legs, hips!.. more »

How to Tighten Tummy & Abs Sitting at Computer Desk! Article # 2

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EASY AND EFFECTIVE EXERCISE TO TIGHTEN YOUR ABS TUMMY MUSCLES WHILE SITTING AT YOUR COMPUTER DESK! . ................. . GREAT exercise for thighs and hips!.. more »

How to Transition in Yoga from Half Bound Forward Fold Tree into Squatting Balance

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The half-bound forward fold tree yoga pose transitioned into a squatting balance is an advanced variation of the traditional tree pose, also known as vrksasana. This standing pose can strengthen the thighs, calves, ankles and spine. It also ... more »

How to Use a Partner With the Bound Angle Yoga Pose

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The bound angle yoga pose is a beginner-level pose that has many benefits. Practicing this pose can stimulate many organs, including the kidneys, heart, bladder and ovaries in women. Over time, practicing this pose will improve circulation and ... more »

How to Use a Partner With the Half Lord of the Fishes Yoga Pose

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The half lord of the fishes yoga pose is a beginner-level seated twisted pose with many benefits. It stretches the spine and shoulders and stimulates internal organs, including the liver and kidneys. Beginners can use a partner to help twist far ... more »

How to Use a Wall to Practice Advanced Yoga Poses

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In beginner yoga, students often recruit the help of props such as straps, blocks, chairs and even walls to help them hold balance and increase strength and flexibility with less frustration. However, just because you are making your way into the ... more »

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