Linda's Personal Transition To Modium Yoga

For a year or more I felt somewhat absent, solidifying a sense of uncertainty and fear in my psyche. I blamed my susceptibility to broken bones but deep down I knew it was because yoga was missing from my life.

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Deemed the “land of opportunity,” by those who emigrated to America, it is only natural that as our country grew, so to would the development of new concepts, introduction of new practices, and influence from outside nations. While it may not be common knowledge, the concept, and practice, of yoga was introduced to the United States just over 100 years after the Declaration of Independence

Meeting Jenni at Evolutions Yoga, she shares with me that she has over 20 years of experience in yoga, breathing, and meditation, and holds degrees in Eastern Philosophy and Religious Studies. Her expertise is supported with over 8,000 hours in Yogic Sciences and biomechanics of Asana, as well as being a certified personal trainer and nutritional counselor. She is the Director of Education of Evolutions, a 200 hour yoga trainer certification program. Jenni has centered her life in traditional yoga philosophy with a focus on physical posture, yoga therapy, and physical and mental renewal after an injury or illness. Jenni’s ownership of Evolutions Yoga has been recognized in serving the community by offering yoga programs that pose balance and

A couple of days Ms. Melanie would cut jazz and modern short by a little bit so she do yoga with us. It was hard, but yet somehow relaxing. I’m new to yoga. It requires lots of balance and concentration. The balance part wasn’t so bad, however staying focused was. My mind kept wandering to other places than my breathing.

Bikram Choudhury has achieved many accomplishments in his life for teaching Bikram yoga. In “What to Know About Bikram Choudhury, the Yoga Guru With an Arrest Warrant”, Kate Samuelson, a reporter for Time news, states “Choudhury soon turned his system of yoga into a global empire, with his name attached to 720 yoga schools in 220 countries.” Bikram yoga continues to grow throughout the world because many people are interested in learning about Bikram yoga. He also founded the school of Bikram’s Yoga College in India. This made him a wealthy man that earned million of dollars each year. As a wealthy man who had a powerful position, he began to have more influence to others around the world. In the article, “What to Know About Bikram Choudhury, the Yoga Guru With an Arrest Warrant”, Kate Samuelson states “Choudhury popularized the method in his first book, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class, which was published in 1978.” This book taught all the 26 moves for Bikram yoga and changed many people’s perspectives on yoga. All his success in his career was not completely perfect until he was involved with some

Yoga practices focused mainly on the physical aspect as opposed to the mental aspect, which could affect mental health variables (citation needed)

Yoga has also show me to let go. With each exhale you have the opportunity to release tension, release comparisons, release judgement, resentment, worry, and blame.

Only in the emergency department can yoga save a patient’s life. People snicker when I begin my story this way but it’s true. Once, a fifty year old African American woman was brought into our ED with one hour of facial droop and weakness. We were immediately concerned for a stroke, and the neurology team agreed. Imaging ruled out a hemorrhage, and neurology cleared us to use thrombolytics, but the patient’s blood pressure was a staggering 220/120. After maximum dose nicardipine therapy, her pressures still hovered above the threshold for tPA. Time ticked away and we grew anxious as the window for thrombolysis narrowed. I looked across to the patient’s room and noticed several of her family members bawling at the top of their lungs. “That’s not helping,” I thought. So I walked over to the howling family members and gently, diplomatically ushered them to the waiting area. Then I approached the patient and noticed how panicked she appeared. I asked her to follow along with me, and together we ran through a deep breathing exercise I learned in yoga class. Five minutes later, I rechecked her pressures and they had finally fallen below the threshold. The patient went on to receive her tPA and eventually left the hospital with mild residual deficits. Stories like this are the reason emergency medicine motivates and excites me: the patients’ acuity allows us to make an immediate

Bikram Yoga- Founder Bikram Choudhury created this style of hot yoga in the 1970s. To create the climate as same as above, studios are heated to a sauna to 105 degrees Fahrenheit, with a 40 percent humidity level. Heat loosens your muscles, increasing your ability to stretch.

Furthermore, Bikram Yoga Brisbane currently employs a differentiated positioning strategy to differentiate its service with the competitors in Bardon. McMullan (2004) assert that differentiated positioning strategy is the organisation designs separate products or services for the target market. Bikram Yoga Brisbane offers the unique yoga class---Bikram yoga to customers. Bikram Yoga is different with other types of yoga; it includes 26 postures systematically work every part of the body; practise this type of yoga will give all the internal organs, veins, ligaments, and muscles everything they need to maintain optimum health and maximum extend body's functions and benefits (Bikram Yoga Brisbane, 2014).

A type of yoga that focuses primarily on the breath is viniyoga; which also uses chanting, pranayama, and asana techniques. Asana is a relaxing type of yoga that includes many resting poses and pranayama are breathing exercises. Ashtanga is a fast paced yoga and the inspiration for many power yoga classes you can find at the gym. Bikram is hot yoga, which is generally practiced in a room that is generally heated to over 100 degrees (McCall 106-113). Kripalu is different from other forms of yoga because it places importance on emotions, physical sensations, and thoughts that arise during practice. The way we think and react during practice is an example of the way we respond to people and act out in our everyday life ("Kripalu" 4-5). Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is a practice where the instructor moves your body into a number of positions while you remain passive. There are many other types of yoga as well including; kundalini, anusara, triyoga, savasana, tantra, and gym yoga (McCall 110-113).

Since being in college, I have felt as if I could not properly manage my daily tasks, while also taking time to myself. I constantly became stressed and anxious, with no sense of outlet. I decided to incorporate a stress management tactic into my daily routine. As David Surrenda, dean of the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University in California, described yoga in the International New York Times, as a, “ spiritual development practice to train the body and mind to self observe and become aware of their own nature.” He later went on to describe how yoga affects each person by “cultivating discernment, awareness, self-regulation and higher consciousness,” positively affecting multiple aspects of a persons life. Because of these reasons, I decided yoga could be the right fit for my personal development plan of managing stress.

A recent study done by Anderzén-Carlsson, A., Lundholm, U. P., Köhn, M., & Westerdahl, E. (2014) can help us better understand how Yoga helps to reduce stress. The participants described medical yoga as a way of alleviating suffering from their primary stress related symptoms as well as their other symptoms and lack of well-being. It provided the participants with a tool for dealing with their stress and current situation on a practical level. It also led to greater self-awareness and self-esteem, which in turn had an implicit impact on their life world. High self-esteem has been reported to help reduce stress in individuals; it gives them the confidence to

My yoga journey started more than ten years ago with an intense and dedicated interest in learning yoga postures from Ashtanga, Hatha, Jivamukti, etc. In the beginning I practised most days of the week and imagined that I would never tire, in spite of long trips to the studio in the early hours of the morning. A pleasant reward was that my blood pressure dropped back to normal and I could stop taking medicines. So, from the start, I knew that yoga could provide health benefits as well as an enormous feeling of wellbeing. No matter how tired and fed-up one felt at the beginning of a session, the mental lift afterwards was deeply satisfying. Meditation, Savasana, or corpse posture, wound up every session so it also became clear that postures or asanas were only part of the remedy. Meditation and yoga practise from the very beginning fired my interest in searching for an inner consciousness. This is an easily misunderstood word and means many different things to many different people. Some will associate it with awareness, or mindfulness