Sun Breathing This is a breathing exercise to do when you want to energize yourself.   1. Sit up straight. 2. Place your right index and middle fingers between your eyebrows. 3. place your little finger on your left nostril, and inhale with right nostril. 4.Place...

Pranayama is the fourth of the eight limbs of yoga. Prana means vital force and Yama means control. Pranayama is about controlling and amplifying the vital force through the breath. Breathing is usually done unconsciously by the autonomic nervous system, but it can...

There are many postures in Yoga, and I don't know how many postures does exist. I used to practice many postures, but as I practice for longer periods of time, my practice has become simpler, eliminating unnecessary postures. The postures that are essential for me in...

It's not a yoga topic, but I would like to talk about a baseball player. This may seem completely unrelated to yoga, but my yoga master who is also a Japanese yogi is a big fan of his, and I am a huge fan of his, too. And I worship him. What is it about him that...

When you hear the word Ashtanga yoga, you may think of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, but that is not what I am not talking about here. Actually, Ashtanga Yoga refers to the eight limbs in yoga. First of all, when you hear the word yoga, you probably think of yoga postures....