Some interesting yoga and alternative healing sites

parts of our body

First of all we have to know parts of our body
and here you can find info about it
Body sistems and illnesses
Animations about body sistems and illnesses.Very interesting.
Anatomica 3D: Musculoskeletal System

Yoga

Fitness with yoga
The Yoga Encyclopedia (assanas in photos)
Yoga Online
free quality material,
Ashtanga Yoga
An advanced Ashtanga Yoga practitioner from Germany offers an insight into his personal practice.
Sivananda Yoga
The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers
Kundalini Yoga
FREE On-Line Kundalini Yoga Training
My Yoga online
chakras

Yoga with Freedom
MeditationExpert
Articles on meditational techniques
Yoga journal
the dayly dose of inspiration
ABC of Yoga
Why practice yoga
Advanced Yoga Techniques
video explanations of Yoga-exercises
Santosha
step-by step-yoga
Yoga Asana List - Click and learn
many asanas,but the flash are too smal
Yoga Meditation
very complet information
Sun salutation
step by step

Yoga forums

http://www.yogamagazine.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=1
http://www.topix.net/forum/fitness/yoga
http://www.meditationexpert.com/blog

Yoga news

http://www.topix.net/fitness/yoga
http://www.yogamagazine.co.uk/index.php
http://www.insegnantiyoga.it/home/vivere_news.php
http://yogasutra.areablog.it/category/per-i-centri-yoga
http://www.poweryoga.com/aboutyoga/library.php
kundaliniproblems.com

other techniques

Reiki
good explanation of Reiki

Facial yoga poses -young "forever"

I read many times that TV-stars use special exercises to have very young face. I didn't know it's a special desipline, facial yoga, face exercises based on yoga tradition.

It's the latest craze in many countries from USA till India. You can look younger (even 10 years! younger), to erase fine lines and wrinkles, to reduce sagging skin, to restore a radiant, youthful look,to reduce the neurological impulses associated with stress and you don't need surgical interventions. And than it's cheaper!
More about benefits in this article.

All this because the facial yoga will tone 57 muscles of our face and neck.

Here I begin to collect facial yoga poses. As usual, there are not much information about a discipline like this, but I hope to be successful.

First exercise, "Lion" with a little description I found here
or you can see it in this photo posted in the article
Face Yoga: Fountain of Youth?Here you see
Leta Koontz-Stuyvesant of Schoolhouse Yoga demonstrates some of Suzanne Kahley's Fresh Face exercises: Lion, smiling Buddha, sleeping yogi and wide eyes. (Andy Starnes, Post-Gazette)


Other exercise is "Merilin's kisses"
then "blowing up of balloons"
more exercises we can find in "Yoga Facial Exercises

Here in italian some new exercises:

• Per combattere il cedimento dei muscoli: posizionate sulla parte bassa del viso le mani inumidite di acqua fredda, colpite le basi dei palmi l’una contro l’altra e lasciate rimbalzare le punte delle dita su tutto il viso.
• Per tonificare l’ovale e il contorno del viso: con il dorso della mano o delle dita (che devono essere distese) date dei leggeri schiaffetti secchi e ripetuti sotto il mento.
• Per preparare il viso alla crema da giorno: pizzicate la pelle asciutta in senso perpendicolare alle rughe, fino a quando non avrete fatto arrossare il solco.
• Per prevenire e attenuare le rughe del collo: eseguite tutti i giorni un auto-massaggio circolare usando tutte le dita della mano, dall’alto verso il basso (ogni mano accarezzerà il lato opposto del collo).
  

New photos from Forget Botox, try facial yoga


That's all for this time. Now, try to become youger, mmm...?

Do you know about CAM -Complementary and alternative medicine?

Now, it was a completly new question for me. That is why I ask you about it.

There are many names for what we are doing here. Alternative healing techniques, for example. But if you want to find something in Google or others search engines, you have to ask about CAM too.

So, what is it?
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
Interesting is that those are "medical products and practices"
That meens "nonstandard care"
Like acupuncture, chiropractic and herbal medicines. Traditional studies have doubt about safety and usefulness of these techniques -and every serious site will tell you about it.
Scientists say: yes, it works, but...

If you have (resonable) questions about it, you can see the FAQ-s of National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (USA)

What will it meen for us?
Maybe nothing special.
We know, we feel much better and younger, if we do our practices regularly.
It will be better if some conservative person begins to consider us not as mad and exotic beings. For them is very important to hear many times confirmations in TV and to read about it in newsletters.

Congratulations! This is an important feast in our universe, I think.

About marma points

I had very stressed period last months. My first task is to learn the most efficient modes of relaxation for my body now.

I understand, every beeing has his/he own personal construction and as consequence has to be very personal the relaxation system for everybody.

One friend told me about marma points because I can't relax with my normal exercises and practices in this period. So I read about this technique. Here I post a brief review of many sites I found about it.

There are 2 parts that compose this science. Marma Vidya seems to be general name or for healing (or Marma Shastra?). Marma Adì is for martial art. The difference is in the movement to do. You strike your adversary to hit him or you press marma point with your thumb or the index finger to heal.

Marma are points where all our bodies come into contact. Physical body, energy ecc. That is why if you press this point it the hour when prana pass through it, you can send this energy where you need it. If you hit that point in this moment, you can affect the corresponding organ and even kill the person.

There are different explanations about the number of the points. One of them says: the points are infinite, most important are 365, most used are 43, mortal are 107.
These points are very user-friendly, because they take area about 15 cm, and it's difficult to miss it.

Who uses this healing technique, recuperate 100% the normal state.

The only problem is, there are not many marma masters in the world and they live in Kerala (India, I think). But...

We can do this practice only with the power of our mind and concentration. We can send prana where we need it in this way. The name of this particular Yoga is Yoga Pratyahara and you can read more about it on this page Yoga.net

This photo is from THIS article (in italian).

Here I post sites where I found interesting articles or information

in english
http://www.lifepositive.com/body/martial-arts/marma-adi/marma-shastra.asp
http://www.ayushakti-usa.com/ayurveda/marma.html
http://www.kahc.co.uk/marma.html
http://www.massagelotion.net/marma%20point%20massage.htm
http://www.layogamagazine.com/issue9/feature/feature.htm

in italian
http://www.dushanku.com/Costruzione%20sito/Ayurveda/Marma.htm
http://ayurvedam.it/marma.htm

in russian
http://www.pyogai.com/marma.html
http://www.liveinternet.ru/showjournal.php?journalid=1177195&tagid=334711
http://www.ayurvedaplus.ru/pda/marmo/mat_62.htm
http://www.surajamrita.com/compAnalysis/marma.html
http://www.ayurvedaru.ru/marma-3.html Диссертация по теме
http://lib.hsgm.ru/index.php?page=art&id=2130&pg=0 книга Мармавидья
http://lib.hsgm.ru/?page=cat&cat=181 Список книг по теме Мармотерапия
http://www.waylove.ru/vysvobojdenie_prany_marmavidya
http://www.forum.dharma-marga.ru/archive/index.php/f-6.html Форум Школы Боевой Йоги - Дхарма Марга
HERE is my post in russian with more info

Online store creating easy and efficient

I think, every user of internet and expert in one of so interesting themes as alternative healing technics tryed to open his/her own ecommerce shop.

One of the hosted shopping cart software provider is Ashop Commerce.

It's an interesting and complete ecommerce solution, I would say.
I found all sorts of explanations directly on the site, first of all. From how to plan the beginning of your business, what to do to open the shop till advices for promotion of the site ecc.

I had experiences in this field and I know, normally you can only chose the color of template, the name and maybe the category of your merce. Your e-shop is ready and everybody forgets you for ever.
What I liked here: there not only simple templates on the page about design of your site, you find clever questions to make the design of your shop very personal. They ask even to show them 2 sites you like to understand your preferences.

This ecommerce software is search engine optimized and has continuous technical support and customer service too. There is even live support there. The testimonials say, the team was always ready to answer every question they had.

What is important, this shopping carts are integrated with all major banks including PayPal too. Remember I had to look for a special program all over the internet when I needed it. And it was good only for some credit cards.

It's difficult to describe all interesting sides of this really good project. Generally I like "Ashop Commerce" as online store creating solution.
The only problem I had when navigated the site, I could not see the Admin Demo. It's possible to see it only with IE and I have FireFox.

Relaxation -from an article found surfing the web

The Taoist relaxation method is very simple: "Listen to your breathing." Nothing more is needed, except persistence and patience in such listening. If you do not persist, your attention will stray back into anxieties. Be patient; impatience merely adds to anxieties. holisticonline.com

Non-meditation.

"Surround yourself comfortably with calm and silence, sit down with a straight back, completely relaxed, breathe normally, in a soft and gentle way, and place your attention on a state of absolute presence without letting your mind wander for the count of three. This is the natural state of the mind, which spontaneously remains in a state of non-distraction, non-production and non-meditation."

The heart meditation.

" If you are unable to enter this state straight away, concentrate on a bright red letter, placed in the centre of your heart, any size which feels right to you. Allow this image to be vividly present, without forcing it. Allow it to absorb all your attention.'

Concentration and calming the mind.

If this meditation is difficult, take a simple object like a stone or a piece of wood, place it in front of you, gently focus on the object without blinking, allow nothing else to take hold of your mind, and gradually become totally present in a natural and relaxed manner. Look at everything which occurs to you without holding on to it, and gradually you will become peaceful. Everything which rises up will subside of its own accord, without any forcing on your part. Soon you will not be able to leave this non-conceptual state, and you will no longer want to move. This is a sign that you are becoming more familiar with the state of becoming peaceful, and you will reach a state of spontaneity.

Technique:

Begin sitting in a comfortable cross legged position. Or, lying on your back in Savasana, corpse pose. Relax the body, yet keep it active and alive. If sitting keep the spine straight. Close the eyes and begin to focus on the breath. With each inhalation lift the torso. Expand the rib cage. If you like, you can begin with Place the hands on your abdomen. With each inhalation, notice how much you expand. With each exhalation, become aware of the rib cage contracting. Release tension with each exhalation, allowing the belly to drop further into your hands.
Once you feel comfortable, move your hands to the middle abdomen. On your next inhale, fill the first chamber. Then the middle chamber. Again notice your middle area expanding and contracting. And notice any restrictions in the muscles or breath. Now incorporate the last step which is to breath into the final chamber of the lungs. To see if you are fully breathing into the third chamber, place your fingers on one side of your clavicle bone, your thumb on the other side, cupping around your neck.

Begin to breath into the lower chamber, then the middle chamber then the third chamber. Feel your fingers rise up. Keep the breath smooth by synchronizing the inhalation and exhalation. On the exhales, let the breath spill out from the top to the bottom like a pitcher of water pouring out. On the inhalation fill the pitcher up. At all times keep the breath smooth, effortless, and rhytmic. Be aware of any tension in the body and release it through the exhalation.

Tenzin Wangial Rinpoche - in YuoTube!!!

We are very fortunate this year -Tenzin Wangial Rinpoce is member of YouTube and he posted different videos, non only informative and descriptive.
There is a video about

H.E. Yongzin Rinpoche's 80th Birthday

(great!)

And ... immagin!... Video-teaching

Tibetan Sound Healing

there are 3 parts of it today (Introduction, sillable A, sillable OM )