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As we age, maintaining flexibility is one of the most important things we can do to keep fit and active. Strong bones and lean, flexible muscles can do more to prevent injury than just about anything else. Always make sure to stretch well before any workout and devote extra effort to increasing flexibility and muscle tone.
As an ancient art that seeks to promote balance, energy, vitality, harmony, and well-being through its flexibility-increasing poses, yoga is the ideal stretching exercise. Poses/postures are choreographed into a series of slow, methodical movements that stretch and tone all the muscle groups in the body.
Yoga mats are often used by those who practice. Mats are made of spongy, durable materials that give yoga practitioners added support, cushion, and stability. Unfortunately, yoga mats are also large and cumbersome. Yoga-Paws represent the perfect compromise. They provide the same stability and cushion mats do while taking up far less space. Yoga-Paws are much more portable, allowing users to stretch and tone in their hotel rooms, at the beach, or in the office.
While performing yoga or any stretches, it is important to listen to your body. Your movements should be slow and not forced. While stretching in yoga poses, you should feel a pull, but do not go too far. Stop if you feel pain. Yoga is low impact and while it should be strenuous, it should not be painful. Make sure to use correct form in every pose to avoid unnecessary injury. Yoga-Paws do promote a safe workout environment, but good technique and common sense are equally important.
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Just like the movie Big 
Stress Management Exercises Reducing and managing stress is critical to maintaining overall health and vitality. Stress is one of the leading contributors to heart problems, anxiety, soreness, and any number of health problems. To lower blood pressure, tension, and anxiety, you need to incorporate stress-reducing activities into your daily schedule.
Exercise is a great way to reduce stress. The endorphins released during exercise have a natural stress-reducing effect and promote a sense of vitality and well being. Yoga is perhaps the best stress management exercise of all. It stimulates the body, mind, and spirit together to foster a tremendous sense of oneness and harmony with yourself and your surroundings.
But how can you experience the stress-reducing benefits of yoga when you’re on the road? You can’t fit your yoga mat in your luggage, and you know there is no gym or studio near your destination. It’s quite simple with the help of Yoga-Syz. Our mother-daughter yoga company is proud to offer Yoga-Paws to our valued customers. Yoga-Paws are like tiny yoga mats worn on the hands and feet.
Because they are only a fraction of the size of standard yoga mats, Yoga-Paws are the ideal travel exercise equipment. They fit easily into a suitcase, and you can enjoy your yoga workout right in your hotel room. After a long day of meetings or seminars, a relaxing, stress-reducing yoga workout accomplished with Yoga-Paws is the perfect way to unwind and keep in shape. Order yours today or email us at info@yogasyz.com for more information.
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Yoga workouts offer not only the benefits of increased flexibility and muscle strength, but of relaxation as well. Unlike other exercises that are based on high intensity and quick movements, yoga is a more natural system focusing on slow movements, long stretches, and proper breathing. A quality yoga workout leaves you feeling energized, refreshed, and deeply relaxed.
To experience the benefits of a quality yoga workout no matter where you go, you can utilize the advantages of Yoga-Paws. Yoga-Paws are an incredible yoga product produced and sold by Yoga-Syz, an experienced mother-daughter yoga company with many years of experience both in teaching yoga techniques and developing workouts and products. Yoga-Paws are so small and lightweight, you can take them with you everywhere you go!
Begin your yoga workout with relaxation postures. Try lying flat on the ground, facing up with your hands directly at your sides, palms down. Close your eyes and feel your entire body. Starting at your feet, at the tips of your toes, relax your muscles. Then relax your ankles, followed by your calves, then knees, thighs, buttocks, lower back, and all the way up to the top of your head. As you relax each part of you body, feel the tension flowing out.
As you relax, pay special attention to your breathing. Proper breathing technique is crucial to achieving total relaxation. Breathe in deeply, using your abdominal muscles to expand the lungs as you open your shoulders to fill the lungs completely. As you exhale, pull the abdominal muscles in toward your spine to fully expel the air in your lungs. Perform this relaxation exercise (or other similar posture) for at least two minutes at the start of your routine. Then, strap on your Yoga-Paws and you’re ready for a total yoga workout.
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Mirthful
Definition:(adjective) Full of gladness and gaiety.
Synonyms:gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry
Usage:Betsy broke into unexpectedly mirthful and irrepressible laughter, a thing which rarely happened with her.
With out giving too much away, here are a few behind-the-scene snap shots of yesterdays photoshoot…
A special thanks goes out to Greg, Lindsey, Jamie and Emile. Much more to see soon…. 
Also a big thanks to Hyde Yoga who provided the clothing for our “yogi” Lindsey.
Home Exercises
Everyone knows that regular exercise is essential for weight management, longevity, and happiness. Unfortunately, many of us have neither the time nor money to go to the gym for regular workouts. Many of us are too busy with careers, families, or studies to take time out of our day for gym workouts. For people in these situations, home exercises are ideal.
Exercising at Home
Working out at home is a great way to get the benefits of regular exercise without the cost of joining a gym and without having to completely rearrange your schedule. Yoga is a perfect home exercise because it targets the entire body. Yoga exercises done at home increase flexibility, build muscles, flush toxins from the body, reduce stress, and align your body, mind, and spirit. Yoga is also an ideal home exercise because of the limited amount of equipment required.
Traditionally, yoga is performed on a special yoga mat. At home, though, space can be quite limited, making a yoga mat impractical. There may not be room on the floor for a large yoga mat and you may not have any place to store it. That is why Yoga-Paws from Yoga-Syz are the ultimate in home workout accessory! Yoga-Paws are worn on the hands and feet and provide the same traction and comfort you’d get from a yoga mat. They enable you to perform your yoga workout in even the smallest of spaces and can be stored easily.
Yoga-Paws are not only designed for home workouts, though. They are the perfect exercise props for travelers and those with limited time and space to workout. Yoga workouts utilizing Yoga-Paws can be done anywhere: in hotel rooms, outdoors, in the office, or the classroom. Email info@yogasyz.com to learn more about Yoga-Paws and our other home exercise products.
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Yoga is one of the greatest exercises you can do for overall health and fitness. Yoga is shown to build muscles, increase strength and flexibility, help shed excess fat, boost energy, flush toxins from the system, and increase vitality. It also reduces stress and promotes harmony between the body, mind, and spirit. While there are no miracles in the world of diet and fitness, yoga comes surprisingly close.
Yoga-Syz Fitness Products
At Yoga-Syz, a leading online yoga products and promotion company, we are dedicated to bringing the many benefits of yoga to people all across the nation. We have an amazing selection of high-quality, low-cost yoga products and accessories that will enable you to reap the benefits of this amazing and ancient exercise technique. Please feel free to call or email us if you have questions concerning any of our products.
For those new to yoga, our instructional and educational videos are a great place to start. Created by Gail Getzwiller, a yoga enthusiast and instructor with more than 30 years of experience, these videos will teach you proper techniques and introduce you to the various poses used in yoga. Videos are available on VHS or DVD for your convenience.
For beginners and experienced yoga practitioners alike, Yoga-Syz is proud to offer a truly amazing yoga product: Yoga-Paws. Yoga-Paws eliminate the need for cumbersome yoga mats, enabling you to enjoy a yoga workout no matter where you are. Yoga-Paws are the most convenient yoga product on the market and are ideal for travelers or those who wish to experience the benefits of an outdoor workout. Yoga-Paws are so small they can be stored in a drawer, a purse, or even in your pockets! To learn more about the convenience of our lightweight and durable Yoga-Paws, email or call today.
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Chronic stress is not to be taken lightly. Science purports that stress is the cause of 75% to 95% of physician office visits. Tabulations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) state that up to 90% of primary care physician office visits are the direct result of stress. Unfortunately, stress is the American way. We must survive in a culture that values performance, wealth, tangible goods, beauty and youth. We are busy simply trying to keep up. Severe stress can be identified throughout all age ranges, in many cases even starting in the womb. Just a few of the many causes of stress include job and economic worries, increased crime rates in some areas, peer pressures, relationship troubles, social isolation and struggles with religious values or lack thereof.
Adults often experience marital issues, financial difficulties, job worries, familial pressures and overall anxiety from simply trying to do it all. Sadly, many of us find ourselves trying to function under adverse conditions. That feeling of running “wide open” all of the time is actually real stress. If you are fatigued, can’t sleep, suffer anxiety, or have multiple aches and pains that evade specific diagnosis, the chances are great that you are suffering from stress.
The effects of constant and continuous stress on the body are immense and damaging. It has been revealed that those existing under chronic stressful conditions release a specific protein called Interleukin-6. This is an immune system protein that promotes inflammation and which is implicated in cases of osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers. Stress weakens the immune system’s ability to respond properly. Many try to alleviate stress by taking liquid vitamins, herbal mixtures, stress tonics and other vitamin supplements. While extra nutrition is highly recommended, the effects on stress are simply not enough for the majority.
The link between stress and depression is undeniable. Where there is one, the other is right behind. The National Institute of Mental Health revealed that stress rewires brain circuitry, altering the brain in such a way that normal brain function is impaired. Stress triggers a portion of the brain (the amygdale) responsible for emotions and thinking. Under normal circumstances, our reaction to stress is short lived and fades away. When combined with depression, the brain holds the stress, keeping it at a constant. The beauty lies in the natural plasticity of the brain. Under proper conditions, the brain can be rewired to normal function once again.
Stress and the symptoms thereof often lead to poor lifestyle choices. Seeking comfort foods, otherwise known as junk foods, becomes commonplace. Undue stress can lend itself to the excess intake of alcohol or drugs. While street drugs are usually implicated, prescription drugs play a huge role with regard to drug abuse. To include sleep aids, antidepressants, anti anxiety drugs, and anti psychotics. Coupled with a lack of exercise and loss of sleep, as is often the case among those suffering from stress, a person’s body balance has been totally upset.
Can we get away from stress? Nope. Stress is the American way. It is the belief of many that stress levels are at an all time high. While it may be difficult to shield ourselves from our stressors, we can certainly learn to manage our reactions to stress. This is where the timeless practice of yoga can play a vital role with regards to human health and wellness.
While exercise in any form provides marked benefits for the body, the practice of yoga is unique and truly in a class all by itself. Not only is yoga an incredible body strengthening avenue, yoga equally “exercises ” the mind and spirit, bringing all of life’s components together to function as one. A traditional eastern practice, yoga is quickly gaining popularity in the west, particularly with companies in the UK. Many British corporations recognize that relaxed employees are happier, healthier, more productive, and take less sick days. For thousands, yoga “pays back” its weight in gold and then some. When stress is alleviated, it only makes sense that the associated symptoms fall by the wayside.
Some of the recorded health benefits of yoga include:
- Regular Sleep Patterns
- Reduced Levels of Stress Hormones
- Relief from Constipation
- Increased Ability to Cope
- Increased Rates of Healing
- Improved Digestion
- A Greater Sense of Well Being
Yoga is simple to incorporate into the daily routine. After some instruction, when one has become reasonably proficient, yoga can be practiced virtually anywhere. The only “equipment” required is loose comfy clothing, maybe some meditation tapes and a comfortable place to sit without interruption. Many practice yoga at the office on lunch hour, in hotel rooms while traveling, on the beach while vacationing. Almost everyone practicing yoga experiences physical benefits. While strengthening the body, yoga also works to strengthen the mind and spirit while providing one with an avenue to enjoy a sense of self and unity. A yoga session can last 5 minutes or two hours. That is up to you. It is easy to understand why this 5,000 year old eastern practice is gaining popularity in the over stressed west.
Dr. Linda Posch MS SLP ND
