The work/play Conundrum It’s not really rocket science. Having fun makes life easier and more enjoyable to live. Yet for a lot of people fun and in particular, play, often ends up an extracurricular activity saved for the weekends, secondary to work. Or worse, perhaps not even at all. The common phrase ‘work first, play …
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1. Oxygenation. You will learn valuable, life-changing breathing techniques (Pranayama) which can nothing less than transform your well being (For more about breathing check out my blog post The Power of Breathing). 2. Longevity: strength, flexibility and balance constitute the 3 markers for optimal physical health and longevity. Yoga benefits all 3 of these aspects.
We have never had better or faster access to information on health (or anything else for that matter) than we do now. Magazines, the TV entertainment screen at the doctor’s office, Instagram, Facebook, the news, endless blogs & vlogs and the ever-infinite World Wide Web – the sources seem as varying in quality as they …
So, we breathe to take in air and oxygen in order to stay alive, but why else is this function important, and isn’t it just an automatic process that we don’t need to think about anyway? Well, yes, and no. It would be fair to say that respiration is an underestimated field in the world …