The Eye Exercises

Yoga is a complex thing and if we say: "Yoga is a lifestyle" then we must insert into everyday life, to the today's problem.

Our eyes are exposed to many harmful effects nowadays. I do not want to list now, we all know what they are. Therefore it is most important to support this wonderful senses, what is the our greatest treasure.

Moving the eye muscles helps your metabolism of eyes, improves our vision and strengthens our eyes. The Eye Exercises enhance the concentration, develop and improve the anamnesis and our focusing.

Instructions for the exercises: sit on the floor in Padmasana (or some comfortable yoga sitting pose), sit with straight back, put your hands on your knees in Chin-mudra. Keep your heads straight and pay attention this aspect throughout the exercises. Close your eyes and focus on the eye muscles. Keep your face relaxed throughout the exercises, breathe with abdominal and make sure that only the eyes move. Do not move your head.

And here are the exercise:

1. Up and down

Open your eyes, look up the highest point and then move your eyes slowly down to the lowest point without moving the head then back up ...  practice 10 times or as many time it feels good and then close your eyes, breathe with deep abdominal and relax.

2. Right and left

Open your eyes, look to the right on the edge of the horizon and look slowly to left without moving the head and from left to right ... repeat 10 times or as many time it feels good. After close your eyes and relax.

3. Diagonally up and down

Open your eyes, look up diagonally to the right corner and from there look down slowly to the left corner. Practice in one direction 10x (or as often as it feels good) and after relax with closed eyes a bit. Then open your eyes and move to the other direction (left up - right down) 10x (or as often you moved on the opposite direction) then close your eyes to rest again. Breathe abdominal and relax.

4. Eyes circular movements both directions

Open your eyes, look up the highest point and start the eyes circular movements to the right hand side on the horizon without moving the head. Do 10 rounds (or as well) then loosen the eyelids, close your eyes a bit. After move the eyes with circular to the left direction 10x (or as often as you did to the right direction) then loosen the eyelid again.

Finally relax your eyes as follows:

Close your eyes, rub your hands until the warm feeling and put your warm hands to the eyes like a dome (don't touch your eyes), breathe with deep and relax. Feel the warm and dark relaxing effect.

After endure the relaxing to your face: tense your facial muscles toward your nose (like a grimace) keep it and loosen it. At you experience the tense and loose different of status. 

Om Namah Sivaya ✿

After omission to do Yoga

For everybody have in the Life an events, accident, or any problem when can not to do Yoga, when must to omission.

After that time we must be careful come back to the Yoga.

The best is if we start with the Surja Namaskar (Sun Salutation) in a very slowly rhythm, every  exercise hold it, and breathe slowly and deeply.

And do not worry, the our body is wonderful, recovers quickly, if you practice regularly.

Om Namah Sivaya ✿

+ the Proper Decision

I would like to add one more Basic Principles of Swami Vishnu-devananda: the Proper Decision, what covers the all Principles, and without we cannot change our life, we cannot do the better world, and we cannot change nothing on the Planet Earth.

This is the full of responsibility decision.

If our choices, and our decides covers the main concepts as: the Care, the Love, and the Responsibility, than our decides is proper, and full of responsibility.

In these days many problem can solve, if we decide with proper, if we decide with the full of responsibility.

Om Namah Sivaya ✿

Relaxation and the Sun

All living beings likes to sunbathe, to charge with life-giving energy.
Of course, these days no matter when and how much time we spend in the Sun, so just carefully.

But the best relaxation is with the sunshine, try it. Just lie in the Sun 10 minutes and you see, your all body will be totally relaxed and filled with energy.

Indeed, there is no one more so relaxing effect with heat, power and energy supply, such as solar radiation. Lie in savasana (not important in bikini), breathe abdominal breathing and relax, focus on the power of the Sun, give ourselves over the entire recharging and relaxing.

Om Namah Sivaya ✿

The positive effects of Yoga on hypertension

- The proper yoga poses effect to internal organs and endocrine glands also can that affect blood pressure.

- The properly selected breathing exercises will help you to relax and also improve oxygen supply to the body and those functions.

- The relaxation helps the vegetative nervous system and reflexes between harmony, those balance and self-regulating, self-healing mechanism, thereby it lowers the blood pressure.

- The proper nutrition of yoga (vegetarian) also has a beneficial effect on blood pressure.

- The regular meditation is proven to lower blood pressure.

- Hypertension have a major causal factor the stress. The stress-reducing effect of yoga is decrease the blood pressure.

Also the first five points are same like the Five Point of Yoga from Swami Vishnudevanada, so time to start Yoga ;)

Om Namah Sivaya ✿

Yoga and the detoxification

When I learned as naturopath I always said when someone asked for me advice: first to detoxify before any cure or treatment begins. A overloaded body cannot to accommodate the healing herbs, oils, or treatments. So the basic is the body detoxification, and nowadays it would be necessary to clean the many harmful substances regularly. I don't want detox cures to teach now, everyone can to find many practica for yourself easily on the web. But I mention the useful advice as: any course of treatment to chosen, drink a big glass clear warm water on empty stomach in the morning, is vital.

Anyone who has seriously tried to diet or to go through a detoxification cure certainly faced with the fact: is debilitates the body and are physically difficult the first few days. The Yoga can easily be done these days, and even the effect on the metabolism and circulation may increase, accelerate the detoxification process, and can possible constipation be avoided too. The strenuous exercises leave it in the first few days, but when you feel energetic enough to practice the Sun Salutation up to 12x.

Finally, to mention some truly relaxing and enhancing metabolism and digestive yoga practice in the following order:

- Shoulderstand or Sarvangasana

- Plow or Halasana

- Wheel or Chakrasana

- Sitting forward bend or Paschimottanasana

- Cobra pose or Bhujangasana

- Locust pose or Salabhasana

- Bow pose or Dhanurasana

- Child pose or Balasana

- Sitting twist or Ardha Matsyendrasana

- Triangle or Trikonasana

(Here find it them)

These practices are effect to endocrine glands and created intra-abdominal pressure, possibly combined with abdominal breathing are massaging effect, thus improving the metabolism, helping digestion, and massaging the intestines. So I recommend this sort of practice with warm-heartedly for the dieting and who try to detoxify the body through digestion.
Of course, the relaxation and meditation are indispensable, and these in addition it recharges in these days.

Om Namah Sivaya ✿

Scents

Try it! Use lavender essential oil during the yoga practice. Much better for your body like the incense stick:
- it's quiet down
- it's relieve tension
- it's help for concentration
- it's helps pay attention inward
- and it disinfects the air ... mmmm breathe a great!

Om Namah Sivaya ✿