Get rid of Hip Pain through Yoga Exercises

The problems of hip pain often arises when a person feel constantly tight flexor muscle of her hips. This tightness in the hip muscles leads to pain and discomfort. Regular yoga can relieve the tightness in hip flexor muscles to help you attain relaxation through resistance and stretching exercises. Popular yoga asnas of hatha yoga and bikram yoga are able to help you in stretching and strengthening hip muscles while providing enough support to your buttocks.

How can Yoga Help fight hip Pain

Yoga is a great way to achieve complete well being and optimum body composure. Yoga can be extensively applied for improving your health and well being. There are several asnas or poses which are particularly aimed to isolate or combine specific muscles and muscle groups in upper and lower part of your body both.

The integral part of yoga includes core strength and ability to balance. This increases resistance while providing healthier musculature against common pains and aches like hip pains.

Strengthen your muscles with Yoga: you can increase the range of motion of your body by performing yoga regularly. Hatha yoga and Bikram yoga include asnas or poses that can effectively help you for fighting muscle stress and removing any ache in your buttocks.

The technique of yoga is simple and it included opening up of joints while distributing the load and tension of the hip towards a larger surface area. This helps in restoring your body’s natural movement and comfort. As hatha yoga and bikram yoga strengthens your hip joint, your buttocks suffer lesser stress due to your body weight.

Hatha Yoga: it is one of the most popular pattern of yoga. Hatha yoga is specifically associated with treating and relieving pain. Some of the popular postures of Hatha yoga are Tree Pose, Corpse Pose and Child Pose. Hatha yoga helps in decreasing pain as it helps in regulating your breath intake and it also reduces stress levels along with reducing chronic stress.

Bikram Yoga: Bikram yoga is often termed as hot yoga and it is a popular way of dealing with pain in buttocks. Bikram yoga includes strenuous work out in temperature range of 38 to 45C (110 to 120 F). In such hot temperature, the muscles get warmed up and ligaments ably allow the muscles to stretch up to limits comfortably.

Your physician or yoga teacher will suggest you to avoid performing Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga poses specially when you are already suffering from acute hip pain. However, if you have no complaint of pain in buttocks and you are looking forward to opt for prevention of any hip pain, it would be better to start yoga workouts with Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga postures.

Rejuvenating effects of Meditation

While every one of us seek happiness, comfort, satisfaction and success, it is very important to realize the importance of calmness in our efforts to achieve them.

Great saint and philosopher Swami Vivekanand once said, "Happiness in life comes not by manipulating what you want to achieve but by paying attention to something seemingly totally unconnected with it."

Meditation is considered as the key to happiness and success and for thousands of years, the saints and astute spiritual leaders of different cultures have suggested us to practice meditation. Based on their own experience, these spiritual leaders often claim that meditation leads a person in a state of metabolic restfulness which is far deeper and more satisfactory than that of sleep.

However, it is not only the suggestion of spiritual gurus. Even scientists support the fact through their scientific studies that meditation leads a person’s body in a state which results in a better flow of blood from different parts of body to the brain. This helps our muscles to relax while decreasing the stress hormones.

This specific metabolic rest results in a quick rejuvenation of a person’s body and mind, offering them cure from the effects of stress, tension and fatigue.

The benefits of meditation and chanting are deep and profound and that is why people from different spheres of life practices chanting and meditation to refresh themselves while relaxing their body and mind against the stress and tensions of their high demanding business jobs and lifestyles.

People may have different reason for adopting to meditation and chanting, yet everybody from Rhea Pillai, Riya Sen, Sheetal Malhar, Dia Mirza, Priya Dutt, Kitu Gidwani, and Vinod Khanna are reaping the fruits of meditation and all of them engage themselves to propagate the beneficial effects of meditation and chanting.

Munisha Khatwani, the popular Indian Television actress says, "I chant the Maha Mrityunjaya Jaap to break free from all the karmic ties. It frees me from all negative karma and has also helped improve my health, finances and personal life to a great extent. The more I chant, the more I am at peace."

However, happiness and peace are not the only goals that can be achieved through meditation. Or one should say, meditation is not for achieving goals. According to spiritual and yoga guru Nandini Sen, there are many other benefits of meditation.

She says, "I feel meditation helps one just in being more in the present moment, because only in this moment can one do something. The basic idea is to relax in that very moment. All anger, anxiety and negative thoughts are carried forward until you don't let go. Meditation simply gives the mind a holiday.” The moment you will try to set goals to be achieved through meditation, you will lose the track of meditation.

Nandini Sen further elaborates, "A goal is always set for the future, but meditation is about the present moment." Meditation is in fact, the process of forgetting everything for that moment when you are in meditation and concentrating on your own inner self. This is the way of ignoring the problem and concentrating on meditation while dissolving the problem altogether.

But meditation is certainly not the way of escapism, rather it is the way of concentrating your energies and abilities to resolve and solve the issues of your life with the application of a better and calm mind. Model turned actress Aditi Govritkar says that meditation cannot be considered as the means of escapism from the materialistic life, "Not unless one chants 24/7."

She leads a difficult and busy life that includes her house, kids and work. At many times she find it difficult to cope with the schedule and take time off for meditation. She says, "I try and chant at least 10 minutes daily to decrease my stress levels. This helps me feel more calm and at peace."

Sharmilla Khanna, another working woman and famous event organizer agrees with the idea of meditation as she says, "Of course, one cannot escape from the real world with meditation. I do everything that I'm entitled and responsible to do. I don't escape from anything, not even my problems. Instead, meditation has helped me face my problems with a clear mind, heart and soul."

Avoid Breast Cancer Adopt Yoga for Your Breasts

According to recent statistical studies worldwide, an average of 1 out of 20 women have experienced and survived the ordeals of breast cancer or are in the middle of the ordeals of this breast disorder. Many women lose their life because of breast cancer.

While even males can suffer the problems of breast cancer, it is 100 times more common in women than breast cancer in men. In the year 2008, 458.503 women lost their life worldwide because of breast cancer. It was 13.7% of all cancer deaths in women.

American women in the United States suffer breast cancer more than any other type of cancer while skin cancer is exception. Breast cancer in women in United States is second only to lung cancer and breast cancer is major cause of cancer death of women in US.

The symptoms of breast cancer varies significantly from lumps in breasts to swelling of the breasts to skin changes on breasts and in many cases, breast cancer patients have no obvious symptoms at many times. It is certainly not easy to pre-diagnosis breast cancer and the proper diagnosis becomes very difficult especially in developing countries like India, Pakistan because of lack of medical facilities.

However, women can prevent breast cancer through proper lifestyle, nutrition and healthy regimen. While it is necessary to alter your lifestyle and to reduce alcohol consumption, it is also necessary to remain physically active to avoid the menace of breast cancer.

There are certain yoga asnas or exercises that will help in preventing the issues of breast cancer. These yoga exercises will not only help women in preventing breast cancer; rather they will also work for improving the shape of breasts and to keep happy and healthy breasts.


Significance of a Healthy Lymphatic System

The lymphatic system of a woman sustains the health of her breasts. The lymphatic system holds the responsibility to keep potentially harmful entities away and to channelize clean flow of blood to breast tissues and cells while avoiding any infections.

Yoga exercises can help in improving the health of lymphatic system by maintaining proper coordination between breathing and body movement. By doing so, Yoga exercises helps in proper circulation of blood while supplying imperative energy in all parts of the lymphatic system of a woman.

A few Yoga Exercises for Breasts
Diagonal Stretch:

Energetic breathing and powerful movements of diagonal stretch helps the lymphatic system to get in proper motion.

How to Perform Diagonal Stretch Yoga Exercise:

• Comfort yourself in a sitting position while placing your thumbs on the palms of the hands at the end of your little fingers.
• Ascertain that your fingers are resting in straight line. Now pull your arms gradually to the sides while ascertaining that they remain parallel to the ground and your palms should be facing downwards.
• Raise your right arm while bringing down the left arm. Take deep breath in while the right arm goes up and breath out as it goes down. Continue this exercise for 20-25 times.

Reach for Health: Snapping Back Exercise

This yoga exercise is very similar to martial arts exercises. This exercise involves the movement of snapping back that helps in activating and energizing lymph and breast cells and tissues.

Method:

• Comfort yourself while sitting on your heels and remove the pressure from your knee joints by keeping a firm pillow below your buttocks and thighs.
• By tucking your thumbs inside, make a fist of our palms. Bring your hand to the height of your breasts while pulling your elbows back.
• Extend your arm in forward direction to its maximum while taking powerful breath in. Open your fingers in a fashion of grasping something. Close your fingers while grasping the air and making fist of your hands while snapping the arm to the body side while exhaling the breath out.
• Repeat the same exercise with other arm and continue these steps for 2-3 minutes with both arms in succession.

Frog Pose

This yoga exercise helps in increasing the flow of energy upwards to all parts of the body.

Method of Frog Pose Yoga Exercise

• While standing in a comfortable position, place your heels together close to each other and then squat down while keeping your heels above the ground.
• Touch the floor with your finger tips while straightening your spine and back as much as you can.
• Breathe in while straightening your legs and bring your head closure to the knees. Your finger tips should not move from the floor.
• Breathe out and come back to the squatting position.
• Perform this exercise for at least one minute or till you feel it is comfortable. Gradually increase the time for this exercise.