Welcome to hatha yoga
Hatha Yoga Instruction Article
This is a selection made from among articles on Hatha Yoga Instruction. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for future reading, click here.
How to Start
from:You can get audio or video tapes that give breathing instruction and teach relaxation techniques at health food stores, bookstores, and by mail order. It's probably fine to learn breath and relaxation from a tape or booklet, but don't try the yoga exercises without a skilled teacher. He or she can make corrections, caution you when necessary, and help you to adapt poses, if you need to.
It will be worth it to you to spend a little time finding an instructor who is right for you. Your diabetes nurse educator or other health care professional may be able to recommend a yoga instructor. Get referrals for a yoga instructor as you would for any professional you might wish to consult.
Yoga instructors aren't required to be certified, but many are, through many different programs. Ask prospective teachers if they are certified. A certified teacher isn't necessarily better than someone who isn't certified, but it's something to consider.
Yoga is fun, healthy, and calming. It's a wise way handed down over several thousands of years. There is little danger in yoga, and even a little progress brings with it freedom and peace of mind.
Although most people with diabetes can exercise safely, exercise involves some risks. To shift the benefit-to-risk ratio in your favor, take these precautions:
Have a medical exam before you begin your exercise program, including an exercise test with EKG monitoring, especially if you have cardiovascular disease, you are over 35, you have high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol levels, you smoke, or you have a family history of heart disease.
Discuss with your doctor any unusual symptoms that you experience during or after exercise such as discomfort in your chest, neck, jaw, or arms; nausea, dizziness, fainting, or excessive shortness of breath; or short-term changes in vision.
If you have diabetes-related complications, check with your healthcare team about special precautions. Consider exercising in a medically supervised program, at least initially, if you have peripheral vascular disease, retinopathy, autonomic neuropathy, or kidney problems.
Learn how to prevent and treat low blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia). If you take oral agents or insulin, monitor your blood glucose levels before, during, and after exercise.
If you have type I, and your blood glucose is above 250 milligrams per deciliter, check your urine for ketones. Don't exercise if ketones are present, because exercise will increase your risk of ketoacidosis and coma.
Always warm up and cool down.
Don't exercise outdoors when the weather is too hot and humid, or too cold.
Hatha Yoga Instruction News
Laughter yoga class in Dunedin has students in stitches - Tampabay.com
 Tampabay.com | Laughter yoga class in Dunedin has students in stitches Tampabay.com This is the laughter yoga class, which was brought to the center last year by Sparky Lovejoy, a 46-year-old single mom. "Eye contact makes laughter contagious," she said. "It feels good, and it's healthy." How healthy? The former Hatha yoga instructor ... |
Enjoy good health with yoga - New Straits Times
Enjoy good health with yoga New Straits Times With yoga, it gives city dwellers the opportunity to "stretch" in pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. Divine Life Society Petaling Jaya Branch will be conducting Hatha yoga classes at 16, Jalan 18/16, Taman Kanagapuram, here. Beginners' classes will be ... |
West Howard - Baltimore Sun
West Howard Baltimore Sun $45 for 12 classes. Painting and drawing A painting and drawing open studio will be held from 9 am to noon Wednesdays. Bring your own supplies. Free. Hatha yoga Classes in this Indian system of physical postures and breathing will be held from 9 am to ... |
Health Calendar: Week of May 24, 2012 - Los Angeles Daily News
Health Calendar: Week of May 24, 2012 Los Angeles Daily News TwcVv.org Gentle Hatha Yoga: Drop-in classes, 5:30-6:45 pm Mondays. Cost $17 or $15 for a series of 10 classes. Healing Compass and Qi Center Studio, 22440 Clarendon St., No. 101, Woodland Hills. 818-591-8600. Ms. Vickie's soul exercise line dance ... |
Sonoma teens hot for Bikram yoga - Sonoma Valley Sun
 Sonoma Valley Sun | Sonoma teens hot for Bikram yoga Sonoma Valley Sun Teens from the Boys & Girls Club are all sweaty smiles following a yoga class at Bikram's Yoga Sonoma. Studio owner Nada Rothbart is offering the classes free of charge to the teens to inspire them to be the best they can be. |