yoga accessories explained: props and beyond

Whether you’re a beginner practitioner or a long-time yogi, you may find it hard to keep up with the many and varied yoga accessories and props that continue to be released to the market on a regular basis. As I explained in the first part of this Yoga accessories EXPLAINED series, the growing popularity of yoga not

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yoga sequence to support your fast

While the body adjust to long periods of fasting, such as Ramadan, it is very common to experience a variety of symptoms that may include lethargy (from staying up during the night, or waking up in the early hours to fuel up on food and fluids before fasting again), stiff muscles and joints, cold limbs, and digestive ailments

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the practice of yoga while fasting

With Ramadan just around the corner, for many of us it’s that time of the year when we start to plan ahead in order to be able to keep up our physical yoga practice while fasting several hours a day. If you have fasted before, you have probably already experienced some of the overall health benefits that come with

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what is yoga?

Ironically enough, it’s never an easy task to answer the question “what is yoga?”. However, one thing that I can tell you is that it always rubs me the wrong way when I get questions along the lines of “do you practice other sports?” or “what's this exercise called?”. Because I don’t consider yoga a merely physical

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