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Shanti Consulting gives presentations to workplaces on many topics related to fitness and life performance:
(1) Emotional Eating (www.linkedin.com for a sample)
(2) How to Fit Your Workout into Your Day in 10 minutes
(3) Reduce Stress in Your Life- practical tips on life
Tough Teens Doing Yoga? Yes!! Click Here
Yoga means integration of the human body, mind and spirit. We become more integrated people when we practice yoga. We can interact with the outside world in a more productive way. Communication is clear. We have clarity of thought. We become more pleasant people with fewer frustrations. We do however work with more focus and balance.
Hema teaches yoga at many different locations in Ottawa. Here are a few public drop in classes:
Mondays: 6:30 pm Nepean Sportsplex (Sign in at front desk)
Mondays: 8pm Walter Baker Sports Centre (Sign in at front desk)
Tuesdays: Registered Classes with Nepean Creative Arts Centre. Go to http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/arts/courses_workshops/course_calendar_en.html
for registation information
Wednesdays: Yoga and Meditation at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/arts/courses_workshops/course_calendar_en.html
for registration information
PreNatal Yoga Classes at the Nepean Sportsplex...register for the class
Thursdays: BOSU class at the Nepean Sportsplex
Thursdays: Separation and Divorce Centre on Bearbrook is now hosting yoga classes.
Contact Diane Valiquette diane dot valiquette at sympatico dot ca
Or email me as well for registration
ON REQUEST, Organize a Yoga Demo Class for your staff.
Do something nice for them.
Shanti will design the class with your staff in mind and personalize the length and variety of the class to offer simple stretching tips for the benefit of office health.
How about a private yoga class at your home or office as a gift to someone you care about?
Partner Yoga Classes available. Just email us for details.
Play better hockey, baseball, football with group or private yoga classes.
You can improve your game with yoga in your home! Contact us now to set up a free consultation on what yoga can do for your game.
Golfers find that yoga improves their game
By Brad Pothoff Daily Nebraskan
Lincoln, NE (CSTV U-WIRE) -- Dog up, warrior one and dead bug are three things that you seldom hear on a golf course.
Birdie, tee-shot and sand trap might be more common, but the golfers at Nebraska have had to add some new terms to their golf vocabularies.
Following the recent trend of athletes dabbling in alternative athletics, such as NFL stars doing ballet and major league baseball players meditating, the Cornhuskers have been using yoga to improve their games for the past two seasons.
However, it hasn't been the oriental music and incense version of the ancient Hindu art of meditation, but more of a crash course whose main goal is helping the players to loosen up their bodies.
The team was split on whether it was beneficial getting up at 7 a.m. to do the exercises, but many members got over their initial speculations and found that it actually helped improve their games.
"I wasn't crazy about it at first because I thought it was something that girls went and did, but I actually got a lot more flexible," senior Drew Reynolds said. "They made sure that we did a lot of torso rotation-type things, and in golf it allowed us to turn a little farther, which helps to hit farther."
Flexibility and being loose are two things that golfers desperately need while walking sometimes up to 36 holes a day. The physical strains of slinging a 50-pound bag across your back while simultaneously walking up and down the hills of a 7,000-yard course twice in a day can put some strain on even the most physically fit athletes.
"The walking can definitely affect a player's game, and I know this team this year, we finished a couple rounds bad," senior Brady Schnell said. "Your legs start to cramp up and hurt after 28 or 30 holes, but you have to try and keep your focus on the way in and try not to think about it too much."
To help with the physical burden, as well as doing yoga, the team also engages in many different types of lifting and cardiovascular work that aims to help ease the minds and bodies of the players. Schnell said this extra bit of work, mixed with a little luck allowed him to shoot seven eagles at Nebraska's last competition at the Ron Moore Invitational in Arizona, where he led the team to a second-place finish.
"Golf is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical, and there's a lot of thoughts that can creep in your mind and make you have a bad shot," Schnell said. "The mental psychology is one thing that people don't understand about golf, and it can be tough sometimes."
With a focus on putting the two aspects together, the Huskers have no doubts that a win is in the near future and hope to rely on the experienced minds and bodies of their four senior leaders to use the yoga training and the rest of their regiment to put them at the level they believe they are capable of competing.
"We have been really close to winning some tournaments and we have four seniors who are all doing well, so it's just a matter of time before we get one," Reynolds said. "We just have to keep plugging away."
(C) Daily Nebraskan via CSTV U-WIRE
PLAY BETTER BASEBALL WITH YOGA!
Recently, Pinecrest Patriots had a yoga session with me to improve their game. Hats off to John Magic for introducing this great Ottawa baseball team to yoga to improve their ability to play.
Two main areas of concern for baseball players are the shoulder and hip joint motion. Increase flexibility in these areas to improve your game. Here are some simple exercises that you should do after each practice session and before your game to stay centred. After session practice should hold each posture for 30 seconds. Before the game however, simply attune to your body and stay focused for 10 seconds and no longer. The goal before the game is to establish mental focus and clarity but not to tax the body. After the game, you want to get into the deeper layers of your muscle and stretch.
- Shoulder Rotations: Rotate your shoulders, staying relaxed. Inhale on the way up and exhale as you bring your shoulder blades together behind you.
- Veerabhadrasana (incorrectly translated in the West as Warrior): Veerabhadra is the AUSPICIOUS HERO in all of us. To establish that attitude, try Veerabhadrasana 1, 2 and 3. In Veerabhadrasana 1, place one foot forward and the other one back at 45 degrees to the forward foot. Clearly stretch out your hamstring and calf muscle on the back leg. Hip flexors are open. Keep the spine straight. Don't lean forward. Bend the forward leg at the knee and keep that knee closer to you than your foot. Don't go beyond your foot on the knee angle. Square your hips and look forward. Focus your attention on one point in front of you and don't shift your gaze or your focus. Inhale and exhale as you raise both hands up palms facing each other. Reach for the stars with those hands. Stay focussed breathing in and out through your nose. Hold for 30 seconds.
- Get down to the mat. Rotate one knee forward with its corresponding hip and thigh on the mat. Extend the back leg back completely with no body weight on it. All the body weight is on the forward leg. Look up to start. Inhale and as you exhale slowly lower your chest down towards your knee. Drop your head down and relax. Breathe in and out through your nose. Hold for 30 seconds.
Yoga helps tsunami survivors
5:00AM Friday February 08, 2008
Photo / Brett Phibbs
A one-week yoga programme reduced stress and anxiety among survivors of the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean islands of Andaman and Nicobar in December 2004.
Dr Shirley Telles and her team from the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation in Bangalore conducted a stress management programme for the survivors a month after the tsunami occurred.
Forty-seven adults were enrolled in an eight-day intensive programme consisting of loosening exercises, physical postures, regulated breathing and guided relaxation for one hour a day.
Fear, anxiety, sadness, sleep disturbances and respiratory rates were significantly reduced after the yoga programme, she reports in the journal eCAM (Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine).
Dr Telles said yoga modifies the body's response to stress of various types, including natural calamities.
- REUTERS
SUCCESS WITH YOGA!
OTTAWA RACE WEEKEND HALF MARATHONER MARY ANN TURNBULL'S BEST RUN AFTER
TRAINING WITH YOGA!
" I never
expected to have a personal best of 2:19:42. My previous personal best
(just seconds slower than this) had been in the fall of 2004, so I am over
the top that I exceeded that.
But the really amazing part is that I did
not, and still do not, feel as if I even ran. Absolutely no muscle
soreness and no sense of muscle fatigue. I find it hard to believe this
feeling, but I attribute it all to Yoga and regular stretching in general.
I am so convinced now of the benefits. I was out running this morning and
still feel great. And I didn't even have time for a stretch after the race
as we rushed off to a BBQ celebration
with the CBC team and then, with an hour to spare, I came home and got
ready for a dinner party for 12.
So the lack of stiffness came totally
from all those other stretching and Yoga sessions.
Thank you for being such a big part of my success!
Mary Ann" Director, Turnbull Learning Centre
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