Sun Salutation / Surya Namaskar

The Sun Salutation is the only “cardio” portion of the practice. It is done as a warm-up before the main asana sequence to stretch out and bring blood flow to the muscles. It can also be practiced any time when a whole asana practice is not possible. There are 12…

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The Abdominal and Full Yogic Breath

Basic Breathing Techniques for a Revitalized Life! The Abdominal Breath: Often due to poor postural habits only the chest is used to breathe. This is a very small portion of the lung capacity and an inefficient use of the lungs. Additionally, this habit hardly ever allows for a full exhalation – meaning…

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Introduction To Vegetarian Cooking

Om Namah Sivaya Blessed Friends, Welcome to Rainbow Life Yoga. This introductory post is based on a cooking course I designed while teaching at the Sivananda San Francisco, CA Yoga Center. Each recipe is ayurvedically inspired and based on how we generally eat at the ashram or center. The recipes  are tasty,…

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The Yogic Diet

The Yogic Diet A Yogic diet is a diet conducive to the practice of Yoga in all of its aspects. That is, it’s a diet that not only refrains from disturbing your practice, but actually assists in creating the calm state of mind necessary to practice successfully. In Yoga, this…

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