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Yoga Poses for Beginners:

The Yoga Poses for Beginners library serves as a comprehensive intro guide to the most popular yoga poses and sequences.

Becoming familiar with and learning these poses should get you through a class in any of the types of yoga styles.

1. Seated Yoga Poses – Grounding and calming, these poses provide some of our deepest muscle opening and twisting.

2. Standing Yoga Poses – Good for strength, balance and focus. These energetic poses provide a straight line to shaping our best body.

3. Arm Balances – These yoga poses are good for strength, body awareness and focus, providing some fun challenges for every body.

4. Backbends – Opening up in the spine and chest feels great and strengthens our connection to intuition.

5. Inversions – Good for balance and concentration, as well as circulation.

6. Core Poses – These poses will strengthen your core and get your abs beach ready!

7. Yoga Poses for Weight Loss – These poses will help you shed unwanted pounds!

8. Restorative Poses – These yoga poses are great for winding down and connecting to our breath.

9. Yoga Poses for Back Pain – Whether the origins are some acute injury or long-term stress, there are a few simple poses that can help with back pain.

10. Yoga Sequences & Moving (Videos) – How we move and breathe is much more important than the exact shape of our poses, for clearing our bodies and minds and creating our own best health.

Source: mind body green

Yoga may benefit prisoners psychologically

Yoga can improve the mood and mental well being of prisoners and may also affect their impulsive behaviour, a study has revealed.

The researchers at the Oxford University have found that prisoners after a ten-week yoga course reported improved mood, reduced stress and were better at a task related to behaviour control than those who continued in their normal prison routine.
“We found that the group that did the yoga course showed an improvement in positive mood, a decrease in stress and greater accuracy in a computer test of impulsivity and attention,” Dr Amy Bilderbeck and Dr Miguel Farias, who led the study at the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry at Oxford University, said.

“The suggestion is that yoga is helpful for these prisoners,” they further explained.

The study has been presented in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.