Faster Healing Of Bruise With Hot Yoga

Bruise heal faster with hot yoga
I began coming to Yoga Passion and was immediately hooked regularly averaging four times per week. Running & working out in gyms for all of my adult life suddenly felt like a waste of time after the total experience of the HotCore classes with Peter Sklivas at Yoga Passion. I am feeling the benefits: better mental clarity; stronger sense of well-being even outside of class; increased muscle tone; greater range of motion in a shoulder that had three surgeries and nine months of physical therapy; and, the following experience:

Ever since I was a child, I’ve always bruised easily & bruises took an extraordinary amount of time to fade. Last year, a thigh bruise I received when a soccer ball slammed into me during a friendly family game took almost a year to entirely fade. The week before Christmas 2000 I fell from a ladder while putting up Christmas decorations. My left hand was swollen & badly bruised from the tips of my fingers to the base of my palm. I had a bruise on my hip that was about four inches across. While nothing was broken, my hand was extremely sore & the doctor told me that the deep purple bruising would not begin to fade for at least four to six weeks. Based on my history, I assumed it would be twice that amount of time for me. I continued to come to class even though my movement was limited with the soreness of my hand. Much to my amazement, the bruising disappeared in about ten days. Having changed nothing else in my normal routine & always having gotten a good cardiovascular workout at least four times a week prior to coming to Yoga Passion, I can only attribute this remarkable change in my system to HotCore Yoga.

This is a story written by Linda H. Young . This has been reposted with permission from Peter Sklivas of Yoga Passion. You can find the original here.

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Is Sugar Toxic?

The drumbeat of problems with sugar is now getting increasingly louder. 40 years ago there were landmark studies that showed that the source of most of our health problems was a diet high in saturated fat. As a nation, we have since reduced considerably our fat intake and yet the problems persist. This has prompted scientist to take another look at these studies. They are finding that the studies were not “controlled” for sugar. This means that the problem they were thinking was the fat may really have been the sugar. It also implies that it may not be a good idea to reduce fat intake by increasing sugar content in our diet. Unfortunately this is what most food manufacturers have done. Over the decades processed food manufacturers have reduced fat content but increased the sugar content of the food they make. This may be the source of our health problems. Here is what the emerging science is saying and what the new healthy food mantra will likely be: “Moderate fat, moderate fiber, low to negligible sugar”.

Related links:
Sugar the bitter truth (Video with millions of hits that first brought the problems with sugar in public view)
Sugar and kids: the toxic truth
Not all calories are equal
From fructose to fat

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The King And His Friend

The King And His Friend
An king had a close friend who had the habit of remarking “this is good” after anything that happened no matter what it was. One day the king and his friend were out hunting. The king’s friend loaded a gun and handed it to the king, but alas it misfired and the King’s thumb was blown off.

“This is good!” exclaimed his friend.

The horrified and bleeding king was furious. “How can you say this is good? This is obviously horrible!” he shouted.

The king put his friend in jail.

About a year later the king went hunting by himself. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some wood, set up a stake and bound him to it. As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. They untied the king and sent him on his way.

Full of remorse the king rushed to the prison to release his friend.

“You were right, it WAS good” the king said.

The king told his friend how the missing thumb saved his life and added, “I feel so sad that I locked you in jail.That was such a bad thing to do”

“NO! this is good!” responded his delighted friend.

“Oh, how could that be good my friend, I did a terrible thing to you while I owe you my life”.

“It is good,” said his friend, “because if I weren’t in jail I would have been hunting with you and they would have eaten me!”

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Real Men Do Yoga!

Is Yoga just for women? In the west women have taken to yoga in a big way while the men are hanging back. This is changing slowly as men wake up to the benefits of yoga as this video indicates. Do you have some men in mind who may benefit from this video? Please feel free to share it with them!

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A Yogi Starts The Information Revolution

First Shloka

First Shloka


Last week we took up the fascinating story of how a bandit named Ratnakara turns into a god-realized sage called Valmiki.

Many, many years passed since the sage Narada gave the name “Valmiki” to Ratnakara. The name and fame of the God-realized sage Valmiki had now spread. He established a hermitage by the banks of a river and had many disciples. One day he set out to have a bath in a nearby stream. The steam was sparkling peacefully and its waters crystal clear. Valmiki noticed two birds chirping happily on a branch above. Valmiki was happy to see such a happy couple. Suddenly the peace of the scene was shattered. One of the birds fell into the stream, shot through by the arrow of a hunter. The other bird, its mate, began to cry in agony. Distressed at the sudden turn of events, Valmiki looked around and saw the hunter who had shot the bird for food. In anger he denounced his actions by spontaneously uttering two lines in Sanskrit:

Peace you shall lose, eternal time to come.
Killed you have, bird in love’s passion!

Valmiki then turned around and returned to his hut, but the couple of lines that had found expression through his lips continued to haunt him. As he mulled over the meter of the lines he had a vision. In his vision the Lord asked him to narrate the story of Ram and Sita in poetic form using the same form and meter of the lines he had just recited. Continue reading

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