Review: YogaJournal.com – A Website for a Yoga Enthusiast
June 13, 2009 by Gail Grannum
Filed under Yoga Poses Beginner
If you are interested in yoga, you cannot afford to miss yogajournal.com. Wonderful articles, answers to questions by yoga experts, subscription to a great magazine, and wonderfully shot DVDs showing the right way to perform yoga poses, are only some of the things that you get when you visit and join yogajournal.com.
Yogajournal.com has some very informative and easy to understand articles which you can read for free. You can read about the philosophy and history of yoga and the advantages of different yoga poses. If you are interested in holistic healing, the website provides information on ayurveda and other facets of healthy living.
Yogajournal.com is a great resource if you want to build a sequence of yoga poses. The sequence of movements can be aimed at weight loss or just general well-being.
- You can have a look at the different yoga poses or yoga asanas and decide for yourself as to which poses complement each other and how you can shift your body from one pose to the other.
- There are 108 poses that are described on the website.
- The site helps you choose your poses depending on which parts you want to work on (anatomical focus), the illnesses that you want to combat (therapeutic focus), and the particular symptoms or problems you want to control (contraindications category).
If you are looking for some fantastic multimedia experience to enhance your yoga experience, then yogajournal.com will make sure that you get exactly that. There’s the yogajournal TV, a podcast, and some wonderful music to play as you go along practicing your yoga asanas.
If you want to lose weight or just want to eat healthy, you can get some wonderful information and some delicious but healthy vegetarian recipes on this website.
- Check out their wonderful quizzes and tools section and find out if you are a sweat-hog or a swami, meanings of different Sanskrit yoga terms, and get daily tips.
- And if you have a question in your mind or are just looking for getting to know some like-minded people, check out their community section.
- And don’t think that if you are a yoga instructor, you have nothing to look forward to because yogajournal.com has a section especially for yoga instructors.
You can buy some wonderfully shot DVDs with expert yoga instructors showing you the right way to move in and out of a yoga pose for best results and to avoid injuries. There are DVDs available for yoga beginners, advanced yoga practitioners, home practitioners, and for stress and pregnancy. If you are fond of reading, lots of resources on how to use yoga for healing, fitness, preventing chronic diseases, and being more in tune with your body.
It doesn’t matter if you are a yoga beginner or a yoga instructor. Yogajournal.com is an ideal website for everyone. Weight loss, fitness, or healthy living, whatever is your objective, yogajournal.com is a complete resource of articles, expert advice, DVDs, videos, and books on yoga and yoga poses.
Recommendations:
- For the beginner, the section on the basics is superb http://www.yogajournal.com/basics/.
- The intermediate or advanced student will love the Pose Finder Widget http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/finder/browse_categories/.
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