Yoga can be very therapeutic for individuals with back trouble and for people wanting to tone and strengthen back muscles. While the "full locust" posture is perhaps the most effective way to tone your back with yoga, there are a number of less advanced, postures that will work your back muscles.
Practice Yoga for Constipation Relief
If you find the elimination of waste from your body to be infrequent, difficult and painful there are several yoga poses you can try. Forward fold, downward-facing dog, and legs-up-the-wall are three of 16 sequenced yoga positions to treat constipation as illustrated in "Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health" by B.K.S. Iyengar. Iyengar is a world renowned international guru who has been teaching yoga for over 70 years. Both Iyengar and Yoga Journal recommend deep yoga breathing with inversions for improving regularity.
Yoga Teacher Training: Open Your Own Business
After completing yoga teacher training, some yogis may have visions of spare wooden floors lined with rubber mats, students stretching into deep warrior poses and gently burning incense. Opening your own business can be a rewarding way to share a love of yoga with your community while engaging in a satisfying, profitable enterprise. In most cases, opening your own yoga business means first establishing a yoga studio. Later, you can offer your own yoga teacher training classes to paying students.
Use Yoga Breathing to Relieve Stress
We are all born knowing how to breathe, but as we age we develop inefficient breathing methods and habits. Yoga breathing is a great method for relieving stress and improving oxygen flow. It may take time at first to retrain your body and diaphragm to breathe deeply and correctly, but when you concentrate on your breath you will begin to let go of unneeded thoughts, habits and patterns. Here are some simple steps to follow to deepen your breathing, expand your lung capacity and relieve stress.
Do Power Yoga
Power yoga stands, or rather jumps out from other yoga techniques because of its quick, powerful movements and aerobic nature. Anyone who finds other types of yoga too slow will find it an invigorating challenge to do power yoga. Pose sequences can vary widely, but one thing remains consistent--you’re going to sweat. A few tips will help you kick off your workout.