Posted by Live Yoga Life in Updates, Yoga Therapy on July 27th, 2013
We came across this article recently in the Sydney Morning Herald on the topic of “What Yoga can do for you” and thought it may be of interest.
The study was led by Dr Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, an associate professor with the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas and the findings were presented to the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology held in New Orleans in 2011.
The study focused on 49 patients with the heart rhythm disorder who had no physical limitations and no prior experience with yoga. Their episodes of irregular heartbeat were measured for a six-month period by researchers at the hospital.
The report said that “it appears yoga has a significant impact on helping to regulate patients’ heartbeat and improves the overall quality of life”. The report also cautioned “that larger studies are needed to bear out the findings of his study, and that patients should continue with standard medical therapy.”
For anyone who has practiced yoga regularly these conclusions will not be at all surprising!
Posted by Live Yoga Life in By Teachers, Updates on December 2nd, 2012
Coincides never cease to amaze me. My focus for the past 9 months has been on my pregnancy – I had a beautiful baby girl (Alexandra Imogen) earlier this month. I thoroughly enjoyed practising prenatal yoga throughout my pregnancy, and highly recommend it to any pregnant woman after their first trimester. Preferrably, find an excellent teacher in your local area. This is a great way to meet other pregnant women and share experiences. When I was feeling really uncomfortable about something, it was good to find out that someone else was feeling the same way as me. (If you can’t make it to a class, check out our online pre-natal classes).
Just when I was due to give birth, Australian Yoga Journal magazine decided to put together an issue focusing on prenatal yoga — we are once again featured in their November 2012 (in news agents now) — the magazine includes a complimentary 65-minute Prentatal Yoga Class CD, led by one of liveyogalife.com’s most popular teachers, Ana Davis. Ana Davis is an international yoga teacher based in Byron Bay. She has been teaching for 16 years and is the director of Bliss Baby, which specializes in prenatal and postnatal yoga training. Ana is also a senior yoga teacher at the Byron Yoga Centre where she lectures on yoga for women’s health as part of their teacher training programs.
This 65-minute Prenatal Yoga Class is the 1st in a 7-set-series of classes. The 7-class-set has been designed to be accessible throughout the different stages of pregnancy. It covers the fundamentals of posture & breath-work, poses for birth-preparation, lateral stretches & hip-openers, energy-building, core & sacral stability for birth, and restorative sessions for those tired days. For more information, check out Ana’s complete series of classes here.
Ana also has an 8-class-set of 20-minute Postnatal classes for after you have given birth — excellent for regaining your fitness, stability and stamina.
Check out the complimentary class in this month’s issue of Australian Yoga Journal magazine, available at your local newsagent today!
Posted by Live Yoga Life in By Teachers, Styles of Yoga, Updates on October 8th, 2012
Check out our latest release – Hatha Yoga Intermediate Series Class 1 to 6 by Vinyasa Hatha yoga teacher, Daneille Dolev.
The set of classes primarily focuses on improving your strength, stability, concentration and balance with a special focus on the flexibility of your hips. Danielle specialises in designing beautiful flowing classes with an emphasis on working with your breath.
Class 1: Focuses on improving your strength, balance and concentration. It has an emphasis on a flowing practice where you move smoothly between postures while working with the breath.
Class 2: Focuses on improving your strength, balance and concentration. It has an emphasis on the therapeutic benefits of flowing movement where you move smoothly between postures while working with the breath.
Class 3: Focuses on improving your strength, balance and concentration. It also has a strong emphasis on the therapeutic benefits on flowing with the breath.
Class 4: Focuses on developing your strength, balance, hip stability and opening through your hips. It has an emphasis on a flowing practice where you move smoothly between postures while working with the breath.
Class 5: Focuses on improving your strength, balance, concentration whilst opening your hips. The flowing practice has a strong emphasis on moving with the breath.
Class 6: Focuses on improving your strength, stability and balance whilst opening the hips. Danielle designs beautiful flowing classes with an emphasis on working with your breath.
These classes are intermediate level (also suitable for advanced beginners) and available separately or as a complete set of 6 classes.
NOTE: These classes do not come with printable PDF visual guides.
Live Yoga Life has a wide range of MP3 yoga classes, yoga ebooks and yoga books available for you to download:
Posted by Live Yoga Life in By Teachers, Updates on August 6th, 2012
We are once again delighted to be featured in the August / September 2012 issue of Australian Yoga Journal magazine. The magazine comes with a complimentary CD featuring a 30-minute Chair Yoga Open Level Class by one of Australia’s most experienced teachers, James Bryan. James teaches at the Knoff Yoga School in Cairns with Nicki Knoff.
In this class (Chair Yoga Level 2 Class 2 – Chest-Openers & Back Bends), James expertly guides you through postures that work on releasing the shoulders, opening the chest, and releasing tension and strengthening the lower and upper back. Once again, these focus points are high-lights to a complete and whole-body exercise.
These are a series of four guided classes that builds on the Level 1 Program with stronger and deeper physical exercises involving standing-up and using your chair either for support or for stronger and deeper stretches as a prop.
Check out the complimentary class in this month’s issue of Australian Yoga Journal magazine, available at your local newsagent today!
Posted by Live Yoga Life in Updates on August 4th, 2012
Here is our latest advert which will appear in selected magazines in August and September 2012.
Liveyogalife.com Advert July 2012
Posted by Live Yoga Life in Updates on July 29th, 2012
Last weekend we launched our new website! And we are very excited 🙂
The main changes are a completely new design and layout, a new navigation, and shopping cart process. Overall it is a fairly substantial overhaul and upgrade of the previous site.
We have moved to using a tailored shopping cart software called FoxyShop together with dedicated payment processor FoxyCart. It has been a pleasure working with their beautiful software to create our new website.
We hope you enjoy the new experience! If you encounter any problems using the new site (we expect to have to iron out some bugs as we go) or want to let us know your feedback, please use the green contact form (click on the floating green tab on the right hand side) or go to our contact page.
Enjoy and Namaste!
The Team at Liveyogalife.com
