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Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Yoga Teaching Service, Part 5

...udents through the front door? This is very common, but many health clubs and Yoga studios make the mistake of taking repeat business for granted.

When you have a small number of Yoga students to track, you dont have to drive yourself crazy with statistics. If you grow into a large Yoga studio, you have to pay attention on a weekly basis. Who is out? Why are they out? and so on.

Im not telling you to hit the panic button every time your numbers drop. Some slow downs are seasonal and others just happen. What you are looking for are trends. trends tell you the average life of a student / teacher relationship and why most of them leave.

Many of them leave, because they dont feel like they are acknowledged. No one greets them or makes any small talk. Others leave because of the class atmosphere; they...more

Meditation - The Himalayan Tradition of Yoga Meditation

...deeper communion. Again prayer also moves progressively from the most external to the very core of our being. Prayers for strength, or for spiritual awakening, gradually come to completion.

mantra

Whether the mantra is of a particular religious significance, such as a short phrase or a spiritual language such as Sanskrit, or a seed syllable not of any particular religion or language, it evolves through various stages. mantra usage deepens with practice:

• Spoken. It may be spoke first externally or internally
• Heard. Later heard or attended to internally
• Feeling. Then later experienced as a syllable-less feeling, or
• Pervasive awareness. Finally experiencing pervasive awareness that leads to its source.

The origin of Yoga Meditation lies in the meaning of the word Yoga itself which comes from the word yuj meaning to join. Thus Yoga means to bring together the aspects of yourself that were never meant to be divided in the first place. Although some principles of Yoga Meditation are contained within various religions, Yoga meditation in itself is not a religion.more

Universal Principles of Yoga: The Law of Karma

...lp people. You do not have to be a religious leader, famous person, politician, messiah, prophet, or Yoga teacher to practice Karma Yoga, but each of us can easily start by practicing acts of kindness toward everyone. Let go of demands, anger, swearing, intolerance, and road rage.

Help your family, friends, co-workers, and anyone who is in need. It is as simple as listening, helping, giving a card, showing a gesture, or telling your family that you love them.

Karma Yoga is about helping others and forgetting about our own desires. A Karma Yogi will find peace of mind by abandoning anger, jealousy, envy, and hate.

Regardless of our religious beliefs, if all of us practiced Karma Yoga, we would finally attain world peace.

Copyright 2006 Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

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Managing Stress with Hatha Yoga

...needs, they are incredibly effective for managing and reducing your stress.

Effects Of Yoga

The positive health effects of yoga include reduced heart rate and blood pressure, anxiety reduction, better physical strength, improved flexibility, reduced muscle tension, greater peace and calmness, better ability to handle stressful situations, better and deeper sleep, slower aging, spiritual awareness and growth and even a greater overall sense of well being. There are many more benefits to yoga practice, reducing and managing stress is just one of them.

If you have a problem with stress in your life, and who doesn't, why not look into beginning yoga? It can improve your life as a whole.more

Vermont Yoga Meditation Retreats

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