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When we think of the benefits of yoga, we tend to think about increased flexibility and muscle tone. While those are indeed benefits of doing yoga, there is one more area you should know about. A daily routine that includes yoga for skeletal health is becoming a common prescription by yogis and physicians alike. When we do yoga using correct form and positioning, the poses actually do promote improved posture. People with back and neck issues often think exercise is off limits; on the contrary! Yoga poses are meant to stretch and strengthen the muscles that surround the spine, therefore over time actually straightening crooked or slumped posture. Yoga poses involving stretching of the back (which includes most of them) can literally add to the space between the vertebrae, not only straightening your posture, but adding to your height as well. It is not uncommon to hear a yoga student claim to have grown an inch (or more) taller since they have started practicing yoga on a regular basi...

Yoga is much more than a way to get your body in shape. It is a way of life with its own moral code that serious Yoga practitioners are expected to follow. These principles have been passed down for many generations. Now that Yoga has become the most popular group fitness activity in the world, the people who teach it are held to the high standard described by this moral code. Let's take a look at the list of Yoga instructor ethics that people are expected to follow: Competence 1. Maintaining Competence A Yoga instructor must always continue to strive for excellence in their profession by constant self-assessment of their own abilities as a teacher. Constant study of the best methods to instruct students is expected. 2. Personal Conflicts and Problems Yoga instructors should avoid any teaching activity that could possibly be negatively affected by their own personal problems. If anything in the teacher's personal life will prevent him or her from performing their duties in...