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Introduction

If you find that fighting traffic and your schedule to get to a yoga class is creating more stress than relief, then bringing yoga into your home can be a way to infuse your practice with a simple and welcome ease. Practicing yoga at home can save you time, energy, and money, and perhaps even set you up for greater success in honoring your intention of commitment. Whether you are new to yoga or are taking your current practice to a new level, developing a home practice can meet you where you are and give meaningful rewards to both body and mind when you need them most.

We offer Gems SIlverSneakers Yoga for fifty plus,
Gems Flex for Flexibility,
GemsSculpt for Weightloss,
GemsMeditate for Stress Release,
GemsTherapy for Neck, shoulder back pain, arthritis, B.P, GemsMind for Peace and Relief from anxiety and depression and to create calm,
GemsPrenatal for Pregnancy from end of 3rd month, GemsAnimal for Yoga for Children,
Gemshormones for Fertility Yoga and
GemsEvents for Yoga Birthdays and Beach Yoga.

Classes Lesson

CLASS LESSONS THAT HAVE SOME MAGIC ADDED INTO THEM BY YOU!

Common Sense Recommendations For My Yoga@Home Student to bring some Magic in Your Home Practice

1. If you are practising in gym make sure that you get the area of practice mopped and cleaned as hygiene is the first prerequisite as you breathe and inhale during Yoga. Avoid choosing the space which is in front of door or is in the passage. Preferably face North or East.

2. If practising outdoor, please make sure that your garden is clean and free from pets and not in too much windy or too sunny conditions as extreme weathers are contra indicated.

3. Designate a special space
The key to any home yoga practice is to designate a special space just for you and your mat. Keep this space clear of anything else. The space doesn’t have to be large, but it should be quiet, clean, open, and sacred.

Within your space, add inspirational items that may motivate your practice including inspirational quotes, meditation books, crystals and a candle.

4. Amp up the scents
Aromatherapy is the perfect way to bring some magic into your environment! Aromatherapy uses natural oils that have been extracted from parts of a plant to heal or enhance the practitioners’ physical well-being. Using oils during yoga will help you focus better and uplift your mood. Use a scented candle or a diffuser at your designated yoga space during practice. Don’t know which oil to try? Eucalyptus is a great one to start with as it helps you breathe better!

5. Add music
While it’s generally better to practice in a quiet environment, you can also achieve a quiet state of mind through music! Certain music or sounds help reduce anxiety and stress, therefore enabling your mind to reach a more meditative state. Good music will also help slow down your breathing, allowing you to inhale and exhale deeply. The kind of music you play will largely depend on your personality and the type of yoga you are practicing. You can choose from our music list from our gallery.

6. Include meditation
Ending your practice with meditation is sure to help you feel energized and rejuvenated to start the day! Just a few short minutes to clear your mind can do wonders both mentally and physically. Meditation can lower your stress levels and help you with depression. It also aids weight loss! Take at least 10 minutes at the end of your day to sit on your mat, relax and meditate.
The great news is that there are many different types of meditation that you can try out, from Yoga Nidra ,mindfulness, and vipassana to tantra and zazen. If you are just getting started, guided meditation may be the best for you. Please listen to the podcast recorded for you for meditation on our Website www.gemsofyogadubai.com

7.Dress up for your Yoga class.
Please wear loose and comfortable and cotton clothes and with knees visible or detectable. Please check the few local brands here.

CLASS LESSONS
  • HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED TO DO KEEP DOING YOGA REGULARLY?

Practice with a family member or friend.
Practice Sun Salutation for 15 minutes and end your day with 15 minutes of Meditation. Make it a steadfast rule that you will not change. If for some reason you did skip next day do some Karma Yoga to compensate for your missed yoga and meditation ritual.

  • THE VOICE OF THE YOGA TEACHER SUNITA

1.Please create an intention for your practice today. All days are not same.

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2. I try to listen to what your body needs that day, to make you move at your own pace, and develop intuition about what sequences or kinds of yoga poses you want and need to do most on any given day.”

If you are fatigued, you may want to do a more restorative yoga sequence. If you’re feeling energetic, a more flowing, fast-paced or rigorous set of yoga poses may feel more satisfying or help you channel that energy. Many like to do an energizing yoga practice in the morning and a calming restorative practice in the evening.

3. But listening to what you need is more than a physical thing.

4.Being present during your practice means allowing yourself to be aware of whatever physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts are currently arising. Be creative and spontaneous. If you approach your practice with a sense of curiosity, rather than self-judgment or competitiveness, you will find it easier to motivate yourself to practice — and you’ll be more present when you do practice.”

5. Sun Salutations are a time-efficient way of practicing yoga because they thread together poses that involve different parts of the body. Sun salutes are also commonly practiced as a warm-up, followed by standing poses such as Warrior I, II and II — and ending with forward bends, twists and restorative poses.

6. As you advance, you may want to move into more challenging intermediate and Advanced Yoga Poses such as arm balances, inversions and backbends.

  • LISTEN TO YOUR INNER INSTRUCTOR AND PRACTICE YOURSELF TOO APART FROM THE GUIDED INSTRUCTION TO BLOSSOM LIKE A LOTUS.

Practicing yoga in the quiet of your home allows you the space to honor your body and teach from within, paying close attention and exploring what your body and spirit need each day.

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In a yoga class, we often pay more attention to the bodies around us, trying to “keep up” with our neighbors or fit our own bodies to the teacher’s instructions. In the meditative calm of your home studio, you can:
• 1. tune inward, work at your own pace, and take the time to listen to your body
• 2. check in with yourself and turn your attention to how you feel
• 3. personalize your practice by choosing the poses and rhythms that best fit your mood and needs for the day, incorporating invigorating vinyasa sequences, balancing asanas, or restorative breathing and stretching.
• 4. take the time to adjust a pose if it doesn’t feel just right, hold a pose for a longer period of time, or rest when your body tells you to, without feeling like you’re falling behind.
Remember, too, that a home practice also can be a wonderful addition to group classes. So, roll out the welcome mat and make yourself at home.

What You Get From This Classes

Yoga – The Benefits

  1. Healing Effects
  2. Anti – aging Properties
  3. Weight Reduction
  4. Mental Health
  5. Beauty
  6. Sex
  7. Pride
  8. Knowledge
  9. Wealth
  10. Helps with Insomnia

HEALING BENEFITS

Yoga has been used for disorders such as:

 1 © Acid Stomach
 2 © Addictions,
 3 ©Asthma:
 4 ©Backache
 5 ©Bronchitis
 6 ©Cancer,
 7 ©Cold
 8 ©Constipation
 9  ©Depression
 10 ©Diabetes (not a cure!)
 11 ©Emphysema
 12©Eyestrain
 13©Flatulence
 14©Headache
 15©Heart Disorders,
 16©Hypertension (High Blood Pressure),
 17© Indigestion
 18©Insomnia
 19©Menstrual disorders
 20©Migraines,
 21©Neurasthenia
 22©Obesity
 23©Premenstrual Tension,
 24©Prostate troubles
 25©Rheumatism
 26©Sciatica
 27©Sexual debility
 28©Sinus
 29©Skin diseases
 30©Sore throat
 31©Stress And Tension
 32©Wrinkles

 

Yoga is being assessed for its potential in treating illnesses such as:

 1 ðMultiple Sclerosis,
 2 ðCerebral Palsy,
 3 ðOsteoporosis,
  4 ðRheumatoid Arthritis And
  5 ðDepression Experienced After Childbirth.

 

Thousands of studies have shown that yoga can allow people to control a wide range of body functions, including

 1 ªBlood pressure
 2 ªBody temperature
 3 ªBrain waves (as measured by EEG)
 4 ªHeart rate
 5 ªMetabolic rate
 6 ªRespiratory function
 7 ªskin resistance

 

Studies show that people who practice yoga have:

 1Ö  Reduced anxiety,
 2Ö  Are more resistant to stress, and
 3Ö  Have lower blood pressure,
  4Ö  More efficient heart function,
 5Ö  Better respiratory function, and
 6Ö  Improved physical fitness.

 

Health conditions benefitted by Yoga
1. Respiration Problems – Bronchitis and Emphysema
2.Asthma
3.High Blood Pressure
4.Pain Management
5.Back Pain
6.Self Awareness
7.Mental Performance
8.Diabetes
9.Mood Change & Vitality
10.Arthritis

ANTI AGING PROPERTIES OF YOGA – REMAIN YOUNG FOREVER

Please see blog article.

Yoga For Weight Reduction

Please see the blog article.

Yoga and Mental Health

Please see the blog Article.

Social Values

  1. Yoga may reduce your annoyance with others and others’ annoyance with you. If you become less irritable, you tend to irritate others less and tend to be less irritated by what others do when they present themselves as problems to you.Your obdurate, demanding, insistent, morose attitudes can make you hard to get along with. Diminution of these should make you less difficult to deal with. The social effects-upon your colleagues and clients, superiors and inferiors, to say nothing of family, public officers and service specialists-could be overwhelming.
  2. You tend to be easier to get along with and you tend to find others easier to get along with.
    Or, if your personal improvement grows beyond mere contentment, to exuberant appreciation, you may find both more people liking you and you liking more people. You become more adaptable, reliable, steady, alert, responsive, ever-ready, patient, gentle and humane.When this happens, you become recognized as a more desirable person to deal with.If you develop a buoyant spirit, you will find that buoyancy is catching.Others, seeing you as cheery, tend to respond in kind, reacting more cheerily to you. Your rewards increase.

    The effects of yoga upon character as noted by Dechanet in Christian Yoga. “Yoga also produces a more active, willing and generous disposition. It quickens the life of faith, of love of God and our neighbor. It quickens our sense of duty and responsibility as men and, above all, as Christians”. “It follows that Hatha Yoga influences character to the good. One man, after some weeks of practice, admits he no longer knows himself, and everyone notices a change in his bearing and reaction. He is gentler, more understanding. He faces experience calmly. He is content; the pinpricks of life affect him less or not at all. He is in command of his own will and goes about his studies without fear and anxiety. His whole personality has been altered and he himself feels it steadying and opening out; from this there arises an almost permanent condition of euphoria, of ‘contentedness’ “. “You will feel that gentleness and sympathy come more readily. You will not feel like venting your spleen on others as frequently as before, and if it should occur, you will regret it all the more. You will make a kind of pact of non-violence with yourself. You will still have fits of impatience often enough, and even of anger. But something will be telling you that this is not only bad but even useless, and that it really is not worth the trouble to fly out and get beside yourself for nothing. ‘A great need for sincerity -will bring you to detest, more than others do, not only lying but all forms of duplicity and dissimulation. You will sense the more keenly whatever is not genuine, and even what is merely conventional in speeches and words, and also in attitudes that men think they can take up in order to edify, but more often they take up lest they should lose face”

Yoga and Beauty

Beauty of figure, graceful carriage, melodious voice, glowing face and charming smile have all been mentioned as possible rewards of yogic practice.

Swami Sivananda says that “By practicing the Asanas regularly, men and women will acquire a figure which will enhance their beauty and that suppleness which gives them charm and elegance in every movement,” and “be endowed with a peculiar glow in his face and eyes and a peculiar charm in his smile” (Yogic Home Exercises).

Clara Spring, expressing an American woman’s point of view, reminds us that “A number of world-famous beauty courses contain certain exercises based on Yoga” (Yoga for Today).

Yoga and Sex

Yoga’s view of sex is the same as of every other issue – moderation. Yoga considers sex to be a natural function, very beneficial in a loving relationship and, of course, essential for the continuation of the human race.

Yogis warn against overindulgence in sex since they consider this will deplete the life force. They state that the sexual secretions contain very concentrated life force and nutrients, since they contain the seeds of life. Depletion of life force results in a reduced vitality level and reduced resistance to disease. It also retards progress from the practice of yoga. A whole field of yoga called Tandric Yoga or Kundalini Yoga is concerned with harnessing the sexual power. Yoga enables one to get into meaningful relationships and enjoy the process, at the same time provides a path to use the powerful energy involved in sex.

The yogis consider that normal sexual function occurs when the reproductive system is in a state of optimum health. They have found that the most effective way of attaining this optimum health state is by doing yoga asanas and breathing exercises. Those who are physiologically weak and partially or wholly impotent may restore potency as they regain their physical health. Steadier practice of milder yogic exercises may yield results when more vigorous bodybuilding workouts end in undue exhaustion. Those who approach sexual matters nervously rather than relaxedly may profit from previous relaxing yogic exercises.

Marriage counselors suggest that a relaxed condition is one of the essentials for a harmonious sex relationship because when hurried and strained it leaves the couple (the woman especially) dissatisfied and irritated, adversely affecting her entire well being. Indra Devi, author of many books on yoga, remarked that “The wives of several of my students have often told me that since their husbands had taken up Yoga exercises, their marital relationships had undergone remarkable changes.”

It’s true that advanced yogis practice celibacy. They need every ounce of their life force for their quest for cosmic consciousness. They also know that the realization of their goal produces eternal bliss, besides which the brief pleasure of sex pales into insignificance. Their minds have progressed so far that they are not prepared to settle for a watered-down version of happiness.

Yoga and Pride

Pride, and especially anxiety about pride, is something which hatha yoga seeks to diminish or eliminate. We are not advocating pride, but some will choose to consider pride a value anyway. To one who has been dejected because he cannot do his work properly when he becomes tired, irritable, or haggard, any degree of refreshment may be accompanied by additional degrees of self-respect. Furthermore, one who has benefited from yoga may be moved to help his friends who are obviously in need; he may instruct others and be rewarded with appreciation due a gracious teacher.

But if one succeeds in achieving skill which provides health and self-confidence, one may justly raise his self-esteem simply by observing himself living the improved results as an achieved fact.

Yoga and Knowledge

Readers of treatises on yoga soon become familiar with a recurrent refrain. Yogic theory and practice lead to increased self-knowledge. Although many of these treatises extend the meaning of yoga beyond hatha yoga the values of self-knowledge indicated are intended to include those derivable from using breathing and posture exercises for attaining and maintaining health, physical and mental, and relaxation. The knowledge is not merely that of the practical kind relating to techniques, but especially of a spiritual sort pertaining to grasping something about the nature of the self at rest.

Knowing the self at rest, at peace, as a being rather than merely as an agent or doer, is a genuine kind of knowledge which usually gets lost in the rush of activities and push of desires. The value of discovering one’s self and of enjoying one’s self as it is, rather than as it is going to be, is indeed a value as well as a kind of knowledge.

Yoga and Wealth

About the last thing one should expect from yoga is wealth. Yet, when certain facts are pointed out, it becomes obvious that here is a value not to be overlooked.

First of all, as Swami Sivananda argues, “Health is wealth…. If you do not possess good health you cannot prosper in any walk of life” (Yogic Home Exercises). As we can see from the factors listed under Physical Health and Mental Health, yoga does affect our ability to deal with the problems in our businesses and professions. Many factors affecting our day-to-day and long-range; capacities for achieving business and professional goals may be influenced by yogic endeavors. One can hardly calculate results, but still can easily sense the significance of improved health for business success.

Not only may one acquire more financially from good health, but he need spend less upon measures to alleviate illness. By reducing anxiety and desirousness, yoga tends to diminish our desires and the expenditures we make trying to satisfy those desires. A person who achieves peace with himself, even if only part of the time, has less motive for spending money to win the battle for satisfaction of his cravings. Yoga is less expensive than most other methods of attaining and maintaining health and relaxation.

Yoga For Insomnia

Yoga will benefit your sleep in three ways:

The quality of your steep will improve because of yoga’s beneficial effect on the nervous system, and in particular the brain. This results from certain yoga asanas increasing the blood supply to the steep center in the brain, which has the effect of normalizing the steep cycle.

You will need less sleep because of the improved quality of your sleep, and because yoga increases the elimination of toxins from the body. On average, for every minute you put into yoga you will need one minute less sleep. This makes yoga an excellent time investment.

You will fall asleep in a shorter time. This is mainly because the body and mind are more relaxed.

Yoga will make you fall asleep sooner and improve the quality of your sleep so that you need less. You will have a more restful sleep because of the relaxing aspect of yoga and the subsequent relieving of stress, tension and fatigue.

Yoga’s primary emphasis is upon general well-being. Although yoga has been shown to be beneficial in a variety of conditions, it is not considered a therapy for specific illnesses. Rather, yoga employs a broad holistic approach that focuses on teaching people a new lifestyle, way of thinking, and way of being in the world. In the process, however, it is also found to bring a myriad of healing effects. By attending to practices for improving, regaining or retaining general good health, a person is likely to find that some of his more specific difficulties tend to disappear. Many of the healing effects of yoga is clinically verified. We will look at the healing effects of yoga. However, one of the most important benefit of yoga is its application in relieving stress, fatigue, invigoration and vitality and its anti-aging properties and its application for relaxation therapy.

According to Swami Sivananda, the benefits of pranayama (yogic breathing practices) include:
“The body becomes strong and healthy. Too much fat is reduced. There is luster in the face. Eyes sparkle like diamonds. The practitioner becomes very handsome. Voice becomes sweet and melodious”

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