Yoga is considered of the most efficient methods to control anger. Knowing the root cause of anger would be helpful while managing anger. Identify the causes that trigger your anger. This helps in managing anger. One should overcome anger since it destroys peace of mind and causes health problems including physical and mental problems. Practicing yoga will definitely help in anger management. You can attend yoga classes as well for anger management.

The conventional remedies for anger management includes: suppression, expression and diversion. Suppression is done by taking deep breaths. Expression is a method carried out in a few places where you will be able to take out your anger, frustration and stress on certain objects either by hitting or throwing object. Diversion method allows you to divert away from the source of anger. But this may result in the return of the anger very soon.

Yoga involves various physical postures and meditation (Pranayama). Controlled breathing has calming effect on the individual. Take a deep breath through nose and exhale from the mouth. Restart with normal breathing after a few minutes. Repeat this process for a few more couple of times. Hold the breath as long as you are physically comfortable. These methods will also teach you the power of forgiveness. Hatha yoga also helps in anger management. Attend yoga classes and learn the yoga poses from a tutor. You will see the difference within a few days.

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The back pain can be treated using certain yoga postures. By practicing yoga, the flexibility and muscular strength increases. The posture is improved by doing yoga. The practice of meditation relaxes your mind and body and relieves the mental stress. The various yoga poses that help for back pain include:

Torso Twist:

It is done by sitting with legs stretched in front and turning the torso to the left by breathing in and both hands on the floor to the left of your hips. Lower your torso by exhaling slowly till your nose touches the floor and then return to the original position. Repeat the procedure on the right side and for 4-5 times.

Supta-Vajrasana:

Sit on your heels spread apart to a little extent. Slowly bend your body backwards and place on the floor slowly with the support of your hands. Stay in this pose for about a minute with the palms resting on your thighs.

Cat Stretch:

Rest on your palms and knees and keep your back as straight as possible. Crouch inwards bending the spine and try to look your navel by exhaling. Come back to the original position. Now stretch forward by dropping your back and lift your head up as much as possible. After this pose, come back to the original position.

Corpse Pose:

It is known a Shavaasana. It is usually carried out after all the workouts. Lie down on your back with the feet and palms on the floor. Stay in this position for 10-15 minutes.

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Neck pain is a common complaint or an issue among the people who spend lot of hours in front of desktop or driving. The improper postures while typing makes you bend forward which puts a lot of pressure on the neck region. The pain in the neck spreads to the shoulders and sometimes to the arms as well.

The various reasons for neck pain include using a high raised pillow while sleeping, keeping a bent posture for long hours and sometimes it maybe caused due to the obstruction of blood flow caused by the rigidity of nerves and muscles. It can also be caused due to an accident as well. Consult your doctor if the neck pain comes very consistently or persists even after 2-3 days. Prevention is always better than cure. Improve your postures, check the pillow height and manage your stress levels in order to prevent neck pains.

Certain yoga exercises can provide relief for the neck pain. Follow a proper diet and correct your postures along with practicing yoga. Certain yoga exercises such as Bhujangasana, Trikonasana etc. are helpful in treating neck pain. The chin lock and the neck rotation method in clockwise and anti-clockwise direction can also be tried for treating neck pain.

Neck stretches can be tried in the sitting posture to treat neck pain. Rolling your head in full circles can worsen the situation. So, avoid full circles and try only half circle rolling of your neck. Perform arm lifts and shoulder moves i.e. hunching of shoulders as much as possible and relaxing. The chest expander can also be tried while curing neck pain.

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The various benefits of yoga are:

• It has a relaxing effects i.e. peace and stability to mind and body and rejuvenates the nervous system.
• It makes you have a good posture without much effort and gives you a feeling of being tall.
• It increases the flexibility of the body in various joints and other parts; the joints, tendons and ligaments get lubricated by doing yoga and hence the reduced stiffness in joints.
• The stretching postures increases the blood circulation to the various parts of the body and hence results in the detoxification and the increased supply of pure blood to the various organs.
• Helps in toning up of the muscles and gives you more energetic feel. It also reduces the aging effects ion your body.
• You will have better self-discipline and more control on your mind and body.
• The meditation practices help the mind to work in synchronization with the body.
• The injuries can be reduced effectively by regular practice of yoga.
• A clear healthy face can be achieved if you are practicing yoga.
• You will be able to lose weight when you practice the twisting postures of yoga.

The meditation practice performed along with yoga helps you to achieve an emotional balance. The stress levels can be reduced to a great extent by doing yoga. By doing yoga, you can increase the potential of weight loss. The above mentioned benefits are a few of the various benefits of yoga.

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Basically, Kundalini yoga is one of the ancient forms of yoga which is a meditative process comprising the mind, body as well as the senses to crate a communication between them. It mainly focuses on the psychological and spiritual growth of an individual and concentrates on generating Kundalini energy. Kundalini yoga consists of various positions and movements to gain or achieve best outcome.

Using breath and posture along with mantra and mudra, Kundalini yoga builds awareness, flexibility and patience. Kundalini yoga has the following benefits:

• It helps in achieving overall body fitness and helps in weight loss.
• It helps in increasing your energy levels and vitality.
• It improves your internal systems such as, digestive system, nervous system, immune system and circulatory system.
• It tones up your chests, abs, legs, arms and shoulders by giving more strength and power.
• It enables you to have control over the mind than being controlled by your feelings and thoughts.

To attain fitness of your body, you can carry out push-ups to build your upper body; exercises involving abs for fitness of your abs; frog-pose yoga for lower-body fitness and chair pose yoga for the fitness of middle body. Never try all these on your own and always it is better to have a trainer or a guide to help you to perform these yoga techniques.

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Stress relief can be achieved through yoga by following various techniques such as exercising, breath-control, clear the mind and relax the body. By involving all the above mentioned techniques, you can get relieved from stress effectively. Doing only few of them might not help you de-stress effectively. These techniques are carried out as follows:

• Exercise: The Hatha Yoga involves physical practice of yoga and is of various types where a few focus on stretching while the others focus on fast workouts. Select a yoga that suits your personality and physical fitness. Stress is relieved by any exercise as well as yoga by keeping the body healthy.
• Breath-Control: Pranayama is an important and powerful practice along with performing yoga. It can be performed anywhere and anytime to reduce your stress levels. Deep-breathing can be done by sitting straight and inhaling from your nose and exhaling from your mouth. Try holding breath as long as possible along with inhaling and exhaling as slowly as possible.
• Clear the mind: There are various scenarios and pressures that dwell in your mind and increase stress levels. The mind can be controlled using various techniques; one of them is the breath work as mentioned above. The best way to clear the mind is by practicing meditation. Start off with meditation in a calm environment, sitting in a comfortable position, point yourself towards a focus and observe the point with a non-critical attitude.
• Relax the body: the relaxation in yoga is made by the corpse pose (Shavasana). It serves the purpose of releasing both body and mind. It gets you back to the world with a refreshing feel to fight stress.

By following these techniques, you can de-stress yourself. These techniques are very effective and powerful in reducing stress.

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There are six types of Pranayama such as Bhastrika Pranayama, Kapalbhati Pranayama, Anulom-Vilom Pranayama, Bahya Pranayama, Bhramari Pranayama and Udgeeth Pranayama. Each of these types have their own way of performing and each of them have their of health benefits.

On the whole, the benefits of Pranayama include:

• Pranayama helps in reducing the breathing rate to almost one-thirds, which leads to reduced wear and tear of internal organs, decreasing high blood pressure, relaxation of body tensions, and more oxygen is pumped in blood due to slow breathing.
• The longevity of the life depends on the breathing rate as per the philosophy of yoga. Hence, lowering the breathing rate leads to increased life-span.
• Pranayama improves circulation of the blood as more fresh oxygen is pumped into heart from the lungs due to slower breathing.
• It helps in enhancing the sharpness of mind. Studies have reported that the concentration is improved by the practice of Pranayama.
• Pranayama helps you to get out of negative qualities in a very short course of time.
• It helps in enhancing immunity against diseases. The toxins in body parts are flushed out due to the flow of healthy blood.
• Pranayama helps in digestive system as well. It creates considerable massage to the gastro-intestinal tract, thus improving the digestive system. People suffering from acidity/gastritis can try Pranayama to cure it.
• Pranayama is said to develop the feeling of social well-being. It improves the will power and the mental and physical health improves as well.

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Regular stretches will help in the flexibility of the muscles and frees the body. Stretching makes the muscles more strong and work efficiently as the blood circulation improves. The joints will work better and will operate to their maximum range. As they include breathing techniques and meditation mechanisms, yoga helps for the better functioning of the overall systems and not just flexibility of the body.

There are many types of yoga and choosing the right type is a bit tricky if you are not opting for the help of an instructor. The yoga poses to be learned as a beginner which can aid or supplement your knowledge from your yoga classes are as follows:

• The Sun Salutation [Surya Namaskara]: It is the core of yoga which involves 12 poses and is done as a warm up exercise before starting the yoga class. It involves timely movement along with rhythmic breathing.

• The Shoulder Stand [Sarvangasana]: It is a simple pose but a very important one for a beginner.
  
• The Corpse Pose [Shavaasana]: It is method of relaxation which is done after the yoga session is completed. It is done for about 15 minutes.
  

• Meditation and Pranayama: Meditation helps in improving concentration levels and Pranayama refers to a breathing technique which produces a large amount of energy.

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Many methods have been used to combat diabetes which includes a balanced diet along with proper exercises. Yoga too has been tried for this purpose and has been beneficiary. In the present day, yoga has been accepted as the convenient way of combating diabetes. The prescribed yoga exercises for curing diabetes usually has postures mainly to treat only certain specific conditions along with meditation and relaxation. Yoga can stimulate production insulin. Practicing yoga actually reduces the blood sugar levels and maintains the blood pressure. As most diabetic patients are advised to maintain a certain weight limit, yoga is an attractive choice to accomplish this.

There are various asanas that help in controlling diabetes such as:

• Sun salutation: Improves blood circulation, in turn improves the insulin production.
• Yoga Mudrasana: Prevents other complications of diabetes and improves the nervous system.
• The Corpse pose: Improves fatigue and concentration, improve blood circulation and help in digestion.
• Stretching Exercises: It is believed to calm the brain, improve digestion, reduce fatigue, and reduce obesity. Restores flexibility in the shoulder muscles

There other asanas that one can try are: Sukhasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana, Tadasana and simple breathing techniques such as Pranayama and Anuloma Viloma.

Researches have shown that diabetes is more likely to occur in obese people comparatively. Thus by practicing yoga regularly, one can be able to combat diabetes and also improve the health by controlling the weight and blood pressure.

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The fact that defines yoga uniquely from any other sport activities is that it refreshes your body, mind and the soul simultaneously. Where as the other form of exercise is primarily focused on maintaining a fit healthy body and building muscles. This is the uniqueness of the yoga that it not only concentrates on the physical fitness of our body but also concentrates on mental health and also as well as on your spiritual well being. There are about 12 different styles in yoga. Even though all these styles are commonly based on the similar kind of physical postures, each one of them has a particular prominence. The four most popular styles of yoga are- Hatha, Kundalini, Bikram and Ashtanga. Each one of these is discussed below as follows:

The Hatha is the most popular style of yoga in use. It acts as the underpinning of all other yoga styles. It follows a kind of technique where in you move the body parts in a slow and very smooth manner by doing many different poses which are often called as asanas. It serves the best for beginners of yoga practice. It involves only slow paced stretching along with few breathing exercises and meditation. Many classes at the start will integrate this form of the yoga style wherein you learn just the basic poses and some relaxation methods so that you adapt yourself to yoga as early as possible.

Another form of yoga is the Kundalini, which is a very ancient style of yoga that is in much practice only at the west of lately. The importance of this style is that it employs in breathing in conjunction with the physical body movement. This form of yoga gives more spiritual feel when compared to that of the Hatha and primarily focuses on balancing the energy in your body. But this form involves rapid movement of the body parts through different postures and concentrates more on breathing, chanting and meditation. In the Kundalini series style, each of the exercise is done according to specific breaths that generally do affect the poses intensively. The main goal in performing this exercise is usually to release the energy that is contained in the lower extremities of the body by moving it in the upward direction. Most of the beginners who are unknown about the yoga will normally find it more rationally and physically challenging when compared to the other styles. Basically Kundalini is more physically concentrated and is also considered as the most spiritual kind of yoga in practice compared to the other forms.

The next popular style of yoga is the Bikram which is often termed as the hot yoga as this is the only form of yoga that is normally carried out in a fiery environment. It is a sort of wide-ranging workout with all the mechanisms of fitness such as muscular strength and endurance, loss of weight and cardiovascular flexibility. The fiery room temperature is generally maintained at 95-100 degrees. The heat and energy expelled in this vital yoga mechanism allows us to release toxins through the sweat glands. Also this yoga form warms up the muscles and joints in turn increasing the flexibility. This kind of yoga is not suggested to pregnant women and for people who are suffering from heart problems and high blood pressure as it is very laborious. But it is highly recommendable for people who are injured as it serves a therapy in order to improve the injured limbs bodily fitness and the movement range.

Now the most popular among all the yoga forms is the Ashtanga which is often referred as power yoga. In Sanskrit, Ashtanga means 8 limbs which are referred to the 8 limbs of the yoga. Because of the steady movement of the various poses, this is style is physically challenging. Six of the different Ashtanga series are available and the student’s progress depends on their own pace. It is a kind of vital and athletic form of style and is more suitable to people who are very independent in nature and posses a sense of order. But this type of style is not ideal for beginners of yoga who are not in an excellent physical state, as this requires one to jump while changing to the next posture.

So if you are planning to take up yoga, then try one of these forms for sure as a beginner. Each of the forms is defined uniquely which improves your mental and physical health.

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