Home Yoga & Mindfulness Online Course
The benefits of yoga and mindfulness meditation are vast and I have already reviewed a great home Yoga Course (Yoga Burn in a previous post).
Mindfulness mediation has been shown in many cases to be great for stress reduction and in a 10 week stress reduction & relaxation program, it was shown to be an effctive way to alter behaviour for sufferers of chronic pain.
Being from a hypnotherapy background this is good news. Hypnotherapy is a great way to reduce stress and partial to complete pain relief (depending on requirements). Mindfulness mediation has been shown to be effective and is somewhat easier to listen and be guided into, whilst on your own. (There are easy ways to install keywords during hypnosis for self hypnosis to extremely profound levels.)
During meditation your heart rate can decrease and your brain enters more relaxed brain wave states. It can improve your immunity and general feeling of well being.
I have used some basic meditation apps such as headspace, which was a great start. You don’t have to be dressed in any special way and in fact, if you’re on your own at home why not wear nothing at all!
It is calming and it can help you focus.
Yoga is closely linked to meditation, in that although it is more physically based, the link to mindfulness and meditation are part and parcel of the experience in most instances.
For all you Chopra fans, not only does he do some quality audiobooks, but he also does some great yoga courses and mindfulness courses, both in person and in DVD format. I have to confess that his voice is so relaxing it doesn’t take me long to drift away with the fairies, but it still has that calming and meditative effect which I set out to achieve.
He’s also doing a free webinar at the moment which you might be interested in (link below)
More health benefits of meditation video
