Time for a guest post. This time this is by Krista Harper. In its most simple terms yoga is a practice incorporating physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines. While lying under a broad term, yoga actually has several schools of thought, practices, and goals.  While yoga’s mindful benefits are well known, what many people don’t realize is that yoga also provides physical benefits such as flexibility, pain relief, weight management, and strength. Yoga provides a full range of benefits tackling nearly all of your body’s needs.  Here are 5 amazing benefits of yoga 1. Helps improve posture One of the components of yoga is moving your body through different poses and postures. This helps to strengthen your muscles, tendons and joints, as well as improves your posture in areas such as your neck that supports your head, and your spine which supports your full bodies weight and protects your spinal cord.  By improving the strength in your posture areas...

Time for a workout post. This time it is a guest post edited from here . Dedicated training is something to be admired. Many athletes strive for the ability to get up and get out every single day whether it’s for a specific race or event or even, simply driven by a goal. Often that can mean adhering to a training plan based on both repetition and incrementally increased difficulty–monotony and overuse be damned. But you may get hurt. Or plateau. Or experience a disruption in your training schedule. These can all be detrimental to accomplishing a goal. Then there’s also that inevitable boredom of doing the same training day in and day out. You swear that footprint on the trail was yours from yesterday. Here, we’ll detail the science behind cross training, how to work it into your schedule, and some new exercises to try. Your main sport will thank us. Simply put, cross training is training in another discipline in improve your main sport. The options are almost limitless–runner...

Are you into Yoga? I sure am! But I haven't always been.. I started my yoga journey when we lived in Asia. Before that I had thought many times of starting yoga but I didn't have a good opportunity. So there I was living in Malaysia with so many experienced yoga practitioners and I thought this is the right time. This is it. I signed for a Hatha Yoga class. As it turned out, this was love at first sight. At the end of the lesson I couldn't quite believe how relaxed and at peace I felt. So I continued to practise yoga at least once a week. After we moved back to Finland, I continued practising yoga. This was right after I found out about Yogaia , online classes. I have used this website ever since. Nowadays I try to do yoga at least once a week from Yogaia and in the weekend mornings I do my own version of yoga.  Here are benefits I have gained from practising Yoga: It makes me more relaxed. After I have done yoga all the tension is gone from my body. When...