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Yoga Resources
Yoga Resources
If you are someone like me then you have certainly noticed the extreme growth in popularity of magazines and websites that are meant to disseminate the practice of many, and still climbing, different styles of yoga. Though now we are just awash in it, I still think that it is funny how much can be taken for granted right now. When I read books by guys like Ram Das and he bears all of this knowledge and wisdom as if we have not heard any of it before, but today it is a completely different picture than what he was dealing with at the time. Just twenty years ago people sort of knew what yoga was but unless they had gone out and tried it, it was probably still a very vague idea. Now anyone who has walked through a magazine aisle in the supermarket has seen at least one yoga pose as they glance across the covers. If you have dug a little bit further you will find that the internet is also awash in many stable as well as many budding yoga websites for both the world-wide practices to the one room studios around the country. A lot of the early popularity of the websites came from the base of people reading the magazines but now, as with television as well, people have begun to convert their primary source of information gathering to the web. Though this hasn’t stopped magazines from functioning, it has prompted the bigger names to turn their website in to a source completely separate from the magazine as well as a supplement to the hard materials.
My favorite of all of the internet websites is the site for the magazine called Yoga Journal. Their website simply Yogajournal.com is a huge resource for the beginner and a great supplement for the teacher or experienced practitioner. Basically built around the premise of yoga teachers giving out their own advice and wisdom on the nature of poses and the ancient art form of yoga, this site gives you everything you need. Constantly updating articles reach in to every area of practice on and off the mat. The special section built simply around ayurveda medicine is a huge wealth of knowledge on the ancient Indian form of healing and general health in the modern world. Though all the while preaching about a form of discipline that is over two thousand years old, this site provides you with a modern idea of what yoga means for all of us. Also, as a yoga teacher and student , I feel that the constantly updated takes on all of the poses is great because it allows anyone coming to the site to find something a little different within what they have been practicing all along.
Something interesting that I am seeing lately also is prenatal yoga and simple yoga for toddlers. Parenting and integrating yoga at a very young age will open their minds to this medium early.
If you are out there surfing the net right now and would like to learn a bit more about yoga, please check this or any of the other yoga websites out. As with any other topic on the net, the bigger the site the more information swirling around and so you may just want to try the big ones and not get scared off. I certainly recommend this site in particular because it has been of huge value for myself and other students I have taught in the past.