Here are FREE VIDEOS for your home practice. Write to us giving your feedback and how the practices have changed your health and life for better. Please click on the pictures below so you can learn the techniques with DJ.
You must have noticed for yourself that when we are experiencing digestive troubles, we tend to be pessimistic and easily irritated. Conversely, a healthy digestive system is more conducive to cheerfulness and optimism.
The practice we learn in this video is called Uddiyana Bandha: an abdominal lock accomplished by emptying your lungs and pulling the abdomen in and up under the rib cage. This is helpful not only to strengthen and tone the internal organs but also the abdominal walls. It increases gastric fire; improves digestion, assimilation, and elimination; and purifies the digestive tract of toxins.
DO NOT PRACTICE… if you are pregnant, have hernia, hypertension, heart disease or if you are recovering from acute anorexia nervosa. This should never cause pain, so practice it with awareness and stop at any sign of discomfort. It should be practiced before breakfast, on an empty stomach.
Uddiyana Bandha is fantastic, but in order to gain balanced digestion, it is also important to observe proper eating and drinking: nutritious, colorful and varied foods and lots of water in between meals.
Do you have the tendency to hold tension in your body?
In this video we learn a technique I first encountered while living in at The Yoga Institute in Mumbai, India. I noticed that most people there didn’t really look their age. Their skin was always glowing despite the pollution of big-crazy-lovely Mumbai… Of course, the food was a big part of it as well as the daily sadhana (spiritual practice). However, someone on the “inside” told me that Kapalandradhauti- the technique I share in this video- is a great injection of vitality not only for the skin, but also for the mood! So, let’s do it!
Kapalandradhauti is a word in Sankrit which means “rubbing the skull”. Its consistent practice improves a number of respiratory conditions, headaches and stress. It can be of great assistance for relaxing and acquiring clarity.
