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Asana, Breathing techniques, Meditation, Stillness, Stress management, Vedic Science

What is Raja Yoga?

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Meditation is something that makes us find ourselves in the midst of all the worldly chaos. When we meditate, we are able to focus on our well-being that we have otherwise been ignoring. Meditation finds us a solution to many problems and helps in making our life easier. We are able to understand things more clearly and take decisions in a better way if we meditate. Raja Yoga is a type of meditation technique a little different from the other ones as it is complete wholesome in itself and requires even minimal efforts compared to other meditation techniques. Located at Devbhumi Uttarakhand, Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school provides the best environment to practice meditation away from all the hustle and bustle of cities.


Defining Raja Yoga:


Raja in Sanskrit means king, which refers to a Royal, and thus raja yoga is considered the principal form of yoga. It is yoga and meditation practice which aims to attain peace and contentment of body, mind and soul. Raja Yoga basically aims to self-realization and spiritual liberation. The distracted human mind is considered the greatest obstacles in the path of self-realization. The mind which is involved in misery, lying, ego and selfishness obstructs human beings from attaining the ultimate liberation and causes suffering to individuals and to people around them. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school guide you to perform Raja Yoga step by step and make you feel its true benefits in the best way possible.
As we can understand from the word itself, “Raja” is the one who is independent and fearless. Similarly, the one who practices Raja yoga is confident and away from all the worries. Raja yoga makes us more disciplined and smart. Raja yoga is a wholesome and inclusive form of all kinds of yoga and meditation, and it can be practiced by anyone from any background. Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school is open for everyone regardless of religion, gender, race or any background to come and practice meditation and take one step forward towards liberation from the worldly chaos.
Raja yoga is an astanga yoga or “eightfold path” because it consists of eight steps in the path to self-realization and finding the meaning of life in the most subtle form.
The eight parts in which Raja yoga is organized are:
1.Yama
2.Niyama
3.Asana
4.Pranayam
5.Pratyahara
6.Daharana
7.Dhyana
8.Samadhi


1.Yama: Meaning “self-control” consists of the following five principles:


•Ahimsa: Non-violence; Ahimsa means not to hurt any living being, be it human or animals or even an insect, by your words or deed. It persuades people not to harm anyone. It also means not to kill anyone and avoid meat because it involves killing of innocent animals. This is why yogis are pure vegetarians. When animals are being slaughtered, they feel pain and sense the nearby death and, due to which, their body releases stress hormones which remain in their blood and flesh and then are transferred to the humans who eat them unsuspectingly and cause fear, stress in human beings too. The food at Shree Mahesh Heritage is purely vegetarian and simple, thus healthy for both mind and body.


•Satya: Truthfulness: We should always speak the truth no matter how bitter it could be, we should always walk in the path of truthfulness because lies always cause harm. Truth can be harsh, and we should know how to put the truth forward in a way that it is conveyed in a harmless manner. To be truthful also means to put forward all your feelings without hesitation and not to hide your fears and insecurities. Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school teaches you to walk on the path of truthfulness no matter what.


•Asteya: Non-stealing; Asteya means one should never steal or take away any property that rightfully belongs to some other person. It can be mental or materialistic. Taking away people’s mental peace, joy, happiness and even opportunity is not at all valid. The exploitation of natural resources for our own good is also considered stealing.


•Brahmacharya: Adopting the pure way of life; Brahmacharya is limited to mean “sexual resistance” but in reality it is much more than that. In fact, Brahmacharya means we shouldn’t neglect all our worldly duties but to fulfill them carefully and wisely and always remember that it is the Almighty who is doing this all.


•Aparigraha: Not to pile up possessions; We should never collect or accumulate a number of possessions just in order to be rich and look rich. We should always keep with us only as much as we need to live. One who posses a lot, also posses many worries. It also means the power of letting go, be it a materialistic possession or an emotional one.

2. Niyama: Discipline; It consists of five principles; namely
(i) Shauca: Purity of thoughts and body
(ii) Santosh: Contentment
(iii)Tapa: Self-control and self-discipline
(iv) Svadhyaya: Study of holy books and scriptures
(v) Ishvara Pranidhana: Devotion to the Almighty

3. Asana: It consists of various postures and exercises for a healthy body and mind.

4. Pranayama: Breathing techniques
A raja Yogi who performs Asana and pranayama achieves control over his body and mind which opens up the doors to Nirvana for him.

5. Pratyahara: Pratyahara means withdrawal of all senses. Initially, when pratyahara is practiced, we have to focus on outside sounds and listen to them like that of nature and birds, but gradually we learn to focus on our inner sounds, like heartbeat, breathing sound etc. It is practiced by sitting motionless with our eyes closed


6. Dharana: Dharana means concentration. It is difficult for us to concentrate at one particular point, and we get distracted all the time. Dhyana is achieved by regular practice and

7. Dhyana: Dhyana means “meditation” and meditation cannot be learnt, it is practiced and it comes into our habit when we are most comfortable and habitual of doing it.

8. Samadhi: Samadhi means complete liberation. It refers to oneness with the Devine consciousness. And when we attain Samadhi, we hear heavenly sounds and become like a river that ultimately flows into the see to unite with the devine


The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school teach step-by-step how to practice “RajaYoga” in the simplest form and guide you towards ultimate liberation. They make you understand the meaning and purpose of living so that you live in the most efficient way possible and do not harm anyone along the way.

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Various Mudras and their importance

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Yoga is believed to have magical benefits when practiced daily. But yoga is not just about postures, stretching or performing asana. It also includes various breathing techniques, hand gestures and meditation techniques. Our body is believed to be made up of five elements viz. Air, water, sky, land and fire. If any of these elements is disturbed, then the overall balance of our body is disturbed. In Vedic science, there are different “mudras” that can help us maintain a proper balance physically, mentally and intellectually. At Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school, yoga is taught in all forms. They teach different mudras that can prove amazingly beneficial for you.


What is a mudra?


Mudra is basically a hand gesture that is practiced at the time of yoga or meditation. Different mudras have different impact on the overall body and intellect. Ancient yoga gurus explain how mudras can change the energy of the body in a positive way. Mudra has the power of producing positive energy and calmness.
Mudras are practiced change perception, mood, and behavior. These are aesthetic and physic gestures of the hand that can impact the whole human body in a subtle manner. Mudras are very useful in reducing anxiety, stress and worry and help in building self-esteem and self-confidence. Mudras guide energy flow to the brain. There are different mudras which can benefit in a different manner according to your need. If you want to learn and practice mudras in order to attain calm in chaos, sign up for 100 hour yoga course at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school today.


Benefits of mudra:


Mudras have the power of producing happiness and delight. Practicing mudras daily increases the mental power by fourfold. It not only helps us rejuvenate our body and soul but also makes us more humble and wise. As mudras activate different parts of the brain, we are able to think more clearly and broadly. We are thus able to make decisions properly and develop the ability to face challenges and differentiate between right and wrong. Mudras help in linking the brain to the body and thus balancing overall equilibrium. A healthy mind leads to a healthy body, thus practicing mudras can benefit us by curing various diseases caused due to stress and anxiety. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school are experienced in teaching mudras in the most effective way.
It is believed that there exist around 399 different mudras from ancient Vedic times. Here are some basic mudras with their benefits.


Prana mudra:

This mudra can be performed whenever we are feeling stressed and down. It boosts our energy levels and makes us feel more positive. This mudra symbolize life and provides an extensive amount of energy. It boosts our immune system and keeps us away from various diseases. It also improves eyesight and vitamin balance in the body. It links different energy points of the human body and makes our mind and body stable. It also builds self-confidence and reduces pain in muscles of the body.

How to perform:

Sit in a comfortable position and gently put your index finger and little finger at the tip of your thumb while keeping the other two fingers straight. Breathe deeply. Practice the same for 20 minutes a day for best results.


Ling mudra:

It is a hand gesture that represents the supreme Shiva. This mudra produces heat and can cause sweating in winters. It concentrates the fire element inside the human body. It helps in curing the common cold, cough and asthma. It enhances the breathing capacity, metabolism and respiratory system. This mudra is effective in reducing weight and increasing oxygen levels in the body. It also enhances the immunity of the human body and increases self-confidence.

How to perform:

Sit in a comfortable position and bring both of your hands in front of your chest. Interlock fingers of both hands and keep your right thumb erect. Put your left thumb and left index finger around the right thumb. Do the same alternatively with the left thumb erect. You can practice this mudra for 20 minutes up to 45 minutes.


Vayu mudra:

Vayu is a Sanskrit word that means “air” and relates to the air element of the body. It treats complications due to excess air or Vata in the human body. If practiced regularly, it can help in treating constipation and other digestive problems. It also helps in treating cervical problems and arthritis. It is associated with a healthy lifestyle and controls the flow of air inside the body.

How to perform:

Fold your index finger and put your index finger below the thumb and press it with the thumb while keeping the other three fingers straight.

Gyan mudra:

As it is understood from its name, Gyan mudra relates to the extension of gyan or knowledge. This practice is equivalent to meditation and has extremely calming and rejuvenating effects. This mudra increases brain capacity and stimulates various glands of the body. This mudra has been performed by yogis and tapasvis for a thousand years now, and it is related to the planet “Jupiter”.


How to perform:

Sit in a comfortable position. Touch the tip of your forefinger to the tip of your thumb while keeping other three fingers straight and relaxed. Do not put a lot of pressure between the two fingers.


Shunya mudra:

Shunya mudra activates the elements fire and sky in the body. It’s a therapeutic mudra for ear or hearing ailments. Shunya means “emptiness” which refers to the sky. This mudra makes one listen to the hidden sounds in nature and helps to cure hair pain.

How to perform:

Sit in a meditative posture such as padmasana. Close your eyes and take deep breaths. Now fold the middle finger and press it with the thumb, and keep all other fingers extended. Perform this mudra for 10-12 minutes at a time.

At Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school, you get the most appropriate environment to practice and learn mudras that can prove exceptionally beneficial for you. You can also learn mudras from your comfort zone as Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school is conducting online classes for yoga and meditation, you can enroll for the same at their website.

Breathing techniques, Meditation, Stillness, Vedic Science

Benefits of Asanas in daily life

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Yoga was born in ancient Indian times but is becoming increasingly popular all over the world due to its wonderful benefits. Yoga includes various postures known as Asanas. Practicing yoga Asanas daily can sort out a number of problems in life. Asana are comfortable postures that can be practiced easily for a long period of time. Saint Pantajali in 200 BC wrote his book in which he classified postures into two parts. The meditation postures are known as Asanas and physical postures known as Yoga vyayam. However, in general, all yoga exercises are considered Asanas. The Asanas taught at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school are rooted deep in the yogic times and have healing effects on the body and soul.
Most of the Asanas are derived from nature and animals such as a tree, mountain, cat, deer, rabbit etc. Asanas have an amazing impact on the body and mind of human beings. Asanas are beneficial in treating many body ailments and treating stress and other mental problems too and serve amazing benefits if practiced regularly. At Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school, you learn Asanas that don’t involve a lot of effort but have amazing therapeutic results.


How to perform Asanas:

Asanas are performed by synchronization of body movement with the breath. When we perform Asanas while inhaling, it involves expanding of the abdominal area and when performed while exhaling, the abdominal area shrinks.
Asanas are performed slowly to enable concentration. The time for which we perform Asanas or their number is of no concern but the quality. These should be performed such that the body is relaxed all the time, and there is no strain. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school guide you step by step to perform Asanas in the most effective manner beginning from primary Asana to complex ones.
When body movements are coordinated with breathing, this practice calms the mind, improves the functioning of the nervous system and increases the capacity of the lungs. Asanas should be performed for a longer period of time only after significant practice of primary postures. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school teach you Asanas in the easiest way, starting from the most basic to the complex ones step by step, so that your body adapts along the way. The 200-hour yoga training at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school involves various Asanas beneficial for your overall health.


Improves mental health:

Various asana that include deep and mindful breathing and most of the Adams in general are helpful in improving brain capacity. As Asana stimulates various parts of the brain, this makes us think more calmly and feel joyous. There are so many mental disorders like headache, migraine, bipolarity, anger issues that people nowadays suffer from. Asanas can help with reducing these ailments if practiced on a daily basis. There is a flow of positive energy in the brain after performing Asanas.


Improves body posture:

The office lifestyle nowadays, that forces us to sit on a chair in front of a computer screen for long hours, deteriorates our body posture a lot. Improper body posture leads to joint pains, back pain and muscle pain. It also affects our digestive system and increases fat. Asanas involves postures that involve balancing techniques and a straight spine. Different Asanas that involve stretching improve flexibility of the body. Thus, Asanas help in making our body posture better.
Makes you healthy and fit: Asanas involve movements of different body parts and their stretching. These lead to cutting extra fat from your body, making you flexible, leading to a good physique. Many Asanas also help in building strength and endurance. If practiced on a daily basis, Asanas make you healthy and fit and improves your immune system. Asana does not take a lot of hard work like other exercises, you can do it while you are relaxed. A healthy mind dwells in a healthy body, and Asanas make your body and mind healthy without much effort.


Woos away stress and anxiety:

Different postures, especially the ones that involve breathing techniques, are helpful in calming and clearing the stress and anxiety from the brain. You are able to focus and understand things properly. Asanas lower stress hormones like cortisol and promote relaxation.
Improves the nervous system: Asanas are primarily the body postures that decrease the heart rate and blood pressure, so that when our body is calm, our brains are able to transmit a message more easily. Asanas involving meditation activates our brains and increases their capacity to maintain overall coordination between mind, body and soul.


Helps in developing immunity:

We are often exposed to bad environment, bad food and water and polluted air, due to which we are prone to so many diseases. Bad food habits and taking soft drinks can also be fatal as it accumulates fat inside our body and, consequently, leads to diseases like diabetes, obesity, blood pressure and heart disease. Moreover, common cold and fever are now more frequent than ever. Now Covid has also come. So it is necessary to become immune enough in order to live a healthy life. Asanas that activate various body parts, reduce fat and calms us down to normalize blood pressure can prove life-saving.


Summary:

Yoga Asanas can be performed comfortably by anyone, and they nourish and tone the body and mind and stimulates the much ignored glands in the body. Practicing Asanas daily has many health benefits. Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school is the best place to practice Asanas away from the bustle of the city. Here you get the calmest environment that rejuvenates you while performing Asanas, and you’re guided by the best yoga teachers.

Breathing techniques, Meditation, Stillness, Stress management

Benefits of stillness

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We all rush all the time to complete tasks, to meet deadlines, to plan strategies, to prepare for the next day. There is no place for stillness, we are running all the time to complete ever-pending work. For a long time, the significance of stillness is buried deep, and no one actually thinks about it because we are always told to do as much as we can and rest as little as possible. There are so many expectations we ought to fulfill, expectations of our parents, expectations of the boss at work, our own expectations and dreams. But in all this, where are we? Where is our mental peace? Where is the time for stillness? Why rush all the time and not rest? Why not rejuvenate? Why not purify our deep inner self?


Importance of practicing stillness

Being busy all the time disturbs the overall equilibrium of the body, mind and soul. It may fulfill our materialistic needs such as money, hunger and social status, but it sometimes frustrates us so much that we fall prey to many complications like anger, anxiety, stress, bipolarity and much more. We need to balance our work life with our well-being. Rushing and running all the time doesn’t feel energetic all the time. It’s important to take out some time away from everything else, just for yourself and to sit and practice stillness. Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school teaches the importance of stillness and how to practice stillness even when the life schedule is very busy. At Shree Mahesh Heritage, you find the best environment to woo your stress away, and achieve stillness in the best way possible.


How stillness can benefit us?


• Reducing stress: Stress is very common today. It may have many reasons, like working pressure, uneven work hours, insufficient sleep etc. Stress makes us frustrated and worried. We start self-doubting and confidence level reduces. We ignore good opportunities and fail to face challenges. Taking out a few minutes to sit still without any worry can work as an important stress management tool. It activates our brains parts and stimulates stress-busting hormones. Stillness makes us peaceful and improves our power of decision making, and we can do more work in less time. Stillness practices at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school are helpful in reducing stress and balancing our mental health to a huge extent. These techniques are not very time-consuming but are worth it. You will feel the difference as soon as you start practicing stillness at Shree Mahesh Heritage.


• Managing anger issues: When things don’t work out, and when deadlines are not met, we get frustrated and irritated. These developed anger issues and in anger, we lose our decision-making ability and tend to take actions that are harmful for us and for the people around us. Anger is very common today, not only among the old and aged, but also among youth and children. Anger harms our mental peace so much and becomes toxic to the people around us. Anger strains all types of relationships, with our family, colleagues, friends or even ourselves. In order to live a peaceful life, we need to maintain a healthy relationship with the people around us. We can resolve our anger issues by sitting still and away from worldly chaos for some time. Teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school teach anger management through stillness in the most effective way.


• Reviving sleeping cycle: Most of us have a disturbed sleep cycle. Either we suffer from insomnia or from oversleeping. Both of these can be signs of depression. A perfect sleep cycle has become very difficult to achieve nowadays. We fail to sleep appropriately due to many factors like too much work and social pressure, night shift or waking up for long in the night. Whatever the reason maybe, sleep cycle has to be on track in order to perform any take properly.


• Enhancing creativity: When we are stable, we have power to think more and perform more. We have the ability to grab many things easily and to adapt new skills. Especially in students, being stable is an important factor in order to learn new things and be creative. Always, stable and sober children or even adults are quick learners and are more creative. It’s advice to practice stillness to enhance creativity as we get the power to think in a much better way by practicing stillness.


• Letting things go: Being stuck with some old memories that maybe be painful and disturbing is not the solution to any problem. Still, many people, teenagers and even adults, find it difficult to move on with their life, forgetting all what happened in a past, or a fight with someone in the family. We have to let go in order to move forward, but it is quite difficult for many of us because we make ourselves slaves of those bad memories. If we practice stillness, our brains become calm and bend us towards positivity and the tendency of letting go.


How to practice stillness?
There are no such rules or regulations and time to practice stillness. We can practice it anytime we are calm. We can sit in a quiet place and take deep breaths, listen to the voice of our inhaling and exhaling and forget everything for a while. Just forget all the worldly possessions and focus on yourself, be calm and just breathe in and out. Practice for a few minutes at first, and as you start to adapt, increase the time. At Shree Mahesh Heritage, you find a peaceful environment to practice stillness is its best form. Moreover, since everyone is at home due to Covid nowadays, the love classes at Shree Mahesh Heritage can guide you in a proper way from your place of comfort.

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Regular yoga practices

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“Inhale the future, exhale the past.”

Yoga is rooted in ancient Indian times and is derived from the Sanskrit word “Yuj” meaning “to unite” or “to join.” It include practices of mind and body to achieve mental, physical and emotional well-being. It includes various postures and breathing techniques, meditation techniques to strengthen us internally. At Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school, different techniques of yoga and meditation are taught to achieve complete well-being of oneself. Yoga is a practice that fuels metabolism, helps with burning fat, increases height, helps with relieving an upset stomach. It stimulates various glands in our body and enhances overall body functionality. It promotes a healthy lifestyle. The yoga techniques at Shree Mahesh Heritage are simple as well as effective to make you fit and healthy, both mentally as well as physically.

It is a form of spiritual discipline and deals with subtle science of establishing coordination between the brain and the body. Let us connect ourselves to nature and Devine. Practicing yoga at Shree Mahesh Heritage introduces you to the true meaning of living and to incorporate discipline in your daily life. Yoga improves the flow of blood and energy in your body. It gives you a glow and positivity in life.

Regular yoga and meditation improve concentration power and boost your confidence like never before. The spiritual Yoga meditation at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school is favored with a clean and calm environment, Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school offers you customized yoga meditation practices.

Regular yoga practices are important for a sound mind and healthy body:

SIRSASANA ( Headstand) :

Sirsasana or “Salamba Sirsasana” is known as “king of asanas”. Sirsa is a Sanskrit word meaning head. It is upside-down exercise that increases the flow of oxygen-rich blood into the brain, making blood vessels in the brain strong. It helps boost concentration and sharpen memory. Strengthen the vertebral column, leg, arm and lungs. It helps in calming the brain to a large extent, reduces stress and anxiety. Sirsasana improves digestion and strengthens the spine.

How to perform:

  1. Interlock your fingers in a form of a cup and place your head between them.
  2. Sit with your legs folded backwards and raise your knees upwards from the floor.
  3. Slowly raise your legs upwards.
  4. As you are balanced in this position, raise your legs up-straight.
  5. Maintain the balance so that you don’t fall.
  6. Relax in this position, close your eyes and breathe normally.
  7. Stay in the same position as long as you are comfortable.
  8. Come back slowly by folding your knees.

TADASANA( mountain pose):

It is a standing Asana and is a modern yoga practice. It strengthens the knee, ankle and thighs. It helps in correcting posture by making our spine straight. “Tada” is a Sanskrit word meaning “palm tree.” Tadasana is the foundation of all standing yoga. It helps a lot in increasing height. Relive various stomach ailments. This asana requires engagement of the whole body and thus relaxes the mind. It makes the body more flexible and increases ankle strength. Tadasana also increases, joins flexibility and regulates the menstrual cycle in women. It makes the respiratory and digestive system stronger.

How to perform Tadasana:

  1. Stand with your feet slight apart.
  2. Slowly raise your hands and interlock them above your head.
  3. As you inhale, raise your heels as much as possible.
  4. Stay in the position as long as you can hold your breath.
  5. Come back to the normal position slowly while exhaling.
  6. Repeat the process 5-6 times.

VRIKSHASANA (tree pose)

Vrikshana is balancing Asana and is popular in modern yoga. It plays an important role in strengthening the vertebral column, ankles, thighs and legs. It also widens up the hips and opens the pelvic area. This yoga also strengthens the spine, thus improving the neuromuscular response and coordination. This is a kind of hath yoga for improving balancing abilities and helps in maintaining mental equilibrium.

BHUJANGA ASANA(Cobra pose)

  1. Stand straight and tall.
  2. Focus.
  3. Move the right leg up and place it in the inner side of the left thigh.
  4. Inhale and extend arms, join your palms in Namskara mudra near your chest.
  5. Remain in the same position for 1 minute, then change the leg and repeat.

The word Bhujanga Asana is a Sanskrit word in which “Bhujanga” means cobra and “asana” means posture. This yoga exercise involves arms, spine, chest and legs.

It is good for reproductive health, lungs and heart. It also strengthens the spine, chest and waist. Performing Bhujanga Asana stimulates abdominal organs and relieves sciatica. It also improves blood circulation.

How to perform:

  1. Lie flat on your stomach, keep your toes flat on the floor.
  2. Keep your legs close.
  3. Put your palms flat on the floor and elbows close to the torso.
  4. Raise your head and chest while you inhale.
  5. Exhale back and come to the ground.
  6. Repeat the process up to 10 times. Perform this yoga 3-4 hours before the meal.

PASCHIMOTTANASANA (seated forward bend)

Paschimottanasana is a Sanskrit word meaning “intense stretch of the west”. This asana strengthens the abdomen, hamstrings, and knee joints. Also helps in reducing back pain, releases upper, mid and lower back. It also stimulates the kidney, liver and ovaries. It Helps with relieving menstrual pain. This asana also helps with reducing anxiety and stress and fat.

How to perform:

  1. Sit with your legs straight out in front of you, and make sure that your spine is straight.
  2. Move your hands above your head. Keep your stomach and ribs straight and stiff and inhale and stretch.
  3. Bend forward and touch your toes, hold your toes with both the hands.
  4. Exhale and try to put your forehead on your knees. Remain in this position for a while and breathe normally.
  5. Slowly come back to the normal position. Repeat the process 4-5 times.

The best place to practice yoga is a place away from bustle and disturbance. Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school is the best place to provide you with the best teachers and beautiful environment to practice and benefit from yoga. The faculty at Shree Mahesh Heritage makes sure that you practice yoga comfortably taking care of possible injuries that may come in way and make yoga easy and beneficial for you.

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How to work on breathing

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Breathing is something that we do all the time naturally. But there are some rare times when we notice that we are breathing. It happens either when we are anxious and tired, or when we are deeply relaxed. We breathe faster when we are tired, whereas our breathe rate is low when we are relaxed. We need to work on breathing because it can make us stress free, helps us in sound sleep and makes our mental health better. Breathing exercises can help a lot.
Breathing exercises are not only simple but also satisfying. We are often recommended breathing deep when we are angry or worried. Breathing deeply and slowly reduces anxiety real quick. However, many of us fail to realize the importance of deep breathing due to our busy work life. Taking out a few minutes to contribute to our well-being can only impact us in a positive manner. We can do more work and multitask if we are relaxed and calm. At Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school, students are taught how breathing exercises can help you reduce otherwise existing stress.


Why do we need to work on our breathing?

Most of us are caught in a busy schedule, a lot of pressures and workload. Working hours are uneven, and there is cut-throat competition everywhere. We are intended to do a lot of work in a small time. Moreover, Covid has caused tremendous loss to many people, and everyone is quite overwhelmed by the situation. Students are exposed to the screen more than ever, the phone has become the new source of knowledge for them. They have to work a lot on computers. All this has made us quite frustrated and anxious. We are now angry more frequently than ever. And this is consecutively causing strain in relationships, distress in families and deteriorated mental health. It’s quite crucial at this point to find an escape from all the frustration and anxiousness that has surrounded us. Many people may not have time to take long sessions or attend webinars to learn how to reduce stress, simple breathing can find you an escape. Working on your breathing doesn’t need you to contribute much time, money or equipment, but can easily lead you to a stress-free life. The online sessions at Shree Mahesh Heritage are very useful as they can teach you simple yet powerful techniques to woo your stress and anxiety miles away. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage have expertise in teaching breathing practices so that anyone can easily adapt them and include them in daily lives.


How to work on breathing?

Breathing is no big deal, we have been doing this for years. But breathing in a particular way that is slowly and deeply can have positive impacts on our overall health. Breathing exercises are simple and easy, we do not put a lot of effort into them, we do not take so much time to do them. We just need a calm environment and a few minutes to work on breathing. If done in a natural environment, it will add icing on the cake. Shree Mahesh Heritage Meditation School is the best place to do breathing exercises with a calm environment and amazing teachers to help you. The breathing techniques that they teach are easy to practise and learn, which can help you reduce your anxiety quite quickly and easily.
Easy breathing exercises to reduce stress
To work on our breathing, there are various techniques that can give us a wholesome result.

Deep breathing:

Deep breathing is beneficial for the brain. It helps with pushing more oxygen-rich blood to the brain, which makes brain muscles strong and stimulates stress-busting chemicals. It is the easiest breathing exercise and doesn’t need any equipment of effort. It calms the brain, and we know that a calm brain is capable of taking the right decision, facing challenges and managing workload. Deep breathing relaxes the body, mind and soul. Shree Mahesh Heritage finds you the calmest place and cleanest environment to practise deep breathing.

1. Find a calm place to sit and forget everything for a while.Make yourself comfortable, don’t sit as if you were forced to.

2. Put your one hand on one side of the chest and other hand on the belly.

3. Start taking long and deep breaths and try to relax your whole body.

Alternate nostril breathing:

This exercise is helpful in curing breathing ailments and cold. This is good for
lungs and lung diseases. It can help in opening blocked nostrils. This exercise is also good for the brain and activates various brain parts.

1. Sit comfortably with your spine straight.

2. Close one of the nostrils with the thumb and deep inhale from the other.

3. When you are done inhaling, release the closed nostril and close the other nostril with the forefinger.

4. Properly exhale

5. Repeat the process up to 10 times from both the nostrils.Relax when you’re done.

Mindful breathing:

Mindful breathing is as beneficial as meditation. It helps to reduce anxiety, sleeplessness and stress. It is also helpful to people with high blood pressure or diabetes. The purpose of mindful breathing is to make you forget everything else and focus fully upon yourself for a while. Mindful breathing cleanses negativity from the mind and helps us observe everything in a much deeper manner. The most quiet place to practise mindful breathing is the mountains, and Shree Mahesh Heritage is surrounded by mountains to give you an appropriate environment to practise the same.

  1. Find a quiet place to sit as you need to focus.
  2. Sit or lie comfortably and start taking slow deep breaths.
  3. Try to focus on the sound of your breathing, listen as you inhale and exhale.
  4. Forget about everything else for a while
  5. Pass out all the negativity and worries from your brain and concentrate.
Meditation, Science and Technology, Stress management, Vedic Science

How to reduce stress

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Most of the people that we meet or talk to today are facing stress. Be him or her an adult, middle-aged, adolescent, old and even children are not away from stress today. When we try to figure out the cause for the stress, we cannot figure out a common reason. Whatever the reason maybe, stress is affecting all generations in an adverse way. Long-term stress can give birth to a number of diseases, like migraine, memory loss, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which can disturb the overall balance of our life. Stress can have a number of reasons, but the ones that are prevailing today are:

  1. A busy work schedule
  2. Insufficient sleep
  3. Uneven work hours
  4. Cut throat competition
  5. Excessive pressure
  6. Unemployment

Although stress comes in different forms, it has one very common effect on everyone, and that is frustration. This leads to a stressed relationship and making individuals fall in a spiral of negativity due to which they tend to find alternatives to skip stress like alcohol and drugs.

IMPORTANCE OF STRESS MANAGEMENT

A healthy mind is very important for good health. The brain needs to be calm and cool to work out problems easily. This is possible only if our brains have the capacity to manage stress. To live life in its true means and not to run just behind short-term pleasures of life,like money, stress management is vital. For a balanced life we need to put a lot of emphases on stress management. To reduce stress, we need to put away all the worries for a while and focus on ourselves. While we look around, we must be able to appreciate what God has provided us with, and we should be grateful for our life. This will help us a lot in balancing our life.

DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES TO REDUCE STRESS:

1. MEDITATION

Meditation is one of the most ancient and most effective methods of reducing stress. It helps strengthen the mind and intellect to a great extent. Meditating daily for 10-15 minutes can prove better than any therapy to you. It improves focus, makes your mind calm and relaxed. It has proved exceptional and easiest effort to get rid of anxiety and give you everlasting joy. Meditation has an important role in cleansing mind, and a calm mind has the capability of making a difference between right and wrong. At Shree Mahesh Heritage school, you learn different meditation techniques to help your mind release stress.

2. YOGA

Yoga is a form of spiritual practice involving the body and mind. It has an important role in strengthening both the body and mind. Yoga practices are quite beneficial in treating problems like headache and migraine. Yoga practices not only make us physically strong, but also relieve us of stress internally. It improves our focus and makes us feel confident, and we are capable of performing various tasks easily. Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school teaches various yoga practices that can rejuvenate your mind,body and soul and help you set up equilibrium in your overall body. Their yoga courses are customized according to personal need.

3.EXERCISE

Exercising daily is quite important for good health. Everyone is recommended exercising at least 30 minutes daily. The life schedule nowadays is very hectic and most of the people are limited to one bench in the office for hours. This can lead to many diseases like diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, headache and migraine. It is very important to take out time to exercise daily to stay fit and healthy because a healthy mind dwell in a healthy body. So to stay fit becomes crucial to keep away from stress. Exercising daily makes you vigilant and alert, makes you feel fresh and energetic throughout the day.

4. REDUCE CAFFIENE INTAKE

Taking coffee in the morning is very common today. People assume that it helps them stay fresh and focused. But if taken in a large amount, it can prove rather bad, especially for mental health. Similarly, dark chocolates are also said to reduce stress hormone cortisol, but taking too much caffeine can lead to sleeplessness and insomnia. It has adverse effects on the brain and heart. The food at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school is completely Ayurvedic consisting of natural jadi-booti that not only keeps you healthy, but also keeps your mind calm and satisfied. It helps you focus on good things and keeps you away from stress and anxiety.

5. DEEP BREATHING EXERCISE:

These are the exercises that involve your respiratory system. Deep breathing pushes more oxygen-rich blood into the brain, which strengthens the vessels of the brain. This activates different parts of the brain and makes them function properly, which consecutively makes you stress free and alert. Deep breathing gives a different kind of calmness to the whole body and makes us feel quite relaxed. The breathing practices taught at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school are quite beneficial in relieving body, mind and soul. These exercises make you feel connected to the Almighty, away from all kinds of worry and anxiousness.

6. TAKE A WALK:

Taking a walk for 20-30 minutes daily can prove stress busting. Walking boost stress reducing hormones like endorphin. Taking a walk in the park can prove stress relieving as it connects us to nature. Walking in greenery further calms the mind a lot. It reduces the day-long fatigue and keeps you healthy and fit. The environment of Shree Mahesh Heritage is very calming. Situated at the foothills of the Himalayas, Shree Mahesh Heritage school is blessed with the flow of the Holy Ganga. You cannot find a better place to dwell and take a walk to reduce stress.

Meditation, Vedic Science

Importance of Meditation

Chetnaajoshi

In the times of hustle like this, it has become very important to look upon our complete well-being a little more deeply. We have, for a long time ignored the importance of spirituality and meditation in our lives because we are busy in running for fulfilling so-called basic needs. We should never forget that peace of mind is the true basic need as it leads to wholesome development and it makes us oriented towards our goal. Meditation, originated in ancient Vedic times, helps to connect oneself to one’s deep inner self. Practicing meditation can help us enhance our senses, mind and intellect. At Shree Mahesh Heritage, you learn, and you practice meditation in its true sense, to rejuvenate your soul and to feel the connection with the divine. Shree Mahesh Heritage helps you cleanse your mind and thoughts help you go ahead in the path to Nirvana.

Located in the foothills of Himalayas at Rishikesh (the birthplace of Yoga) surrounded by hills and touched by essence of nature and serenity of Holy river Ganga, Shree Mahesh Heritage Meditation School is the best place to practice meditation away from the bustle of cities. The environment here, makes one feel relaxed, calm and comfortable.

Meditation is very helpful in cleansing our mind, and a clear mind is capable of making difference between right and wrong, good and evil, justice and injustice. When our mind is calm, it becomes easy for us to solve any problem, and to set aside worries. This way, we move one step forward in understanding the true purpose of life and achieving our goal. Shri Mahesh Heritage meditation school makes you learn meditation techniques from Ancient Vedic custom that will help you refresh your mind, body and soul. Due to Covid-19, more people are exposed to negativity, stress and anxiety. We are finding it difficult to cope with fear and insecurity in and around our lives, many of us have witnessed irreplaceable loss of our loved ones, and we are into a spiral of negativity. In such times, only meditation can help us get out of this never-ending spiral.

Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school believes that meditation helps us end negativity from our lives and makes us cultivate an attitude of alertness for any challenge that we may face in the near future. The only way to attain long-term happiness and satisfaction is through mediation. It helps us to maintain focus and to keep up a good balance in life. The only way to connect to the divine in the 21st century is through meditation. Everyone irrespective of gender, religion, caste and race can practice meditation and can benefit from it. Practicing meditation helps you stay more alert, focused and vigilant, which is crucial in today’s world of cut-throat competition. It makes you wise and compassionate, matures and widens your view towards the materialistic world.

At Shri Mahesh Heritage, you will experience a flow of positive energy that will make you discover your inner self and the true meaning of living.

Some amazing facts about meditation:

Sharpening memory:

So many people, specially middle aged and old, suffer from short memory nowadays. Even young people are now falling in the trap of diseases like amnesia due to stressful life schedule. Meditation increases flow of blood and oxygen in the brain and strengthens blood vessels. It makes tissues in the brains stronger. The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of neural tissue whose function is to determine intelligence, touch-sensation, personality, planning and organisation. Meditation makes cerebral cortex stronger which improves memory, and concentration ability, so that we can remember things for a longer time.

Finding happiness:

Many of us deal with stress, anxiety and depression. It is hard to find many happy people today. India ranks 139th out of 149 countries in the list of UN World Happiness Report 2021, which is quite sad. Meditation can help us be happy, as it increases chemicals like endorphin (happy hormone) and serotonin. These chemicals increase our capacity for happiness and reduce stress. It gives you positive energy and feeling, which makes you joyful. Meditation is mental practice that can significantly restore happiness and clear up anxiety.“calm in chaos”:

Finding calm in chaos:

The world is nowadays suffering like never before, we are anxious and stressed, there is chaos everywhere and it’s hard to find peace. Meditating daily for 10-15 minutes can find you peace, bliss and make you feel relaxed. It releases dopamine and serotonin in the body and reduces the release of stress hormones. Meditation heals you from within to a large extent, so that you can easily maintain calmness and balance in life. It helps you acknowledge you thoughts more clearly and calmly.:

Fixing sleep cycle:

Don’t you feel that 8 hour sleep is merely an illusion nowadays? So many people will not be able to recall when they had a sound sleep last time. But it’s very important for balanced functioning of human body, to take proper sleep. We need to sleep sufficiently in order to stay focused and achieve our goals. Research proves that meditation is helpful in treating insomnia. While we meditate, it helps in the release of sleep hormone “melatonin” in the body. Practicing meditation 10-15 minutes before sleeping helps to establish coordination between mind and body. Meditation reduces the heart rate, blood pressure, and activates brain parts that control sleep.

Increasing productivity:

Mediation makes us alert, vigilant and increases our capacity to grab things easily. We need to stay productive to achieve success. Meditation helps by improving brain functionality, storing more information so that we can do many tasks in a less time. It makes us creative like never before.