Yoga

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One of the oldest holistic healing systems in the world, yoga seeks to integrate physical wellbeing with total self-awareness. This 5,000-year-old Eastern practice is currently undergoing a renaissance due to an increase in the understanding of how it can help the entire body heal itself.

Yoga’s effectiveness in treating the whole person is why it has become an essential part of the Take The Magic Step philosophy. In 2001 our founder, Uta Pippig, first experienced how yoga both facilitates physical and emotional healing and helps students overcome stress. During the next few years, she practiced and refined the Take The Magic Step Yoga for Performance routine. Designed for both beginners and athletes, it focuses on increased strength and flexibility as well as on relaxation and concentration.

Soon after practicing yoga, you may discover the inner stillness that results from the connection of your body, mind, breath, and spirit that can help you achieve a greater sense of happiness and wellbeing.

If you are new to yoga, we strongly recommend that you consult with the most qualified instructors in your area before beginning a yoga program.

Yoga Articles

Power to the Peaceful: An Interview With Joe Haddad

This interview was conducted by Take The Magic Step™ team member Lynne Eppel, a yoga teacher and therapist for 10 years, and a food and health writer.
One of the great beauties of yoga is that it is not just about taking us from a negative state of mind to feeling “normal.”

Yoga At Any Age: An Interview with Jim Thorne

This interview was conducted by Take The Magic Step™ team member Lynne Eppel, a yoga teacher and therapist for 10 years, and a food and health writer.

Yoga for Performancesm: Runners’ Sequence, Part 2

Welcome back! Last month, in Part 1 of the yoga sequence for runners, we explained some of the strengthening, heat-producing standing poses of our yoga routine. Today, in Part 2, we will continue the core work of the practice with sitting poses.

Yoga for Performancesm: Runners’ Sequence, Part 1

The Yoga for Performancesm program offers a specialized sequence of poses designed to meet the needs of athletes engaged in specific sports. For instance, the following sequence is created particularly with runners in mind and addresses the physical demands of that sport.

Yoga for Performancesm: Introduction

Take The Magic Step™ Yoga Program
During the past few months we have introduced you to several fundamental aspects of yoga. We explored many different yoga styles and offered suggestions on how to begin your own practice, including where, when and with whom.

Yoga: An Ancient Indian Science of Exercise and Healing

More than 5,000 years old, yoga is a holistic approach to physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Get some insight into the rich history of one of the oldest holistic health care systems and why it is just as relevant today. You can follow the lineage of an ancient physician’s and philosopher’s practice of stress reduction back more than 2,000 years.

Yoga – One Path, Many Styles (Part III)

Part III of “YOGA – One Path, Many Styles” will conclude our little journey to welcome you to different yoga styles. We hope we have introduced to you some interesting and exciting yoga practices.

Benefits of Yoga

Since its creation about 5,000 years ago, yoga has been known by students around the world for its ability to heal on multiple levels. But what exactly does it really do for us? Can yoga truly help us to find better balance, health and wellbeing?

Eight Limbs of Yoga

It may surprise some to know that asanas, or the physical poses of yoga, are only one part of a multi-faceted system of Yoga. Classical Yoga generally refers to the ashtanga or eight-limbed yoga system (ashta=eight, anga=limb).

Yoga - One Path, Many Styles (Part II)

Part two of our journey to introduce you to different yoga styles will give you information about Bikram Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and Kripalu Yoga.

Yoga - One Path, Many Styles (Part I)

Iyengar, Ashtanga, Bikram, Integral, Kripalu, or Anusara … these are just a few of the many styles of Hatha Yogayou may want to look into when you begin your own yoga practice.

Yoga for the Right Balance

Creating a harmonious relationship with your body is part of a healthy lifestyle, and a topic currently given increasing attention. Being aware of what I eat, running and my newest component yoga, are part and parcel of my daily life.