Yoga
Yoga for all: Dhaka Flow’s yoga classes at Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Park
Yoga as an age-old practice has the power to transform lives. It not only improves physical flexibility but also boosts mental clarity. These yoga classes — conducted by four certified yoga instructors — cater to beginners and seasoned yogis alike.
4 September 2023, 08:34 AM
7 yoga positions that boost hair growth
Hair loss or thinning can be a frustrating stressful experience for everyone. While there are many treatments and products available to help promote hair growth, yoga can also be a natural and effective way to boost hair growth. Yoga not only helps reduce stress, which can contribute to hair loss but also increases blood circulation and oxygen flow to the scalp that promotes hair growth.
9 March 2023, 12:48 PM
Prana: Where wellness meets passion
The journey of Prana Wellness Center was quite an interesting one. The partners who co-founded Prana started off as student and instructor. The year was 2017 when Jane Alam Romel took yoga classes from Rumana Akter. As freeing as the classes were for them, soon they realised, they both share an incredible passion for yoga and wellness. After listing down all the possible pros and cons, they both finally decided to invest in a wellness centre with a vision to educate people on the benefits of yoga.
18 January 2023, 11:34 AM
Dhaka Flow: A festival on yoga and wellness
The Dhaka Flow festival, a celebration of health, healing, and the environment took place on 13 January 2023 at the picturesque, Gulshan Society Lake Park. The event brought together vendors of wellness products, fitness teachers, healers, and individuals from all lifestyles to connect and build a community.
14 January 2023, 09:54 AM
Thank God It’s Friday: Healing the mind, body, and soul
If you want to do something other than have an outing at yet another restaurant, have a look at these upcoming events, and make plans to have an even better time.
12 January 2023, 14:56 PM
5 simple mindfulness exercises to brighten up your life
Mindfulness exercise involves being present in the moment, observing our thoughts and emotions and sustaining the awareness of our bodily sensations and surrounding. Here are some ways on how you can exercise mindfulness to calm your mind and move past negative thoughts and emotions.
5 November 2022, 09:27 AM
Thank God It’s Friday: Music health and laughter
If you want to do something other than have an outing at yet another restaurant, have a look at these upcoming events, and make plans to have an even better time.
3 November 2022, 14:16 PM
Tools for cultivating happiness: Yamas and Niyamas in yoga
The purpose of yoga is to achieve liberation from suffering through the realisation of our true nature. By practicing the eight limbs of yoga, we purify our conscience so we can perceive our inner divinity. Two of these eight limbs, the yamas and niyamas, are the social and personal ethics that form the foundation of a yogic lifestyle that enables us to advance along a spiritual path towards enlightenment. These are tools for cultivating happiness and self-confidence. When you come across an obstacle, a moment that tries your patience, a person that rubs you the wrong way, think of it as an opportunity to practice using these tools. This will help you put your spirituality into action.
17 October 2022, 11:14 AM
Yoga and the nervous system
Yoga is relevant in our age. Far from being mystical and otherworldly, it is a teaching firmly grounded in the physiological realities of science. Our experience of the world depends entirely on the state of our nervous system. This, in turn, is influenced by a host of factors – genes, diet, environment, and lifestyle. If the nervous system is fresh and rested, the body is healthy and the mind is alert. As a result, our thoughts are powerful and clear, our actions, which are manifested thoughts, are successful and rewarding.
2 October 2022, 12:10 PM
Purpose of yoga as explained by the Sutras of Patanjali
There are many wisdom traditions and spiritual maps to help you journey inwards. Yoga is one of these. Vedic scholars in ancient India spent many years in meditation to intuit this knowledge. Buddha studied with many of these teachers before his awakening. The knowledge was passed down orally till they were most accurately transcribed in The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. For this article, I am drawing from a fabulously accessible version translated by Alistair Shearer.
29 August 2022, 09:59 AM
Weight loss plateau and how to break through it
A weight loss plateau can be frustrating and utterly demoralising. Even though you are consuming the same amount of calories and following a regular workout routine, your weight refuses to budge.
9 August 2021, 11:14 AM
Asia prepares to roll out mat for ‘International Yoga Day’
Millions of people around the world will roll out their yoga mats on June 21 to mark the fourth edition of International Yoga Day.
20 June 2018, 08:57 AM
Go to live music to live longer
Love to attend live music shows? Well… if you don’t, you should start going to the gigs as science revealed that this trend of attending live musical shows can help us live longer, nine years to be exact.
31 March 2018, 06:24 AM
Hillary Clinton demonstrates 'alternate nostril breathing' during interview
Hillary Clinton showed off just how she has been handling her loss to President Donald Trump since the 2016 election while promoting her new campaign memoir, reports the Daily Mail Online.
14 September 2017, 07:01 AM
Yoga, sports mandatory for Indian engineering college students
Students of engineering colleges and technical institutes in India will have to take part in yoga, sports or other socially relevant activities in addition to their regular academics to be awarded a degree.
15 July 2017, 06:52 AM
India journalist arrested over Muslim yoga ban report
A journalist in India is facing charges over a report he wrote saying Muslims are banned from being yoga teachers under government policy.
15 May 2016, 06:39 AM
Bikram Choudhury: Yoga guru fined $6.5m over sexual harassment
The founder of hot yoga has been ordered to pay more than $6m (£4.18m) to a lawyer who says he sexually harassed her and sacked her for investigating allegations against him.
27 January 2016, 15:33 PM
Shilpa Shetty's book on nutrition to release in November
Actress Shilpa Shetty says she has finished writing her book on nutrition, and that it will release in November.
3 September 2015, 15:25 PM
Celebrating International Yoga Day (video)
Yoga is a spiritual discipline which focuses on bringing harmony between the mind and body. On 21 June 2015, in association with the United Nation System in Bangladesh and Bangladesh Yoga Association, the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre commemorated the event at the Bangladesh National Museum.
22 June 2015, 13:45 PM