Showing posts with label Yoga For Great Hair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoga For Great Hair. Show all posts

Friday, 7 December 2012

Preparation of Egg Shampoo


The first and foremost part of keeping the hair healthy is to shampoo it regularly for removing all the dirt from it. It is necessary that the shampoo one is using should be free from chemical properties as much as possible. The best policy is to use herbal shampoos and homemade shampoos containing natural elements. Here are few instances of preparation of egg shampoo mixing different natural substances with the egg yolk. An egg shampoo is good for enhancing the health of the hair as it attributes it protein and other nutrients.
Here are different ways one can go for preparation of Egg Shampoo. These are principally, processes of making homemade egg shampoos which in turn will really turn out to be useful if used regularly.

Quickly made egg shampoo

Ingredients: 1 beaten egg, ½ tsp lemon juice, ½ cup water, ½ tsp olive oil, 1 cup liquid soap
Preparation: Mix all the ingredients thoroughly in a bowl and then apply it on the hair, keep for ½ hour and then rinse it off.

Normal Egg Shampoo

Mix two egg yolks in a glass containing warm water, then strain it and apply it on hair and keep for 1 hour and then rinse it well using warm water.

Conditioning Egg Shampoo

Ingredients: 1 tsp shampoo, 1 egg, 1 tbs powdered gelatin containing no flavor
Preparation: Mix all the ingredients and then beat well so that there shouldn’t be any lump. This makes the hair thick and shining and act as a good conditioning agent.

Egg and Honey Shampoo

Honey and egg are 2 of the most beneficial ingredients for your hair. Both honey and egg are easily available in the market and are commonly used in household all over the world. These 2 key ingredients come together to become the honey egg shampoo that works magic on your hair. If you wish to add bounce, shine and radiance to your hair, try out this homemade shampoo.You will need the following ingredients to prepare shampoo with honey and egg:
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 1/4 Cup Honey
  • 2 Tablespoons Liquid Soap
  • 1 Tablespoon Almond Oil (You can also use wheat germ oil)
  • 1 Tablespoon Witch Hazel
  • 1 Tablespoon Rosewater
  • 2 Tablespoons Water
Preparation of Honey Egg Shampoo is very easy:
  • Put all the ingredients together in a jar or container which has a top that can be screwed shut.
  • Shake the container or jar thoroughly till all the ingredients are blended well together.
  • Apply the mixture to your hair like any other shampoo.
  • Wash your hair thoroughly with water.
Honey provides shine to the hair whereas egg helps to make is soft, smooth and bouncy. Provide you hair with the honey egg shampoo treatment and see it transform into one of your best features.

All purpose Egg Shampoo

Ingredients: 2 Eggs, 2 tsp henna, 1 tsp amla, 1 tsp shikakai, 100 gram curd, 1 tsp lemon juice, 1 tsp honey
Preparation: Mix the ingredients to make an even pack and apply it over your hair. Keep it for 1 hour and then wash it with a mild herbal shampoo.

All Natural Egg Shampoo

Ingredients: 2 c of water, 2 bars of Castile Soap grated, 1oz tincture of benzoin, 3 egg yolks and 2 oz. of glycerin
Preparation: Mix the ingredients and make a shampoo

Lemon Egg Shampoo

It is an excellent homemade shampoo that deeply nourishes, vitalizes and rejuvenates your hair from within making it look shiny and soft to touch. This shampoo is also extremely effective if you wish to add bounce to your hair.
The lemon-egg shampoo is prepared using homemade ingredients. This ensures that you hair is not affected by any harmful chemicals that might be present in other industry made shampoos.
  • 1 Egg
  • Any Fragrance Oil
  • 3 Tablespoon Shampoo (unscented)
  • 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
Preparation of lemon-egg shampoo is extremely easy.
  1. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl till they are blended in well together.
  2. Apply the mixture to your hair like a normal shampoo and massage it well into your hair.
  3. Wash off with normal water.
Lemon offers cleansing properties that ensures that your scalp remains healthy and your hair mixes shine with radiance. Egg is an excellent moisturizer for your hair and will coat it with a protective shield. Try the lemon-egg shampoo and feel the natural effects of the shampoo transform your hair into your best asset.

Henna and Egg Shampoo

To prepare henna and egg shampoo, you require the following ingredients
  • 5 Tablespoon Natural Henna Powder
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 Cup of Warm Water
  • 1/2 Lemon Juice
Follow the steps to prepare your henna and egg shampoo:
  • 1.Mix the henna powder, egg and warm water and blend them together to make a smooth paste.
  • 2.Let the mixture sit for 1 hour.
  • 3.Put in the lemon juice to the mixture and blend it in thoroughly.
  • 4.Apply the paste all over you hair and scalp and let it remain for at least 2 hours till the mixture dries. You can also keep the pack on overnight as per your choice.
  • 5.Wash out the mixture from your hair with warm water.
Enjoy your soft, smooth, straight and shining hair that bounces with health and vitality after treating it with the henna and egg shampoo.

Weight Loss Tips

AOA also states that with the beginning of the 21st century, 127 million adults in the US will suffer from overweight, 60 million from obesity, while 9 million are severely obese. According to a report by the World Health Organisation, there are at least a billion overweight adults in the world today of which 300 million at least fall in the obese category.

Overweight and obesity are major concerns facing us today with a growing number of today’s population facing these problems. Weight Loss Tips will help you loose the excess weight and therefore forms an important part of the body care regime. Though not a problem by itself, obesity can lead to severe health conditions like:

Hypertension
Type2 diabetes
Arthritis
Gall Bladder Problems
Stroke

The American Obesity Association (AOA) classifies obesity into three categories, which are:

Overweight- defined as having Body Mass Index (BMI) as 25 which, can be interpreted as one fourth of excess weight than normal
Obesity- 30 percent of excess weight
Severe obesity – 40 percent of excess weight

Tips for Loosing Weight

Eat only when hungry, taking small portions at a time

Stick to homemade food. Avoid fast food as much as possible

Take meals at short intervals of 2-3 hours (instead of the conventional breakfast, lunch, and dinner). This enhances the rate of metabolism in the body

Eat a lot of fresh fruits and leafy vegetables. They are filling and are full of fibers, antioxidants, and vitamins and low on calories.

Avoid starchy food like rice. Reduce your intake of coffee as this also increases deposition of fat

Do a free-hand exercise daily. This helps to burn calories and keeps you fit.

Last, but not the least, an adequate sleep of a minimum of 7-9 hours a day, is extremely vital as that helps to keep the levels of hormones (such as Cortisol, growth hormone and insulin) under check, which can otherwise encourage storage of fat. Sleep is also a great stress buster. Stress and lack of sleep also enhance the levels of Ghrelin hormone that raises hunger and reduces Leptin, whose main function is to signal the brain to stop eating.

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Yoga for Weight Loss


Yoga will help you burn more calories per day and get a more lean and strong body.Yoga can support your weight loss goals by giving a healthy direction. Weight gain is the result of leading a lifestyle where you take in more calories than you utilize.
Yoga offers a good solution to this problem. Yoga tones the body in a uniformed manner, unlike any " weight loss program" which claims to decrease your butts by this much inches and waist by this much, leading to side effects. Yoga can be practiced at any age to keep the body supple.

With all the conveniences of modern life such as washing machine, car, computers we do not use as many calories as we did just a few decades ago. Another big player in the weight gain game is diet. Modern lifestyle includes an abundance of packaged food with appealing food aromas, food colors, spices, refined products and even addictive ingredients. No wonder we find ourselves facing the weight gain dilemma. How can yoga help us get out of the vicious cycle of taking in more calories than we utilize? Listed here are some of the benefits:

* Yoga is a natural exercise for everybody. We have been doing yoga right from the time we were babies.
* Yoga can give you the energy and enthusiasm to create your weight loss plan and more importantly the inner strength required to stick to the plan. Create a strategy based on clear understanding of your problem. Get help from a Sri Sri Ayurveda and Sri Sri Yoga experts.
* Yoga can support your weight loss goals by giving a healthy direction to your life energy.
* Balance your body with yoga postures. Some yoga postures, when done correctly, massage the endocrine glands and the digestive system which improves digestion.
* You can build your support group at the nearest Sri Sri Yoga class and make friends interested in a healthy lifestyle.
* Lastly and most importantly, control how much, how & what you eat with yoga. Regular yoga practice can give you a valuable and unshakeable body consciousness that will help you eat less and help you eat the right food.
* Enjoy your first steps to a more healthy and happy lifestyle, enroll yourself to a yoga class right away. Find the right teacher for your level, and get a lean, fit and strong body.

Benefit Of Yoga For Back Pain


But if you have been suffering from back pain, you might reconsider. Pain relief is just one of the benefits of practicing yoga. You might also experience an improvement in your mental and emotional health that causes you to be relaxed and focused for the demands of your busy life.

* Fists Forward Bend 
Stand with feet hip-distance apart. Bend your knees and release your torso over your legs until your belly touches your thighs (or as close as you can get). Make two fists and place them in the opposite elbow creases. Relax your back, neck and head, and squeeze fists actively. Fists and bent elbows together are a central nervous system trigger that causes your back muscles to open. You’ll feel it after just a few breaths! Take 10-20 breaths here, releasing more tension from the back with every exhale.

* Wall Plank 
Stand in front of a wall at arm’s length. Reach forward from your shoulders and plant your palms on the wall, fingers wide, middle fingers pointing straight at the ceiling. Firm your fingers into the wall and draw your navel back as you lengthen the tailbone towards the floor.
Lift your ribs from the pelvis. You want to work with a natural lower back curve but an active belly. Keep length in your spine as you begin to walk the legs back, folding at the waist, and walking your hands down the wall.
Eventually you’ll come to an L-shape as seen here. If you can’t get there today without feeling pain or rounding in the lower back, bend your knees and maintain the proper spinal alignment.
As you lift the navel and lower ribs into the body, reach long through the tailbone and legs into the floor while reaching the spine, arms and head towards the wall. Repeat for 10-20 breaths, then fold into Fists Forward Fold once again. Move to the next pose after a few breaths.

* Downward-Facing Dog 
If done properly, this tried-and true asana can be excellent for spinal traction and back health. Move into the pose with feet hip-distance apart [did you know that’s only two fists-width or so?] and hands shoulder-distance apart. It’s important not to let your back arch too much, which pressurizes the shoulder joints and over-contracts the back muscles. Instead, think of lifting the navel and front ribs, providing a buoyancy in the shoulders and back.
Carve the tailbone towards the heels and press back through the inner and outer legs equally. This provides a root, a backward grounding from which you can pull and grow your spine and head forward towards the space between your hands. Even as you move the shoulders down the back and wrap your outer shoulder blades towards your armpits slightly, press long through the arms and fingers, providing a whole-body realignment and stretch. Take 5-10 breaths here, then proceed to the next pose.

* Pigeon 
We should call this pose “Angel of Mercy” for what it can do to rescue your poor aching back. It’s genius at opening the lower body muscles like hamstrings, hip rotators and the iliopsoas muscles, all which can contribute to back pain, without putting too much torque on the already tight back muscles.
This releases them by springing open the muscles beneath. It’s a must-do in my yoga sequencing. From Downward-Facing Dog, bring your right knee behind the right wrist, foot either touching the left hip crease or slightly forward.
Stretch the left leg out long behind you, knee and top of the foot facing the floor. Center your hips in space even if they don’t touch the floor.
Press your palms into the floor or a yoga block, ground your legs into the mat, and allow your legs to stretch while you let your low back curve and lift up. Draw your navel and pelvic floor muscles in and send your heart to the sky. To deepen this pose, move your front knee wider and back and creep the back leg longer. Take 5-10 breaths here, then fold forward, forearms on a block or the floor for a full-body stretch to counterpose. Return to Downward-Facing Dog, then repeat on the other side.

* Back Traction Pose 
After your last Pigeon, swing your back leg around and come onto your back, knees bent, feet under knees as if to prepare for a Bridge Pose. Grab your yoga block or if you don’t have one, a firmly-rolled yoga mat will do. Lift your hips, and place the block in the center of your hips (not low back).
The block should be the skinny way, in the same direction as your spine, not wide across the hips like your pants line. Place your hips on the block and gently walk your feet wide. Knock your knees in towards one another for one minute to stretch across the sacrum, and then walk feet and knees together.
Lift your knees over your hips until you can relax them but still stay suspended in the air. This pose will release your iliopsoas muscles even as it detoxes you and provides traction for the low back spine. After about 30 seconds or so, scoot your head further from the shoulders and rest for another 30 seconds. Return to the first variation, feet wide on the floor, knees closer, for a few breaths. To release, walk the feet under the knees at hip distance.
Engage your navel, lift your hips off the block and remove it to the side. Roll slowly down the spine inch by inch and enjoy your new spacious lower back curve and sacrum!

* Child’s Pose 
Roll over and take Child’s Pose for one minute or more. Try knees wide, big toes closer, but end with knees together for a neutral spinal stretch. If your head doesn’t touch the floor, place a yoga block or fists under your forehead so you can relax completely. Breathe slowly into your back body, expanding more nourishing energy and space on the inhale, and on the exhales, let ever more tension dissolve.

Yoga For Great Hair


Yoga for good hair growth there are many yoga asanas which are proved to be beneficial for hair growth.
Did you know that Yoga is good for your hair? Yes from Yoga you can get lots of good benefits and have a great mind and body. You can start with some breathing exercises to keep your hair in perfect condition.
Taking care of your hair is equally important as you do Yoga along with it. Some beauty regimen and good diet is important for you to have your hair in great shape.
Digestive imbalance and hormonal misbalance can create problems in your body system as well as have affects on your mental health.
Proper blood circulation is good for your scalp and keeps your hair good and luscious. Some asanas which keeps your blood circulation in head in proper condition are as follows: Sirsasana, Sarvanasana, and Ustrasana. But you should take expert advice to do these asanas properly.