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Knitting Instructions for a Basic Scarf
Find all the resources you need to knit a basic scarf in garter stitch or basket weave pattern. Find links to all the basic techniques of knitting such as how to knit, purl, cast on, bind off, etc.
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Crescent Lunge Pose, Anjaneyasana for Strong Back and Thighs
This low lunge yoga pose has all the benefits of a backbend pose and some. It helps to relieve back pain, sciatica and tension in the body. Learn how to achieve the final pose with proper preparation.
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Bow Pose, Dhanurasana for More Energy
The bow pose is an energizing backbend done on your stomach that stretches the entire front of the body. Learn how to do Dhanurasana or Bow Pose correctly and how it improves your well-being.
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Cow Face Pose, Gomukhasana: Upper Body Stretch and Balance
This seated yoga pose is great for releasing tension in the neck and shoulders. It is stretches the spine and balances both sides of the body with regular practice. The variations have same benefits.
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Cobra Pose, Bhujangasana for a Flexible Back
The cobra pose is a prone yoga pose that is energizing and invigorating, with therapeutic effects for asthma and sciatica. Find out the benefits and how to correctly perform this gentle backbend pose.
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Yoga Tree Pose, Vrikshasana
This standing balance yoga pose is great for improving alignment, calming nerves and strengthening the various muscles. Its therapeutic benefits help relieve sciatica and release tension in the hips.
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How to Knit a Comfort Doll or Duduza Doll
A duduza (comfort) doll is an easy charity knitting project to bring comfort and solace to children in need, especially in Africa. Learn to make one yourself with this free pattern. Includes videos and links.
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Reclined Hero Pose, Supta Virasana
The reclined hero pose is an intermediate yoga backbend and has many benefits. It is a rejuvenating and energizing pose. Find out the steps to achieve the final position, add into your yoga practice.
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Eagle Yoga Pose, Garudasana
The eagle yoga pose can be done in two ways, standing and seated variations. It is great for releasing tension in the shoulders and strengthening the spine and legs. Learn more about its benefits.
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Warrior I Yoga Pose, Virabhadrasana I
Warrior-I or Virabhadrasana-I yoga pose and its other two variations are excellent for strengthening the legs and spine. Learn how to do the Warrior I Pose and improve your concentration and balance.
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Child's Pose, Balasana Yoga Pose
Practicing yoga is rejuvenating and relaxing to the body and mind. The child yoga pose is ideal for relieving headaches and stress. It helps to stretch the spine and thighs and can be performed by all.
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Shoulder Stand, Salamba Sarvangasana Yoga Pose
Inverted poses like the shoulder stand, downward dog and the plough pose increase blood flow to the brain and thyroid glands, improve complexion by making it glow and removes toxins. Read more ...
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Pigeon Pose, Eka Pada Rajakapotasana
The one-legged king pigeon pose is an intense backbend suitable for intermediate and advanced students. It massages and stimulates the kidney and aligns the pelvis. It stretches the thighs and hips.
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How to Perform the Yoga Chair Pose or Utkatasana
The chair pose helps to strengthen the back, legs, thighs and hips, increase heat in the body and improves balance. Find out how to benefit from doing three different versions of this standing pose.
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Yoga Standing Poses: Energize, Stretch and Strengthen Your Body
Standing yoga poses can help improve posture, concentration and balance. They stretch, tone and strengthen the muscles all over the body through forward bends, side bends, back bends, and lunges.
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Ocean Breath, Ujjayi Pranayama
Pranayama has been found to have many benefits. Ujjayi pranayama or victorious breath or ocean breath is a very useful technique to purify the respiratory system and calm the mind.
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Yoga Cooling Breath, Shitali Pranayama
Did you know that when your body gets overheated you could use a yoga breathing technique to bring it to normal? Learn how to do the Shitali or Cooling breath pranayama and reap its benefits.
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Yoga Alternate Nostril Breathing Exercise, Nadi Sodhana
It is important to achieve balance in our breathing pattern for good health and an alert mind. Alternate nostril breath or nadi shodhana or anuloma viloma breathing technique is one way of doing it.
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Half Forward Bend, Ardha Uttanasana Yoga Pose
This pose helps to strengthen the back and relax the neck muscles which is the region of tension because it has to support the head in an upright position. Find out how to stretch and strengthen them.
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Camel Yoga Pose, Ustrasana
The Camel Pose or Ustrasana is an intermediate level kneeling backbend yoga pose. It stretches and strengthens the spine, thighs, abdomen and back muscles. It is an energizing and improves posture.
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Yoga Poses for Legs: Benefits Those Who Sit for Long Hours
Our legs are the most important parts of the body. They support our body weight, help us walk, run, swim, stand and be active in our lives. Yoga is a great way to maintain muscle tone of the legs.
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How to Make a Positive Impact in the World
We can make a positive impact in the world both as individuals and as a group of like-minded people. The change must begin with us and every choice we make affects our fellow human beings, other sentient beings and the planet. We can definitely have a significant impact on alleviating the suffering...
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How to Improve Flexibility of Tight Hamstrings With Yoga
Did you know that tight hamstrings can inhibit movement and cause many injuries, poor posture, and back pain? Learn how to loosen your hamstrings with yoga and improve performance in sports and daily life.
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Yoga Poses for Shoulders: Relieve Tension and Stiff Neck
The challenges of our life can cause stress and tension in our shoulders and neck muscles. Find out how to relax and strengthen the shoulders through yoga poses.
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Yoga Poses for the Spine: Strength and Flexibility
The spine is like the trunk of a tree, supporting the entire body structure. Taking care of it and maintaining its strength and flexibility is of primary importance. Find out some of the yoga poses that you can incorporate into your yoga practice.
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Yoga Poses for Hips
The hips and buttocks bear the weight or the human body and determine its balance. It is important to strengthen and ensure good muscle tone for easy movement and flexibility in daily life. Learn about some of the yoga poses that can benefit the hip joint and the hip region.
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Pranayama and Yogic Breathing Exercises
Are you are breathing correctly and using your lungs to their full capacity? Learn about 3 basic pranayama techniques that are a good way to start your practice of yogic breathing exercises.
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Beginning Yoga Poses for the Spine
Regular yoga practice builds up the body's inner strength and natural resistance, improves muscle tone, and removes toxins. Learn some beginner yoga poses, especially for the spine.
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How to Perform the Yoga Mountain Pose
Have you noticed that you use one side of the body more than the other? The Mountain Pose in Yoga will help in correcting the alignment and help relieve many ailments when performed with other standing poses.
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How to Perform the Locust Yoga Pose to Strengthen Buttock Muscles
The half locust and the full locust pose in yoga are both beneficial to strengthen the buttocks, legs and increase energy and circulation in the body. Learn how to perform both the variations.
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How to Get Started Doing Zazen Style Zen Meditation
'Have no designs on becoming Buddha', said Eihei Dogen. Zazen meditation is sitting meditation without being competitive with oneself of others. It is about observing life as it is. Learn how to get started on this style of zen mediation.
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Corpse Pose, Shavasana for Complete Relaxation
In today's fast-paced world, taking time to relax is the greatest challenge. Even if we find time to exercise and do yoga, we rarely find time for complete relaxation. The corpse pose or shavasana, a yogic relaxation technique can be done at any time of day to become rejuvenated. Learn how to...
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How to Comfortably Sit Cross-Legged in Yoga
Are you in perfect balance and alignment when you sit cross-legged on the floor? Learn how to sit correctly and for long periods to practice yoga, pranayama, or meditation.
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Skull Shining Breath, Kapalabhati Pranayama
Find out how to clear your head, become alert and gain a bright shining face with the Skull Shining breathing exercise or kapalabhati pranayama. Overcome the limitations of everyday breathing by learning this technique.
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What Is Sama Vritti (Equal Breathing)?
Have you noticed that your inhalation and exhalation are of different durations? Find out the advantages of breathing in equal ration duration and learn how to correctly learn the technique of sama vritti pranayama or equal ration breathing.
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2 Ways to Meditate in Only One Minute: Just Sitting and Awakening Joy and Gratitude
If you are feeling off centre during the day, here are two meditation exercises you can do to come into the present moment. This will help you deal with any challenge afterwards with a clear and relaxed sense of being. Learn how to meditated in just one minute with a Zen meditation technique and...
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Benefits of Yoga Breathing Exercises or Pranayama
Yoga breathing techniques or pranayama are an ancient yogic tradition and can be easily applied to our modern lifestyles. It has many physical and mental health benefits that will help you enrich the quality of your life.
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4 Steps to Motivate Yourself to Meditate
The most important thing about meditation practice is to do it regularly, daily and the greatest challenge is to stay motivated. It takes only two steps to find out the why and how of sustaining ones enthusiasm to practice daily.
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Easy Zen Meditation Tips
Meditation can be practiced by anyone and it is easy to begin a daily practice. Learn about the obstacles and how you can make it easy for yourself to practice a simple form of meditation.
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4 Steps to Practice Mindfulness of Your Body States
It has been found that practicing mindfulness improves both mental and physical health. Learn in four simple steps on how to understand, accept and be aware of your body and mind.
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How to Do Breathing Exercises
Each breath taken changes the human body in a way that we do not fully understand. Breathing exercises not only help with physical health but also emotional, mental and spiritual well-being.
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How to Declutter in Less Than 30 Minutes
Get Organized in three simple steps with the Give Away, Put Away, Throw Away System and see all the clutter disappear. Welcome to a tidy new home or desk as the case may be. Reduces stress by clearing out all the clutter with two simple changes in your habits.
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Napier New Zealand Tourist Information: Art Deco City
Napier is located by the sea in the Hawke's Bay region and is dubbed the Art Deco capital of the world. Napier was rebuilt in the early 1930s following a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 3 February 1931. The uniqueness of Napier lies in the fact it reflects the architectural styles of the...
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Easy Vegan Red Lentil Soup or Masoor Dal Soup Recipe
Pink Lentil Soup with Vegetables and Wakame, a sea vegetable is not only healthy but a delicious and wholesome meal. It is very easy to prepare and make within an hour and any combination of vegetables can be used.
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Native New Zealand Birds: Tui and Kereru
Two native birds of New Zealand the tui and kereru are fruit eating birds that help in seed dispersal. Watch a video capturing the two birds in action.
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How to Practice Focused Meditation
Two simple exercises to do focused meditation. Success in meditation depends on how well a person can concentrate with a single focus on a particular subject or ideal. Meditation begins where concentration ends.
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Instant Easy Vegan Savoury Crepe Recipe: Wheat Dosa
Whole wheat is a popular cereal and is used in breads and other recipes. Here is a quick and healthy recipe to make savoury crepes or dosa with vegetables to provide added nutrition. Find out the health benefits of wheat.
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How to Let Go to Reduce Stress and Angry Feelings
How to learn to Let Go of all those things that are not helpful and allow space to Let Come those things that are beneficial is the secret of dealing with stress and anger. Find out about Meditation to Let Go.
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The Gorge Explorer: A Steam Train Excursion in New Zealand
The steam train excursion from Paekakariki to Woodville via the Manawatu Gorge in heritage carriages, some dating back more than a 100 years was an exciting experience. Check out the video and photos and how to book one yourself.
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How to Reduce Stress When Meditation Is Difficult
The most important thing is our attitude that determines whether we suffer from stress or transform like charcoal into a diamond under the pressure. Find out what are the signs of stress. Four tips to achieve stress relief by deep breathing, restful sleep and how to wake up refreshed, mindfulness...
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Meditation Results in Brain Growth
Research studies have found how meditation results in growth of brain cells. Here are tips on nutrition, physical and mental exercises and meditation to improve brain health and brain growth.
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Easy and Simple Meditation for Beginners
Regularity rather than duration is the key to success in meditation. Even the simplest form of meditation will help in becoming centred, peaceful and alert through out the day. Read on for some important do's and don'ts when practicing meditation.
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali for Beginners
Meditation is one of the practices to achieve the integration and perfection of the human being. Find out the steps to reach perfection such as following the eight limbs of yoga such as yama and niyama, dhyana (meditation) yoga and karma yoga, jnana yoga and raja yoga. Learn about the quality of...
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Saving the Penguins and the Antarctic Ecosystem in the Ross Sea
The Antarctic ecosystem is unique and the Ross Sea is the least-impacted marine ecosystem in the world. To save and preserve it is our duty towards the future generations.
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Easy Knitting Projects for Charity
A guide to simple and easy projects for beginners to knit for charities and get all the practice necessary to become a pro. Check out the various charities that are helping adults, homeless, AIDS orphans, little babies and animals keep warm every winter.
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Queenstown New Zealand Tourist Information
Queenstown, located in the southwest corner of New Zealand, draws around 1.7 million visitors each year. A unique experience to Queenstown is the TSS Earnslaw Steamship Cruise on what is believed to be the oldest working coal-fired steamship in the southern hemisphere.
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Waitomo Caves – Limestone Formations and Glowworms in New Zealand
Explore the underground life of planet earth in these caves formed over millions of years. Waitomo Caves with its limestone formations and glowworms offer many adventure activities like abseiling, caving and black water rafting.
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How to Hydrate the Brain Adequately
Simple actions go a long way in maintaining good health. Drinking water throughout the day can ensure the well-being of the brain and body. Learn how much water you need per day and how to keep well hydrated.
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Easy Vegan Buckwheat Pancake Recipe
These pancakes are a healthy breakfast option. In this recipe, bananas and water are used instead of eggs and milk to create vegan pancakes.
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Nelson New Zealand Tourism Information
Famed for its temperate climate and high sunshine hours, Nelson region can be explored year round by land, sea and air. A region that has something for everyone from the adventurer, art lover to a wine connoisseur.
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How to Help Your Spouse Quit Smoking
The longer a person goes without smoking the healthier the body becomes. Find out about the positive outcomes of quitting the smoking habit to help you support your spouse better. Helpful Tips and links to online resources to motivate you.
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Tips to Reduce Debt and Save Money
Getting into debt is easy, getting out of debt is hard and takes time. The first step is to learn the psychology of money and see what attitude we must develop towards managing it. it is not how much money you make, It is how much money you save
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Canterbury New Zealand Tourism
The Canterbury region is situated in New Zealand's South Island. Christchurch City is the gateway to the Canterbury region, one of the most diverse corners of the world. Here you will find sparkling beaches, extinct volcanoes, hectares of flat farmland, vineyards and sky-scraping mountains.
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Going Vegan Recipe Guide
We have to be mindful that we are feeding our bodies with the foods that are best for its sustenance and well-being. This Vegan Recipe Guide is for meat/fish eaters, people who would like to change to a healthier diet to prevent diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease, vegetarians and...
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Why Become a Vegan: For Health Benefits, Compassion, Going Green
The first thing any concerned person can do is to become a vegetarian and then go one step further and become a vegan. The decision to become a vegan has a two-fold purpose: firstly, the Earth's well-being and secondly, personal well-being. Learn more about the ethical and health aspects of your...
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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint and Save Money
It is actually possible to save a great deal of money by adopting a low carbon footprint lifestyle. This can easily be done by making one new change each week, create a strong savings habit and save hundreds of dollars every year.
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How to Help Child's Brain Development
A child's learning starts even before its birth. How can adults help nurture brain development and provide the opportunities for a child to grow and blossom to his or her full potential. Read more....
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Two Inspiring Books for a Spiritual Life
Life is a mysterious thing. We get help from different media such as television programmes, movies, people we meet, and of course books. Many books have come to me at the very moment when I was wondering about what to do next.
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How to Write Good Content for Blogs, Ebooks and Websites
The way businesses attract customers has changed with the advent of the internet and websites. It is helpful to know how to write engaging content that will convert browsers into customers. Content Rules is a book that shows you how to do just that.
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How to Avoid Eye Strain With Free Apps - Mac and Windows
There are a couple of helpful and free apps that Mac and Windows users can install to help avoid eye strain and dry eye syndrome. Computer Eye Strain is also a common cause for headaches and fatigue.
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Mahatma Gandhi Statue in Wellington, New Zealand
The Mahatma Gandhi Statue in Wellington, New Zealand reminds us of a great man whose influence has spread far and wide. It was unveiled in 2007 on the International Day of Non-violence as declared by the United Nations.
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Just Be: Accepting Life as It Is
Just Be. Practice the skill to being present in the now by accepting circumstances as they are. Watch the circumstances change as your mind relaxes and you come up with creative solutions to deal with the situation.
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Coast Redwoods – Tallest and Largest Trees in the World
The world’s largest and tallest living things are the redwood trees in California. They have been tried to be cultivated in other countries. In 1901 a grove of Coast Redwoods was planted near Rotorua in New Zealand which now stands as a memorial to the soldiers who died in the two world wars.