What does Paul McCartney have to do with Yoga2You and Eye Yoga? Just as Yoga2You launched its Stress Relief Series on iTunes this February, including Stress Relief for the Eyes,essential yogic techniques to keep eyes healthy and strong, Paul McCartney posted this YouTube video demonstrating yoga eye exercises. If you haven't seen it, do check it out.
Beatle Paul attributes these simple eye exercises for helping his vision stay strong and healthy with age. Saraswati does too. Whether you are a Generation X-er, Baby Boomer, or octogenarian, these simple yogic eye exercises will help you.
OK, so Paul is as cute as ever, and his YouTube video is free to watch, but if you are the sort of person who is better about exercising with a little coaching or class, Saraswati's Stress Relief for your Eyes download is at your fingertips for only $1 from CDBaby.com and includes 2 tracks (5 and 9 minute versions, depending on how much time you have). All of Yoga2You's Stress Relief downloads are now available on iTunes. Search: stress relief saraswati.
Why yoga works—simply
Ancient yogis knew the benefits that came with regular yoga practice. Today, advancements in technology enable scientists to show precisely how these ancient practices work to benefit the mind and body. Yogis have been passing on the teachings of yoga for nearly 5,000 years.
Most simply, using proper breathing, especially during asana practice, enables the average person to develop the breathing apparatus and strengthen the vital life force. Once that begins, everything else flows from it. Why yoga works is really that simple. Any time you lie on the mat and breathe, the benefits of yoga begin.
There is a saying in yoga that when we control the breath, we control the life force, and when you think about that, it's really true.
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Yoga Poetry
Attention Yogi Poets: Please submit your Yoga Poetry for publication in this corner--share your artistic light with others. (Poet keeps all rights.) Meanwhile, please enjoy these prayers and chants that follow. Namaste.
I first became aware of this prayer during Yoga Teachers Training. It is one of my favorites, and it is also a call-and-response chant that is sometimes sung during satsang. Enjoy!
A Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive--
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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Just as Yoga2You launched its Stress Relief Series on iTunes this February, including 
“Health is wealth, peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.”
