Celebrities Who Practice Yoga

Her Diet and Yoga

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston is without a doubt one of My favorite celebrities. In her recent interview with Self magazine, she has revealed how thanks to yoga, she stays in shape.

diet:
It is known that Aniston favors the Zone and the South Beach diet principles. In this interview, however, she did not talk about her diet. Self only commented that she is not into “some rigid detox diet in which only brown foods are permitted.”
workout:
“Aniston, 37, never considered herself a yoga type. “I went to class years ago, and I remember thinking, It’s really crowded, really hot, really sweaty, and I can have a better workout if I run and a better meditation if I sit quietly by myself.”
She passed her Rachel Green years working out on the treadmill, elliptical trainer and StairMaster. “I was disconnected from my body,” Aniston says, in retrospect. “I was just getting my exercise out of the way.”

Carmen Electra doing Yoga in her backyard

Hiedi Klum and Seal do Yoga to!!

                  Matthew Mcconaughey  doing yoga on the beach!                                                                                                    

Kim Kardashian stays in shape with yoga

Here are some of the celebrities who were quite vocal about their decision to commit into the practice of yoga:

• Danny Glover
• Jennifer Lopez
• Halle Berry
• Kareem Abdul-Jabar
• Sarah Jessica Parker
• The Dixie Chicks
• Charlie Sheen
• Brad Pitt
• Russell Simmons
• Candice Bergen
• Meg Ryan
• Ricky Martin
• Thalia
• Tatum O'Neal
• Raquel Welch
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Jeff Bridges

It Does Do Much More Than Change Your Body.

I’m a pretty athletic person and I have been going to the gym, training with trainers, doing boot camps and taking any type of fitness classes for years now, and nothing has changed my body as much as yoga. I started noticing results a few months into doing yoga and shortly after that for the first time in my life I was actually starting to feel happy about my body and confident!!! ( that’s saying a lot) . For me getting to a point where I was feeling happy about myself was already a good enough excuse to religiously continue with my yoga classes, the more I continued my practice I become more flexible,stronger and my stamina got longer. As great as all of that is, yoga does much more than just change your body!! It changes the way you see the world, Yoga can change the way you relate to other people, to the planet, the way  handle situations...the list goes on and on. The reason why Yoga differentiates its self from all of the other exercises out there is because yoga connects you to your body, rather than disconnects you from it. Yoga’s ability to tune you into your own breath, your body, your thoughts and emotions it truly does connect your body to your mind.

 
Here are just Some of the other benefits you get from yoga

Stable autonomic nervous system equilibrium

Blood Pressure decreases (of special significance for hyporeactors)

Cardiovascular efficiency increases

Respiratory efficiency increases

Endocrine function normalizes

Musculoskeletal flexibility and joint range of motion increase

Eye-hand coordination improves

Posture improves

Strength and resiliency increase

Endurance increases

Energy level increases

Weight normalizes

Sleep improves

Immunity increases

Pain decreases

Steadiness improves

Depth perception improves

Balance improves

Mood improves and subjective well-being increases

Self-acceptance and self-actualization increase

Social adjustment increases

Anxiety and Depression decrease

Hostility decreases

Concentration improves

Memory improves

Attention improves

Learning efficiency improves

Well-being increases

 

I guess for me doing yoga it just became so obvious ...who wouldn’t want to go into a class and leave feeling great, having a hard workout and reaping so many benefits at the same time?  I always feel like a walking yoga billboard always talking about how great yoga is, but doesn’t it just make sense to do or at least try?

 

The Meaning behind Namaste

After every yoga class, the whole class comes back together after a nice long shavasana and closes that practice with a Namaste. I am not going to lie for so long I was saying the word and doing the actions but I never really understood the full meaning behind it. For a normal Namaste we bring our hands together in prayer and place them by our heart chakra and then bowing our head down we close the practice.

What I have learned is that Namaste is a yogic thank you, and it is so significant to do at the end of each class because it is a humbling gesture. Its shows that you are recognizing that we are all equal a frees us from our ego, it is also supposed to allow us to realize that we are one. Namaste should be done with deep feeling in the heart and with the mind surrendered.

Now each time I say Namaste there will be a deeper meaning behind it then just saying the word.

Namaste!!