Yoga Thursday - Yoga Impressions

It's Yoga Thursday, and today we are featuring our Impressions series album - "Yoga". Our Impressions line is a quality collection of back-catalogue music offered to you at a fantastic price of £2.99/US $5.99!

Yoga CPI-05
This sublime music is ideal for practising Yoga or for general relaxation.

Yoga Thursday - Chill Out Tibet

As we continue our Yoga Thursday tradition, we wanted to start your devoted Yoga day with some music that really sets the tone - Chill Out Tibet. Our Chill Out series is already devoted to making your life less stressful, and the addition of Yoga to any of the albums could put you on a whole other plane, but add in music from the Tibetan region, and your day might just be the best you've had in awhile. So enjoy some Yoga and accompany your session with Chill Out Tibet!

Chill Out Tibet CD - GJ3681
The mysticism and spiritual aura associated with Tibet are the bedrock of many Eastern Philosophies and practices. On this album the haunting vocals are fused with more contemporary sounds to produce a spellbinding chill out collection.

Yoga Thursday - De-Stress

It's Yoga Thursday again, and this week we're highlighting an album that helps many people reach one of the goals for yoga - stress relief. We live in a stressful world these days, and it's always good to take some time and just unwind. Yoga is such a perfect way to do that, and our De-Stress album is the perfect compliment. So take some time for you today, and sit back and let this album melt your troubles away.

De-stress CD - GJ4510L
It is now widely accepted that stress can cause many illnesses, both physical and mental and also can promote existing illnesses. Most people need to develop stress management techniques at one time or another and this excellent title can provide huge relief from the stresses and strains of everyday life.

Yoga Thursday - Meditation

Yoga is not only for the body, but also the mind and soul, which is why yoga and meditation practices are very closely linked. Today we would like to share an article on Meditation Music from Freemeditations.com. We will only use excerpts and highly encourage you to read the entire article on their website. In conjunction with the article we will be sharing a sample from our Meditation album in our Lifestyle Series.

From freemeditations.com:
Meditation Music

A truly inspiring music is almost a substitute for meditation. Like meditation it transports you to another world. The only difference is that while you have to make conscious effort to arrive at a state of meditation, the inspirational music just carries you off on its wings. It focuses your diffused thoughts at one point which is its central theme. In case the theme of the vocal music coincides with that of your meditation, you are doubly blessed...

Meditation music is composed around many themes. You do not have to sit down in a certain posture at a specific time to meditate. You can meditate even while walking on a footpath in a crowded market place, cycling or traveling in a bus or a plane. Your iPod contains the music and its headphone is plugged into your ears. It prevents your mind from wandering aimlessly, but keeps reminding you that you are, for example, a quiet and calm soul performing your duty in this world while your mind is connected with the supreme soul. Your hands are at work while your mind is connected with your God. If you are a non-believer, the music invokes you to remain calm and detached and yet blissful even in tense circumstances. You walk around the fish market and yet remain immune to the chaotic and noisy crowds.

Various themes that the meditation music is composed of build similar states of mind. Meditation music can promote constant awareness and alertness with detachment which may culminate in keeping you aware, alert and clam even when your soul leaves your body. You watch it leaving and still remain calm even blissful...

Read the entire, wonderful article on www.freemeditations.com

Meditation CD - GJ4511L
This relaxation therapy is ideal for focusing the mind, lifting you out of your day-to-day level of consciousness into a state of passive awareness at which point your body can alleviate symptoms of high blood pressure, chronic pain, anxiety and insomnia.

Yoga Thursday - Serenity

Today we came across a great article about the relationship between yoga and music and wanted to share a little of it in today's Yoga Thursday post! But that won't be all you're getting this Yoga Thursday. We're also going to give you a musical suggestion and a free download!

This article on the relationship of music and yoga comes from the "Path To God - Spiritual Journeys" blog. To read the entire post, please visit the blog.

Maximize Yoga With The Proper Music

Music and yoga blend well together. But are you sure you are playing the correct music while performaing yoga?...

Yoga music doesn’t intend to change your religion even though the music has a touch of spirituality and religion. It promotes holistic development of the mind and body. You might also be open to listening to the music of Bach, Mozart or Beethoven while doing yoga. There are also new artists which create music for yoga exercises. So much so, your yoga music must not distract your yoga exercise but it should enhance it...

Yogis believe that meditation music and yoga creates an ambience of perfect spirituality. They are able to focus their movements and are able to meditate better. Awareness is heightened and breathing is more relaxed. The two fused in one exercise is indeed a great experience...Click to Read the Full blog post.

We hope you enjoyed reading those excerpts as much as we did, and hope that our next suggestion fits the mold for you as much as it seemed to for us!

Our Yoga Thursday album of the week comes from our Concepts Series.

Serenity

Creative music it's purest form, this album features a spontaneous piano solo inspired by our innermost emotions and spirit...which promotes an Alpha state of mind.

Download the track "Alpha" from Serenity:

Let's Start Yoga Thursdays!

For those that use Twitter, you know there are hashtags to commemorate certain days. The most popular ones are Music Monday (#MusicMonday), Travel Tuesday (#TravelTuesday), Wine Wednesday (#WineWednesday), and Follow Friday (#FollowFriday). So we've decided there needs to be something for Thursdays, and we think yoga is just the community to do it.

So what would Yoga Thursday (#yogathursday) entail? Well, in the end it will evolve into something probably different what it will start out as today, but we have some framework in mind. For starters, it's simply a way to get a conversation going about Yoga and to have a way to interact with other Yoga enthusiasts on Twitter! So, when you talk about anything yoga related on Thursdays, simply add the tag #YogaThursday so that everyone else can see it! Also, it could be a great way to share poses, or tips! Yoga studios could do promotions within it, and people can talk about their favorite studios! You could give shootouts to your favorite Yoga related follows and followers! The possibilities are both limitless and extremely exciting!

For instance, we will start by telling you who are our favorite Yoga people on Twitter and telling you about some of our favorite Yoga albums. I mean, you probably know that within our Lifestyle series we have specific Yoga albums, but did you ever think that our new Ambience series would probably work really well for Yoga too? Or how about our Chill Out series, or Spa series, or even our Nature & Music series? These are all things to discuss on #YogaThursday!!!

We look forward to the discussion, so make sure to follow us on Twitter (@GlobalJourneyUK) and use the hashtag #YogaThursday today!!!