By Melani Ward
 I have been practicing yoga for nearly 13 years but it wasn't until about 9 years ago that I discovered how much I loved Ashtanga. When I first began taking yoga classes I experimented with a variety of styles: Iyengar, Anusara, and Bikram, what I now affectionately refer to as "hot stretch".
And, though I blend lessons from each into my daily practice, it is Ashtanga that sets my heart, body and mind on fire. Like many who have an affinity for this style of yoga, I love the rigorous aspect of it and the structure and discipline of it.
There is a simple rhythm to it and the flow and pace keeps you out of your mind and into the moment. But one of the reasons I really love it so much is because of the vinyasas.
There are 4 fundamental aspects of Ashtanga Yoga: Ujjayi Breath, Bandhas, Vinyasa, and Drishti. Without taking these aspects into consideration, yoga is merely physical movement like any other.
Vinyasa is the marriage between breath and movement. It is |
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By Mira Williams
 The great person theory says that some individuals have certain traits that make them best suited for leadership positions. Leaders are commonly thought to be assertive cooperative, decisive, dominant, energetic, self-confident, and tolerant of stress, willing to assume responsibility diplomatic and tactful, and persuasive. Although we can list traits and skills possessed by leaders, a large number of research studies conclude that we cannot predict who will become a leader solely from an individual's personality characteristics.
In most cases, the majority wins, but there are occasions when the minority has its day. How can the minority swing the majority? The minority cannot win through nor motive influence because it is outnumbered. It must do its work through informational pressure. If the minority presents its views consistently, confidently, and nondefensively, then the majority is more likely to listen to the minority's view. The minority position might hove to be repeated several times in order to create sufficient impact
In group situations, some individuals are able to command the attention of others and thus have a better opportunity to shape and direct subsequent social outcomes. To achieve |
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By Mira Williams
 Group Therapies
Nine people make their way into a room, each looking tentatively at others. Although each person has met the therapist during a diagnostic interview, no one knows any of the other clients. Some of the people seem reluctant, others enthusiastic. All are willing to follow the therapists recommendation that group therapy might help each of them learn to cope better with their problems. As they sit down and wait for the session to begin, one thinks, Will they really understand me? Another wonders, Do the others have problems like mine? Yet another thinks, Can I stick my neck out with these people?
Group therapy is diversified. Some therapists practice psychodynamic, humanistic, behavior or cognitive therapy. Others use group approaches that are not based on the major psychotherapeutic perspectives. Six features make group therapy an attractive format.
1. Information. Individuals receive information about their problems from either the group leader or the other members of the group.
2. Universality. Mainly individuals develop the sense that they are the only persons who have such frightening and unacceptable impulses. In the group individuals observe that |
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