Knowledge About Yoga You Need to Understand
In recent years, yoga has become a very popular way to exercise and get fit. It's almost everyone knows about it, whether it's celebrities or ordinary people. When people practice yoga, they often hear things like, 'I've been practicing for so long, I still haven't opened my hips! How can I compare myself to someone else?' or 'Everyone says yoga can help you lose weight, but I haven't lost much!' or 'My body is so stiff, and after a few days of practice, it still hasn't become more flexible, so I should give up.'
Many yoga practitioners, especially women, are aware of the effects of various postures and know how to achieve the most standard postures, know about yoga breathing techniques, and know about the various ways yoga can regulate the body. However, we often get caught up in the 'appearance' of yoga and rarely truly explore its 'spirit.' When we reach a bottleneck in our yoga practice and can't continue to progress, we might as well take a moment to think and look, to understand what yoga truly is and what yoga is really about. This might help you make a new breakthrough on your yoga journey.
1Yoga from the Sanskrit word 'yug' which means 'unity, combination, harmony'. It was created by ancient Indian practitioners who imitated the postures of animals.
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1Auxiliary tools and venue:Ordinary fitness generally requires corresponding equipment to assist training, and also has certain venue requirements. Yoga generally does not need to be equipped with large equipment, commonly using yoga bricks, yoga balls, and mats. The space requirements are not high, and a warm, well-ventilated, and bright environment is sufficient. Even at home, you can practice.
21Effect results:
Yoga emphasizes natural human balance, belongs to a balanced exercise mode, which can exercise the strength of the body while also having certain flexibility requirements. Many massage postures can also better help women regulate their endocrine system, enrich blood, and adjust their mood. Ordinary fitness models mostly belong to targeted muscle group training, focusing on slimming and reducing fat or muscle gain, strengthening muscles, and not having much effect on shaping muscle lines. Yoga's stretching and relaxation postures are better at shaping smooth muscle lines and beautifying body curves.
3What yoga is really about:
First stage:Posture practice, practitioners use their bodies to perform specific postures to seek the balance of the body, mainly focusing on enhancing limb flexibility and muscle strength training, such as downward-facing dog and forward-bending pose, which are focused on flexibility training; cat-cow pose, plank pose, and standing pose are muscle strength training postures.
Second stage:Yoga breathing, after gradually adapting to the posture training, practitioners should combine with the correct yoga breathing mode, maintain uniform, fluent, and calm breathing rhythm. For beginners, a simple way to find the breathing rhythm is to focus on your body's feeling, follow your body's feeling, you won't have a forced breathing situation. Yoga breathing is not a forced mode, you must find the feeling in the posture to achieve the most natural effect.
Third stage:
Meditation, when our body has fully adapted to the rhythm of yoga postures and felt the peacefulness brought by breathing, we will naturally smoothly enter the meditation stage. We can start from focusing on a specific thing to train, transcend our body, forget time and space, achieve the freedom of the soul. Yoga meditation is not about describing a series of specific scenes in our minds. When our thoughts are truly empty, that's when meditation begins.
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Avoiding Common Mistakes in Yoga Practice:
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We should maintain the ability to feel comfortable in the yoga posture practice. Many people think that yoga posture practice is to the extent that the more painful it is, the better it is. Only by challenging more difficult postures can we achieve a better fitness effect. This is a wrong understanding. We can only achieve a harmonious combination of breathing and posture when our bodies feel comfortable. The purpose of yoga practice is not to give our bodies pressure and pain, but to achieve unity between posture and soul.
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