Going gaga over yoga
by Dee
Kerr
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Pop icon Madonna is probably one of the most popular bi-products of
commercialized yoga. Since she started to come out...
...with that toned and
buffed figure, women all over the world wanted to know what kind of diet
she has been doing. When she revealed that she has been on her journey of
self-discovery and has found a new source of spirituality, she also
revealed her secret in maintaining her almost eternal youth
look—practicing yoga that is.
But, aside from staying fit through practicing of yoga there is so much
more about the discipline that people should know.
The truth about Yoga
Before becoming gaga over yoga, you should familiarize yourself first
about what yoga really is, its origin, the many underlying premises behind
the discipline and how can you benefit from it. Let’s start first by
defining the foreign word that is yoga. Basically, the word “yoga” is
rooted from a language of ancient India where it is originated—the
Sanskrit. “Yoga,” in Sanskrit, means “union or joining.” It can either be
a union that occurs between the mind and the spirit, between the body and
the spirit or a joining of the mind, body and spirit as a whole.
But, the term “yoga” can be accurately defined by another Sanskrit word
“asana” – the practice of physical poses or postures. Although “asana” is
only one of the eight known types of yoga, both terms are now being taken
as one because since both of them are concerned with mental and spiritual
well being than in purely physical activity.
Since yoga has been packaged for the Western culture, it is now best
described as a general term that includes various disciplines. And now,
yoga is more popularly known to people as a form of discipline that varies
from one concept to another. The term yoga is now also viewed as a
discipline that deals with purely physical abstraction to purely spiritual
conquest and to just about everything in between. If you are thinking of
practicing yoga to improve your life, you must know hoe to convert its
underlying possibilities to your own satisfaction.
The ultimate Yoga Basics
If you are really interested with yoga, you should be willing to learn
almost everything about it. First of all, you should define why you need
it.
Some of the many different styles of yoga that being taught and
practiced today include “hatha ,” the slow-paced and gentle style;
“vinyasa,” the breath-synchronized movement style; “ashtanga,” the
fast-paced and intense style of yoga practice; “iyengar,” bodily alignment
style, “kundalini,” the breath in conjunction with physical movement
style; and “bikram” or “hot yoga” which is practiced in a 95-100 degree
room allowing the loosening of tight muscles and profuse sweating.
Aside from being an effective stress and anxiety reducer, practicing of
yoga is also proven to increase strength, create energy, build and tone
muscles, improve focus, concentration, and posture, reduce blood pressure,
improve memory, and relieve pain.
Another basic thing you should know about yoga is that it requires an
exertion or force through different poses. Done through the performance of
poses, most people might think that yoga is just about stretching, utmost
concentration and weird poses. True, you see people practicing yoga doing
some sort of “acrobatic” stunts, but those stretching are not just simple
flexing of muscles: these are creative processes that balance the body to
develop agility, flexibility and strength. Since each pose has a specific
physical benefit the poses in yoga can be done in succession to create heat
in the body through movement that will build-up an increase in
stamina.
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