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Yoga (Sanskrit, Pāli: योग yóga) refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines that originated in India.[1] The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.[2][3][4] Within Hinduism, it refers to one of the six orthodox (āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal towards which that school directs its practices.[5][6] In Jainism, yoga is the sum total of all activities — mental, verbal and physical.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

YOGA POSTURES


Raja vajrasanaTheme: Learn Doing Yoga Excersices, How to do Yoga Postures.

WHAT IS YOGA

Yoga is not only the set of rules narrating how human body can remain healthy and live happily longer. It instructs how to practice what has been told in the yoga theories. The 5000 year old ancient knowledge of Yoga systems can be practiced as a curative therapy. It helps in healing several adamant diseases, which make our life miserable. We can practice yoga poses at home, with basic instructions from a trained yoga teacher. It could be helpful if we can go to a yoga school or a yoga retreat.

WHY YOGA IS NECESSARY

Our changed lifestyle and the uses of various machines in our day to day activities have made us doing less physical work. So our body becomes imbalanced in a way by the passing of age. Yoga makes the required correction. Regular practicing of Yoga would help us reducing the fat deposits and keep us fit. If we want to see the benefits which we can get from practicing the Yoga and Yoga Asanas, we can summarise that in nutshell as following.

Types of yoga poses

In fact yoga poses are the comprehensive set of body and mind exercises. The poses or asanas we do can be classified as per the twists they give to our body. The postures which require our body to bend in back side are termed as Back-bends and likewise the Forward-Bend poses. In many poses our body is put in to reverse of the natural order. These poses are called Invertes Poses and wherein the face remains upward are named as Face up Postures postures. there are many simple postures which keep our boy either in Sitting Position or Standing Position

BENEFITS OF YOGA POSTURES
  • Regular doing of Yoga Poses keeps our life-energy flowing.
  • Yoga is a healing system of theory and practice.
  • Practicing yoga Asanas would help maintaining the energy meridians of our body open and in natural conditions.
  • Yoga poses are curative in certain pains like back pain and pain in hip joints. Regular practice of yoga helps to lose weight.
  • Yoga is very much helpful in keeping our nervous system operating naturally and peacefully. The regular practicing of Yoga Asana would render our body and mind fairly in balanced state.
  • Many Asanas and breathing techniques are devised to help the flow of blood in our body and curing the weakness of the heart. In addition to helping the functioning of our heart, Yoga postures increase metabolism and gift us with more energy.
  • Yoga system, theories and practice, can help us in curing or healing what has gone wrong in our body due to faulty style of living. Yoga is a healing system of health care that is based on a concept of the "whole" person as one. It is based on a scientific concept that human body, mind, spirit, and emotions can remain in balance by regular practice of Yoga.
  • [ Raj Vajrasana By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0], from Wikimedia Commons , Siddhasan By Marcocarvalho (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]

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