Popular yoga fitness exercise in Shanghai

This summer, the "barbaric style" has become popular in Shanghai because of the movie "My Barbaric Girlfriend". However, another group of Shanghainese have gone against the trend and become fascinated by the "gentle and peaceful" yoga and fitness exercise.

Yogis were originally a school of ancient Indian academic thought, on the same footing as Brahmin, number theory and other studies. "Yoga" is Sanskrit, and the simple translation is Zen thought. Yoga has a history of 5,000 years, but today in Shanghai, yoga has become a fashionable, unique and very "cool" fitness method.

Mr. Wei is the person in charge of a professional yoga fitness club in Shanghai. According to him,"Yoga is a systematic and scientific health preservation and fitness method that integrates postures, breathing, meditation, lifestyle, diet, and music. Different from other methods, yoga practice is not affected by a person's physique, posture, age, gender, etc. Both male and female students can improve their physical fitness, change and maintain their body shape and posture through quiet and slow yoga courses while obtaining physical and mental tranquility and stretch."

Mr. Wei analyzed that the three-month fee is only 800 yuan, which is not a heavy burden for the young white-collar workers in Shanghai. Yoga has long been popular overseas. Although people in China know it, there have been few places that provide professional teaching of yoga before. Modern people pay much more attention to themselves than in the past, so this market has great potential.

Miss Chen, a veteran member of the yoga fitness center, described her practice experience,"When I practice in class and at home, my body feels very comfortable. As the arms stretch forward, the strength of the leg muscles increases. Feel the energy from your shoulders to the tips of your fingers. The stiff parts of the body have been relieved, and the weak parts have become strong."

Although most of the people joining the ranks of yoga and fitness this summer are young and fashionable women, this is not a "patent" unique to women. Mr. Liu has just arrived in Shanghai and is also fascinated by yoga and fitness. He said,"Only with good health can we cope with busy work. Yoga can be practiced anytime, anywhere, and the body can use this opportunity to repair after a busy day."

In addition to professional yoga clubs, yoga courses are also offered in many fitness centers in Shanghai. Relevant people analyzed this and said that modern urbanites have heavy work and high pressure, while the outside world is noisy and noisy. They can't help but find some peace. This may be one of the reasons why yoga began to flourish in Shanghai. (Internship Editor: Lin Xiaodong)