Common mistakes made by yoga practitioners

Since the current popular yoga practice methods and asanas have more harmful content than the stars in the sky, it is difficult to explain them one by one. However, as there are increasing numbers of injured victims due to practicing yoga, how to make yoga practitioners avoid wrong methods and asanas The work is also urgent. Let's give a simple and rough classification introduction to the wrong yoga practice methods and asanas:

Improper practice of yoga is harmful to the body

1. All excessive, stretching, twisting, and bending exercises that require reaching the limit are harmful. Can only be done moderately.

2. All methods of bending the spine backwards too much are harmful. This can damage the spine and accelerate its aging. Yoga poses such as Wheel, King Pigeon, Scorpion, etc. are all bad for spine health.

3. Postures that place excessive stress on the cervical spine. For example, the plow style, the head-supported handstand, etc. The cervical spine is relatively fragile and over-stressed, which will inevitably lead to harm. If you accidentally injure your neck, you will risk high paraplegia.

4. Women should not over-stretch the muscles and ligaments at the base of the thighs and around the perineum.

5. Breathing and meditation. Most of the currently popular yoga breathing and meditation techniques are harmful and wrong, so it is better not to practice them.

6. Close the matching category. There are more wrong methods than right ones.

7. Cleanliness method. Except for nasal washing with light salt water, the rest are not advisable. Gust-cleaning methods, thread nasal washing, and cloth gastric washing are all harmful to the human body. It is not good to practice some tricks of washing your nose with light salt water. Moderate nasal inhalation and mouth vomiting will do, and the method of entering and exiting the nose is not advisable. (Editor in charge: Teng Yun)