Flowing Yoga: Flowing yoga

Flowing yoga, from the perspective of postural practice, as the name suggests, is a smooth, consistent and orderly postural practice method. Its English name is "Hatha Vinyasa Flow Yoga", which translates literally as "a continuous stream of hatha yoga connected by vinyasa", so it is still a form of hatha yoga. Nowadays, some venues arrange courses and distinguish stream yoga and hatha yoga as two parallel concepts, which is strictly inaccurate. Regarding the concept of Vinyasa, we will specifically talk about it later.

Stream Yoga is a simplified version of the ancient Ashtanga vinyasa yoga. Ashtanga yoga practice is highly demanding and difficult. Yogis with deep practice need ten years or even a lifetime to gradually break through primary and intermediate practices and reach the advanced stage. Some of them cannot even reach the advanced stage in their entire lives. Therefore, it is very difficult to promote among the public. From this, Liu Yoga evolved, which is simpler and gentler than Ashtangga Yoga, but retains the flowing and flowing characteristics of Ashtangga Yoga. It gives the general public and the infirm the opportunity to experience challenges and experience a dynamic, powerful, and flowing yoga.

Since Huilan popularized yoga to the public in China on CCTV, classical yoga (also known as "traditional hatha yoga") has become the category of yoga that most people choose to practice with a preconceived advantage. It uses a quiet classroom atmosphere, slow breathing and movement rhythm, and the teacher's gentle and soft command guidance to lead students into a comfortable, relaxed and mysterious yoga world.

If you are used to traditional classes, you will be very surprised when you take a class of current yoga for the first time-is this also yoga? Why are there so many jumping movements, why are the movements so fast, and why are breathing so heavy?

However, once you start trying to accept it and keep practicing it, you will discover the beauty of flowing yoga. After a class, my body sweats profusely and my heart becomes more powerful due to vitality.

If traditional hatha yoga poses are like beautiful pearls, then flow yoga is like a string of worn pearl necklaces. It can be long or short, large or small, according to individual wishes. Of course, a very important part in making a set of flow yoga exercises achieve a full effect is how to scientifically arrange independent postures. Flowing Yoga follows and inherits the scientific systematicness of Ashtangga Yoga, and still summarizes all asana practices into ten parts (categories), with a fixed order. In each part, you can freely combine independent asana under this category.

For example, the second major part is the practice of standing positions. We know that things like triangle pose, side angle pose, twist side angle pose, warrior first and second pose, etc. are all poses in this part. Through the order of right first and left, one by one, you will form the second part of the practice of flow yoga.

Here, I want to talk about my personal experience. To practice flow yoga, it is best to have half a year or more of practice of traditional hatha yoga, so that you can be more fully familiar with yoga poses and master the key points of practice of various main poses. At the same time, after about a year of practice, physical strength has been greatly improved. If you practice flow yoga on this basis, it will be easier to meet the practice requirements of flow yoga, and it will be easier to experience the beauty of flowing water.

Generally speaking, after taking traditional classes for half a year or a year, a member's physical strength improves, and naturally he will have higher requirements for the effect of a class. During traditional classes, he has difficulty sweating and feels that the intensity is not enough. If he takes a class of yoga, he will feel very enjoyable. (The above content is only authorized to be used exclusively by 39 Health Network. Please do not reproduce it without the authorization of the copyright owner.) (Editor in charge: Teng Yun)