Practicing yoga morning and evening has become a habit

In addition to yoga classes twice a week, it has also become a habit to practice every morning and evening. A friend asked my husband about my progress in practicing yoga. The husband jokingly said,"I am very serious and I have never missed a class." Therefore, at present, I am most concerned about the topic of yoga. In addition to the practice of yoga, I also have the feelings and experiences of yoga practitioners. I have benefited a lot. Thank you for sharing ~

The yoga experience:

Yoga is to allow you to be the master of your own health:

We often meet people who proudly say,"I'm practicing yoga." In fact, we don't even know what we're practicing? Persistence in practicing several sets of movements, such as: squatting posture. Many people can't squat and practice the skills of how to achieve the squatting position. People don't understand why they practice squatting and what is the squatting posture used for? What are the benefits to the body? What can squatting postures and methods solve for us? This needs to arouse the majority of yoga practitioners to think!

The method explained by yoga is to wake us up from a bad life and let us truly dominate ourselves psychologically. The principles and recommendations put forward by the yoga theory can not only help patients recover, but also make people healthier. If you want to gain health, yoga practice must wake yourself up through your own learning knowledge and practice experience, rather than simply selecting a few postures to practice but not understanding the use of postures and body. After a month or two of practice, you can make a judgment on your body. What you find is that your body problems have not been solved, but new problems have been added; such as: physical pain, movements that are difficult to let go, and discomfort all over the body without practice.

When yoga practitioners practice at the psychological level of yoga, they will awaken the nature of life and the instinct of life, thereby gaining the energy to awaken human beings 'own inner sleep. The popular definition is to awaken your body and eliminate unhealthy pain. Let us get the joy of health.

When you are emotionally turbulent, you can be aware of it yourself, and you are in yoga, yoga has a way to solve this problem. Don't be busy doing something without touching your body. Learn to relax so you can avoid getting sick; try to learn to be aware of what you are doing and ask yourself, why am I doing this? What is the reason? You will find that these are all wonderful yoga experiences time after time. Your main problem is a lack of focused wisdom, awareness, or perception. As a result, you can find that by understanding, you can easily solve your bad problems.

A must-read Sunflower Collection before practicing yoga:

In fact, any highly difficult yoga movements are low-level movements in the eyes of yoga masters. Postures have nothing to do with difficulty, but about mentality. The mentality when you practice is really important. Postures only help you prepare for meditation. The movements only focus on the skills of postures, which is no different from gymnastics performances and Li Tanghua's stunt troupe.

The Sunflower Sutra for practicing yoga is like this. The first chapter is that if you want to practice divine arts, you must first work hard every day. The second chapter is that if you don't work hard, you can practice divine arts step by step without getting injured.

How to apply Iyengar yoga to avoid these injuries:

From the perspective of physiological anatomy and sports anatomy, the reason why joints can move in various directions is that the corresponding ligaments and muscles wrapped around the joints pull the joints through their respective contraction and extension. If the muscles wrapped around the joints have no strength and are relaxed and passive, then the movement of the joints comes from the joints itself. You must know that the joints are the connections between bones, and they are like wearing parts. As you grow older, Wear will continue to occur. The best way to reduce wear and tear is to activate the muscles around the joints and let the muscles drive the joints to move, rather than the joints themselves.

From the characteristics of muscles, the length and width of muscle fibers are certain. The stretching of muscles should come from two aspects: extension and extension. Extension means elongation, and extension means widening. Only the two aspects of extension and extension are balanced can the muscles be characterized by strength and elasticity.

Finally, we would like to see how Iyengar Yoga can avoid damage to the body during the practice of different types of poses:

a) Standing poses adjust the foundation of the body and help develop physical and mental stability. Without the most basic standing poses, you cannot adjust other parts of your body.

b The forward bend poses adjust the stretch of the legs and trunk as a whole. You should know that our bodies have front, back and sides. The condition for judging whether the forward flexion pose is done correctly is that the front, back and sides of the body can stretch evenly. If you just stretch the back side, it will overstretch the back side muscles, causing muscle strain.

c) The twisting pose is to expand the volume of the chest while stretching the sides of the trunk. The thoracic cage consists of the thoracic spine, front and rear ribs, sternum, shoulder blades and clavicles. When twisted, the flexibility of the shoulder blades is enhanced to a large extent and the thoracic cage is expanded. Whether it is a standing twist or a sitting twist, you first need to stabilize the foundation, and you need to stabilize your feet, legs and pelvis. Then you need to use the twisting process to create a space for the thoracic cage and activate these muscles involved in breathing. Teachers of traditional yoga courses only emphasize twisting to the comfort range of the body. It is easy to occur twisting starting from the pelvis, causing excessive stretching of the lower back muscles and excessive squeezing of the lower abdominal internal organs. This is why many members are prone to injuries in the twisting pose.

d) The post-bending pose must be based on a solid upward support of the legs towards the spine, so that the muscle groups on both sides of the spine can be activated, and then the post-bending movement formed by continuously lifting the chest can be maximized. Only then will it be safe. This can effectively reduce the pressure on the intervertebral body of the spine during posterior flexion, otherwise it will easily cause excessive pressure on the intervertebral body, backlog the discs and cause damage. In traditional yoga courses, many teachers and members use the flexibility of the lumbar spine to complete the backward flexion movements. The more flexible the practitioner is, the easier it is to injure himself in the backward flexion movements.

e) Flip handstand: We all know that the pose of handstand has a great impact on the body's blood circulation and ideological level. However, according to traditional yoga teaching methods, shoulder stands and head stands can cause spinal injuries.

Index and principles of yoga practice:

When doing yoga, please pay attention to the feelings that the movements make your body feel. And stay for no less than 4 seconds in each posture. In the practice of yoga, pay attention to the feelings that the movements make your body. In fact, it should also belong to mobile meditation. Because we can define meditation in this way. When your mainstream consciousness such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind continue to flow in one direction while your consciousness is under control, meditation has already been formed. When you are practicing, your body completely attracts your attention. When you focus on your body and the feeling of your muscles, you will be better able to listen to the conversation between your body and you. You will feel comfortable in the position, and your body will feel very quickly. Focusing on your body can effectively perceive the effects of the action and make your body quickly guided in a positive direction by this action.

Always remember that every practice should be slow and clear. Movements should be clear and controlled, and I always know what I am doing. (Internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)