New attempt: Go to the wild and experience spiritual yoga

When yoga is becoming increasingly popular as one of the indoor fitness programs in fitness clubs large and small, a new trend has emerged among yoga practitioners in Shenzhen: going to practice yoga in the wild.

Women's yoga

At this point, when she met yoga instructor Liu Quanli at the Meilin First Village Cultural and Sports Center, she was leading more than a dozen female students to practice yoga on a large outdoor lawn.

It is called "women's yoga" because there are very few men who practice yoga. Yoga is a kind of exercise that is not intense and more flexible. Men who focus on strength and explosive power and appear to lack patience in soft exercises generally lack interest in yoga. For women, this kind of slow and stretching exercise is obviously very heart-to-heart.

Miss Chen, 30 years old, who has been practicing yoga for a year, is one of Liu Quanli's many students. The purpose of practicing yoga is to lose weight and maintain her figure. A year ago, height 1. At 58 meters, she weighs 67 kilograms. After only two months of practicing yoga, my weight began to lose, and my skin did not show any slack. Yoga slimming is very different from traditional weight loss. There is no need for the various methods of traditional weight loss that damage the body. You just need to do every yoga movement in place in a peaceful, comfortable and peaceful atmosphere, and repeatedly stretch and twist. During rotation, every part of the body can receive balanced exercise. Over time, excess fat will naturally disappear. Yoga has enabled Miss Chen to achieve the goal of reducing weight. It not only brings her beauty, but also gives her confidence and happiness. Now, she is planning to go to the field to practice yoga with Coach Liu.

52-year-old Ms. Li has felt increasingly exhausted in recent years. In order to delay aging, she thought of fitness, but her age does not allow her to do too intense exercise. She must prepare expensive fitness clothes and fitness shoes to practice equipment, so she chose yoga. When practicing yoga, the first thing to practice is the mentality. When the mentality is peaceful, the mood will naturally be relaxed. After practicing with Liu Quanli for two years, Ms. Li has become much younger.

Mr. Zhang, who is over his 40s, is one of the few men who practice yoga. Because he suffered from waist and cervical spine diseases, others told him that practicing yoga could improve his condition, so he started practicing yoga. When he first entered the gym, he was a little embarrassed to see women everywhere. However, after making a rational exploration of yoga, he discovered that this fitness technique popular among women was originally a tantric technique in Indian Buddhism. It was purely a man's technique, so he practiced it all the way with relief. Today, Mr. Zhang's problems are indeed much better. Whenever someone says that yoga is a woman's sport, he always refutes: yoga originally belongs to men.

Yoga in Shenzhen

Yoga originated in India and has a history of more than 5000 years. Traditional yoga is a Buddhist practice that not only has the aspect of meditation and fitness, but also contains many elements of philosophy and religion. When it was introduced into China, yoga eliminated the deep-seated things of Buddhism and philosophy, and focused on its function of cultivating mind and body building. Most of the yoga in Shenzhen fitness clubs is "meditation yoga", also known as "fitness yoga". "Meditation Yoga" is a process through music and the guidance of a coach, one can walk at will, slowly carry out a series of movements, stretching, twisting and squeezing various parts of the body, so that the ligaments, bones and bones can be moved to the maximum extent, and promote smooth circulation of blood. Since "meditation yoga" is carried out in a completely relaxed state of mind, spiritually, yoga can effectively regulate people's self-control, allowing people to unknowingly forget their troubles, and maintain a peaceful and peaceful state of mind. Compared with other fitness methods,"meditation yoga" takes tranquility and softness as the basis of practice, uses distant music to lay the artistic conception, filter the soul and stretch the body, and ultimately achieve the goal of strengthening the body and mind. Because yoga can allow people to completely relax and adjust their body and mind under intense work pressure, it has shown strong vitality in a high-paced modern metropolis like Shenzhen. In fitness clubs of all sizes, yoga courses are offered in almost all of them, with thousands of practitioners.

Liu Quanli is a well-known yoga instructor in Shenzhen's fitness industry. She has been hired by many fitness clubs for a long time and runs between major teaching venues with two to three classes a day. Liu Quanli's fascination with yoga represents the current situation of many practitioners in Shenzhen. In 1999, yoga was introduced into fitness clubs as an indoor fitness program. Liu Quanli began to learn yoga based on her foundation as an aerobics instructor. Yoga pays attention to the extreme stretching of all parts of the body, seeking a balance between the body and the state of mind within the limits. Yoga practitioners, regardless of age or physical fitness, only need gradual patience and a peaceful and stable mentality. Over time, they can achieve fitness goals. Five years have passed, Liu Quanli has not only developed excellent yoga and fitness skills, but also brought out a large number of students like her. As yoga becomes increasingly mature as a fitness event, Liu Quanli began to explore bringing yoga outdoors while coaching. (Internship Editor: Zhang Xing)