Art of yoga is often likened to gymnastics. This assumption was not entirely wrong. Therefore, this activity is the parent of gymnastics, and various types of martial arts, dance, music, singing, even the art of making love and healing.
Yoga comes from Sanskrit “yuj” means to connect or unite. Horizontally, meant to unite the body-mind-spirit in a natural harmony. In a vertical sense, means to unite ourselves with God’s consciousness.
The most important thing to understand is the practice of yoga skills. These skills provide two disciplinary practices, namely motion and silence. Useful to strengthen the physical discipline of movement, eliminating joint and muscle stiffness, as well as healthy nerves and glands control the body. This motion Discipline helps balance the body energy and comfort for everyday life, even essential for the rejuvenation of body cells.
In the discipline of silence, yoga gives relaxation, calmness, clarity of mind, cheerfulness, confidence, and developing intuition. Everything can be achieved through meditation conducted by regulating the breath and the perfect attitude.
Anyone can practice, both men, women, children, adults, health, disability. However, it does not mean he could be carelessly. It takes a variety of preparations. If not, then the results become less than optimal.
The practice of yoga would be perfect if you pay attention to some of the following guidelines:
* Not to do when I’m sick, menstruating, or pregnant, unless advised to do certain movements. Consult your situation with the instructor.
* When going to do yoga when I was just waking up, do the “half-body bathing” (such as ablution) or full shower before practice.
* Before practice, you should do warm-up (vyayam) to avoid cramps. Do the movements slowly and carefully. No joking and laughing during practice, to avoid stomach cramps.
* We recommend that you do the massage yourself when you’re done practicing. Continue with relaxation for a few minutes.
* After doing yoga which are connected with massage and relaxation, you should not touch the water before it did not touch the water before the rest about 5 minutes.
* Not doing breathing exercises (pranayama) before resting a few moments until the body temperature returned to normal.
* Breath in yogasana. Warm-up before practicing, simply done by jogging in place, as she waved her fingers and feet, and swung his arms a few moments.
Practice begins with stretching the body, starting from the neck, shoulders, arms, waist, knees to the ankle joint. Stretching the neck shall be done to avoid a headache for the yoga and keep the stability of the body. Stretching can be done while sitting or standing.
Here among the benefits of Yoga:
1. More feksibel
2. Stronger
3. Improve posture
4. Protect joints from rheumatism and arthritis
5. Protect your spine
6. Preventing osteoporosis
6. Blood circulation
8. Cleaning lymph
9. Protect your heart
10. Lowering blood pressure
11. Keeping the Memory
12. Bring happiness
13. Lose weight
14. Lowering blood sugar and bad cholesterol
15. Improving intelligence
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