YOG AASAN - YOGA

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Yoga is a mind and body practice. Yoga combines physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or relaxation. It involves movement, meditation, and breathing techniques to promote mental and physical well-being. The main components of yoga are postures (a series of movements designed to increase strength and flexibility) and breathing.

Yoga is considered the best exercise. Because yoga asanas build strength and tone muscles along with making you flexible. When your body's flexibility increases and your tissues loosen up it gets easier to burn the excessive body fat and tone your muscles. By doing this also helps to manage chronic health issues. 

Hatha Yoga is the yog that is recommended to beginners. Hatha Yoga means "Practice of the body, a physical practice that balances these two energies. Because of its slower pace, Hatha is a great class if you're just starting a yoga practice.

Different types and styles of yoga asanas are:

Ashtanga Yoga: It applies the same poses and sequences that rapidly link every movement to breathe.

Bikram Yoga: Bikram Yoga is also known as hot yoga, in artificially heated rooms at a temperature of nearly 105 F and 40% humidity. It consists of 26 poses and a sequence of two breathing exercises.

Iyengar Yoga: It focuses on finding the correct alignment in each pose with the help of a range of props, such as blocks, blankets, straps, chairs, and bolsters.

Kripalu Yoga: This type teaches practitioners to know, accept, and learn from the body. A student of Kripalu yoga learns to find their own level of practice by looking inward. The classes usually begin with breathing exercises and gentle stretches, followed by a series of individual poses and final relaxation.

Kundalini Yoga: It is a system of meditation that aims to release pent-up energy. A Kundalini yoga class typically begins with chanting and ends with singing. In between, it features asana, pranayama, and meditation that aim to create a specific outcome.

Sivananda: This system uses a five-point philosophy as its foundation. This philosophy maintains that proper breathing, relaxation, diet, exercise, and positive thinking work together to create a healthy yogic lifestyle.

 

Vini Yoga: Viniyoga focuses on form over function, breath and adaption, repetition and holding, and the art and science of sequencing.

Some Yoga Postures:

  

Few Benefits of Yoga:

Improve flexibility and strength. Yoga stretches your muscles.

Stand up straighter. Many poses in yoga can strengthen the core muscles in your stomach and back.

Ease stress and anxiety levels. Yoga involves breathing exercises that force you to pay attention to your breath.

Reduce low back pain.

Improve sleep.

"Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self."

By - CPL Anna Elveena Henry

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