Don’t just do something Sit there!
February 6th, 2009Yoga exercises have become a great way to treat various health conditions related to a stressful life style. To begin with the basics, lots of people take up yoga out of the sheer desire to grow their spiritual side and get distracted from the very material grip of our reality. However, the preponderance of trainees who seek physical alleviation cannot be ignored; this is the case of people who suffer from sleep problems and don’t manage to get a good night rest. How can yoga exercises help for the matter? Yoga starts with relaxation, once you manage to relax and keep thoughts under control, sleeping comes naturally.
Among the yoga exercises that help induce a good night rest we should mention neck stretches, shoulder movements, complete muscle relaxation techniques and breath control. The health benefits of yoga are widely advertised and they usually represent the main attraction and trigger that makes people take up yoga classes in the first place. Some want to get slimmer, others wish to grow muscular mass, and there are even some people who expect to increase their sexual performance by the practice of yoga exercises.
Nevertheless, this way of understanding the yoga exercises is pretty far from the original art of spiritual evolution that yoga stands for. Yoga requires inner as well as outer training although the latter is fully reflected and influenced by the former Thus, according to the original meaning of yoga exercises, a person who manages to discover the richness inside of himself/herself while eliminating negative emotions will enjoy a better life, an incredible health and the peace and harmony of superior spirits. Yoga exercises are just the path to something nobler than the immediate weight loss: spiritual freedom in its purest form.
Therefore, the yoga exercises we practice in most of the sessions make an inferior level of the real yoga art. This doesn’t mean that all yoga practices follow this down-to-earth, immediately functional trend, but rather that it is more accessible for the average person to find a purpose and a meaning in this so-called art before attaining superior states of self-awareness. Therefore, the need for a good trainer as well as a relevant objective in the practice of the yoga exercises keep people on the right track and prevent disillusionment as well as accidents.
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- Ruben Alvarez
