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Yoga fit: pain has no place in yoga

October 7th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’re new to yoga, it’s very hard to get your head around the fact that the more slowly and mindfully you do your yoga exercises, the more likely you are to achieve your aims of a healthier body, and healthier mind.

“When Yoga Hurts” notes:

… with more than 14 million people practicing yoga or tai chi nationwide, up 136% since 2000, orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists and chiropractors across the country are dealing with the increasing fallout from yoga gone awry. Over the past three years, 13,000 Americans were treated in an emergency room or a doctor’s office for yoga-related injuries, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Take beginners’ classes first

With yoga becoming so popular, many yoga “teachers” are physical exercise instructors who’ve taken a yoga course. Since yoga is an entire philosophy, it’s unlikely that anyone who’s been practicing yoga themselves for less than three years can teach the discipline.

So one of the first questions you should ask the instructor at your new yoga studio is “how long have you been doing yoga?” Next, ask whether the studio has an orientation class for new students. If you don’t get the answers you expect, don’t attend the studio. It’s better to learn basic yoga from a competent instructor in a book or from a DVD than to receive bad instruction.

Want to learn yoga?

July 13th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’re new to yoga, the number of different styles and forms can be confusing. Your best option is to take a class at your local gym, or at a local studio - most beginners start with Hatha Yoga.

If you’re in a location where classes are not available, or you can’t travel, then you certainly can learn yoga from a book or DVD.

If you’re learning on your own, here are some tips which will help:

* Choose a book or DVD which is clearly marked as a “beginners” instruction manual. Although yoga may look relaxing, it’s not. You’ll find that you’re using every muscle in your body, even if it looks as if you’re standing still. If you try to perform at an Intermediate level you may hurt yourself, or decide that yoga is too difficult ;

* Focus on one pose at a time. You don’t need to learn every single yoga asana (pose) - and you can’t, because there are thousands of them. Just spend ten to 15 minutes a day on one pose, as well as a meditation;

* Remember that you’re not in competition with anyone, and there’s no such thing as “perfect” form. You don’t need to perform any of the poses perfectly to get a great workout.

Using A Yoga Chair in your practice helps

May 25th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

A yoga chair is one of the most popular pieces of yoga equipment, and so whether you are a novice to the exercise or experienced, you will find it useful.

The yoga chair is one prop in particular which is most frequently used in Chair yoga, which is one of the many different types of yoga that are available that you can choose from. Chair yoga is one of the gentlest types of yoga, and it is practiced by sitting in this yoga chair.

This type of yoga is usually taught as a way to achieve both physical and mental fitness, and not as a way of life, as most other types of yoga in the world are.

This type of yoga is also the best for handicapped and disabled people, because it is a lot easier and, it – for the most part – can be completed while sitting in the chair. This yoga has helped a number of different people with various different health issues, such as hypertension, anxiety, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, carpel tunnel syndrome, and vertigo, for instance.

Chair yoga is also a great type of beginners’ yoga, because it is much easier than most other types of yoga and so it is great for novices to try first so that they can get an idea about yoga in general and as well builds up their perseverance and stamina.

Chair yoga is definitely one of the newer types of yoga, however it is quickly becoming one of the most popular, and it is also great because it can be combined with almost any other type of yoga. Depending on your ability and willingness, you can combine this yoga with medium to harder types of yoga, so that you can get an even fuller and more complete workout overall.

Just make sure that you are fully aware of whatever type of yoga you are interested in, so that you can be as completely knowledgeable as possible and so that thus you can end up with the best possible results. After all, the more informed that you are the better off you are going to be in the end of it all.

Props and tools can be incredibly useful when practicing an exercise such as yoga, and so you want to make sure to include them whenever you can.

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