This trendy discipline from Indian philosophy deals with body and spirit and includes a huge variety of technics and exercises. The technics that are used contain physical postures, breathing practices, meditation and deep relaxation.
It is an old practice that comes from India, from the third millennium before J-C and has been well-integrated in Occident either in its original or in an updated form.
Practicing yoga could definitely help people in their daily lives and in deep aspects of life. It provides answers to human’s problems and even to modern issues such as facing stress and difficult situations to handle.
In its original form, it can awake your real wisdom, joy and compassion.
In its actual form, which is more refined because of its contact with Occident, we compare practicing yoga to soft gymnastic, an efficient way to reach well-being, good health and healthy conditions.
Practicing yoga has a great impact either on physical form or on psychic health: it can cure different types of diseases very widespread such as hypertension, breathing issues, digestive disorders, migraine, back pains, depression and anxiety. It gives the key to handle situations facing stress and to improve relationships with others. By deepening these practices with techniques more sophisticated, people can reach an exploration of our inside and we go towards a vaster dimension of ourselves.
When people are interested in practicing yoga in a traditional way, it is interesting to study Indian classical literature related with yoga’s practice based on Indian philosophy.
The advantage of this healthy discipline is its convenience; you can practice it wherever you want, either at home or in sports gym or either in the nature.
Some yoga agencies offer all-inclusive yoga retreats in amazing natural spots such as in the mountains or on the beach.
It is nice for yogi’s lovers to spend a week with a community that has the same interests in privileged spots.
· Asanas
Practicing yoga begins with the most interior dimension of individual’s personalities: physical body. Asanas helps yogi to maintain a good health by relaxing pressures in massing internal organs, while providing more suppleness to backbones, muscles and articulations and help facing stress situations.
· Pranayama
Breathing techniques are essential either for the supply of oxygen they provide to yogi’s bodies and for its direct effect on brains and feelings.
· Dharana
It is based on focusing and meditating and aims to stabilize our mind. Its objective is to develop a conscience of the current moment to allow our mind to relax pressures and to reach an internal appeasement through deep relaxation.