YOGA

heykevin

why YOGA is best for body???

kodoherty93

Read this article and you won't want to touch yoga
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

bonzo_k

That New York Times article was an extract from the authors book that he was trying to promote at the time. It was quite the talking point in the yoga community a few month back. The piece was deliberately controversial to create publicity for the book, which it certainly did. It was also a very inaccurate and sloppy piece of journalism.

To quote Eddie Stern ( a respected Ashtanga teacher )

".. article is heavy on anecdote and slim on science "

Read Eddie Stern's full rebuttal here

http://ayny.org/how-the-nyt-can-wreck-yoga.html

MaeveD

heykevin wrote: »

why YOGA is best for body???

Maybe this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448&feature=youtube_gdata_player

CBRLizzie

It really does depend on your own health and which yoga you attend. Personally I find Bikram not to be beneficial at all to me and generally I feel quite ill afterwards - even after drinking water all day and having no caffeine beforehand. As a qualified yoga teacher and someone who has practiced yoga for in excess of 10 years, I just have to accept, Bikram is not for me. The yoga I teach is a very gentle and subtle yoga, no tying of yourself in knots, and I feel fantastic, relaxed and happy after my practice, and I hope my students feel that too when I teach. Years ago I used to feel happy after practising Ashtanga, a much more powerful and strenuous yoga. It really does depend where you are at the time in your head and body, which will suit you most.

Go to a few different classes, see how you feel afterwards, then decide is yoga for you. No-one can decide it for you, and it is very hard to tell from reading something, it is something you experience and then make an informed decision on.

Good luck with it.

catbradleyyoga

Wow MaeveD that was an amazing video! How inspiring!

If you have any interest in any sort of sport or fitness, stretching is critical in ensuring you remaind injury free and will enhance your performance in almost all sport.

If Yoga is your main go to sports activity then you will then anyone will tell you the main benefits of a strong Yoga pratcise are overall toning and lenghtening of the muscles, leaner overall, better posture, reduces the risk of hip and knee replacements in the future. Yoga is a type calisthenics exersice (depending on which type of Yoga you do of course) but you gain incredible strength and balance.

For me its like gymnastics for adults And i am in better shape now than when i was running and walking non stop! All i do now is Yoga, however i do practise 7 days a week!

Pembily

Mod note: Catbradleyyoga, Please don't drag up old threads.

yogasingh

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crestglan

Never knew there was so many different yoga's around