1. The efficacy of Yoga
1.1. Cultivate self-cultivation and calm your heart: long term yoga practice can achieve peace of mind, forget all unpleasant things, better cultivate your own sentiment, make yourself more confident and love life more.
1.2. Enhance resistance: long term yoga practice can strengthen the body and strengthen the resistance, for example, it can reduce the occurrence of colds and other diseases.
1.3. Improve personal mood: since yoga can rejuvenate the glandular nervous system, including the brain, the mind and mood will naturally take on a positive state. It makes you more confident, enthusiastic and optimistic. Everyday life will become more creative.
1.4. Adjust physiological balance: long term yoga practice can maintain the state of all major systems in the body, and also adjust physiological functions to strengthen the body.
1.5. Become beautiful and more focused: the most important thing of yoga is to relax, balance and gain peace. Every time we practice, the teacher always makes us smile and pay attention to our bodies, so that our bodies and minds can breathe in purity and spit out toxins in one breath.
2. The best time to practice yoga
2.1 after getting up in the morning
Just getting up in the morning and practicing yoga for 10 minutes can make people’s minds become clear and energetic all day long. Generally, the yoga pose suitable for morning practice is the Sun Salutation pose. Practicing Sun Salutation can make your body flexible and full of energy after practice.
2.2. Before lunch
After a day’s work, people are often very tired, so practicing yoga before eating can relieve physical fatigue, and also burn fat, which is helpful for weight loss. Usually, it is appropriate to practice yoga on an empty stomach, which will not cause discomfort.
2.3. Before going to bed at night
Before going to bed at night, in order to relax and promote sleep, you can practice yoga for 10 minutes. If you feel that your body has strong adaptability, you can also practice more movements to help you slim your abdomen and waist. However, it should be noted that do not practice movements with too much intensity, so as to avoid injury, physical discomfort and affecting sleep.
3. What should you pay attention to when practicing yoga
There are no special provisions on the diet of practitioners. Half of the stomach can be filled with food, one quarter can be filled with water, and the other quarter can be left empty, that is, don’t eat too full to avoid feeling heavy and lazy. Don’t eat within one hour before and after yoga, and try to avoid practicing within two hours after dinner;
It is better to be barefoot and wear loose and comfortable so that your body can move freely; It is not suitable to practice on a hard floor or a soft bed. A mat should be laid on the ground during practice; It is advisable to practice in a quiet and well ventilated room. Indoor air should be fresh and oxygen can be freely inhaled. You can also practice outdoors, but the environment should be pleasant, such as the garden. Don’t practice in the wind, cold or dirty air with smoke smell.
Act according to your ability, don’t be arrogant, move slowly, don’t force suddenly, and don’t deliberately pursue “standards”. When you stretch to the maximum extent you can bear, you are doing the right thing. It’s important to warm up. Don’t do difficult movements at the beginning to avoid sports injury.
What should I prepare for Yoga
1. Yoga clothes
Yoga movements are mostly stretching movements. When shopping for yoga clothes, you should give priority to loose ones, which will not affect the stretching of movements. In addition, it should be noted that yoga clothes with good moisture absorption and perspiration effect should be selected.
2. Yoga Mat
The use of yoga mat can prevent knee, hand and foot injuries. Before practicing yoga, you should buy a good Yoga Mat first. When shopping, pay attention to testing its elasticity and pressure resistance, and carefully check whether there are cracks, dirt, discoloration, etc. If there are quality problems, it is better not to buy.
3. Yoga rope
Yoga rope, also known as yoga stretching belt, can help beginners complete some difficult movements. When shopping, you need to test its elasticity and try to choose the one with good elasticity.
4. Yoga ball
Yoga balls are mostly made of PVC, which can be used normally as long as they are filled with air. In the process of practicing yoga, we often use yoga balls, so we need to buy them. When buying, if you are male, you should choose the larger one; if you are female, you should choose the smaller one, because it is in line with your body shape.
Who is not suitable for Yoga
1. Middle aged and old people. After entering the old age, joint degeneration is serious, and most of these people have osteoporosis, hypertension and other diseases, so they should not participate in yoga requiring handstand, bending and other items. It’s easy to get hurt.
2. Patients with neck and lumbar diseases. Many of the basic movements of Yoga need to use the neck and lumbar vertebrae, so people with diseases in this area are not suitable for practicing yoga.
3. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases or hypertension. Jia’s action requires positioning, limb extension and twisting, which may lead to reduced peripheral blood flow, more likely to lead to serious blood coagulation and cardiovascular diseases.
4. Pregnant women should be more careful when practicing yoga. Relevant exercises must be carried out under the guidance of the coach and the permission of the doctor and when the fetus is stable.
5. High IOP, high myopia, headstand is not recommended. Bending forward or standing upside down will increase the intraocular pressure. Therefore, yoga is not recommended for people who have high intraocular pressure and high myopia.
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