Make Yoga Part Of Your Life
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Stress Through Yoga
Yoga
in a popular position Yoga, one of the world's oldest forms of
exercise, is experiencing a rebirth in our stressful modern world. You
wouldn't think that a 3000-year-old exercise could increase its
popularity. But yoga is now being prescribed even by some medical
practitioners for a range of health ailments and illnesses, as a stress
reliever and to complement other fitness programs.
Talk to anyone who practises yoga and they will quickly extoll an
endless list of benefits. It seems beginners quickly become converts.
They believe it is the key to good health and happiness in today's
world _ a common goal for most people. But probably the greatest
advertisement for yoga is the fact that it seems to have graduated from
the weird and alternative ranks into a position of fairly wide
community acceptance.
Housewives, businessmen, sportspeople, teenagers and the aged are all
practising a variety of yoga positions, meditation and associated
breathing exercises. For many, yoga becomes a way of life _ often
giving a more spiritual side to people's lives, although not
necessarily linked to religion. One school of belief maintains that
chronic and accumulated stress is the reason for many of our modern
illnesses.
Proponents of yoga argue that it has a multiplicity of techniques to
counter that cause and, unlike drug therapy, attack the cause, not just
the symptoms. It offers, they say, a holistic approach to health and
fitness. Many professional athletes, looking for the edge have turned
to yoga as a supplementary form of training. They have found that yoga
aids their state of mental and physical relaxation between training
sessions, and their crucial build-up to big meets, where a competition
is usually won or lost in the mind.
Perhaps one of yoga's major attractions is that it combines physical
and mental exercise. It is excellent for posture and flexibility, both
key physical elements for most sports-people, and in some respects,
there are strength benefits to be gained. Yoga teachers say that the
approach of yoga therapy is one of the most effective ways of achieving
the mental edge that athletes seek.
Marian Fenlon, one of Brisbane's leading yoga teachers of the past 20
years, is the author of two books on the subject and has had thousands
of yoga
pupils. Many of them have, in turn, become teachers. Believe it or not,
she has even taught yoga to footballers. Many years ago, she took
Brisbane Souths rugby league team for an eight-week course and,
amazingly, it was well-received. She says there are eight components to
yoga therapy - attitudes, disciplines, posture and flexibility,
breathing, sensory awareness, concentration, contemplation and
meditation. Yoga can play a substantial supporting role to modern
medicine, and complement other fitness and exercise programs. While
there is no great component of aerobic fitness in yoga therapy, it
complements aerobic exercise because of breathing techniques that can
be learned. So there are advantages for even the most demanding of
aerobic sports - swimming, cycling and running. There are numerous
documented cases of yoga relieving or curing serious illnesses - such
as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and
respiratory illnesses like asthma and emphysema.
Summary : :Yoga in a popular position Yoga, one of the world's oldest
forms of exercise, is experiencing a rebirth in our stressful modern
world. You wouldn't think that a 3000-year-old exercise could increase
its popularity. But yoga is now being prescribed even by some medical
practitioners for a range of health ailments and illnesses, as a stress
reliever and to complement other fitness programs.
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