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Cure through Yoga
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2008 |
Yoga in a popular yoga position, one of the world's oldest forms of exercise, is experiencing a renaissance of stress in our modern world. You would not think that 3000 years, the exercise can increase its popularity. But yoga is even being prescribed by some doctors for a range of health services and disease conditions, as a relief from stress and complement other fitness programs.
Talk to someone who practices yoga and they will quickly extoll an endless list of benefits. It seems beginners quickly converts. They consider it the key to good health and happiness in the world today _ a common goal for most people. But probably the greatest advertisement for yoga is that it seems to have graduated from the strange and other ranks in a fairly wide community acceptance.
Housewives, businessmen, athletes, adolescents and elderly are all practicing a variety of positions from yoga, meditation and breathing exercises. For many, yoga becomes a way of life _ often give a more spiritual side of people's lives, but not necessarily linked to religion. A school of faith and maintains that chronic stress accumulated is why many of our modern diseases.
Proponents of yoga argue that it has a multiplicity of techniques to counter this question 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 tip turned to yoga as a form of training. They found that yoga helps their mental and physical relaxation between sessions, and their indispensable introduction to great meeting, where competition is usually won or lost in the mind.
Perhaps one of yoga's main attractions is that it combines physical and mental exercise. It is excellent for posture and flexibility, the two main physical elements for most sports-people and, in some respects, there are advantages to be gained strength. Yoga teachers say that the approach of yoga therapy is one of the most effective ways to achieve mental health of athletes looking edge.
Marian Fenlon, Brisbane, a leading yoga teachers in the past 20 years, is the author of two books on the subject and had thousands of yoga students. Many of them have in turn become teachers. Believe it or not, she has even taught yoga to footballers. Many years ago, it took Brisbane Souths rugby league team for an eight-week course and, surprisingly, it was well received. She said that the eight components of yoga therapy - attitudes, disciplines, posture and flexibility, breathing, sensory awareness, concentration, contemplation and meditation. Yoga can play a supportive role in modern medicine, and complement other fitness and exercise. Although there is not a major component of aerobic fitness in yoga therapy, it complements aerobic exercise because of breathing techniques that can be learned. So there are benefits to the most demanding aerobic sports - swimming, cycling and running. There are many documented cases of yoga alleviate or cure serious diseases - such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and respiratory diseases like asthma and emphysema. |
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