Yoga knowledge The practice of yoga postures is different from that of physical fitness.
It is a kind of practice method that stresses on stretching, twisting, squeezing and massaging various parts of the body with the weight of the body under the static maintenance state and with deep breathing.
Static maintenance is a major feature of yoga postures, and even some yogis believe that maintenance is the characteristics of Asana (yoga postures) yoga postures: first, yoga postures are non competitive exercises; 2、 Yoga asana is to practice with your own weight in static state; 3、 Yoga postures require deep breathing; 4、 Yoga postures practice requires relaxation during maintenance; 5、 Yoga postures practice requires feeling the tense parts of the body; 6、 The core of yoga postures is the spine.
Now we will analyze the methods of practicing yoga postures from several angles, so as to guide ourselves to practice correctly.
When you relax and do physical exercises, muscle tension is an instinctive reaction.
As soon as the muscles are tense, the energy movement in the qi channels is restricted, so the breath cannot be unblocked.
Yoga practice has changed from conforming to the nature of the body to giving, which will cause a series of sports problems.
Many yoga lovers said that I also know that I should relax, but I don’t know how to relax.
They may even ask, how can you relax when you maintain a specific posture while doing work? This is actually a misunderstanding of the concept of yoga relaxation.
We know that all the techniques of yoga are designed to achieve the goal of “controlling the transformation of consciousness”.
Human body tension is controlled by human consciousness, that is, tension of consciousness causes tension of the body.
If we try to relax our body during the tense process of practice, we are actually trying to control our consciousness – to make it change from a tense state to a relaxed state.
Once the consciousness is relaxed, the body naturally relaxes.
When the body relaxes, the qi will be unblocked.
When the qi is unblocked, it will nourish our viscera, and the various systems of the body – the body will naturally be effectively adjusted, making the body enter a virtuous circle.
The practice of breathing yoga postures emphasizes the coordination of breathing.
Because of the coordination of breathing during the practice, the energy flow in the body is smooth, and the postures become natural, elegant, and coordinated.
Moreover, breathing itself is absorbing the energy of cosmic life.
If there is no concept of yoga energy, at least the scientific view also believes that deep breathing can help us to absorb a lot of oxygen.
Oxygen is the basis for maintaining the normal metabolism of the human body.
If the metabolism of the human body is normal, the wastes and toxins in the body are discharged from the body, making the body healthy.
However, breathing in yoga practice should be principled, not random breathing.
And different exercise purposes may require different breath.
If you can’t master yoga breathing at the beginning, don’t worry.
Just deepen your breathing, which is a simple and harmless breathing method! All kinds of breathing methods are just more effective breathing methods accumulated by yogis based on long-term practice.
Although there are differences in the amount of energy and oxygen intake, they are the same as the principle of deepening common breathing.
I remember one of my students told me after an interview in a club in Pudong, Shanghai.
After the interview, the director of the club said to him, “You still use abdominal breathing!”! This kind of breathing method has long been out of date.
We all use complete breathing method to regulate breathing.
The author told the confused student that there is no outdated version of yoga, only one that is suitable for your own practice and one that is not suitable for your own practice.
In addition, only fashionable things will become outdated.
Yoga is an ancient culture reflecting the wisdom of the East, not a fashionable sport.
According to the fashion view of the director, yoga has been popular for thousands of years and has long been out of date – including the complete breathing he used.
From this dialogue, we can see why yoga becomes physical? Because some yoga disseminators are also sports oriented and fashionable.
Their understanding of yoga is not a culture that has been passed down for thousands of years, but a fashionable sport introduced from abroad.
The most important thing is to feel the tense parts of the body.
People’s thoughts are usually scattered, which is easy to cause emotional fluctuations and energy dispersion.
It is very difficult to control people’s thoughts, just like the ancient saying that “the mind is like an ape”, and they are not constrained.
But people are easily pulled by their body’s feelings – when they are hungry, they immediately go around to find food for the body; When he is thirsty, he immediately looks for something to drink for his body; When it is cold, immediately find clothes to keep the body warm; If it’s hot, immediately find an air-conditioned place to cool down, and don’t forget to buy a cold drink; There are some flaws on your face, you can stand in front of the mirror for an hour or two to deal with them; When encountering something hot, the body will immediately make a reflex reaction of retraction; If you want to scratch something, you should immediately stretch your hand to scratch it…
Yoga asana practice is a very skillful way to attract your own attention with the help of the traction of body feeling on consciousness, so as to achieve the effect of sensory introversion meditation.
So, although asana practice is a basic part of yoga practice, But in fact, more yoga techniques can be incorporated to make it become a more advanced yoga practice – meditation in exercise! In the process of yoga practice, the energy absorbed through postures, breathing, meditation and other exercises needs to be collected, saved and transformed.
In order to complete this work, it is sometimes necessary to recover and seal the energy with the method of bandaging during or after yoga practice – this is also a feature of yoga fitness, which is not the concept of physical fitness.
For example, we can consciously cooperate with breathing to do some abdominal contractions during the exercise.
These abdominal contractions will involve the muscles near the perineum, causing them to contract, thus closing the sea wheel and preventing energy leakage..