When practicing yoga, many Ghanaians said why others have made great progress in just a few months, while their progress is so slow? In fact, everyone’s body is different.
This difference is not only reflected in the flexibility and strength of the body, but also a key point of mind! So, how can we make progress safely and quickly? Here are five suggestions to make you more safe and challenge more yoga postures: 01.
Do enough warm-up exercises for peak postures and be sure to warm up! It is very easy to get injured to practice high-order postures without fully warming up! When the body needs to warm up fully between joints to secrete synovial fluid, the muscles will actively relax! 02.
It is very important to understand your body and observe your body’s feelings, that is, awareness, during yoga practice.
Because in yoga practice, at different stages, the body will present different states and limits, such as feeling shortness of breath, slowing down your rhythm, not blindly following the teacher’s command, doing the rhythm that suits you, no one knows your body better than you.
For example, if you sit on the computer all day and feel sore in the neck, you need to add some shoulder and neck relaxation exercises during the exercise.
If you have persistent shoulder and neck pain, you should consider whether it is caused by your posture or the lack of strength behind the neck after you relax! 03.
Reverse asana Sometimes you repeat the forward bending posture, and you will feel lumbar discomfort, which will affect the completion of the next posture.
At this time, you need to properly transition some backward bending or twisting posture to help the spine achieve balance.
Or if you really don’t understand asana and reverse asana, simply lie down and stretch your spine to balance your body.
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Many Ghanaians are very resistant to the use of assistive devices.
They think that the use of assistive devices is only for beginners.
In fact, the use of yoga assistive devices can help you enter the asana more safely and deeply! Even very senior Ga people need the help of assistive devices.
For example, when practicing shoulder stand, in order not to squeeze the cervical vertebra, you can put a yoga blanket under the shoulder to increase the space of the cervical vertebra.
If it is difficult to find balance when practicing the half-moon pose, you can hold the yoga block and stick your back to the wall.
These aids can help you enter the pose more safely and efficiently.
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Use breathing to deepen the depth of posture entry.
For example, when you practice sitting and bending forward and back extension, inhale to feel the full extension of the spine first, and then bend forward and down when you exhale.
Increase the extension of the spine one more time when you inhale, and then exhale, you will feel the range of forward bending gradually deepened.
When you breathe repeatedly and consciously, you will find that your body is not as stiff as you think! Yoga is a sport that can be practiced for a lifetime.
It is not as intense as other sports.
If you want to feel yoga, you will find that practicing yoga will make your mind mature and calm.
So take time to enjoy your yoga practice!.
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