According to Indian folklore, thousands of years ago, on the 8000-meter-high Mount Notre Dame in ancient India, some people became saints and others became practitioners. They passed on the secret of cultivation to later pursuers, and this secret of cultivation was the earliest yoga. At the beginning, there were few yoga practitioners, and they usually practiced in temples, country cottages, Himalayan caves and dense forests. Yoga is taught by yoga masters to those who are willing to accept it. With more and more learners, yoga has gradually spread among ordinary people in India.
Today's yoga, after thousands of years of constant baptism and tempering, is a practice method of human science that is constantly improved and summarized from practice. Now, yoga no longer belongs to a few reclusive practitioners, not only to India, but also to Asia. Actually, yoga belongs to the whole world. Yoga is an extremely precious ancient cultural heritage shared by all mankind!
Why does yoga have such magical charm that it can last for thousands of years and continue to develop today?
The word yoga comes from the transliteration of Sanskrit yoga, which means combination and connection. The original meaning of the word yoga is to control cattle and horses, and the meaning of yoga is extended to connection, control, stability, harmony, unity and balance. Yoga in a broad sense is a philosophy, while yoga in a narrow sense is a combination of spirit and flesh. Yoga is not a religion. The way of yoga is to open your full potential through the cultural system of body and mind. Yoga posture is not an end in itself, but a preparation for entering a higher form of meditation yoga. In the Yoga Sutra of ancient India, it is defined as "the control of mental function", and yoga is an ancient, fashionable, mysterious and scientific shortcut to physical and mental cultivation.
The practice method of yoga can concentrate the scattered spirit and calm it down. Yoga practice pays attention to physical strength first, and then requires the integration of body and mind, on this basis, it guides practitioners to enter a perfect realm. In the process of yoga practice, practitioners gradually deepen the inner spirit, from the outside to the inside, from feeling, rationality to consciousness, and finally grasp the integration of self and inner spirit to achieve the unity of heaven and man. Yoga practice is from the outside to the inside, but the result is from the inside out. In the process of yoga practice, practitioners are constantly led into the happy home of the soul. When yoga practitioners enter the deepest realm in deep meditation, they will awaken the self-nature of life and the perfect realm of life, thus obtaining the combination of individual consciousness and universal consciousness, awakening the inner sleeping energy, and obtaining the highest enlightenment and the greatest pleasure.
Yoga opposes imposing on others. It advocates that untested things cannot be trusted, including yoga itself. To learn yoga, we must understand its true meaning through our own experience. Yoga has its own set of extremely complete practice methods from body to mind. Today's yoga is not only a philosophical category, but also has a broader meaning, enduring and powerful vitality.
In recent years, yoga, as an ancient fitness technique, has been popular all over the world, and its unique soothing and beautiful practice method and remarkable effect on human physical and mental health have deeply attracted a large number of followers. Yoga is the most popular fitness method in Hollywood at present. Madonna spends two hours doing yoga every day. Foreign movie stars such as meg ryan, julia roberts, elizabeth hurley, barbra streisand, michelle pfeiffer, gwyneth paltrow, Jamie Lee Curtis and even former NBA superstar Michael Jordan are all famous yoga lovers. Meanwhile, the NBA
According to the statistics of American Yoga Journal, there are more than 6 million people studying yoga in the United States, and 65.438+0.7 million people are interested in yoga. In many countries and regions, there are many yoga classrooms in prosperous cities, and even yoga colleges in many places study yoga as a subject. Besides Harry Potter, there are all kinds of books introducing yoga on the best-selling shelves of Barnes & Noble Bookstore in new york. The authors range from Indian masters with dark skin and white beard to physical fitness coaches or female writers with blond hair and blue eyes. Self magazine sorted out seven popular sports in the United States in 2000, and yoga was impressively listed.
At present, the yoga craze is getting higher and higher in China, and practicing yoga is very popular in large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Many famous female stars and international models from mainland China, Hongkong and Taiwan Province are loyal practitioners of yoga. Famous beauties such as, Crystal, Soni,1actress born in 1969,,, Tang Yingying,,,,,, Huang Peixia, etc. have benefited a lot from practicing yoga for a long time, kept their charming figure and gained physical and mental health and pleasure.
So what specific benefits will practicing yoga bring to the human body?
Yoga is a physical and mental natural practice system, which can improve the health of brain, spine, glands and internal organs, massage internal organs in different parts, and thus increase the vitality of life. Yoga is unparalleled in self-improvement and potential development. Facts have proved that yoga is helpful to people of any age:
Women practice yoga: in the combination of static and dynamic, shape physical beauty, relieve stress, relax whole body muscles, improve body coordination and control, and mediate endocrine.
Men practice yoga: help men eliminate stress and fatigue, restore energy, regulate cervical and spinal problems, regulate blood lipids, and enhance kidney function and energy.
Children practicing yoga: promoting the growth and development of children's bones, helping to adjust the correct sitting and standing posture, cultivating children's concentration ability, stretching children's body and giving soft internal organs a helping function, and improving children's learning ability.
Practicing yoga in middle-aged and elderly people can help the bones and muscles of the elderly to recover their mobility, elasticity and vitality, and restore the youthful functions of internal organs and glands, thus beautifying and resisting aging and assisting in the treatment of some senile diseases.
Scientific research shows that yoga is a good anti-pressure exercise. After comprehensive statistics by an authoritative organization, ten functions of practicing yoga are listed: maintaining and promoting the normal function of the system; Enhance the function of endocrine system; Massage and strengthen all parts of human organs to balance their functions; Promote blood circulation and metabolism; Yoga breathing can improve mental function and prolong vitality; Adjust the spine to enhance flexibility; Lose weight and maintain skin; Enhance psychological and spiritual energy, make the mood calm; Eliminate toxins from the body; Slow down and eliminate various chronic diseases. ...