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Tai Chi, Yoga and Pilates, which do you like best?
Pilates originated in concentration camps. Pilates is a course to relieve the muscles of the whole body and improve the control ability of the human trunk. Its origin can be traced back to the concentration camp in the 19 14 war. Joseph Pilates, the founder of Pilates, was sickly since childhood. However, in his later work, he combined the eastern and western health-keeping methods, such as yoga, Tai Chi and traditional health-keeping methods in ancient Greece and Rome, and created Pilates with his own designed equipment and sports skills. 19 14 War broke out in Europe. Joseph Pilate, who lived in England at that time, was put in a concentration camp because he was German. In the concentration camp, he began to help those bedridden patients train and restore their muscle strength and control. Later, Joseph Pilates moved to new york to train with ballet dancers. This kind of training was further spread, and many celebrities came to practice, thus gradually forming Joseph Pilates' fitness studio. "The first requirement of happiness is health. Our understanding of physical health is to achieve and maintain the unity of body and sound mind, abundant natural exercise ability, and happily and calmly complete various tasks in daily life. " Joseph Pilates wrote the above passage in 1945, which also fully explained the true meaning of Pilates. Now, Pilates has evolved into a noun, referring to all courses that use Joseph Pilates to exercise. This course can be a group fitness course or a private training course set up by a coach to correct special injuries, muscle imbalance or other physical problems. Pilates group fitness classes are specially designed for people who work in offices. Because of working at a desk and computer for a long time, muscle development is unbalanced. This lesson mainly focuses on the muscle training of abdominal muscles, gluteal muscles, shoulders and back. Regular pilates exercises can correct body posture, relax waist and neck, solve shoulder problems and tighten loose muscles in arms and abdomen. Nowadays, many professional athletes also use Pilates to avoid sports injuries. What is Yoga The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, which means combination (close to China's "harmony between man and nature") or harmony. In other words, yoga refers to the state of harmony and unity of brain activity and body function through practice. Yoga also represents the combination of the individual and something above all else. It is a system that helps people to exert their greatest potential and reach the highest spiritual realm. As long as you are interested in this and practice this ancient technology, you can achieve it. These technologies can exercise all aspects of human beings; Whether it is physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual. Yoga is a broad discipline, which is divided into different systems for different people, and each system achieves the unity of human maximum potential in different ways. Different systems are mainly to adapt to different people. The following schools: hatha yoga helps you uncover the mysteries of the body and breathing. This is the most practical of all yoga systems. This is the most practical of all yoga systems. This is also the most famous system in the west, which includes a series of exercises, through body posture, breathing and relaxation techniques. In order to achieve the purpose of training. These techniques are of great benefit to the nervous system, various glands and internal organs, and their purpose is to promote rhythmic breathing and develop physical potential. It has also been pointed out that its purpose also includes allowing the body to accurately practice the imperial yoga specialized in exercising brain consciousness, although hatha yoga itself has the function of unifying body and mind and calming the brain. Raja yoga helps to uncover the mystery of the brain. This system achieves the purpose of controlling consciousness and calming brain thinking through some mental constraints. It is the highest realm in yoga, and the word Rajy in Sanskrit means "king" or "supreme power". Jnana yoga is a system to explore philosophy and gain insight (and finally gain self-knowledge). It requires you to study the scriptures you care about and meditate. Bhakti Yoga is a system that spreads love and dedication. In the norms of this system, there are also some religious ceremonies, ceremonies or praises. To express the professionalism of practitioners. Causal yoga is a selfless activity and work system. Truth yoga can achieve the purpose of practice by reading or repeating the voice of God in the brain. Practitioners of this kind of yoga believe that if certain syllables, words or phrases are repeated repeatedly, the state of consciousness of the brain will change. This behavior is called sound meditation. If it is sung rhythmically, it is called "Japa" yoga (laya or Kundalini Yoga) to awaken and enhance the potential spiritual strength of the body (Kundalini) and make it pass through several energy centers (wind wheels). It needs to be used in conjunction with hatha yoga techniques, mainly focusing on breathing delay and large-scale meditation practice. The most common practice method of tantric yoga is to control energy. Although sometimes only one person practices alone, it requires the practitioner to control sexual energy and achieve unity with divinity through the integration of men and women.