At first, I was curious about the word namaste, and asked the teacher who told me it meant thank you, so I thought, why not thank you?
So I searched online, and the online explanation was this: Namaste [na-ma-ste] is composed of several Indian sounds: "Nama" stands for bow, "as" stands for me, and "te" stands for you. So Namaste means "you and I bow to each other" or "I bow to you", which can be understood as hello, welcome and greetings in Chinese.
When Indians say thank you, they put their hands together, look at each other, bow to welcome each other, and say to themselves, "The most precious Buddha in my heart pays tribute to the supreme Buddha in your heart." At this time, the two sides wholeheartedly respected each other and respected each other. Now it is a family, and now it is a family. There is no opposition and division.
Namaste stands for the exchange of souls. Through namaste, the philosophy of yoga says that everyone's heart chakra center (Anahata heart chakra) has a sacred source of strength. Through the gesture of namaste, the relationship and trust between people can communicate with each other through this spiritual center.
Namaste's gesture is to put his hand on the position of the heart chakra (the position of the heart), close his eyes and nod his head. You can also put your hands together on the eyebrow chakra (Ajna brow chakra), nod your head, and then bring your hands to the position of the heart chakra. Nodding and closing your eyes can bring your mind closer to the inside. Through this gesture, it can help to strengthen the deeper strength part of the heart chakra center (control relationship, love, enthusiasm and emotion).
At the end of yoga class, teachers and students cross their hands and say Namaste to each other. Namaste is respect and gratitude. In other words, appreciation and gratitude. Appreciation and gratitude are the best attitudes towards life.
Unconsciously, I have been practicing yoga with such gratitude for almost a year. From the initial breathing disorder, tired writhing, painful stretching, grinding flat support, to the thrilling shoulder handstand, head-down pose, from a sub-health state in Yoga idiot, where I didn't do manual labor from the beginning, but felt tired and weak all day, I gradually transitioned to a yoga enthusiast who perspires and detoxifies on time every week. Every time I finished practicing, I was extremely relaxed and free. Yoga has its own magic! I totally fell at its feet! Pay tribute to my dear yoga.
The most attractive thing about yoga is that whenever I have an hour of my own, I close my eyes and don't think about the time outside, what magic I will give my daughter and what stories I will tell tonight. Do you want to mop the floor when you go home at night? Don't think about whether my daughter and father should work overtime at night. When will they go home? Don't think about tomorrow's work
Relax, clear your mind, give yourself an hour, face yourself, practice yoga and learn to adjust your breathing and posture. Find a moment that makes you comfortable and immerse yourself in it.
Life in big cities is hectic every day. Everyone is rushing for work and family, and there is not enough space and time for us to relax our tense nerves.
Every morning, I rush to work, and in the afternoon, I rush home. Go home, eat, do housework, accompany my daughter, take a shower and sleep. There is no time for me to be alone, calm down and talk to myself.
So my heart is very agitated and not calm enough. And yoga is one of the ways to slow you down passively. Our beauty yoga teacher always emphasizes to us that every pose of yoga needs to be done slowly, and so does breathing. Breathe in slowly, breathe out slowly, feel breathing, realize your body, open your body, open your heart, connect with yourself slowly and calm down slowly.
So I really enjoy taking my time. Breathing is no longer short, movements are no longer short, and the body slowly opens with your own breathing.
Calm down and start practicing yoga.
Besides my favorite resting posture, my three favorite postures in yoga practice are baby posture, dog posture and pear posture.
Baby posture is one of hatha yoga postures. When practicing, focus on breathing and realize that the tension in your back and hips is gradually disappearing. Doing this posture with abdominal breathing can help stretch, stretch and relax the muscles of the lower back.
Baby style relaxes the spine and back muscles by stretching the back. Viscera is gently massaged, which also improves the operating efficiency of viscera and digestive system, effectively relieves constipation and strengthens reproductive system.
You can calm your restless heart. This action will really calm your mood, and you will feel down-to-earth and relaxed, as if you are back in your mother's arms.
Dog pose is one of hatha yoga poses, and it is a common yoga pose. Dog pose is a relatively simple yoga pose, which is very suitable for beginners like me to practice. However, it is not suitable to practice this posture when you visit relatives during your period, so please spend your own time with your mother.
The downward dog posture can start from lying on the ground. Put your hands on both sides of your chest and your thumb on your nipple. Hands are slightly wider than shoulders.
Because this movement is practiced head-down, after a period of time, more blood can be sent to the head, which can eliminate fatigue, enhance the vitality of brain cells and make us more energetic.
Down dog posture can beautify the shoulders, lengthen the spine, make the back straight, and help shape a beautiful figure; It can also strengthen calf muscles, relieve ankle stiffness, keep practicing and have the effect of stovepipe, so that we can have a pair of beautiful and tight calves.
This pose can eliminate leg fatigue and effectively open shoulders, which is very suitable for friends with backache and backache to practice, and can also play a certain role in the recovery of scapulohumeral periarthritis.
It is very suitable for sub-health people who work in an office like me, sit at a desk for a long time in front of the computer every day, and have pain in their hands, neck and shoulders all day. Moreover, blood flowing back to the head can nourish the face and make you look beautiful and energetic. The most important reason why I like this posture is that it can thin legs and shape my short and thick calves, making them tighter and slimmer.
Pear style is one of the common yoga styles in hatha yoga, which belongs to prone style. At the same time, this posture is good for people with high blood pressure tendency. If you practice plowing first, and then practice the first handstand, you won't feel blood running and hair swelling. Therefore, this pose is not suitable for me to practice when I come to visit my relatives during my period. Personally, I think pear shape is a little simpler than shoulder handstand. Maybe I'm more suitable for this posture, and I'm comfortable doing it, so I like it very much.
The pear-shaped effect is as follows:
Calm the brain and stimulate abdominal organs and thyroid (√)
Stretch shoulders and spine (√)
Every time you practice this movement, you will feel super relaxed and comfortable by massaging your knees back and forth.
It is helpful to relieve menopausal syndrome (it will be ten years before I know whether it is useful)
Relieve stress and fatigue (√)
Can be used for adjuvant treatment of backache, headache, alopecia and insomnia (√).
After practicing this pose, it can really relieve back pain and headache. Frequent backache may be related to incorrect sitting posture. This year's physical examination report also shows that I have scoliosis, so I should practice this pose more in the future.
The effect of plowing is the same as that of shoulder handstand. In addition, the abdominal organs recover their vitality due to contraction, and the spinal flexion gets more blood supply, which helps to relieve headaches. Hand spasm can be cured by stretching the palm and fingers after the fingers are locked. People with stiff shoulders and elbows, low back pain and back arthritis can be relieved by this posture. Stomach pain caused by cold can also be relieved by practicing this yoga posture, and you will feel relaxed immediately.
After talking about your favorite posture, of course, talk about your least favorite posture. When you first started practicing yoga,
I'm afraid of all the lacing postures. It hurts too much!
But I silently practice the limit I can reach.
Compared with the first exercise, my biggest progress is definitely stretching pose, awesome!
Yoga is really a very good exercise. Once you practice, you can't extricate yourself. Even the lacing posture I was most afraid of at first, I can control it slowly. Although there is still a lot of room for improvement, I like to take my time and take my time. It is particularly pleasant to practice slowly at your own frequency, discover and stretch your potential.
Teachers often say that the original parts, characteristics and physique of each body are different, so everyone has different difficulties when practicing. The most correct way to open yoga is to follow the body and find the most comfortable practice method and posture.
Let's practice together!