What is yoga? What kinds of yoga are there?
Yoga is a very ancient energy knowledge cultivation method, which integrates philosophy, science and art. Yoga is based on ancient Indian philosophy. For thousands of years, psychology, body and spirit have become an important part of Indian culture. Yoga is a system that helps human beings to give full play to their potential by raising their consciousness. Yoga posture uses ancient and easy-to-master skills to improve people's physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual abilities, which is an exercise method to achieve harmony and unity of body, mind and spirit. After thousands of years of development and evolution, yoga has spawned many factions. Orthodox Indian classical yoga includes six systems: wisdom yoga, professional yoga, hatha yoga, Raja yoga and Kundalini yoga. The theories of different yoga factions vary greatly. Wisdom yoga advocates the cultivation of knowledge concepts; Yoga advocates inner practice and guides more perfect behavior; Belief in yoga is the synthesis and derivation of the former; Hatha yoga includes mental system and physical system; Raja yoga is inclined to mind and pranayama; Kundalini yoga. Yoga with different system theories is a tool for practitioners to reach the spiritual world. Wisdom yoga advocates the cultivation of knowledge concepts, liberating from ignorance and reaching sacred knowledge in order to look forward to being one with Brahma. Wisdom yoga believes that knowledge can be divided into lower and higher levels. The so-called knowledge of ordinary people is limited to the external manifestations of life and matter. This kind of low-level knowledge can be obtained directly or indirectly. The knowledge sought by wisdom yoga requires yogis to turn inward in an instant and experience and understand Brahma, the god of creation, through the essence of all external things. By reading the ancient classics that are regarded as apocalypse, we can understand the real hidden meaning in the book and get the sacred truth. Yoga practitioners rely on yoga practice to enhance their vitality, open the Brahma chakra above their heads, let Brahma enter the body and gain supreme wisdom. Yoga means behavior. Yoga believes that behavior is the first expression of life, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, manners and so on. Yoga advocates paying attention to the inner world and guiding more perfect behavior through inner spiritual activities. Yoga teachers usually take an extremely restrained attitude towards asceticism, and insist on asceticism through doing good deeds, respecting God and self-discipline. They think that people's best friend and worst enemy are themselves, which are determined by their own behavior. Only complete dedication and conversion can make people's spirit, sentiment and behavior reach the ultimate state of unity with Brahma. Hatha Yoga In the word hata, ha means the sun, and he means the moon. He represents the balance between men and women, day and night, yin and yang, cold and heat, rigidity and softness, and any other two complementary opposites. Hatha yoga believes that the human body includes two systems, one is the mental system; One is the body system. People's ordinary ideological activities are mostly disorderly and chaotic, which is a waste of ability, such as fatigue, excitement, sadness and excitement. Only a small part of the human body is used to support life. Under normal circumstances, if this imbalance is not too serious, it can be restored naturally through rest, but if self-discipline and regulation are not active, this imbalance will become more and more serious, leading to mental and physical diseases. Posture method can break the original riots, eliminate the unstable factors of the body and stop the vicious circle of exercise; Through pranayama to clear the stagnation of the nervous system in the body, and through the huge control of the energy in the body and use it. Raja yoga If hatha yoga is the key to yoga, then raja yoga is the only way to the spiritual world. Hatha yoga focuses on posture and gas control, while Raja yoga prefers thinking and pranayama. Lotus is generally used to wait for some postures to meditate, and most strict postures are given up. Raja Yoga actively advocates eight branches of yoga, namely, forbidding, respecting walking, sitting, pranayama, self-awareness, meditation and samadhi. There are many methods of yoga meditation, but most of them use lotus sitting. When practicing meditation, you can feel the movement of the entity through your mind, control the circulation of the qi pulse in your body, and produce different magical powers. A little gaze is a meditation practice that yogis often like. Usually in a quiet place, or at the seaside of mountains and lakes, focus on a fixed entity, such as Krishna or candles, leaves, wild flowers or waterfalls, running water, etc. Let your spirit be completely immersed in infinite silence. Kundalini Yoga is also called raja yoga the Snake. Kundalini proved that there are 72,000 chakras, seven Brahma chakras, a main channel and a dormant snake. By opening the qi pulse, the qi of life can awaken the snake and make it pass through all Brahma chakras and reach the outside. Once the Kundalini snake rushes out of the Brahma chakra above its head, it can obtain the supreme Samadhi. At present, there are quite few people practicing Kundalini yoga, because Kundalini has high requirements for people, and those who have practiced yoga for decades have not gained any magical power or samadhi realm. Kundalini yoga is a difficult method to practice in yoga, and only perseverance can gain strength. Other types of high-temperature yoga postures such as bending, stretching, twisting, pushing and squeezing can promote the self-cleaning of visceral glands, ensure normal excretion function and make lymphatic circulation smooth. The constant temperature in Bikram Yoga is 38-42 degrees Celsius. High temperature accelerates the metabolism of the human body and makes the process of detoxification in vitro through yoga practice smoother. Spectrum bikram Yoga Room also has a far infrared emission system. According to life scientists, the human body is a source of far-infrared radiation. When the frequency of 465,438+0.6 micron far infrared ray is consistent with the movement frequency of cell body molecules and water molecules between atoms in the body, energy will be absorbed by organisms. After absorption, the temperature in the deep subcutaneous tissue of the body will rise, and the thermal effect will activate water molecules in a high-energy state, increase the activity of life substances such as enzymes, amino acids and nucleic acids in cells, and make cells in all parts of the skin actively exchange materials and renew themselves, and finally discharge a large number of toxins hidden in the deep layer, such as sodium, alcohol, nicotine, cholesterol, carcinogenic heavy metals, zinc, nickel and cosmetic residues. Then a lot of sweat is secreted by sweat glands and transported to the outside. This process can promote the metabolism of melanin particles and phagocytosis of white blood cells, enhance the regeneration ability and water retention ability of cells, which is not only beneficial to the body, but also inhibits the formation of melanosomes, and has the effect of removing spots and beautifying the skin. In this way, yoga practice, high temperature and far infrared have achieved remarkable results, and at the same time, it has also verified the detoxification effect of sweating and defecation in traditional Chinese medicine. Four Seasons Health Yoga Four Seasons Health Yoga is based on the alternation of four seasons and the cycle of four seasons, corresponding to the 24 solar terms, adjusting the dynamic balance of the human body through different yoga postures, and perfectly combining yoga practice with TCM health care, so as to better adapt to China people's physique and meet people's health care needs. This method selects 768 yoga poses, dozens of pranayama methods, various cleaning methods and a whole set of yoga theoretical knowledge. Explain meditation and samadhi in yoga accurately and carefully. The secret inheritance guided by Tantra yoga for thousands of years focuses on the development of life energy and the practice beyond the mortal realm. Tantra yoga is characterized by complex mandala mode, detailed religious ceremonies, undisclosed contents, the practice of using sexual energy to extract life energy, the practice of changing materials, the practice of using corpses, the practice of solar energy and so on. BikramYoga emphasizes practicing posture in a classroom with a temperature as high as 40 degrees Celsius, and sweating a lot is also fun. Occasionally, people have symptoms such as vomiting and collapse because of poor health. Because BikramYoga has patent problems, some high-temperature yoga exercises are called HotYoga to avoid it. Different names have the same content, but operators will use better temperature and humidity control equipment to distinguish them. Ashtanga Yoga is a yoga sect founded by SriK. PattabhiJois, and Master Pattabhi is a disciple of Master Iyengar. Astonga is characterized by strong and continuous posture exercises, emphasizing the coordination of movements and breathing, and adopting Ujayi breathing method. AshtangaYoga arranges several groups of continuous posture sequences according to the difficulty level, and each group takes one to two hours or even longer to complete completely, which contains many difficult movements. AshatangaYoga will make practitioners have strong confidence in their bodies. Double Yoga In the burgeoning yoga craze, double yoga has gradually attracted people's attention. Compared with individual practice, double yoga pays more attention to sharing, communication and mutual assistance, which increases the interest of yoga and improves the spirit of love, friendship, trust and cooperation among practitioners. As the name implies, two people can be husband and wife, parents, friends and lovers. Even colleagues who want to improve their work cooperation or business partners who want to increase cooperation opportunities. However, due to a lot of physical contact, it is obvious that action selection and curriculum design should be suitable for everyone. Yoga for pregnant women practicing yoga for pregnant women can enhance physical strength and muscle tension, enhance the sense of balance of the body, and improve the flexibility and flexibility of the whole muscle tissue. In the first stage of pregnancy, pregnant women often can't insist on any strenuous physical exercise and finally give up. It is recommended that pregnant women start exercising from the fourth month of pregnancy. For an active and healthy future mother who has no history of abortion, as long as she feels ready, she can start some moderate exercise to strengthen her physical strength and improve the flexibility and tension of her muscles. Throughout pregnancy, pregnant women can practice different yoga postures, but it must be based on personal needs and comfort. Yoga practice varies from person to person and must be coordinated with people's physical condition. If you feel uncomfortable during practice. You can change to a more suitable practice posture. Pregnant women practicing yoga can enhance physical strength and muscle tension, enhance the sense of balance of the body, and improve the flexibility and flexibility of the whole muscle tissue. At the same time, it stimulates the glands that control hormone secretion, increases blood circulation, accelerates blood circulation, and can also control breathing well. Yoga can also massage the internal organs. In addition, practicing yoga in the abdomen helps to reshape the body after delivery. However, it should be noted that yoga is not the only way to make pregnancy and childbirth safer and smoother. Yoga only helps pregnant women to exercise properly throughout pregnancy. It takes a lot of physical strength to give birth, so it is normal for most pregnant women to feel scared and uneasy before giving birth. Practicing yoga can make this process easy and help pregnant women keep a peaceful mind before giving birth. Parent-child yoga (mother-child yoga) Mother-child yoga is a yoga posture exercise for parents and children, and it is a characteristic course in modern yoga. This is a set of yoga methods, which aims to increase the affection between mother and child and develop the intellectual potential of babies.