1. How about self-taught Yoga
Yoga is self-taught.
If you want to be more simple and convenient, you can practice it at any time. You can choose to teach yoga at home. Of course, it requires some patience and perseverance. There will be a lot of video teaching on the Internet. You can choose some well-known or reliable videos, and take some time every day to learn and practice bit by bit with the videos.
2. What are the benefits of Yoga
2.1. Prevention of obesity
Yoga stimulates our glands, adjusts our endocrine, increases our heat production capacity, helps us to better control our appetite and prevent our body from getting fat by squeezing in various forward bending, backward leaning and left and right twisting postures.
2.2. Beauty
Yoga reduces facial wrinkles and produces a natural “skin pulling” effect. Yoga handstand posture can often restore the original color of gray hair and delay the phenomenon of gray hair. This is because handstand increases the amount of blood flowing to the hair follicles in the scalp. This posture increases the elasticity of the muscles, removes the pressure of the blood vessels and nerves in the muscles, and allows more blood to flow to the scalp muscles. In other words, hair follicles get more nutrition and produce more healthy hair.
2.3 release pressure
Regular yoga practice can make the body, mind and spirit more calm, promote the function of the immune system, and discharge the toxins in the body caused by stress. Many students believe that yoga is a perfect cure after a hard day’s work. Yoga can eliminate fatigue and calm the mind. Make people keep a comfortable and quiet state and fully enjoy life.
2.4. Detoxification
In the process of practicing yoga, I often sweat. At this time, sweat will expel toxins from the body. It can also stimulate the organs with detoxification effect in the body by twisting the body, pulling the spirit, massaging and other methods, so regular yoga practice can help expel toxins from the body.
3. Precautions for practicing yoga
3.1. Don’t do yoga on an empty stomach
Doing yoga after meals will hinder the progress of yoga practice. In order to allow the body to bend to the specified yoga posture, it is best to do it on an empty stomach.
It’s best to finish eating one hour before yoga, but if you have time to eat one hour before but are hungry, you can eat a banana 20 minutes before yoga, which can resist hunger without indigestion.
3.2. Arrive at yoga classroom early
When you go to the Yoga classroom, try to go early. After all, the early bird catches the worm. Go ten minutes early, and you can use ten minutes to ask the teacher about the problems in yoga.
Arriving early can also give you sufficient time to familiarize yourself with the environment and chat with the yoga teacher, so that the teacher can understand your situation better.
3.3. Find a suitable Yoga type
There are many kinds of yoga, and not every kind of yoga is suitable for you. Each yoga studio provides certain free experience courses. You can experience it before making a decision.
3.4. Don’t pursue the extreme
You may have seen that some people can twist themselves like fried dough twist when they practice yoga. But this is only what yogis do, although it works best. But I don’t recommend you to practice like this.
Even if you are born stiff, your body will become flexible through practice. In addition, you should know that yoga is not only about posing, but also about adjusting your breathing and relaxing your mood.
What do you need to prepare for Yoga
1. Yoga clothes
Yoga movements are mostly stretching movements. When shopping for yoga clothes, you should give priority to loose ones, which will not affect the stretching of movements. In addition, it should be noted that yoga clothes with good moisture absorption and perspiration effect should be selected.
2. Yoga Mat
The use of yoga mat can prevent knee, hand and foot injuries. Before practicing yoga, you should buy a good Yoga Mat first. When shopping, pay attention to testing its elasticity and pressure resistance, and carefully check whether there are cracks, dirt, discoloration, etc. If there are quality problems, it is better not to buy.
3. Yoga rope
Yoga rope, also known as yoga stretching belt, can help beginners complete some difficult movements. When shopping, you need to test its elasticity and try to choose the one with good elasticity.
4. Yoga ball
Yoga balls are mostly made of PVC, which can be used normally as long as they are filled with air. In the process of practicing yoga, we often use yoga balls, so we need to buy them. When buying, if you are male, you should choose the larger one; if you are female, you should choose the smaller one, because it is in line with your body shape.
5. Clean towel
If you don’t have clean towels at home, you should buy them again, because towels are one of the necessary supplies, which can be used to dry and keep your body clean, which is good for yoga practitioners who often sweat.
Who is not suitable for Yoga
1. A serious illness has just healed
It is more appropriate for people in good health to practice yoga. If they are in poor health and have just got sick, it is better not to practice yoga, because stretching may cause accidental injury to the weak.
2. Blood clotting disease
Positioning and limb stretching are often encountered when practicing yoga. If you have blood coagulation disease, you’d better not practice them, because these actions may lead to aggravation of blood coagulation and risk of cardiovascular disease.
3. Osteoporosis
People with osteoporosis are not suitable for yoga, because during practice, some difficult movements need elbow support, and at this time, fractures are easy to occur.
4. Spondylolisthesis
People with spondylolisthesis are not suitable for practicing Sun Salutation, because when practicing, they need to bend their waist downward. If their spine slips, it is very dangerous. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary injuries, it is better not to practice yoga.
5. Intraocular hypertension
People with high intraocular pressure are not suitable for practicing handstand, because handstand will increase intraocular pressure and cause certain harm to health, so it is not suitable for practicing.
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