What is more important - the Yoga teacher or the style of Yoga being taught?
We all know that yoga has become so popular over the last decade until everybody is talking about it! I even hear my hair dresser raving ho wgood my audio course is. He was raving it in front of other customers!
I was so shy that I did not know what to say.
See, today, almost everyone knows someone who says they are practicing Yoga. Many of these new yogis/yoginis are quite dedicated and go to class several times each week, but none of them truly understand what Yoga is let alone knowing teh danger that it could pose!
Let s take a look at what most teachers are teaching: You attend a class that lasts for 60-90 minutes long doing various Yoga poses/stretches/asanas or whatever you want to call them. They vary from gentle to intense. The intensity will vary from class to class, style to style and teacher to teacher. And so, the student will say they are practicing Yoga regularly every week.
I do not wish to belittle anyone s practice or imply that anyone is claiming to be or do something they are not. Yet, the fact remains that this is not Yoga. To claim that this type of activity represents learning Yoga is similar to someone learning the hand and finger exercises practiced by great pianists and thinking that they are learning to play and indeed, even are playing the piano.
This is not the fault of the student nor even the teacher sometimes as most of the teachers were taught wrongly by their own teachers! Imagine if most of the piano teachers only taught these exercises and called the practice - Piano Class. Why wouldn t the student feel he/she was learning to play the piano? The same goes for Yoga What are the most valuable gifts we can leave behind as a yoga Practitioner? We want to relieve our stress an dhelp others to do so too!
Music is a great way to prevent anxiety, loneliness, and sadness. Some of the better music for Yoga can also be played when you are commuting from one point to the next. Be careful that the knee is not designed to take pressure from the side.
Currently, there is some open debate as to whether a pregnant mother should be lying on her back during, and after, the second trimester. Compression on the inferior vena cava can slow the flow of blood to the uterus. Therefore, it would be prudent to use props in order to avoid conventional supine Yoga postures. Am I too cautious? If your body starts to shake, release the posture, relax for a moment and start to hold the Plank again but if the pain comes back, stop.
No comments:
Post a Comment