Yoga part 2

I talked about Yoga in our previous staff blog.

While doing Yoga, steady your breath by breathing easily and deeply.

Stretch your body and make it relax, as like you are a jelly fish.

 

Stay in a pose to develop the inner muscle

and increase muscle strength.

 

Yoga is effective for

 

improving your postures,

keeping yourself in shape,

enhancing your beauty,

reducing shoulder and neck stiffness,

maintaining your physical health,

keeping your mind healthy

and everything between.

 

I would like to introduce the video, “MARA'S LESSON2”　(vanaphofficial)

which shows you how to do an easy and relaxing Yoga that you can do at home.

 

Do you know the origin of Yoga?

The beginning of Yoga was in the Indus valley civilization in India,

about 4,000 - 5,000 years ago.

 

Do you know how many poses are there in Yoga?

There are 84 million poses!

This fact is written in *“Gheranda Samhita” (the Yoga primal scripts)

and it says that is because there are 84 million of creatures living in this world.

 

There are many different styles of Yoga. I would like to introduce the major ones.

 

Hata,

Slow movement

Beginner level

 

Ashtanga

Poses at a moderately fast pace

 

Vinyasa, Flow

The most well known one

Not as fast as Ashtanga

Recommendable for the people who want to strengthen their muscles.

 

Power

Similar to Vinyasa and Flow

Usually the room temperature of the Yoga space is kept as warm as 35 degrees Celsius.

 

Yin Yoga

There are almost no standing poses in this type Yoga.

Stays in one pose for more than 5 minutes.

 

Restorative

Bolster, block, blankets and everything othre prop in between are used in this type of Yoga.

 

Kundalini Yoga

It is physical, mental, and spiritual one.

Meditation is an important element of every types of Yoga,

but this style has the strongest of it.

 

As I mentioned earlier, there are so many more types of Yoga than listed above.

You will find the one which will suit you.

 

Summer time is time for us to be active.

Let's maintain our health by doing Yoga.

 

 

T.F

 

 

*“Gheranda Samhita (Sanskrit gheraṇḍasaṁhitā घेरंडसंहिता ) meaning “Gheranda's collection” is one of the three classic texts of hatha yoga (the other two being the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the Shiva Samhita). It is a late 17th-century text and is considered to be the most encyclopedic of the three classic texts on hatha yoga.

Gheranda Samhita is a manual of yoga taught by Gheranda to Chanda Kapali. Unlike other hatha yoga texts, the Gheranda Samhita speaks of a sevenfold yoga:

1. Shatkarma for purification

2. Asana for strengthening

3. Mudra for steadying

4. Pratyahara for calming

5. Pranayama for lightness

6. Dhyana for perception

7. Samādhi for isolation”

・Gheranda Samhita. Last modified on April 9, 2015, at 2:29. In Wikipedia.

Retrieved March 9, 2016.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheranda_Samhita