Weight loss with Yoga?
By Ruben Alvarez
The benefits of yoga exercises for health improvement are widely known, and this is the main reason why so many westerners start to practice it. To begin with the basics, lots of people take up yoga out of the sheer desire to grow their spiritual side and get distracted from the very material grip of our reality. However, the preponderance of trainees who seek physical alleviation cannot be ignored; a fine example is the ability to sleep all night long. How can yoga exercises help to treat insomnia? The very essence of yoga is relaxation, if you come to develop mind control and relax, the ability to fall asleep becomes a skill.
Breath control, muscular relaxation, neck stretches and shoulder movements are specific to the basic yoga exercises recommended for proper night rest. The health benefits of yoga are widely advertised and they usually represent the main attraction and trigger that makes people take up yoga classes in the first place. Some think they'll get slimmer, others that they'll grow muscular mass, and there are even some people who expect to increase their sexual performance by the practice of yoga exercises.
Nevertheless, this kind of perception of yoga exercises is very far from the origins of this art of body and spirit harmonious growth. Yoga requires inner as well as outer training although the latter is fully reflected and influenced by the former Thus, according to the original meaning of yoga exercises, the trainee that gets to discover the rich beauty of the inside will be free and at peace. Yoga exercises therefore represent the path to something nobler than the immediate weight loss: spiritual liberation in its purest form.
Therefore, the yoga exercises we practice in most of the sessions make an inferior level of the real yoga art. This doesn't mean that all yoga practices follow this down-to-earth, immediately functional trend, but rather that it is more accessible for the common man to find a purpose and a meaning in this so-called art before getting to reach superior states of self-awareness. Therefore, the necessity of a good trainer as well as a clear objective in the practice of the yoga exercises allow people to stay on the right track and prevent disillusionment as well as accidents.
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