Power Yoga offers excellent training to get back into shape, but also the well-being. Do you know this sport? I prefer to call it that and not sports, because obviously comes from the more classical Yoga and, as you all know, is one part of toning exercises and concentration, meditation to regain balance of mind and consequently the physical. Power Yoga was born from the West to enhance the physical appearance and thus more muscle tone. It's harder Pilates also share common ground.
The benefits of Power Yoga
This discipline, as we anticipated, it helps to tone the muscles but not only. Improves coordination, posture and balance, of course. Muscles and balance are, in fact, two sides of same coin. In addition, reactivates the blood circulation, so if you have water retention problems, that's great, and also enhances the rdiaphragmatic breath. In some ways reminiscent 'Pilates, despite the aerobic part is more developed. This allows a much higher calorie consumption.
Power Yoga
Not everyone knows how it is structured the lesson of Power Yoga. In principle, the workout takes about an hour and alternate static position (typical of yoga) to more dynamic movements and strengthening. So much so that in the very name we already understand the core of the discipline because that is their power to indicate the power. The lesson is based on three phases: heating, floor exercises (With positions even upside down) and relax.
The exercises
Many of the exercises, to those who already practice yoga, are already well known, like the famous greeting to the sun, which should be repeated every morning. In general, the positions are not very easy to take, are highly choreographed. Many recall the exercises Stretching and provide, in fact, stretched, then there are other movements very similar to those of modern dance, and finally those of respiration. Through the diaphragm improves posture, but also will strengthen your abs.
Philosophy
Power Yoga is based on nine key points: warm up your muscles before you stretch it, stretching and warming is not the same, strength and breath, not gravity, develops flexibility, sports do not keep us in shape, there are the lost, each sports injury derives from a structural imbalance and muscular imbalance and structural irregularities do not create muscle alone, even the iron bends when heated; stop a workout does not cause an imbalance, take time when you start.
Yoga
Introduction
Imagine an activity that increases your flexibility, strengthens your muscles, centers your thoughts, and relaxes and calms you. Yoga does all that and more! In this article, I will review a brief history and the philosophy of yoga, the different types of yoga, the benefits, equipment you need to do it, where to do it, how to get started, and a whole lot more.
What is yoga?
Yoga is an ancient physical and spiritual discipline and branch of philosophy that originated in India reportedly more than 5,000 years ago. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit word yuj, which means to yoke, join, or unite. The Iyengar school of yoga defines yuj as the "joining or integrating of all aspects of the individual—body with mind and mind with soul—to achieve a happy, balanced and useful life." The ultimate aim of yoga, they claim, is to reach kaivalya (emancipation or ultimate freedom).
Who invented yoga?
There is no written record of who invented yoga because it was practiced by yogis (yoga practitioners) long before humans knew how to write. Yogis over the millennia passed down the discipline to their students, and many different schools of yoga developed as it spread. The earliest written record of yoga, and one of the oldest texts in existence, is generally believed to be written by Patanjali, an Indian yogic sage who lived somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 years ago. Patanjali is credited with writing the Yoga Sutras (sutra means "thread" in Sanskrit), which are the principles, philosophy, and practices of yoga that are still followed today. Although many schools of yoga have evolved over the centuries, they all follow the fundamental principles described by Patanjali more than 2,000 years ago. Buddhism and other Eastern spiritual traditions use many of the yoga techniques or derivations of those techniques.
Yoga has positive effects on anxiety and depression
Recently a new study declares that Yoga is superior to all other forms of exercises to remove anxiety and depression.
A team of researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has conducted a study in which they compared the brain gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) levels of participants doing yoga and those who loves walking.
Anxiety and other mood disorders lead to lower levels of GABA.
In the study they have divided the participants in to two groups, one group practicing yoga three times a week for one hour and the other group spent time while walking for the same period of time.
During research it was found the group who follow yoga show significant reductions in their anxiety levels and greater improvements in mood as compared to the other group who preferred to walk.
Lead author Chris Streeter said that over the time practicing yoga will improve the GABA levels and in many cases following yoga can even improve various mental disorders to some extent.
The research is published online at Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
