As I watched, "A Yoga Interview With Maggie" by coach Anita Stone, I learned the five wheels of yoga that she teaches her class. She interviewed a new yogi, Maggie, that came into her class. Maggie had just broken her collar bone a couple years back and she noticed that she didn't have as much range of motion in her weak shoulder, so she decided to start yoga. She went to Anita's class on the fourth month of her doing yoga, and discovered that she had not been keeping up with all five wheels of yoga. According to Anita, the five wheels of yoga are, "Cardio, diet and nutrition, enduranace training, flexibility, and strength" (2:28/6:31). Anita just explained that you couldn't skip or miss one of the wheels because all of yoga builds on top of each other, you have to have all five parts in order to succeed. She explained to Maggie that we don't just do yoga to live to be a 105, but so that while we're alive we can walk, breathe easy, and feel fit.
On most yoga articles I've read, it's been about how to reach a certain goal whether it was to get flexible, lose weight, or to just live healthier. This video though was about how you should do yoga so that you can enjoy life at the present, and that it's not just about the future. From seeing these two people on the video, they both looked in shape, and Maggie has only done yoga for four months. Anita though looked very comfortable in her skin, and that makes me want to know that I will one day be comfortable in old skin. This video also worries me because it seems like there are a lot of different views on yoga out there, and you don't really know which route you should follow. For example this video didn't mention anything about being spiritual or how it helps connect you to your soul like most articles do, so I'm thinking this is more of the aerobic side of yoga.
"Yoga Interview." 20 February 2008. Online Video Clip. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2265DQRwbzg
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Food for Our Spirituality
I had never even considered food to be known as a spiritual thing until I read the article, "Food for Our Spirituality". This article was about how much people nowadays are consuming too much food because we live in abundance. There is a spiritual side of yoga, and that involves what kind of food you eat. This article first mentions that "Specifically, the foods we put into our bodies are very connected to how spiritually grounded we are on any given day of the week" (Food for Our Spirituality). This article mentions that you can change your eating habits to fit you because there is not a certain specific meal plan you have to follow. It recommends you giving up or trying something completely new every week. It also pushes towards only eating one meal a day for one day of each week so that your body can cleanse and release toxins in your internal organs. This article also says that snacking into between meals is a no go because most of the time snacks are a want instead of a need. If you stop snacking when your not really hungry this will help your body learn discipline into what you need and what you want. This helps you control your life, and having that power can help you grow spiritually. If you try this no snacking in between meals plan, it is still okay to sometimes have a snack if that's what is going to keep you going through the day. The goal of trying or giving up something new once a week is to give yourself spiritual experiences by learning more about what yourself.
This article first got my attention when it was titled with the words, "food" and "spirituality", in the same sentence. I had never came to the conclusion that what you eat can help you in a spiritual way. I had known that eating too much food or gluttony was a sin, but I never connected it with yoga, and spiritual growth. I am the world's worst when it comes to snacking, and I guess it's not a bad thing, but I could definately go without some of my snacks. This article made perfect sense to me, it helped me realize that when your in control of your life, you have power. And by control in your life, I mean that you make decisions out of everything little or big. That power could be used to push yourself spiritually when your just letting your random thoughts and feelings control your health. I don't know if the "no go snacking plan" will work for me, but it is worth a try!
This article first got my attention when it was titled with the words, "food" and "spirituality", in the same sentence. I had never came to the conclusion that what you eat can help you in a spiritual way. I had known that eating too much food or gluttony was a sin, but I never connected it with yoga, and spiritual growth. I am the world's worst when it comes to snacking, and I guess it's not a bad thing, but I could definately go without some of my snacks. This article made perfect sense to me, it helped me realize that when your in control of your life, you have power. And by control in your life, I mean that you make decisions out of everything little or big. That power could be used to push yourself spiritually when your just letting your random thoughts and feelings control your health. I don't know if the "no go snacking plan" will work for me, but it is worth a try!
"Food for Our Spirituality". Health and Yoga. 2007. 1 April 2010.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Benefits of Yoga
There are several benefits of yoga for your body. It doesn't just work with the physical body but it also works with the nervous and circulatory systems. If you pratice yoga regulary your benefits will increase. You will notice flexibility, better endurance, deeper breathing, a deep improvement in your mood, and also a great improvement emotionally. Yoga was used by traditional healers so they could heal emotional disorders and illnesses. Scientist have proven that yoga has numerous abilites and can prevent diseases by promoting energy and health. That is why we see more professionals helping their patients by giving them yoga positions to pratice depending on their mental and physical symptoms. The pratice of Asanas, is positons of yoga that help stretch muscles and build up bones and tissue. It balances out the physical and metaphysical parts of the body, massages the organs and helps with the flow of vital energy. The pratice of Asanas help the physical body by promoting meditation, relaxation, awareness, and concentration. Also as people get older their bodies become stiff; this is because our bodies have a tendency to collect more poisons like calcium crystals and uric acid. These poisons are found in diseases and what causes our bodies to become stiff, but if you pratice yoga regulary you should be cleaning the tissue by stretching your muscles. This helps remove toxins in a more natural way since the waste is going back into the circulation.
When I read, "Benefits" of yoga, I realized that there was more to yoga than just escaping into your own world. I always saw people do yoga on television, and I just assumed that old women did it to get away from their busy life for a while. I also thought it could have been a spirtual thing, but now I know that people do yoga for all different reasons. Also the article said that "Hard work can silence the mind, but has no power to alter or transcend emotional and karmic patterns held in the unconscious mind" (Benefits). I think this means that if you're stressed a lot that yoga is a good idea, so you can learn how to release those bad feelings you have when you become in the zone. I now think that yoga is an overall good idea and that it would be a great thing to do when i graduate college so that i can stay in shape and it will keep me out of becoming an emotional wreck.
"Benefits." The Secrets Of Yoga. 26 March 2010.
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