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Traditional Schools of Yoga?

Yoga is divided into many factions, each faction has its own style, below I take you to understand, I hope to help you!

1, Hatha Yoga

In the word Hatha, Ha represents the sun and he represents the moon, embodying the balance of all the two opposites of the universe, male and female, day and night, yin and yang, cold and hot.

2. Karma Yoga

Karma Yoga is a behavioral yoga, practiced by people who are outgoing and active. He does not have a specific practice, does not require people to do some specific postures, movements or breathing methods, is the whole life, the whole life, the whole process of human activity.

3, Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti Yoga is faith, love, sincerity, you have to with a grateful heart, through song, through dance, through wearing ornaments, through *** method, countless times to call the heart of the gods, your divinity is spirituality, believe in him, he will bring you happiness, joy and well-being.

4, Wisdom Yoga

In Sanskrit, there is the meaning of knowledge, wisdom, but this knowledge is not what we call general knowledge, is the discovery of the highest wisdom of the universe, refers to the knowledge that can bring us the ultimate enlightenment and ultimate liberation of life, that is, enlightenment.

5. King Yoga

The founder of King Yoga is PATANJALI***PATANJALI***, who wrote <Yoga Sutra> around the third century AD.

Benefits of practicing yoga

1, yoga is self-mastery rather than competition

Yoga gives us is to let go of competition and comparison, to do their own good; and other sports may be winners and losers, focusing on victory and defeat.

2, Yoga is to feed the gas, rather than consume gas

From the form of yoga classes can be easily seen, other sports only movement itself, such as you want to run, you only need to stretch and then run up on it, such as swimming, change the swimsuit you can go into the water. Yoga is different, a 60-minute yoga class includes: 10 minutes of meditation + 10 minutes of warm-up + 30 minutes of *** practice + 10 minutes of relaxation. Yoga brings us the physical recovery, after practicing the whole body feel relaxed; while other sports need to consume physical energy, the whole body tired.

3. Yoga gives peace, not excitement

Yoga gives peace, the combination of mind, body and breath, while other sports give excitement, the beginning and the end of the stay on the surface.

4. Yoga in the heart, anytime, anywhere

Yoga gives me the heart to practice at any time, while other sports give me the limitations and constraints of the environment.

5 common yoga poses

1, Butterfly Pose:

Function: stretch the spine and lower back, stretching the ligaments of the inner legs; effective *** adrenal glands and ovaries, but also *** through the inner legs of the liver meridian, spleen meridian, and kidney meridian and the lower back of the bladder meridian.

2. Half Butterfly Pose:

Effect: It can stretch the muscles of the lower back; *** liver, spleen, kidney and bladder meridians; help digestion, urinary system, and liver, spleen and kidney meridians through the inner legs; it can also stretch the ligaments of the inner legs, stretch the whole spine and back, especially for the ligaments of the back.

3. Cat Stretch:

Effects: Stretches the upper and middle back, opens the shoulder joints, nourishes the heart, nourishes the spine, *** bladder, and the meridians in the arms.

4. Sphinx & Seal Pose:

Effect:Effectively squeezes and *** skeletonizes the psoas muscles, adjusts the spine, *** squeezes and *** the kidneys and adrenal glands through the bladder meridian and kidney meridian in the lower back and sacrum, and through the lung meridian and spleen meridian in the anterior side of the legs.

5. Dragonfly Pose:

Effects:Gently opens the hip joints, perineum points and ligaments at the back of the thighs, and opens the ligaments at the inside of the knee joints. *** Ovary.