Sports and rest / Fitness and aerobics

The yoga has come to us from India where it has arisen more 2000 years ago. The word "yoga" occurs from the Sanskrit word meaning "unification" - a unification of a body, mind and spirit. This east practice has found the place in many countries and cultures of the world as it promotes strengthening of health, psychological balance, and also to spiritual development. The yoga is the natural system of improvement accessible to people of all age, irrespective of presence of experience, a state of health and level of physical preparation.

Here only small list of diseases with which treatment the yoga can help: an arthritis, chronic illnesses of lungs, pains in a neck and a back, a syndrome of chronic weariness, depression, a diabetes, headaches, illnesses of heart, barreness, a sleeplessness, ПМС and менопауза, adiposity. Besides, the yoga will help you to get rid of addictions (smoking, alcohol, drugs) and will deduce toxic substances from an organism.

Unlike usual physical exercises, employment by yoga do not cause feeling of weariness. The yoga is a balance between pressure and slackness. Having felt a positive effect from the given practice, you will be left by boredom and you with impatience will expect the beginning of following employment.

Some poses and yoga exercises simulate poses of various animals: dogs, an eagle, a cobra, a swan, a lion, a turtle and others. These poses stretch muscles of a body and stimulate lymphatic system.

Yoga exercises can be divided into three classes:

1. Physical (асаны);
2. Respiratory (пранаяма);
3. Meditation.

These exercises influence not only on physical, but also a mental condition: the person starts to realise, that it possesses huge internal potential, finds harmony of a body and spirit. The yoga positively influences all organism, improves blood circulation, normalises a metabolism, increases development by an organism of "happiness hormones” - эндорфинов.

There is an opinion, that in a human body circulate various the energy, providing its healthy functioning. The yoga makes active these of energy and results them in the counterbalanced condition. Allocate five kinds of vital energy:

1. The prana - circulates in a thorax, forcing to work heart and lungs;
2. Апана - it is concentrated in the bottom part of a trunk and supervises work of bodies of allocation;
3. Вьяна – influences blood circulation system, extending on a body the energy received by breath and consumption of food;
4. Самана – supervises work of bodies of digestion and supports balance энергий pranas and апаны;
5. Удана – operates area of a backbone and influences intuition, creative abilities, clearness of thought.

For achievement of physical and mental health these five энергий should be balanced. This balance энергий can achieve, being engaged in yoga.

The majority of people are familiar with physical aspects of yoga, but the yoga has a special spiritual party. The people concerning employment by yoga seriously, should observe certain ethics. The ethic behaviour is directed on establishing and supporting harmony of private world of the person.

Exists 10 basic ethical precepts of yoga formulated in "Yoga-sutrah" by Old Indian thinker Svami Patandzhali:

1. Not to cause harm and violence;
2. Not to lie and not to break promises;
3. Not to steal;
4. Self-discipline and the control over a sexual instinct;
5. Self-restriction and ability to manage the small;
6. To support a body and thoughts in cleanliness;
7. To be always pacified (that is to keep calmness in any situations);
8. To be tolerant and patient;
9. To develop compassion to all live beings;
10. To study and raise the intellectual level.

These principles differ from religious themes that benefit first of all to the person, helping it in finding of internal harmony and a sound health. However the given precepts coincide with the basic precepts of the majority of religions, therefore you can practise yoga, not renouncing the belief.

In the modern world it is enough possibilities for employment by yoga: you can register in courses with the teacher, get the video-cartridge or master yoga under the textbook. The Yoga for all Would be desirable to recommend DVD “Learn Yoga with Louisa Sear and Rachel Zinman”, and also books Элис Кристинсен “: a way to health” and Rozamundy Bell “Yoga: simple exercises”.

Some practical advice for beginners to master yoga:

• Choose for employment convenient clothes which will not constrain you in movements. Exercises are the most convenient for carrying out barefoot;
  
• If you are engaged houses take care of that nobody has disturbed you. Disconnect phone, close a door, withdraw pets in other room;
  
• The small blanket, rubber rug or mat, small pillow, cotton belt can be necessary for employment for you;
  
• In yoga is better to be engaged in the morning till a breakfast, on an empty stomach. If it is impossible, choose other time convenient for you. It is better to be engaged gradually, but daily;
  
• The yoga will bring especially strong advantage if to combine it with a low-calorie vegetarian diet.

Anna Shustrova