What music do I need to practice yoga?
Yoga is a sport that allows us to combine with nature. Usually, when choosing music, most people like to choose some music that expresses natural scenery as the background music for yoga exercise.
However, real yoga music can take you into a relaxed and refreshing world-the world of yoga, it can soothe your nerves, calm your mood, awaken your mind, and has a beautiful and uplifting melody.
Why practice yoga on an empty stomach?
Because in yoga practice, there are many practice postures that are upside down or have a squeezing effect on the stomach. These postures are best practiced on an empty stomach, but this does not mean that you must be hungry and exhausted to practice yoga. Causes a low blood sugar state, causing dizziness. When you are really hungry, you can eat a little chocolate, milk, biscuits, etc. to replenish your body’s energy, and then practice better.
What is the role of yoga fitness?
(1) The benefit of practicing yoga on the nervous system. According to a yogi, the self is in the heart area. A huge and invisible meridian network or channel network spreads it throughout the body. The middle meridian is the backbone of the meridian system. The key to posture exercises is to target and surround your middle meridian. exercise.
Correct yoga posture practice and yoga meditation will have a very beneficial effect on the entire nervous system, including the autonomic nervous system. By practicing yoga, you can not only keep the nervous system healthy but also make the nervous system that is not functioning properly. Normal functions are restored and the sympathetic nerves and parasympathetic nerves can be maintained in balance, which means that the various internal organs affected or innervated by these two systems will not be active or insufficient.
For example, the heart rate will remain moderate and not too fast or too slow, and various digestive juices will not secrete too little or too much.
(2) The effect of yoga on the endocrine system. Since the endocrine system is affected by the innervation of the autonomic nervous system, the adjustment of the nervous system by yoga also indirectly helps to adjust the endocrine system.
The correct yoga practice will have a beneficial effect on the important endocrine system (pituitary gland, pineal gland, thyroid, etc.), so that they can be gently massaged and stimulated to maintain a healthy state.
Our behavior, emotions and even mental state are directly related to the activities of endocrine hydrazones. Yoga exercise can help adjust the activities of these glands, thereby preventing the endocrine system from working abnormally.
(3) Yoga exercises other systems. Practicing yoga postures, breathing and meditation also have a very good effect on the respiratory system. The healthier your respiratory system, the better you can prevent infections from various respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis, bronchitis, and emphysema.
At the same time, yoga exercises have special benefits for the blood circulatory system, urinary system, exercise system, etc., and can improve the immune function of the lymphatic system.
What are the health benefits of yoga pranayama?
Yoga pranayama helps health both physically and spiritually.
The yogi believes that physical diseases are mainly caused by disturbances or obstacles in the flow of life in the body.
By practicing pranayama so that the vital energy in the entire meridian system is unblocked, you can gain health.
In terms of spirit, pranayama is generally regarded as a preparation stage for yoga meditation.
In other words, yoga pranayama can effectively strengthen blood circulation, adjust the functions of nerves, spinal cord, heart, and other internal organs, increase human vitality, improve sensory sensitivity and memory, and clear the confusion caused by physical tension, which is helpful For the self-development of intelligence.
What are the basic postures of yoga pranayama?
The posture of yoga pranayama is basically the same as that of meditation. You can choose a posture that is more comfortable for you to sit up. It is best to sit on a cushion, thin mattress, carpet, or felt.
When and where should I choose when practicing yoga?
(1) The best place to practice pranayama is in a peaceful, quiet, and fresh air place
(2) When you are practicing pranayama, you should practice 4 times a day (once in the morning, noon, dusk, and midnight) for 30 to 60 minutes each time, but you may not be able to do this. Therefore, you can choose a time that suits you as much as possible to practice pranayama.
What are the basic methods of yoga pranayama?
There are many methods of yoga pranayama, here are only a few simple and easy methods that are very good for the body:
(1) Clean up the meridian and breath adjustment method
Simple sitting or other sitting positions. Straighten your back, put your hands on your knees, close your eyes, and rest and relax. Focus on breathing. Breath can be as long as possible, but as long as you don’t feel shortness of breath. Use your left and right hands to control the airflow through the nostrils
【Action Essentials】
The first stage
1. Place the index finger and middle finger in the center of the forehead. Place the thumb next to the right nostril, and place the ring finger on the left nostril
2. Count from 1 to 5 when you breathe in, and count from 1 to 5 or from 1 to 10 when you exhale;
3. Hold the right nostril with your thumb and breathe from the left nostril. Practice 5 complete breaths-5 inhalations and 5 exhalations;
4. Press the left nostril with the ring finger, and breathe in the right nostril. (Do 5 full exhalations of about 5 to complete 1 round, repeat 5~8 rounds. After doing this for 5-10 days, enter the second stage.
second stage:
1. Place the index finger and middle finger in the center of the forehead. Place the thumb next to the right nostril and the ring finger next to the left nostril;
2. Count from 1 to 5 when you breathe in, and count from 1 to 5 or from 1 to 10 when you exhale
3. Press the right nostril with the thumb, inhale from the left nostril, close the left nostril with the ring finger, and exhale from the right nostril; change the right nostril to inhale, close the right nostril with the thumb, and exhale from the left nostril;
4. The ring finger presses the left nostril, the right nostril inhales, the thumb closes the right nostril, the left nostril exhales, the left nostril inhales, the ring finger closes the left nostril, and the right nostril exhales;
5. One round is left and right, repeat 5~8 rounds.
【Fitness effect】
1. Remove toxins from the blood system;
2 Give the body extra oxygen supply to nourish the whole body;
3. Clear the lungs;
4. Make people feel refreshed, tranquil, and peaceful, and make the heart calm and clear
【Precautions】
Do not inhale or exhale for too long during the breathing exercise. Under comfortable conditions, gradually increase the amount of air you breathe
(2) Throat breathing
Hou breathing is the most important and one of the most wonderfully effective and widely used exercises, but it is very simple to do. Anyone can do laryngo breathing and is completely unrestricted by the depth of other pranayama exercises.
You can practice throat breathing at any time and in any posture, and you can practice sitting or lying down. Different yoga practitioners may use slightly different methods to practice throat breathing. Basically, throat breathing is breathing through the two nostrils, but the practice makes you feel that you are breathing through your throat.
【Action Essentials】
1. Inhale to contract the larynx and glottis to produce a “Sa” sound;
2. Exhale and hear a sound like “Ha”, which is the same as the sound of Tuoer’s sleep breathing or a slight snoring sound. When doing larynx breathing, the breathing is usually quite deep, so even the very light and shallow breathing can be done with the larynx breathing. The larynx breathing can be used in conjunction with the meridian pranayama practice and even all other exercises. The throat breathing is The second nature of the yogi.
【Fitness effect】
1. Make the mind and nervous system quiet and peaceful
2. Rejuvenate;
3. Treatment of insomnia;
4. Reduce heart rate, beneficial to hypertensive patients.
(3) Cooling and pranayama method
【Action Essentials】
1. Simple sitting or other sitting positions, with your back straight and your hands on your knees;
2. Open your mouth and roll your tongue out;
3. Inhale with your tongue, which should be slow and deep
4. After inhaling full, close your mouth, lower your head, hold your jaw to your collarbone, hold your breath for 5-8 seconds and exhale through your nostrils. It is best to breathe through your larynx. This is one round; repeat 5-10 rounds.
【Fitness effect】
1. The effect of cooling the whole body;
2. Relax each muscle group to produce a sense of tranquility and serenity;
3. Promote liver activity, enhance digestion and quench thirst;
4. Clean blood.
【Precautions】
1. Do this exercise only after yoga poses or other pranayama exercises
2. People with high blood pressure cannot hold their breath;
3. Each exercise is limited to 10 rounds;
4. People with heart disease should not take the cooling and breathing method or consult a doctor before deciding whether to do it.
