“I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing it all … Have you tried it? yoga? “
Anyone suffering from mental health problems will have heard this question.
Stay with us-we don’t whiplash yoga as a cure-all because of depression and anxiety.
But the truth is that yoga To do It brings some serious benefits to both the mind and body.
During the initial blockade, many flocked to yoga videos such as yoga with Adrian and other home fitness channels looking for ways to stay healthy and relieve stress.
Dr. Brian Cooper, co-founder of the Yoga Alliance Professional, tells Metro.co.uk that practicing yoga has many health benefits.
He states: ‘Physically, it not only increases flexibility, but also increases strength.
“This is especially important for people who live a sedentary life.
“But the effect is much broader, leading to improved general health, a growing desire to live a healthier life, and improved sleep quality.
“Improved quality of life leads to improved mental health and improved resilience to stress.
“One of the great gifts of yoga is improving breathing. Shallow breathing is associated with stress, and regaining a healthy breathing pattern leads to greater calm and balance.
A 2021 study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi found that those who practiced yoga in the blockade were mentally better as a result.
So how about getting into the habit and making it every day for a month?
Dr. Cooper says the benefits of practicing yoga will, of course, be more pronounced this way.
A gradual and frequent approach is better than a weekly intensive session.
He states: “Most people report that doing yoga every day offers far more significant benefits than practicing once a week.
“Even just 20 minutes a day, the positive effects it brings are spontaneous and will make you want to come back more.
“If you do 5 days and 20 minutes a week, that’s 1 hour and 40 minutes a week. It’s unlikely that you’ll do so much in a weekly session.
“A good approach to building a safe and enjoyable home practice is to attend a yoga class in the studio once a week. It will give you ideas for your own practice.”
Yoga for beginners
Dr. Cooper suggests that learning sun salutation is a good way to start practicing yoga, as it requires only simple movements that you may already be accustomed to.
He says:’Sun salutation is ideal for beginners. Once you’ve learned them, you can do them without thinking, so you don’t have to worry about what to do.
“They also build strength, stamina, flexibility and promote deep and strong breathing.
‘Can be used stand-alone or as a warm-up before other postures.
“One way to develop a rounded yoga practice is to always start with the same short routine (such as Sun Salutations) and add a few more postures.
“End the session with another short routine, like sitting breathlessly. This friendliness is both comfort and encouragement.
Here is a visual step-by-step guide for doing sun salutations:
When reaching backwards, be careful not to stretch your back too much. Yoga should never be painful.
I spent a month testing yoga and followed yoga in Adrian’s popular 30-day series in January.
I’ve done yoga before, but forgiving my habits, I was keen to get back on track.
The first day was rewarding – more than I expected.
My flexibility has disappeared and the movements I have built before have diminished. I’m also very impatient with the slow parts of the video, skipping 10 seconds ahead here and there.
In itself, it made me realize how long it would take me to rest.
I was able to make yoga a daily practice in most cases. When I was sick or I didn’t have enough time, I just skipped a strange day.
By the 10th day, 20 minutes of yoga in the morning or lunch was what I was looking forward to.
It was a moment of peace where I could just breathe away from my laptop.
I don’t lie – it’s hard to separate from the message, and one day I was still able to skip a small piece of video and rush to the next thing.
But yoga asks us to be kind, so without this 20-minute break I’ll still stick to the screen, feel more stressed, and focus on the fact that it works with shallow breathing. I decided to.
At least I was making space for the temporary moments of deeper breathing and light exercise.
Even if I could only attend 8 minutes of practice, it was 8 minutes better than if I didn’t show up on the mat.
Over time, I hope to remove this headspace from the mat and fit it well into the rest of the day.
By the 20th day, I was aware of the shift. It wasn’t too difficult to get up a little early, my tight calves were a little easier and I was able to reach a certain position a little more.
Most importantly for me, I felt calm on the mat even when I fell asleep on the floor in a corpse pose after a stressful day.
At the end of the 30 days (or 35 days after supplementing the skipped session), I realized I had accomplished it, and a wave of emotions struck me.
For a month I appeared and worked on this habit to improve my health.
Practicing every day meant that my learning curve was also accelerating.
Yoga isn’t going to solve all my problems, but it helps me lay the groundwork and better manage difficult times.
We all need a mode to tap out. The way to do this is to move it over the mat.
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