Stars do it. Sports do it. Judges in the highest courts do it. Let's do it: that yoga thing. A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. Yoga now straddles the continent — from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning.
Everywhere else, Americans rush from their high-pressure jobs and tune in to the authoritatively mellow voice of an instructor, gently urging them to solder a union (the literal translation of the Sanskrit word yoga) between mind and body. Fifteen million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimen — twice as many as did five years ago; 75% of all U.S. health clubs offer yoga classes. Many in those classes are looking not inward but behind. As supermodel Christy Turlington, a serious practitioner, says, "Some of my friends simply want to have a yoga butt." But others come to the discipline in hopes of restoring their troubled bodies. "Yoga makes me feel better", they say. "Maybe it can cure what ails me".
I, personally, have never tried yoga. Not because I don’t think it works, but just because I wasn’t curious. What do you think about yoga? Do you practice it? Or do you want to?
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I'm curious but I never tried it. I wonder why people are so eager to rush to it.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/pmccorkle
That's my point too. I think that a sport is a better option...
It's very relaxing. I do yoga at least once a week and I love it. Yoga involves command and control of every muscle in your body, including your heart and lungs. It causes your body to fully relax and at the same time you are stretching and using muscles you might not even realize!
http://www.progressiveu.org/162529-man-missing-from-a-cruise-ship
I have tried it and I think it's pretty neat.My husband thinks it's the stupidest thing ever. I've tried explaining it to him but he doesn't get it. lol
Jacquie
I did notice too that man are not so 'pro-yoga' as women are.
Reasons to do Yoga
1) You'll sleep better if you learn how to Shavasana just before bed.
2) It aides in concentration during the day
3) You'll be more flexible : )
4) This is going to sound vulgar, and I guess it is, but yoga makes sex more fun.
5) It makes you feel like...you're walking on air. It just feels really good. Hard to explain without going all transcendental on you.
Though, I've known some pretty fat people who are hardcore Yogis. It doesn't seem to work to make the "yoga butt" thing happen. That's more pilates style.
The concentration thing is actually something I'd need. And I shouldn't ingore no. 4 either, right? Thank's for the info.
I was looking for people's opinion on yoga and found this site. I would like to share some thoughts and experience about my daily yoga meditation. Yoga is very powerful and is the only excercise that without sweating tones your body and mind. Yoga cures diseases like cancer and TB. I myself reduced 20 pounds doing yoga and never felt better before. In order to understand yoga, you have to do it by yourself not for SEX or SHAPE but in order to understand yourself better. Try this next time while you doing yoga just speak to yourself in closed eye and ask yourself those questions which otherwise you find difficult to answer.
God Bless
Cure cancer? Loose weight? What kind of super-youga are you doing? I understand that youga has many, many positive aspect, but...THAT many?