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The popularity of yoga in recent years cannot be exaggerated. Many schools, coaches and sections promise everyone to master this difficult practice in the shortest possible time. However, in reality, yoga is a real art in which any illiterate approach entails serious consequences for the body.
Our expert, Stanislav Euclidov, director , will talk about the five most important mistakes that many yoga coaches make.
Yoga Trainers Want to Imitate Hindus – Eastern Esoteric Practices
“Yoga trainers often begin to imitate Hindus – their way of teaching Eastern esoteric practices. At the same time, they are guided not by the needs of their client, but by the Eastern tradition; they are driven by a simple human desire to conform to the environment where they learned the tradition, the desire to become conformable to it, adjust to it and calm down. After all, when a person begins to engage in a new and unusual business, he is anxious and uncomfortable, and such an adjustment to the environment helps to cope with stress. This can be seen as follows: the coach puts on clothes close to the Indian ethnicity, sings mantras, lights incense, speaks in an incomprehensible language and in every possible way tries to resemble an authentic Hindu. The problem here lies in the fact that the coach will relieve his stress, but what awaits the trainees? After all, this copying also implies copying the practice, as it is, and in India the practice of yoga is directed far from only maintaining physical health, but also at achieving some spiritual disciplines, certain states of consciousness, sometimes at the expense of physical health. Ask yourself: do you want to flush your intestines every morning so that your mind is the clearest and clearest? Perhaps this will be useful to you, but what about dysbiosis, gastritis and other health problems? So, many of the exercises that such a trainer will give you in the classroom will not be aimed at improving your health and well-being. You may be given some kind of super difficult pose that will injure your lower back or neck. The coach himself, perhaps, does it without difficulty, but it will have nothing to do with your health. “
Exercises that are considered beneficial but are actually bad for you
“This is the implementation of such common yoga poses as“ headstand ”,“ lotus position ”,“ leg behind the head ”. For example, “headstand” causes degenerative-dystrophic changes in the cervical-collar zone, muscle spasm, pain radiating to the cervical-collar zone. In addition, sudden overturning can lead to cerebral hemorrhage. The “lotus position” injures the menisci. Despite the fact that the implementation of this exercise will not give you momentary pain, but after a while of regular practice, you may experience pain in your knees. The leg-behind-the-head pose injures the neck, causing the displacement of the vertebrae in the neck-collar zone. All these poses are spectacular and are actively performed by yoga trainers, but at the same time they are harmful to your health as much as possible. “
The claim that yoga is extremely effective in losing weight
“This is 90% wrong statement. The fact is that in order to lose weight, you need to perform workouts in which your heart rate rises and is held for a sufficient time. Regular yoga practice, on the other hand, causes your heart rate to drop over time. That is, yoga classes do not contribute to fat burning. Although regular yoga practice increases the level of “happiness hormones”, which increases the feeling of satisfaction with life and self. As a result, the need to “seize” negative emotions decreases. So 10% – yes, it does. “
Yoga classes during pregnancy
“It’s a terrible mistake to think that yoga is extremely beneficial during pregnancy. First, there are high risks of physical activity of any kind during the early months of pregnancy. But such risks when practicing yoga can be slightly reduced if a woman has had a fairly long period of practice before. Secondly, the course of pregnancy is an extremely complex process, and even a woman who has given birth to a child more than once is not an expert in matters related to pregnancy. Therefore, stay away from home-grown specialists, because not only you, but also your child can suffer ”.
Claiming that yoga practice is best for women
“This is a great myth. Yes, it is easier for women to do yoga exercises, but in fact, a hundred years ago, a woman in India could not do yoga. It was a purely masculine practice that was created by men specifically for men in order to develop those qualities of the male body and mind that are lagging behind them. Therefore, yoga is much more useful for men than for women: it strengthens their weak qualities, making them stronger. “