What is your understanding of yoga?

For many people, the word yoga is not unfamiliar. It originated in India and means "consistency" and "harmony". When extended to daily life, it refers to a method of self-cultivation. Nowadays, many urban white-collar workers go to yoga studios to do yoga for a few hours after get off work. In fact, yoga can really make people more beautiful and slimmer. So, what is the understanding of yoga?

Yoga means "unity", "combination" or "harmony". Yoga originated in ancient India and is one of the six major philosophical schools in ancient India. It explores the principles and methods of "the unity of Brahman and Atman". What modern people call yoga is mainly a series of methods to cultivate the body and mind. Yoga postures use ancient and easy-to-master techniques to improve people's physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual abilities. It is a form of exercise that achieves harmony between body, mind and spirit. It includes postures to adjust the body, breathing methods to regulate the breath, meditation methods to regulate the mind, etc., in order to achieve unity of body and mind.

Yoga can speed up metabolism, remove waste from the body, repair the body, and regulate and nourish the skin from the inside out; yoga can bring you elegance and lightness, and improve your internal and external temperament; yoga can enhance physical strength and elasticity, and balance the development of the limbs, making you more and more cheerful, energetic, and happy physically and mentally.

Yoga can also prevent and treat various physical and mental diseases, and has significant therapeutic effects on back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, headache, joint pain, insomnia, digestive system disorders, dysmenorrhea, hair loss, etc. Yoga can regulate the physical and mental systems, improve the blood environment, promote endocrine balance, and fill the inner body with energy.

Regular yoga practice can also speed up blood circulation, accelerating blood circulation to the ears and eyes, thereby better protecting vision and hearing. Practicing yoga can also reduce facial wrinkles, and the more you practice, the younger you look. This is how modern people understand the sport of yoga. However, everyone should note that yoga must be practiced under the guidance of professionals.