What are the types of yoga?

As yoga becomes more and more popular among women, a number of new yoga courses have emerged in the past two years, including water yoga, power yoga, dynamic yoga, etc. As the number of types increases, many women don’t know what kind of yoga to choose that is good for their bodies. So, how do they choose a yoga course that suits them? This is a question that women are eager to know, and I will talk about it below.

Regenerative Yoga for Women: Yoga for Women

This is the latest yoga course. The yoga teacher said that yoga originated in India more than 5,000 years ago and has always been practiced by men, passed down from master to apprentice from generation to generation. Later, more and more women began to practice yoga.

Female practitioners often ask the master (usually a man) some questions, such as: "Can I practice yoga during menstruation?" The master has no way to answer these questions, because all yoga movements are arranged according to the male body characteristics and physiological structure. The master can only vaguely say: "Some inverted postures cannot be practiced, but some simple ones can be practiced."

Five years ago, an American yoga master felt that the relationship between yoga and the female body was not so simple, so he began to study it. In 2009, he created a new yoga course called "Female Regeneration Yoga". It is completely different from previous courses such as female therapeutic yoga and female health yoga. All postures are centered on the female body structure. Through some hip movement exercises and coordinated with breathing, the purpose of maintaining the female body is achieved.

Power Yoga: Build Muscle and Endurance

Power yoga is currently the most popular yoga system in the United States and is a new course that has only been introduced to China in the past two years. Many people think that power yoga and dynamic yoga are the same thing, but in fact they are completely different. Dynamic yoga is practiced while moving, while power yoga is practiced while still, using more of a "yin power".

For example, a seemingly simple squat movement actually consumes a lot of physical energy, so it is also very effective in strengthening muscles. Power yoga emphasizes the combination of strength and flexibility, and requires practice with deep breathing techniques.

Quint Neri Yoga: Awaken Your Energy

Teacher Simon told reporters that Quintini Yoga is the most original yoga, but it has only entered the public eye in the last two years. Some yoga practitioners have learned awakening yoga before. In fact, awakening yoga is a series of Kundalini yoga.

"Quintrini" means a female snake. There is such a snake in everyone's body. It represents energy, but we usually don't activate it, so it stays dormant in our body. When we activate it through yoga meditation and breathing, its energy will burst out.

Therefore, Kuntinini Yoga is a kind of meditative yoga and also a very advanced state in yoga practice. Only those who have practiced yoga for several years can practice Kuntinini Yoga. Therefore, there are not many courses offered in Guangzhou at present, and most practitioners are yoga coaches or professional yoga practitioners.

Suitable for people: Professional yoga practitioners with certain skills.

Nike Dynamic Yoga: Make your muscles stronger

As soon as the new yoga course NIKE Dynamic Yoga was launched, it quickly became popular among some fitness experts, because NIKE Dynamic Yoga is a sport inspired by sports training methods. It makes the originally static yoga practice "dynamic" and completes the yoga practice in the process of "movement".

Therefore, those fitness enthusiasts who originally thought that yoga exercises were boring began to like this new "dynamic" yoga class. Because dynamic yoga emphasizes integrating dynamic yoga training into exercise.

So its main effect is to strengthen and lengthen the practitioner's muscles, while allowing better control of the body and breathing and strengthening the core. The five basic elements of dynamic yoga are: strength, balance, softness, cardiopulmonary and core.

Suitable for: Men; women with loose muscles; need to have a certain yoga foundation.

Water yoga: the best way to practice yoga in summer

As the name suggests, water yoga is an innovative yoga course that cleverly combines the basic principles of water exercise with some yoga postures. Some movements that are difficult to do on land can be easily completed in water by using the buoyancy of water.

There are tens of thousands of people in the United States who are keen on water yoga, and many swimming pools in Japan have also opened water yoga fitness programs, but in China, water yoga is just getting started. According to experts, in China, although many people are interested in water yoga, they have difficulty finding suitable practice venues. For example, many fitness clubs do not have swimming pools.

Coach Lan Hui said that water yoga has the most obvious effect on weight loss, and it also has the function of regulating body balance and relaxing the mind and body. Especially in summer, water yoga is the best way to practice yoga.

Suitable for people: People who want to lose fat and reshape their body; a certain level of yoga basics is required.

The above are the more popular types of yoga that are more suitable for women with no basic knowledge. I believe everyone has a certain understanding of the different effects of different types of yoga. In fact, when choosing what kind of yoga to do, you should judge and choose based on the effect you want and your physical condition. The most important thing is to choose the yoga that suits you and stick to it for a long time.