Posted on: 15-06-16 11:52:32
BS
My one and only reason for looking at Yoga is to develop the flexibility (which is essential), I keep parallel focus on Cardio (bike / walk ), resistance training (free weights) and most importantly Diet which is very tough to keep in check always.
Yoga is most perhaps the best form workout to develop flexibility than any other practise.
I have watched and educated myself with bunch of documentaries. Learn immense information.
1. Fat sick nearly dead (1/2).
2. Forks over Knives
3. Fed up.
4. Food Inc
More than Fat, sugar topped the list as the food having more (bad) influence on current obesity endemic
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Originally posted by Fido
Yoga may be good for flexibility and meditation but as far as aerobics or burning calories is concerned , it may not be that beneficial.
Healthy eating and exercising ( even walking etc for the same amount of time as you do Yoga) may be more effective. Likewise the breathing exercises in Yoga are unique.
Not to counter RC but his example reminded me of a man in India , a scientist or some one else who would drink only lauki (Indian gourd) ka juice ... He died after a few months.... RC s example is different as the man drank only fresh fruit & veggies juice which is a very good thing .... I am sure it may be better to eat the fresh fruits & veggies as that would get the fibre as well.
And then recently I came across a news where parents kept on praying for 2 hours while their diabetic son suffered and died of starvation .... They refused to accept his diabetes diagnosis... They are charged .
Faith healing and alternative strategies may be a good thing , but may not be an alternative to the time tested and proven regular strategies.
Eat healthy (so difficult in today's life) and exercise regularly (moderate 30mins + ) is the best mantra... of course alcohol & smoking are proven banes and should be avoided.
Fido, I oversimplified the essence of the documentary. It was done under medical supervision only.
Anyway problem most people face is excess calories. People in general have moved to a sedentary lifestyle but intake of calories has increased.
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YOGA. : http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-does-yoga-belong-to-hinduism-the-debate-is-on/20110406.htm
Is it a Hindu thing? or Is it a 'mongrel' tradition? Is it merely an exercise? Arthur J Pais explores the debate that has America in a knot. No one wants to pay Royalties either.
One of the first things Connecticut-born, Florida-raised Dr Aseem Shukla learned in his very early years from his mother was to do the Surya Namaskar. He did the series of yoga exercises before he went to school; he did it during the vacations or when traveling with his family. It was his introduction to yoga and his interest in it grew as the years passed; it became firmer with the family visits to Gujarat and other Indian states.
Shukla, an associate professor in urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota medical school and co-founder and board member of the Hindu American Foundation, created quite a stir a few months ago when he wrote an article in The Washington Post complaining about the 'theft of yoga.'
Shukla, 41, bemoaned that it had become quite fashionable to present yoga without any reference to Hinduism. Soon, that morphed into the HAF's Take Back Yoga campaign.
The controversy over who can lay claim to yoga continued to grow, drawing in bestselling writers, Christian thinkers, Marxist professors, and reporters from dozens of newspapers and television channels.
An estimated 16 million (1.6 crore) Americans including agnostics and atheists practice yoga, which generates according to the Yoga Journal $5.7 billion annually in class fees, books and video sales, sale of mats and other accessories. There are an estimated 100,000 yoga instructors in the United States, including two men in New York City who offer yoga to taxi drivers.
Arguing by Shukla's side was Sheetal Shah, a New York-based HAF leader who has an MSc in development management from the London School of Economics. She came to America with her parents at age 3 about two decades ago, and learned yoga first watching her father, businessman Dhiru Shah, do difficult stretches at their Atlanta home.
Even Indian gurus and yoga teachers have often offered yoga without acknowledging its Hindu roots, Shukla and Shah complain.
"Yoga, meditation, Ayurvedic natural healing, self-realisation -- they are today's syntax for New Age, Eastern, mystical, even Buddhist, but nary an appreciation of their Hindu origins," Shukla wrote in the Post.
"When I said Hindus must take back yoga and reclaim the intellectual property of their spiritual heritage," he told Rediff-India Abroad, "and when I insisted that Hindus not sell out for the expediency of winning more clients for the yoga studio down the street, I was not talking of any copyright on yoga. I did not expect a huge controversy either."
As a child studying in America, he -- like Shah -- felt that Hinduism was not properly presented in the classrooms or in many textbooks. "It was to many people a religion of the monkey god, of cow worship and many other stereotypes," Shukla said. "Even those who loved yoga had stereotype notions about Hinduism."
The controversy ballooned when New Age guru Deepak Chopra, author of over a dozen bestselling books and a devotee of yoga, asserted that nobody can own yoga.
"The whole point of yoga," wrote Chopra, who was raised a Hindu but who insists he stopped calling himself a Hindu over two decades ago, "is to achieve enlightenment, and that the most revered practitioners, whether known as yogis, swamis or mahatmas, transcend religion In fact, even if yoga were granted a patent or copyright by the United States Patent Office, there is no denying that enlightenment has always been outside the bounds of religion. That's where the spiritual path leads, not into the arms of priests or yoga instructors. Before Hindu Americans complain about hatha yoga (what is regarded as exercise-based postural yoga) being deracinated, they might want to promote the ideas that are the very essence of Indian spirituality, which preceded Shiva, Krishna, cows and castes."
FROM..: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-skeletons-out-of-upa-closet/20110405.htm#3
How the west was won..: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/how-yoga-won-the-west.html?src=tp&_r=0
What a powerful movement.. the world has ever seen. Y O G A...:
What if, with the astronomical growing popularity of yoga, there was one key element, one crucial aspect of the super beneficial discipline, that has been forgotten by most followers today? And that, this one thing that is missing, the original creators of yoga found to be the most important?
Its true. Today, most people practice yoga merely for improving their physical fitness, or for their overall well-being. There is nothing wrong with that, and the modern version of yoga does these things very effectively. But there is also a higher aspect of yoga, which for some has been lost. What is it?....
Please Read On.: http://eocinstitute.org/meditation/yoga/?gclid=CISN3JvnrM0CFVGAaQodjNwE9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14z7QKI0f6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Xryv2xUSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfc33g395HI
http://www.lolewhitetour.com/the-tour/toronto/?gclid=COeE4JnmrM0CFQcKaQodyPEBdw
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There are other aspects of it that were based upon Endurance, stamina, breath control, controlling of food intake etc., and rest and relaxation and the final release etc., are also important and such aspects are attained by only a few who delve a little deeper and learn to practice will achieve.
It is getting started is what that counts.
Enjoy a new start of a fruitful future.
FH.
Hello folks,
How everyone is managing their health and fitness.
After 5 years of less care and developing sedentary lifestyle due to telecommuting, the system struck me which I started battling with eating mostly healthy food, adding regular work out and started shedding some weight slowly.
Limiting the sweet binging, replacing with fruit often.
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The cowards never started,
The weak died on the way,
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK1i9cLAMM
Thanks for sharing these tips here, it was really helpful. I do yoga everyday in the morning. It help me to relax and be calm throughout the day.
