Yoga Sivananda: style features and exercises

The history of yoga began about four thousand years ago. The first written mention of it is in the Rigveda. Indian guru Swami Sivananda (1887 - 1963) was born in the south of India in the state of Tamil Nadu. He was originally a surgeon. But one day he cured a wandering monk who began to teach him yoga. After that, the doctor went to North India and in the city of Rishiken (in the world capital of yoga) found a teacher and mentor. For ten years he attained spiritual enlightenment, and all the time the disciples came to him. Swami Sivananda wrote about two hundred books and combined all the yoga teachings that were known, in one - yoga sivananda. In 1957, he sent his beloved disciple Swami Vishnudevananda to the West - to the USA and Canada, saying to him: "People are waiting."

Why people do yoga

Previously, Western people saw in yoga no more than a trick and laughed at a strange quirk. But the one who took it as a way of life, begins to change. Everything is renewed: attitude to the world, health, consciousness. There are no obstacles to practicing yoga: age, illnesses, ailments are not an obstacle and a hindrance to employment. Especially if this is yoga sivananda. The nature of work activity also does not matter. Yoga sivananda treats a single approach to life. If you only perform poses (asanas), you can only get physical development. If you engage in controlled breathing, then this is self-medication. If you chant only mantras, then it's just reading the prayers. And the inner power of yoga is revealed when these three approaches come together. Then life becomes complete and harmonious.

System Features

We will become acquainted with what Swami Sivananda designed. Yoga involves doing five steps:

• Exercise (everyone within it is available);
• Proper breathing;
• The ability to relax;
• diet;
• Positive, worthy thinking.

Yoga Sivananda all exercises focuses on strengthening the spine. This is its peculiarity. This is given so much importance, because there is a spinal cord. In it there are centers of the nervous system, which during the exercises are actively supplied with blood, which carries nutrition and oxygen. This effect persists until the next day, when the central nervous system is renewed and rejuvenated. Asanas also massage internal organs, the result is their effective work. This all does not happen immediately, but a positive result, a craving for classes and a good mood will come in two or three weeks.

Breathing during exercise

It becomes deep, but not in itself. The person concentrates on this attention. This teaches you to control the mind. Gradually, eventually he will completely obey the one who regularly does yoga.

Food

To this question, the sivananda yoga is more stringent than that adopted in the West. It is assumed that a person will be a vegetarian. Immediately it becomes difficult. But interestingly, when a person takes yoga for a long time, about a year, he simply does not want to eat meat products, the body refuses them. This is how non-violent transformation of a person into a vegetarian occurs. This idea of nonviolence pervades all the components of yoga.

Philosophy of Yoga

This healthy thinking, which promotes a person to love all things, puts him on the path of rapprochement with higher spheres. But meditations should be handled only under the supervision of a qualified teacher.

"Greeting the sun"

Surya Namaskar Sivananda Yoga or "Solar Exercise" perform preferably in the morning and stand at this, turning to face the sun. Its full complex consists of twelve exercises, which are done in a certain sequence. "Greeting the sun" is designed to release the spine and prepare it for more complex asanas. In itself, it is a combination of asanas with deep breathing. With its regular implementation, gradually the fat deposits on the abdomen will go away, the flexibility of the spine, arms and legs will appear. Muscles that have been squeezed and tightened will become obedient and elastic. Deflections back and slopes forward alternate with each other, and this is done with deep breathing. If the body is bent forward, the stomach is squeezed and the air is pushed out by the diaphragm. Bending backwards - there is an expansion of the chest and, consequently, a deep breath. So the flexibility and breathing is developed, before the surface, is corrected. These asanas are not limited. Among them there are those that give a load on the hands and feet, in which the blood circulation improves. This exercise is relatively easy to allow a newcomer to enter the world of yoga. You can study it from books, you can with a group that does yoga. There is a video lesson that Zap spends - a graceful harmonious harmonious girl, who gives explanations to each smooth movement, inhalation and exhalation. With her, there will be no mistakes, because in yoga one must immediately correctly put the breath.

Zap Invites

Having learned from the video lesson for everyone to welcome the sun, having well prepared the muscles, the spine and the whole body, you can go deeper into the world of breathing, movement, reflection and joy. Sivananda Yoga with Zap can be accessible to many who thought and did not dare, considering yogic practices too complex and exotic.

The Charming Leader will turn life around, showing that there exists for any age a natural pleasure from the movements of the obedient, as in childhood, muscles and joints. Her educational videos include warm-up, asanas of basic and dynamic (for more advanced) levels and complete relaxation. This moment should never be missed, because basically all people are clamped, complete relaxation should be learned.

Mantras and proper breathing, as well as a detailed description and demonstration of asanas, will help you to master the exercises better, will teach you to concentrate and will make sivananda yoga exercises completely safe and effective.

Zap has been practicing yoga for seven years. Her video on the beach knows the whole world. Now she travels through the cities of our country and conducts studies abroad. Zap offers to start classes from 15-20 minutes a day, but you need to train regularly. After they become a habit, you can start a full session for 1.5-2 hours at least twice a week.

And if you want fast results, then such a scheme is useful: 15 minutes a day and 2 full lessons per week. The effectiveness of this approach will be felt immediately. Myself after each session should be encouraged, although without such support you feel good after training, because this is one more step forward.