What is therapeutic yoga?
It likewise gives us advice on practicing, how to stay healthy and cure diseases, making it possible to achieve a long and healthy life. The theories of Ayurveda enable us to understand how and why to utilize the methods of Yoga for healing. Yoga has no theories about health and disease,. Yoga has never been a complete system of healing. Rather than providing us with techniques and methods for a powerful approach to the body, yoga can be utilized to fundamentally improve our health, prevent disease and control the treatment of disease. Yoga is a practical science of physical and mental health, and a practical science of accessing the experience of the mind, which is an important part of overall health. Yoga expands our cognition, allows us to recognize very clearly what we need, and gives us the means and methods to achieve what we need. Increased awareness allows us to "feel" what is going to happen to our body and mind. Health is a secondary effect of the expansion of perception, which allows us to improve our health in just the right way, for the better. Yoga is an empirical science that provides us with the means to explore all aspects of life, including joy and suffering, health and illness, survival and death, and states beyond these. In this way, we can discover our inherent, authentic selves through our own individual experiences. Most importantly, yoga therapy transforms our experience of illness and suffering so that they can become part of the spiritual path, a way and means of developing the mind and gaining wisdom. Yoga__tantra allows us to find the meaning and purpose of life through all of life's experiences, and to fulfill and realize them. Sitting in a plank position physiologically keeps the body stable for a longer period of time, and the pressure generated by the movement reduces the blood flow to the legs, allowing the blood to reach directly to the stomach area to stimulate the intestines, gallbladder, spleen, kidneys, and liver, strengthens the nerves in the lumbar vertebrae and sacral area, relieves muscular tension, and lowers the blood pressure, and the body's energy can be accumulated in the pelvic area to stimulate the internal potentials from the tail-sacral area to the brain, making it easy for the practitioner to reach a meditative state, and for the practitioner to achieve a state of meditation. Practitioners can easily reach a meditative state, and there is also a point that this sedentary will not have the possibility of hemorrhoids, so most of the postures used to meditate and meditate are in a sitting position. Our postures from the point of view of practice are entirely for the purpose of mediation and meditation in the preparation. Here, we will list the common sitting postures individually, and first let's look at the do's and don'ts of sitting. Plate sitting head, neck and torso should be in a straight line, any plate sitting posture should pay special attention to is the back straight, straight as an arrow, stable as a mountain, the breath can flow smoothly through the body's meridians, the heart can be peaceful, but do not force both shoulders and the upper body to bring out the power and beauty of the posture, they maintain the balance of the posture, but do not use force, do the posture in the power of the beauty of relaxation, maintain a subtle balance between the power of the beauty of the posture. that maintains a delicate balance. In fact, in all yoga poses, we should maintain this delicate balance. A yogi named Makiladu once said, "In all our sittings and postures, take care that all postures are manipulated to be alert, but relax, relax, and do it in such a way that you balance even the thoughts of exertion and relaxation to the point where they are no longer preoccupying you" . Don't rush into full lotus planks or other sittings that are too difficult for you; many adults may not be able to accomplish these easily. Remember what Patanjali said to us about "comfort and stability", that we move for thought and health, not for spectacle and comparison. So listen to the wisdom of your body. Try to sink your knees to the ground as much as possible when you sit in meditation, but there is no need to rush if you cannot do it for a while. Many people like to place the meditation cushion at the tailbone behind the buttocks in order to keep both knees on the ground, but this is only applicable when you first start practicing. Do not form this habit, it is not conducive to the stretching of the inner muscles of your legs, and for exercises that require the use of the heel against the perineum, this will not achieve the effect of the movement. If you are not able to sit in any plank now, don't be anxious, just start with some simple postures, such as single leg back extension, half lotus knee exercise, salutation, butterfly, etc., and slowly your legs will open up naturally. Do not insist on sitting in a plank when you are tired or sick; you can substitute the practice with relaxing positions on your back, but prevent falling asleep. In the sitting postures described in this chapter, if the instructions do not specifically point out the hand position, the handprints in the illustrations are random and do not mean that the handprints are inseparable from the sitting posture during meditation. Those with sciatica and sacral injuries are not suitable for practicing all the plank sitting postures except for the kneeling ones such as Thunderbolt Sitting and Hero Sitting. For those with knee injuries and patellar strain or misalignment, please consult your doctor before deciding whether to start sitting training. All the sitting postures can be used as combinations for upper body exercises, so you can combine them as needed. For example, when practicing arm extension, arm twisting or shoulder relaxation, you can combine with any sitting posture.