What is Hatha Yoga?

Yoga is becoming more popular. This kind of work on self originated in India, but now it is practiced all over the world. At the heart of hatha yoga is working with the body and breathing. Nevertheless, his influence extends far beyond the body. It also includes emotions and reason. Experience shows that the mind and body penetrate into each other. The state of mind affects our mood, health, and the state of the organism influences our energy, vitality and attitude to the world.
It is found that some positions of the body help to quickly restore strength, gain harmony and relax, while others stimulate, give enthusiasm and self-confidence.
The meaning of hatha yoga is the harmonization of our energy.
Ha means active energy, hot, solar, male, Tha - passive, cold, lunar, female. Hatha is a state of equilibrium.
After exercise, we come to a state of rest and balance while filling with energy and the joy of life.
To achieve this, yoga offers a wide range of exercises and ways to accomplish them, so that everyone can choose something for themselves. As a rule, about 200 items are being traded, although the ancient texts say that there are 84,000 of them.
In the gym you can meet people from 16 to more than 80 years. It does not matter age or appearance, only the desire to improve the quality of one's life and work on oneself is important. Of course, otherwise young people are engaged, full of energy and energy. With joy they perform dynamic exercises, more difficult, allowing you to develop strength and endurance.
Yoga offers many positions that do not occur in other methods of working on oneself, such as an extremely energetic bend back. Older people prefer exercises for recovery, relaxation, helping to maintain the viability and capacity of all ages.
Through relaxation, removal of the blockage of muscles and joints, as well as exercises in full concentration with the preservation of uniform breathing, attention is drawn to the inner world, which helps to calm the mind and all active accumulation of energy.
Indian master of yoga B.K.S. Iyengar developed on the basis of his experience and experience of his students a special consistent training of various exercises from diseases: colds, back pain, pressure problems and others up to depression and chronic fatigue.
With great benefit for themselves and their future children can engage even pregnant women.
These exercises should be studied only by special masters with relevant experience and qualifications.
Yoga poses are performed in a very precise way, which allows you to reach any part of the body, from the skin, muscles, joints and ending with the internal organs. Each cell is cleaned and filled with oxygen.
Changes in mood, attitude and way of breathing are noticeable after several sessions. Nevertheless, the comprehension of the depths of yoga takes several years.
As with any natural method of treatment, the effect is not immediately achieved. This follows from the fact that yoga seeks to reach the source of problems. For example, to combat back pain, it is often necessary to restore mobility of the hip, strengthen the back muscles, take care of proper posture during everyday life.
Elements are performed with great care. In every exercise, we come to the limit of our possibilities and gradually exceed it. There is no place for sharp and aggressive movements, which are often the cause of injuries.
It is important to perform the exercises in accordance with our existing capabilities, and they vary depending on the age, season, time of day, nutrition, sleep, work. A set of exercises should match this.

In yoga schools, there is usually a choice between groups of different intensity.
The next step after mastering the positions of yoga are relaxing and breathing exercises. Breathing is the most important source of energy.
You can not eat, drink or sleep for several days, but you can not breathe for only a few minutes. Yoga says that human life is measured not by years, but by the number of breaths taken. The more long and full breaths, the longer we will have life.
A living example of 81-year-old BKS. Iyengar. Several years ago, while in the United States, doctors found that he had lungs, like a 20-year-old Olympian.
Regular exercises of breathing and relaxation will help to saturate with energy, which improves our ability to work, the ability to concentrate. After some time of training as a result of cleansing the body and a deeper contact with our inner world, we begin to feel that there is dependence on diet, physical activity, interaction with other people and our health and well-being.
This sensitivity is an invaluable treasure in the path of our integral development, physical, emotional and spiritual.