Yoga är ett bra sätt att arbeta med din flexibilitet och styrka. Nästan alla kan göra det också – det är inte bara för människor som kan röra tårna eller vill meditera.
Någon typ av yoga handlar om avslappning. I andra rör man sig mer. De flesta typer fokuserar på att lära sig poser, kallade asanas. De inkluderar vanligtvis också uppmärksamhet på andning.
When I began yoga in the late 1990s, it didn’t occur to me to find a class or buy a mat, I just laid out a towel and copied as best I could from a book. About a year later, then in class, I discovered sticky mats, which, back then, was really carpet underlay. Other props did not exist in my consciousness.
On the outskirts of the last decade, a small and humble minority has been pushing back against the pumped up power craze that swept through the nineties, and still largely has a hold on modern postural yoga. Now that the longstanding kingdoms that once guarded yoga’s legacies have fallen, and individuals are left more to their own devices, this once obscure and unsung song is finding a new chorus of practitioners.
