Yoga

Choosing A style Of Yoga Fit For You:
Achieving Balance: We all need to improve our cardiovascular fitness, increase flexibility, and build strength through weight-bearing exercise. But finding the right balance, and the right form of exercise, could be as simple as finding your true style. Even if you are perfectly content with your fitness routine – or the lack of it – ts still worth considering whether you could make changes. When our energies are out of balance, we tend to slip further into the things that are causing the imbalance.

Vata Person: Vata people are slender, willowy and long-legged with cool, porcelain skin which is rarely bothered by spots or oily patches. Their fine hair complements their delicate bone structure. An energetic vata person may love running – an excellent and invigorating form of exercise. But when vata energy starts racing out of control, its time to take another direction. Instead of arousing it further, turn to something slower and steadier, that will bring you safely back to earth. Vata people love lively exercise like dancing and running, but a typically speedy vata lifestyle can leave one feeling ungrounded. They also need to protect their joints from injury and build strength. As the most active of people, they’re the least likely to need to join an aerobics class. They must bring all the energies into balance with a steady, strengthening yoga style such as Vini. Iyengar is another good choice, so long as one is careful to recognise one’s current limits and don’t risk harming vulnerable joints by excessive twisting or staying too long in a difficult weight-bearing pose. Instead of trying to force a stretch, let the muscles relax as one sinks onto a feeling of unhurried calm.
Walking, tai chi and Pilates are other useful exercises for Vatas. Add some form of weight-training: the repititive movements will leave their ever-active mind free to work out a new theory while toning the abdominals. If these options sound slow and boring, give them a chance. As you become accustomed to this challenge you should start noticing a new smoothness in your movement as well as in your muscles.