Friday, August 19, 2011

Yoga


By Bev Lanford


There are many different types of yoga and restorative yoga is growing in popularity as more people learn about the benefits of this healing style of yoga. Restorative yoga is often explained as as the art of active relaxation. It is a therapeutic yoga style which employs props and supports to make it easier for your body to get into certain poses, and consequently, you are able to surrender to the pose.

Practicing poses using props allows a completely supportive environment for total relaxation. The more your body is held in the poses the deeper you can achieve total relaxation.

Relaxation is most frequently described as a state in which there's no movement, no effort, and the mind is calm. Usually, restorative poses are held for ten minutes or for so long as you are comfy in that pose.

Restorative Yoga versus Ordinary Yoga.

Restorative yoga is the term used to describe a strategy of doing yoga poses which allows your body to be totally supported as you practice.

It differs from 'normal ' yoga for the reason that when we do restorative yoga we be conscious of 'letting go ', to giving the supports we have got in place around our body our entire weight to ensure our muscle groups can fully relax. In 'normal ' yoga we're 'holding ' postures in poses by contracting our muscles to hold our body in certain shapes.

In 'normal yoga ' may utilise a support to assist us expand a bigger stretch or to provide for more comfort (like employing a strap to help us lift a leg up) but we are not concentrating on giving our entire body weight over into the support so we can liberate as much muscle stress as practical.

Many respected restorative yoga professionals call restorative yoga 'active relaxation ' relating the activity in our minds as we give our awareness to attaining that total relaxation in these numerous postures and poses.



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