The New York Times says that yoga can ruin your bodyI recently read an article in The New York Times about the dangers of yoga titled Yoga can wreck your body.
Let me play devil's advocate for a second and say, "Yes, we can". In fact, anything taken to the extreme, has otherwise planted seeds in it. And the same goes for yoga also. Too much of a good thing...
That said, the way in which we practice an ancient science can contribute to be a blessing or a disaster, so the responsibility is on the doctor and the teacher.
They have been practicing yoga regularly for almost two decades and have taught for almost all the time and I have not experienced an injury or I've had some of my students report a yoga injury.
It is a way of life at best and a tool for welfare in the worst of cases, depending on what you want to get out of it. So this leaves you with the question:
How much responsibility is one willing to take for your own body?
Any tool should be used correctly to get the desired result. If it isn't, there are consequences to face. Either way, this requires introspective consciousness by the user. No sense blaming the tool when things go wrong.
Yoga has become a physical conditioning program distorted with the idea that anyone who ever got as much as that carpet must be flexible, fighting fit and sexy. It is a major impediment to the practice and teaching of yoga.
It is a soft, deep acting path of well-being that paves the way for the evolution as a human being. In fact, the term "yoga injury" is so alien to the true yoga teachings, that the fact that has found a place in common language is confusing at least.
Every asana or indeed every yoga practice, is contraindicated in some States of the mind and the body. This is the warning sign that practitioners do not seek to ignore.
Yoga is an esoteric science and a sacred art of an ancient civilization. It has now become a commodity of trillions of dollars around the world and who teaches yoga on the other hand, obtained the title of "yogi".
So if you what you think it is a yoga injury, then you stop abusing your body and begin to practice yoga. Not surprisingly, the perfect pose or get perfectly well, now could prove to be a real pain in the asana. It's come into his own skin and feel good in it.
Yoga is not an endurance test or a test of your ego. It's letting go, easy breathing, accept and embrace the moment as it is. Never hold one asana for longer that the body says you can. Listen to the body, so it will tell you what you need and what is more important, what you don't need.
My very wise and much-loved yoga teacher used to say that yoga is the art of listening. Also taught us that the practice of yoga was 50% breathing observation and common sense of 50%!
And finally, here's a note for the aspiring yoga practitioner: become a favor and not learn yoga books and by God, to assess his master as his life depends on it, because maybe, it does so only.
Nanditha Ram is a yoga teacher and has trained for several years in India under the cunning teachers. It is an awareness of consumers and writer of health and a qualified holistic therapist. He currently teaches yoga in Karori, Wellington and is mother of two gorgeous children who began his practice of yoga in the uterus. Nanditha likes crazy and peculiar aspects of human nature and loves that yoga brings out the wild world's best self.
Your prenatal yoga "Happy MOM, happy baby" book is available at Amazon.com and his blog can be read at www.bindumandalayoga.blogspot.co.nz
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