The reasons that can make a person approach yoga are very many and not necessarily of a spiritual nature: even simple inability to manage stress, chronic pains of an intense nature, insomnia, latent anxiety or a simple desire to experiment an exotic discipline, are all legitimate reasons. and very frequent.
Less well known are the benefits that the practice offers with regard to posture and that, instead, could attract many potential practitioners: many asanas help to correct small postural defects and, in general, to improve the perception we have of ourselves to everything advantage of proper body positioning.
Yoga and posture, the points of contact
Generally speaking, we can say that our posture can benefit from all yoga practice, beyond this or that specific asana. This is because during the lesson you are constantly guided towards attention to your body, to the messages it sends and to its position in space.
By developing the skills of concentration, proprioception and visualization it becomes more and more natural to absorb the correct indications that are received during the practice and make them one's own even outside the mat. Furthermore, the awareness of each single part is deepened , as well as the attention to trace small erroneous postures, gradually arriving to correct them independently.
In any case, some positions are particularly valuable and should be performed regularly to develop the features just mentioned or, in any case, to refine them more and more.
Asana for posture
We have already mentioned the importance of the position of the mountain for posture, but if you want an extra stimulus, you can try tadasana with your arms upward, palm against palm, or with your fingers intertwined and your palm facing other.
One of the most common postural defects concerns the closure of the chest, very frequent in students, in those who work a lot on the PC, or spend many hours at the wheel. Various yoga positions help a lot to open the chest the position of the bow, the cobra, the camel .
cobra position
camel position :
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Yoga and the perception of the body
As we anticipated at the beginning, yoga is a discipline that constantly invites us to observe ourselves, both from inside and from outside.
It is a journey within us and through us, where the journey and the goal are identified in our mind-body system.
This extraordinary opportunity can certainly open universes of a psychological and spiritual nature, but also, more prosaically, induce the practitioner to profound self-perception in such a way that he becomes more and more aware not only of the body, but also of the bodily attitudes that he implements, often unknowingly.
Although you prefer the practice of other disciplines for the correction of posture, yoga, in general, integrates perfectly with both postural gymnastics (so much so that postural yoga exists) and with pilates.
So do not hesitate to ask your doctor or do a test in the center of your area for a perfect combination of yoga and western gymnastics!
