Need Some motivation to step on your mat?
Have you adopted Yoga in your daily life? Cause statistics hold a record of around 70% growth in the last 2 years, and if you are not the one you should ask yourself why!
As today is World Yoga Day, I would like you to focus on some of the major aspects to as to what are the benefits of yoga and how has this changed some lives
How Blessed are we to have a very peaceful day celebrated worldwide on the grounds of meditation. It not only provides balance to your life but also improves the quality of living.
Some benefits include - cardiovascular fitness, reducing stress, anxiety, and pain, increasing flexibility, increasing blood flow, lowers blood sugar, maintains your nervous system, etc.
Some of the very Famous Asanas
Surya Namaskar(Sun Salutations) .
Utkatasana(Chair Pose) .
Parivrtta Utkatasana(Revolved Chair Pose) .
Adho Mukha Svanasana(Downward Facing Dog) .
Anjaneyasana(Low Lunge) .
Trikonasana(Triangle Pose) .
Virabhadrasana III(Warrior 3) .
Natarajasana(Dancer Pose)
A lot of Indian Celebrities have always escalated yoga and inspired thousands of people like Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Bipasha Basu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Nargis Fakhri, Lara Dutta, etc.
I would like to share a story which inspired me a lot.
Yoga inspired:
The Power of Presence
In 2003, Julie Peoples-Clark, a 29-year-old Ashtanga and Bikram yoga practitioner living in Baltimore, was in her ninth month of a healthy pregnancy in which she practiced yoga every day, ate well, and took good care of herself. When she went into labor, she went to the birthing center where she had intended to have a natural birth—but nothing went as planned. As a result of a difficult labor and mistakes made by the birthing center, her daughter, Ella, was born with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy. Doctors said she would never be able to walk, talk, or even sit up on her own. After Ella's birth, Julie abandoned her yoga practice and spent the next two years wrestling with anger and depression. But through reconnecting with and deepening her yoga practice, Julie learned to let go of what might have been and to see the beauty of what was actually before her.
When Ella was nearly two, Julie took her to a program called Yoga for the Special Child in Encinitas, California, which she had seen advertised just days after Ella's birth and finally felt ready to explore. Founder Sonia Sumar offered some yoga practices for Ella and introduced Julie to Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. At Sumar's encouragement, Julie began to spend 15 minutes a day on her mat, combining a gentle asana practice by reading the Yoga Sutra and meditating. These small blocks of time-shifted Julie's experience of her circumstances profoundly. "Just being on my mat, in my sacred space, and focusing on my breath put me in the present moment. If I thought too much about what had happened, I would get sad and angry, and I couldn't forgive the mistakes that had been made. If I thought too much about the future, that was too overwhelming. But if I stayed right in the present moment, I could handle things with grace and with ease."
The more Julie took this time for herself, the more present she became in all aspects of her life, including in her interactions with her daughter. She started to see Ella as a gift and a treasure. "I feel like I missed two years of my daughter's life when she was a baby," Julie says. "I was so goal oriented, and I wanted her to be well. But sitting down on the yoga mat with her made me realize how rich my experience was. I have a beautiful daughter who is achieving amazing things every day."
Ella is now seven years old, and Julie has become an advocate for children with disabilities as well as a yoga teacher for disabled children and adults. When she reminds her students to stay present with what is, she is speaking from a place of experience. "One of the hardest things about Ella's birth injury and disability was, and at times still is, thinking about what could have been: my life with a healthy child, birthday parties, dance lessons, Mommy and Me yoga classes," Julie says. She credits studying the Yoga Sutra with helping her to release attachment to what might have been, and for helping her gain acceptance and gratitude for what is.
"The sutras helped me gain the insight that my ego is creating my suffering by wanting what I do not have," she says. "My life is so incredibly rich and purposeful. I have a reason to get out of bed each day. I have a supportive, very sweet husband and a wonderful network of friends and family, all of whom have been touched deeply by beautiful, amazing Ella."
(Source: https://yogajournal.com/yoga-101/miraculous-practice-2)
