Are your mind, body and spirit out of tune? You might think about pulling out the yoga mat. Yoga is practiced by millions worldwide to reduce stress, increase flexibility and improve overall health, but some experts warn that all of those complex stretches and maneuvers could be doing serious damage to your body. Is yoga the secret to a healthy life, or could you just be kicking yourself?
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Does Yoga Harm Your Body?
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Like so much else, yoga will be appropriate for some and not for others. It is also true that there is a right way to perform yoga and a seemingly endless variety of wrong ways. The problem with questions such as this one is the wrongful search for an answer that applies to all regardless of specifics or context. Generalities must always be tempered by very real details. Try yoga if you believe it worthy of exploration. If it is helpful to you, if the end result is of greater personal value with yoga than without, questions such as this one have been answered. Do not assume those answers apply to another. Some of them may, but there is no guarantee.
The questions here are - Am I doing something that harms me? Why? Am I denying myself something that might benefit me? Why?
Questions are good, however, answers applying to all individuals occur far less frequently than we believe.
- Naumadd
October 25, 2008 4:35PM
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