Lindo, Hannah Bea C.

BS Accountancy 1-4

Yoga is all about knowing your own limits and not overdoing it. If you do, you are

likely to end up with a pulled muscle or something like that. I learned more about limits

through this, and that it’s still possible to do yoga with an injury. Yoga is a good practice

if one does in daily life. It helps to live healthy life style and better life. According to

medical scientists, yoga exercises create a balance between the endocrine and the

nervous systems, which has a direct influence on all other body systems and organs.

Therefore yoga acts both as a preventive and curative therapy. The essence of yoga is

to achieve mental piece, and a relaxed state of living, as well as to enhance

concentration powers. Maintaining regular yoga exercises have been found to reduce

diverse ailments like asthma, blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, varicose veins, chronic

fatigue, heart conditions, and arteriosclerosis and digestive disorders. It enhances the

inner and outer body and mind strength by connecting both to the nature. It is not a

physical practice only as it makes a human able to get control over mental, emotional,

and spiritual thoughts. It can be practiced by the people at any age during childhood,

teenage, adult or old age. It needs only safe, slow and controlled movements of body

with controlled breathing.

 Plank

Begin in the plank position, face down with your forearms and toes on the floor.
Your elbows are directly under your shoulders and your forearms are facing forward.
Your head is relaxed and you should be looking at the floor. Hold this position for 10
seconds.

Leg High

Face down with your forearms and toes on the floor. Your elbows are directly
under your shoulders and your forearms are facing forward and lift your right leg.
 Cobra

Lie down on the stomach by keeping your legs together. Make a gap of 1-2 feet
between the legs if somebody has a backache. Put your palms beside your shoulder
and the head should rest on the ground. With inhaling raise your head up to your navel
region and try to see the roof. Maintain the position till 10 to 60 seconds with steadily
inhaling and exhaling. Come to the original position slowly with a deep exhalation.
 Down dog
Come to your hands and knees with the wrists underneath the shoulders and the
knees underneath the hips. Curl your toes under and push back through your hands to
lift your hips and straighten your legs. Spread your fingers and ground down from the
forearms into the fingertips. Outwardly rotate your upper arms to broaden the
collarbones

Bend Knees

Face down with your forearms and toes on the floor. Your elbows are directly
under your shoulders and your forearms are facing forward and lift your bended right
leg.