In doing yoga throughout the semester, I was able to see that meditation is key when doing yoga. It is one of the key aspects in how we breathe and how it helps the body when we are in a relaxed state of mind. When we do yoga we usually begin when we work on breathing and becoming one with ourselves. It is an important aspect to think of when doing yoga. In yoga it presents a key important role when doing yoga. I find it to be one of the most important aspects in yoga because if you are not relaxed and in a meditative mindset you will not be able to fully do the yoga correctly. My impression of meditation is that it is important to see how it helps you and relaxes the mind and help it becomes a calming state of mind. I feel like keeping yourself calm during yoga is key and the way you feel after meditating and doing yoga is when you feel like your real self.
Before coming into this class, I never really knew the affect yoga could have on someone and the way it affects the body. After learning about the history of it and how each culture looks at yoga differently it has broadened my eyes that yoga actually has a positive affect on people. Some people have think let me just do it because I see famous people doing it. They try to jump on the bandwagon of the newest trend as we saw in certain movies that we watched in class over the semester. Like many beginner yoga students, it took at least a couple weeks of classes before I stopped looking around to see if I looked like everyone else while doing the poses. I wondered how ridiculous I looked in various poses, thinking for sure that when the instructor suggested a modification, it was meant for me alone. Following the breathing cues felt like trying to write with my left hand, and after five minutes in “Savasana,” I was convinced we were left in the dark to fend for ourselves. it wasn...
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