Thursday, October 20, 2016

Weekly Journal Entry #6: Yoga as a Healing Practice

             Yoga is a healing practice that is essential in speeding up physical recovery and flexibility as well as enhancing your mental state when it is in disrepair. In my practice space, yoga is used and taught primarily as a healing art. Myself and my fellow trainees use yoga to cool down and speed up our recovery process after a hard day training various martial arts and weight training. Yoga is communicated to me as a holistic method of treating your body to relaxing exercise after an intense workout.
             This yoga practice is performed and viewed the same by all members in my class. My fellow yogis all use yoga as a way of emptying an decompressing the mind, as well as to improve flexibility and physical recovery speed of the body so that they may return to more intensive training sessions sooner. After doing yoga, I feel a sense of inner calm and physical relaxation of my bones and muscles. I feel like my body is lighter than when I started my morning after I finish a yoga session. My body feels like it can bend and move in ways that it could not normally do previously because yoga acts as a method of expanding my bodies horizons past what my mind originally believed it to be capable of.

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