Category: General Yoga and Back Pain Introduction. Lower back pain injuries are associated with lifting, twisting, bending, reaching, pulling and pushing actions. Thus, Yoga is an excellent therapy for healing injured and sore back muscles, speeding time to recover from an injury and preventing re injury. Back pain has a number of causes, but one of the most common happens to be what I'm doing right now - on the computer! Back pain may be combined with pain into the leg, travelling down below the knee; this is otherwise known as sciatica, because the main nerve to the leg (the sciatic nerve) is being irritated by pressure on it.
Practice
Practice leads to poise, self-confidence, awareness of one’s capabilities and increased confidence. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. Today Yoga is now taught in some schools, practiced in business environments, and prescribed by the medical community as a means of stress relief and dealing with the ever increasing number of stress-related illnesses.
Yoga tends to have an immediate impact that continues as you return again and again to the practice. Instead, in my opinion, it is the quality of our participation that makes the practice deep and intense. The depth and intensity of the practice are a result of the level of integration of body, breath, mind and spirit. We all practice Yoga for different reasons and with different objectives in mind.
However, I assume that for all of us, our practice – whether it is expressed through asana, pranayama, Yoga Nidra, meditation, or any other way — regardless of the style or level of it, is a practice that leaves us energized, relaxed and balanced. That delicious feeling of stretching from the inside out; that soothing sensation like warm honey flowing through energized limbs; and the "big payoff" at the end of a practice: floating away into the infinite. We're being drawn to yoga by the thousands because we need it; we crave what yoga offers and deeply need the body-mind-spirit connection we experience when we practice the 5000 year old art of yoga.
They see the external benefits of a yoga practice, but like sex, the internal experience is what keeps them coming back for more. Every yoga practice is different because we are different, day-to-day, and minute-to-minute.
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