Can Yoga Cause Your Body Undue Harm?

A recent New York Times article described the great dancers of yoga.An author talked to the general public about the basic dangers of learning. The author, who has not yet undergone serious spinal surgery, says many well-known teachers have suffered traumatic injuries due to overwork over the years.

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The article discusses several studies showing serious and permanent injuries associated with exercise. Many people are upset with his articles.

Willibald Nagler, Cornell University Medical College's prestigious spine rehabilitation authority, has published an article about a strange case. A healthy 28-year-old woman suffered a stroke while doing a yoga position called a wheel or up arc, in which the doctor lies on her back and then balances her body and legs - placing her body in a semi-circle.

 He has a severe dislocation of the arteries that feed him to the cerebellum."Stroke of Cause”.

Another case:

A few years later, the 25-year-old was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where he complained of blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, and numbness on the left side of the body.

This first healthy person did a special yoga practice every morning:

 His routine included a spinal turn in which he turned his head left and right. As Iyengar asked him, he stood for five minutes, with his neck "bare floor as far as possible".

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Although these cases are very rare, they almost speak to the dangers of the ambitious backward curve. I am a yoga instructor and in my experience it is not a very dramatic injury. Yoga has become a sport in many areas, especially in big cities. The Origin of Yoga In this article, how many forms of yoga are physically described. Yoga is so much more than posture.

Has the ego affected your yoga?

If your ego has taken over your practice, as the author mentioned in the article, then you are not doing yoga. You are stretching or doing what amounts to gymnastics. The purpose is to unite with your soul or inner spirit, so if that's not what you're doing when you hit the mat, then call things by their names.

That said, there will be times when you are not attentive, when you are elsewhere practicing on top of your mat. At these times, you are at greatest risk of serious injury. The most common of these injuries in my experience is over stretching the ligaments, which can make me permanent. Aggressive back flexion may be another culprit. And if you are flexible, keep in mind that you are more at risk of stretching too much than your inflexible friends. And of course head and shoulder support are very dangerous when you don't know what you're doing.

Marketing of yoga can do both harm and good. While I am delighted that more and more people are looking for balance, yoga is much more than just forms. Make mindfulness on the mat and in your life your practice instead of that triple nod with a cherry on top.