And 'recently released on the Republic of Federico Rampini an article about possible harmful effects of this ancient discipline. The article in question emphasizes the development of a growing and alarming so-called "syndrome accidents yoga" I would call malpractice syndrome yoga and that Rampini himself recognized them as such in the development of his article.
The topic is indeed interesting and it becomes legitimate to deal with seriousness and competence not feel it a taboo, but trying to clarify some important aspects of this question: Can yoga hurt?
Practical Yoga for over 30 years and during that time I never happened to have physical problems related to my practice, if anything, I can honestly say that yoga has enabled me to maintain focus and body awareness on other sports such as running, riding, hiking and skiing accidents leading to numerous mechanical and physical ailments by ipersollecitazione. When I'm not well I know exactly what exercises to do and what not to do and this is absolutely true.
Certainly a case like mine is not any effect, much less can be remarkable for the fact that I have knowledge of anatomy, physiology, motor recovery, achieved with my studies in medicine and rehabilitation and with my work. It 'also true that the numbers reported in the article by Rampini not really give the size of the problem as they are not associated with the total number of practicing it' to the number of practitioners who are not only well but who have benefited from the practice.
That does not show a percentage of damage, much less compared with other sports or disciplines, and this does not have a complete but only partial, and dare I say "directional" and impressionable. The statement that "most people are not suited to the practice of yoga and they had better stop," and concluding that "yoga should be in good health" seems a bit excessive and biased.
Yoga is primarily a way, not just a sport, or a chance to develop something unique and useful individual on different floors of the individual. A good practice you get to the silence and the possibility of creating a void within themselves. The mechanical thoughts have the ability to break down freeing our minds to a much more expanded world where thought can develop, rise up and travel much more freely, such as tapping into something higher.
Queste esperienze possono arricchire il praticante di yoga che in questa era soffre più che in ogni altra epoca per il senso di assenza di libertà. The modern individual of today as never feels a prisoner of his own thoughts of many mechanical and external conditions.
Yoga as internal and internalized in this respect can be regarded as an ointment, a medicine for many diseases of the soul including depression and anxiety so much talked about. And 'to consider that many sports can in turn become a street. The Mountaineering Messner, for example, is not only a sport but it gets in the way he practices it, a genuine way, a way to evolve, to reach beyond its own limits and to their way of thinking creating something new as he has produced.
But as he himself says that it is okay with me no good to other people but can be harmful and dangerous
In my experience there is nothing which is a medicine the same for everyone and everything. Come per la fitoterapia cinese se un rimedio fitoterapico è efficace per una patologia specifica, lo stesso rimedio può, se assunto erroneamente, diventare dannoso per altri individui. Il fatto di essere naturale non lo rende meno nocivo, è infantile e puerile ragionare in questo modo.
Come sempre si tratta di conoscere la materia in modo approfondito, non solo studiando ma anche praticando . Ogni postura ha degli effetti fisici e meccanici che, se eseguiti su soggetti con problematiche fisiche specifiche possono aver bisogno di correzioni e personalizzazioni individuali non sempre già codificate sui libri.
Also like many yoga disciplines and how many Eastern religions tend to be influenced by tradition, "it was so and so do we." Teaching in danger of becoming something dead, whose value today is not the same value and as effective as one that could have at that time. Recall that the practitioner of yoga was originally selected as a child and grew up devoting a lifetime to yoga. Today it is no longer the case; also translate the ancient texts, trying to apply them and understand their meaning is not without risk to interpret.
But still not all. From experience I can say that the practice of yoga is that if you do not get to a certain kind of intensity. And 'the intensity of practice to make it effective. It is, as many drugs and physiotherapy, a "delta effective action" sometimes very small and sometimes near the edge of potentially harmful. Making it necessary to the prescribing medications, physical therapy practice but also of those who lead a practice of yoga and those who perform it, considerable attention and listening skills to avoid the risk of passing the practical water rose to the foolish and harmful.
We enter into such a size that can become dangerous when those who teach or practice yoga enters into a state of fanaticism and inability to be balanced. Ma cerchiamo di non farci fregare dal modo di pensare di questa nuova nostra società moderna che vorrebbe etichettare tutto come sicuro, come la carne che si compra al supermercato: non è così semplice.
Whose responsibility if, during a lesson, the yoga practitioner who works at the supermarket lifting weights has warned all week progressive sciatic pain, and during the lesson has insisted postures doing all the while feeling bad until you hear a clear twinge of pain in the position of the gripper (pascimottasana), getting worse or a lumbar disc disease: the teacher or pupil?
When I was a student say is lack of awareness of the pupil, as the runner who gets a knee meniscus or tendinopathy because he did not stop in time. No one has heard, has passed for ego or distracting her physical limit and pays the consequences.
The yoga teacher becomes responsible for the consequences when his student warns him of his pain and he does not hear him or tells him to continue without fear of pain and without a real awareness of the true limits of the practitioner: this becomes a failure of responsibility. It 's true that many physicians without knowledge of yoga may tell you to stop this practice as a cause of pain, without paying much attention to the subtle and perhaps destroying years of positive work. But it is equally true that the yoga teacher may not be able to understand that some exercises in that particular case and the situation can become dangerous inflammation: a lumbar anterolistesi for example, can worsen with extension exercises, and a lumbar or cervical rettilinizzazione disc protrusions may worsen with flexion exercises especially if maintained for a long time and these cases are very frequent and almost always produced by a sedentary lifestyle or other working conditions.
Un buon insegnante o maestro di yoga deve si aver studiato lo yoga e il corpo umano ma anche e soprattutto aver praticato a lungo e insegnato altrettanto a lungo. And he, too, as the student and how many doctors should not fall into the delusion of omnipotence conferred by his role and try to keep a judgment as objective as possible.
Federico Rampini si stupisce del fatto che molti maestri soffrono di disturbi fisici; perchè no? I say, the fact of teaching yoga for that reason does not make them invulnerable. Tensions visceral and emotional moments of unconsciousness may also affect their mobility. Have achieved a personal awareness in a specific field does not mean it maintained at 360 degrees continuously.
Many pains are expressions of internal stresses and the deep and visceral reflex disorders can emerge during the practice. Discern which cases there is not easy. Correre dall'ortopedico al primo piccolo e transitorio dolore di spalla senza aspettare di vedere cosa succede, oppure perseverare con mesi o anni di lombosciatalgia senza rivolgersi a uno specialista del settore, meglio se medico e con competenze specifiche, sono entrambi errori, il primo da eccesso di paura e il secondo da omissione di responsabilità.
The balance, the right to act and speak, have the goal to be reached and someone is still very far away, someone is already at hand; err is more than understandable for both.
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