Yoga Therapy - Turn Surgery Wait Times Into a Wellness Plan For Inner Peace With Yoga Therapy

If you are waiting for word to find out what's really going on with your body, you probably feel like your life is on hold, and you have little control. Even though you may feel powerless, you do have vital control.

Use wait times to discover more about your own body mind, and accumulate precious moments of inner peace and well being. Develop a wellness plan.

Focus

What's In your control during this wait time is your choice of focus. The simple act of bringing your attention to your breathing can slow down the breathing process and draw your attention inward. Your wellness plan must include developing a relationship with your breath. Take a few moments often during the day to observe the breath. Slow it down by making the exhalations a little longer. In addition, here is a practice that deepens the breath.

Practice:

Place your hands on your hips with thumbs in the back and fingers pointing forward so your palms are parallel to the ground. Notice how this position affects your breath. If you naturally breathe deeply, 5 to 10 breaths will no doubt be enough for you to feel a difference. If you are a shallow breather and your shoulders are tight, it will take longer for the breath to reach deeper in the abdomen. Be patient.

Attitude

During these dreary wait times, could you find a way to be okay with the way things are? Acknowledge your feelings whatever they are. Stop blaming yourself or others. Listen to a guided relaxation or meditation that works for you, and find the place of gratitude within. Your wellness plan must include having a positive attitude. Learn to relax more and experience inner peace and a sense of wellbeing. Here is one way to create this physiological change.

Practice:

Once or twice a day find a quiet spot where you won't be disturbed. Turn off the phone or decide that you will let it ring and not answer it. This is your quiet time to practice relaxation. Slowly and silently repeat the following phrases to yourself. Repeat each phrase two to four times. "I am beginning to feel relaxed.... My hands and arms are heavy and warm.... My feet and legs are heavy and warm.... My breathing is slow and regular.... My heartbeat is calm and regular."

Use wait times to build a closer relationship with your body and breath, as well as to practice inducing a physical state of deep rest. In yoga therapy, practices are modified to individual needs. Make adjustments to the best of your ability and accumulate moments of inner peace and wellbeing.

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From Heather Greaves -Yoga Teacher Trainer and Body Therapies Yoga Training

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Yoga Of Modern Times

From early morning meetings to late night research, from the children's school drop-off to 'good night and sweet dreams', little does the average working adult and homemaker think about bending the body or closing the eyes to explore the deepest and most profound aspects of who they are. Rather, yoga classes and meditation techniques are seen as the last recourse for physical or psychological issues, resorted to after long, desperate hours at the local gym or after a ridiculous number of medicated drugs have failed.

Yoga and meditation however, can have a drastic impact on one's day to day activities. I, for one, can vouch that before starting daily yoga practices, exhaustion would start showing up just before noon - and sometimes even earlier. After I began practicing yoga, my sleep quota reduced from 8 hours to 4 hours, and I was more effective throughout the day and into the night. Above all, there was an underlying sense of aliveness and ease in my daily routine.

However, when most people think of a "yoga program," they either slip off into day dreams featuring fantastic getaways to some yoga ashram in India, with foreign massage therapists and sparsely cooked "rabbit" foods; or conjure up a colorful image with rubber yoga mats, spandex exercise clothes, and a far too young yoga instructor whispering phrases of peace and bliss in-between impossible physical postures. This skewed impression of yoga in modern times is a distortion of a very deep and intricate science. The first yoga program, in fact, happened in a serene corner of the Himalayan Ranges known as Kanti Sarovar.

The yogic science finds its roots with Shiva, the Aadhi Yogi, or the first Yogi. Thousands of years ago, he transmitted the science of yoga to the Sapta Rishis - the renowned seven sages of the yogic lore. Since then, the yogic sciences have taken many shapes and forms, travelled to the west, and become distorted, far out of proportion.

Today, there are few places in the world where yoga and meditation are offered in their true essence. Though any number of yoga classes are held for physical wellbeing, very few are capable of transmitting yoga as the ancient sages once did. If more people could receive a yoga practice as it is meant to be given, the high levels of stress and pressures that the city life breeds could easily be resolved with new inner peace.

A center like Isha Yoga Center in India, for example, works to offer yoga as an experience from within, not as a manual of instructions. Headed by Isha Foundation, the center's aesthetics and mountainous surroundings support modern-day, stress-ridden individuals in taking a tranquil first step into the world of yoga and meditation.

Yoga programs today have taken on a distorted form. Isha yoga programs and the inner engineering retreats are a few programs which offer yoga and meditation in its true essence.

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