Knowing the trend and getting with the flow of Adaptive Yoga

flow of Adaptive Yoga

Yoga is not a practice but it has become more of a lifestyle now. Those who have realized the true health benefits of yoga follow it in their life just like any other routine that they cannot afford to miss. Besides its supreme health benefits there is one thing more that convinces so many people to practice yoga, i.e. it matches the needs and ability of every individual who practice yoga, this is why we call it the Adaptive Yoga.

Understanding the concept—what exactly is adaptive yoga

The name adaptive yoga comes from the fact that yoga adapts to the special needs of every person who practice it. Adaptive yoga is that form of yoga wherein all the poses and asanas are designed to match the true body capacity of an individual. Unlike other yoga postures for which one has to have the required strength and body flexibility to perform, adaptive yoga only calls for your willingness. Adaptive yoga brings to you the health benefits of yoga despite your physical limitations.

In order to enable a person to do a certain yoga pose, which otherwise he cannot do owing to his physical condition, adaptive yoga welcomes use of all props such as blocks, straps, chair, belts, etc. Adaptive yoga preaches adjustment; they believe that performing yoga pose is important whether someone does it with some sort of adjustment, like the use of above-mentioned props. This philosophy of adaptive yoga works like a special aid that enables people leave behind their physical restriction and perform yoga poses to experience its health benefits.

Facts about Adaptive Yoga you never knew

Anybody can do it

Volunteers are an essential part of yoga classes who take care of other yoga students who owing to their physical restrictions and issues cannot move some or the other limb on their own. It would not be wrong to say that adaptive yoga is all about collective efforts, wherein volunteers help a person move his paralytic arm or leg so that they manage to form the required posture for a particular yoga pose.

Assistance does not take away or decrease health benefits

Some people believe that doing adaptive yoga is no good, as one gets to do yoga poses with the help of others. Well, such thinking and mentality must change because it holds no truth. Adaptive yoga undoubtedly is all about assistance and adaptations but the assistance does not take away even the least portion out of health benefits that a person would have got had he been doing a pose all by himself.

You can do it on your bed or wheel chair

Someone in bed or in a wheel chair can perform adaptive yoga pretty well with the help of some adjustment props. Someone in bed can place his legs on a chair kept beside their bed, or someone sitting on a wheel chair can use straps and can lean back the back of the chair to maintain balance and correct posture. One can start with extremely easy poses in which they experience the least discomfort, and once their body starts accepting some movements, they can start moving on to a bit complex postures.

Adaptive yoga has a different approach, it allows use of props as adjustment measures so that even people with some physical restrictions cans also do the yoga poses and experience health benefits.

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