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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked world leaders to start a U.N. International Yoga Day. He spoke about the benefits of yoga, saying it was good for the mind and body, and could also help climate change.
*on 11 December 2014, the United Nations proclaimed 21 June as International Yoga Day by resolution 69/131.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1409/140930-international-yoga-day.html
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- Have you tried yoga before? What do you think about yoga?
- What are the benefits of doing yoga?
- Why is exercising and meditating important?
- What activities do you do to help improve your mood, mental, and physical health?
- What do you think of meditation?
14 replies on “Global Yoga Day”
-Have you tried yoga before? What do you think about yoga?
Yes, I practice yoga since January as a new year purpose. I think that it is a good sport that has more benefits besides the physical ones.
-What are the benefits of doing yoga?
It has a lot of benefits, it improves strength, balance and flexibility, helps with back pain, with manage stress and more.
-Why is exercising and meditating important?
All we need a space where disconnect our mind from the diary routine, if we can get it with sports or meditation is always welcome.
-What activities do you do to help improve your mood, mental, and physical health?
The main activity I do is cycling, it is the best sport to my body and for my mind. I love cycling throw the mountains and the roads knowing new places.
-What do you think of meditation?
I think that it is something that we do not normaly find time for and it can only take few minutes every day. Order our ideas and thoughts would be easier if we make it day to day.
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I have not practiced yoga so far, neither meditation. I can’t comment much about yoga. However, I think that it’s important for people who want to relax and be healthy.
Nowdays, we live in a world where there is a lot of stress. Besides, if you live in a big city as Madrid, you will see people that run for everything, when there’s no need. So this kind of exercisess can help to a lot of people to reduce their stress and see their live in a different way.
I only practice football three times a week. Two of them are trainings, and the another one is a macth against another team. Even though, football is more aggressive than yoga, It helps me a lot to be healthy and change my mood. Even when I have a bad day or a bad week, football help me to improve it too.
I also have not practiced meditation. But I have friends who practiced during and after pandemic due to they felt so bad. And it could help thems to feel better.
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I was do yoga for 2 years but in pandemia it stop the classes. For one year I did practice in house but is not the same and I left to do.
I think that yoga is very beneficious for health, it helps to breath, take the problems more calmly and relax the body.
One of the benefits that I experimented is that the back pain it’s disappeared. I usually had back pain due to postures in the work but for two years I didn’t have any pain and if someday I had it then I was practice two or three exercises and disappear.
The exercising and mediating are important for manage our feelings and emotions. The mediating helps to relativizing the problems and take them the positive way. Physically, allow to be more relax and feel wellness.
For improve your mood, mental and physical we can do another type of activities, for example, going to run, Pilates, play paddle o every activity that’s allowed to leave to think on your problems and focus in the moment. Is good meet with friends around a cup of wine too but is better if you do any physical exercises.
I had practice meditation for 2 months and every day I dedicated 15 minutes. The results was good, I felt better and decrease my nervous but it’s necessary more discipline for practice every day or 4 days for week at least and finally, I abandonated to do meditation, although I will recommend to tried it everyone.
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I have never tried yoga, although I would like to. I think that it must be relaxing and, as the text says, helps to discover the sense of oneness with oneself in addition to other benefits for the mind, the body and the climate change.
According to the text, yoga makes you focus on exercise, breathing and meditation, helping with heart disease, high blood pressure, lower back pain and mood.
To feel better and improve my mood and mental, physical health I use to go to gym. Normally, I try to practice some sport 5 days per week; also, I would like to start meditation, but it is so difficult for me to silent my mind when my body is quiet.
I have read many books and articles about the benefits of meditation for the mental health, anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as it helps with personal and spiritual development.
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Have you tried yoga before? What do you think about yoga?
No, I never practise yoga before, i don´t understand the beneficts
What are the benefits of doing yoga?
It´s a god for the concept of mindfulness and relax the body
Why is exercising and meditating important?
because it´s important to be helthy
What activities do you do to help improve your mood, mental, and physical health?
sports like football or tennis.
What do you think of meditation?
It´s boring, I prefer activities more dynamics and enjoyables
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1. Have you tried yoga before? No, I have not tried until today.
2. What is your opinion of yoga as a sport? I think that it is not a sport, maybe when I think in a sport, I think in running, aerobic, football, … an intensive body moving.
3. What activities do you do to help improve your mood, mental health and physical health? I like to much to walk but I prefer to be with my family and frends speaking, laughing … it is very relaxing for me.
4. What do you think of meditation? I have never do that but I am sure that I will probe it.
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1. Have you tried yoga before? Yes, I started to practice yoga almost 10 years ago, in a yoga school in the center of Barcelona.
2. What is your opinion of yoga as a sport? I would not define yoga as a sport because un my opinion when I think about sport I imagine a more aerobic and intense exercise which gets you tired and finish sweating.
3. What activities do you do to help improve your mood, mental health and physical health? Yoga
4. What do you think of meditation? I tried to start with meditation last summer but I should try more in order to achieve its benefits.
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