Cross country has grown in popularity and provides youth with the ability to put into practice both physical capability and mental strength and preparedness. However, such preparedness can also lead ...to physical injuries such as shin splints, or mental fatigue, which can lead to dropout and/or burnout. Yoga is an activity that has become increasingly popular and has been shown to present both physical and mental benefits to its participants. This article aims to provide foundational information for coaches and young cross country and distance athletes to put yoga into action for physical and mental practice. Specific postures are provided with special benefits, stretches, and strengthening information to ensure the basic understanding of the why behind each pose and how that pose tackles a particular challenge for runners.
How We Live Our Yoga collects fourteen frank, moving, and thoughtful personal essays by passionate yoga practitioners on why they began to practice, what it has brought to their lives, how their ...relationship to yoga changes and evolves, and more. Judith Lasater looks at the unexpected relationship between yoga and parenting. Award-winning poet Stanley Plumly ponders the connection between his Quaker upbringing, his writing, and his yoga practice. The well-known Sanskritist Vyaas Houston tells the story of his first guru and their difficult relationship. And philosopher and conceptual artist Adrian Piper comes out as a yogic celibate.
This book offers a systematic and radical introduction to the Buddhist roots of Patañjala-yoga, or the Yoga system of Patañjali. By examining each of 195 aphorisms (sutras) of the Yogasutra ...and discussing the Yogabha?ya, it shows that traditional and popular views on Patañjala-yoga obscure its true nature. The book argues that Patañjali's Yoga contains elements rooted in both orthodox and heterodox philosophical traditions, including Sa?khya, Jaina and Buddhist thought.
With a fresh translation and a detailed commentary on the Yogasutra, the author unearths how several of the terms, concepts and doctrines in Patañjali's Yoga can be traced to Buddhism, particularly the Abhidharma Buddhism of Vasubandhu and the early Yogacara of Asa?ga. The work presents the Yogasutra of Patañjali as a synthesis of two perspectives: the metaphysical perspective of Sa?khya and the empirical-psychological perspective of Buddhism. Based on a holistic understanding of Yoga, the study explores key themes of the text, such as meditative absorption, means, supernormal powers, isolation, Buddhist conceptions of meditation and the interplay between Sa?khya and Buddhist approaches to suffering and emancipation. It further highlights several new findings and clarifications on textual interpretation and discrepancies.
An important intervention in Indian and Buddhist philosophy, this book opens up a new way of looking at the Yoga of Patañjali in the light of Buddhism beyond standard approaches and will greatly interest scholars and researchers of Buddhist studies, Yoga studies, Indian philosophy, philosophy in general, literature, religion and comparative studies, Indian and South Asian Studies and the history of ideas.
Lakshmi Nair and Arushi Singh offer a summary of the personal narratives and peer reviewed essays by South Asian writers featured in this issue within the context of the events of 2020.
O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar se a prática de Yoga influencia a Atenção Plena, em função das variáveis sociodemográficas género, idade, anos de prática, volume de prática e lecionação de ...Yoga. Os participantes foram 281 adultos, entre 18 e 90 anos, 81% mulheres e 19% homens, (214 praticantes de Yoga e 67 não praticantes). Aplicou-se o Questionário de Atenção Plena (FFMQ) (Baer, Smith, Krietemeyer, e Toney, 2006) na versão de Ramos, Rosado, Serpa, Cangas, Gallego, e Ramos (2017), que avalia quatro dimensões: Observar, Não Julgar, Descrever e Agir Conscientemente. Para analisar os dados utilizou-se o programa estatístico SPSS 25.0. Os resultados apontam para a existência de diferenças significativas em diversas dimensões da Atenção Plena. Na dimensão Observar os praticantes de Yoga apresentam diferenças significativas favoráveis aos praticantes. Considerando exclusivamente os praticantes evidenciou-se valores superiores na dimensão Observar para aqueles com mais de doze anos de prática e com maior volume semanal. No volume de prática os praticantes com maior volume apresentam também valores mais elevados no Agir Conscientemente. Considerando os professores de Yoga, relativamente aos praticantes, estes apresentaram valores superiores na dimensão Observar mas menor na dimensão Agir Conscientemente. As mulheres apresentam um comportamento específico, diferente dos homens, quer praticantes quer não praticantes. Na dimensão Não Julgar existem diferenças significativas quando se considera a idade, distinguindo-se praticantes com mais de 60 anos. Concluiu-se que a prática de Yoga pode contribuir para o aumento da Atenção Plena mas que a investigação deve continuar atendendo à multidimensionalidade do construto em causa.
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