Yoga is beneficial for athletes and sports persons in several ways. It helps prevent injuries through increased flexibility, strength and awareness. Yoga practices like asanas, pranayama and meditation can reduce stress, increase focus and balance emotions. Specific poses help correct muscular imbalances, relax the body and speed recovery. Breathing techniques enhance lung capacity, energy and mental calmness. Yoga nidra and trataka also improve concentration, willpower and ability to handle pressure. Overall, regular yoga practice offers athletes both physical and mental training for enhanced performance and injury prevention.
Yoga is beneficial for athletes and sports persons in several ways. It helps prevent injuries through increased flexibility, strength and awareness. Yoga practices like asanas, pranayama and meditation can reduce stress, increase focus and balance emotions. Specific poses help correct muscular imbalances, relax the body and speed recovery. Breathing techniques enhance lung capacity, energy and mental calmness. Yoga nidra and trataka also improve concentration, willpower and ability to handle pressure. Overall, regular yoga practice offers athletes both physical and mental training for enhanced performance and injury prevention.
Yoga is beneficial for athletes and sports persons in several ways. It helps prevent injuries through increased flexibility, strength and awareness. Yoga practices like asanas, pranayama and meditation can reduce stress, increase focus and balance emotions. Specific poses help correct muscular imbalances, relax the body and speed recovery. Breathing techniques enhance lung capacity, energy and mental calmness. Yoga nidra and trataka also improve concentration, willpower and ability to handle pressure. Overall, regular yoga practice offers athletes both physical and mental training for enhanced performance and injury prevention.
Yoga is beneficial for athletes and sports persons in several ways. It helps prevent injuries through increased flexibility, strength and awareness. Yoga practices like asanas, pranayama and meditation can reduce stress, increase focus and balance emotions. Specific poses help correct muscular imbalances, relax the body and speed recovery. Breathing techniques enhance lung capacity, energy and mental calmness. Yoga nidra and trataka also improve concentration, willpower and ability to handle pressure. Overall, regular yoga practice offers athletes both physical and mental training for enhanced performance and injury prevention.
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APPLIED ASPECTS OF YOGA
Yoga is an Art Science Philosophy • Yoga is a method of learning that aims to attain the unity of mind, body, and spirit through these three main Yoga structures:
• Exercise (Asana), • Breathing (Pranayama), and • Meditation (Dhyana). Different Fields Of Application • Stress management • Sports • Computer professions • Women • Oldage • Chilren What is stress ? • a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation. How stress affects our body ? Yoga for stress management
change in attitude modification of life
Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Yoga-nidra, Diet
and a daily work schedule. ASANAS Sthiram Sukham Asanam activate tone and revitalize the organs massage the joints stretch and relax the muscles optimize endocrine gland secretions develop stamina and promote internal awareness. Stress and Breathing Role of pranayama Deep breathing
activates strech receptors in the lungs
hyperpolorization current
heart,lungs and lymbic system
synchronization of cardiopulmonary &cns
state of relaxation Yoga for sports persons • Sport is not purely a physiological phenomenon but a complex interplay of the mind and body. • A sports person needs four basic qualities: Speed, Skill, Strength and Stamina • • Sports’ training can lead to a form of imbalance where muscles or the body as a whole becomes weak through over exertion. • Regeneration is a remedial process for regaining strength and for the prevention of injuries. • Yoga regeneration exercises are based on the principle that after contracting for a specific time period in an isometric movement against specific resistance, muscles will release and relaxes. How Yoga Helps A Sports Person
• Yoga is useful for all types of sports to help prevent
injuries. One gets extra agility which helps to avoid damage, provides more strength and improves a player's ability to react to a situation.
• In competitions, athletes at all ability levels tend to
have a fear of losing, of other competitors, or of developing mental deterrents to excellent performance. Yoga trains us to be our best every single moment, to hold ourselves at our highest standard and to go beyond our preconceived limitations. • Due to long term sports training, muscular imbalance can develop in the body which can lead to damage and injury. Yoga's practices are ideal in this respect because integration, balance and harmony are keywords of Yoga. These practices correct the one-sided effect of training by promoting general harmonious development of the body and by improving the whole physical system.
• Yoga practices offer the natural remedy because Asanas
are based on the gentle stretching of muscles, which induces relaxation and increases the blood supply. These also release residual tension and speed up regeneration YOGIC PRACTICES
• The Preparatory Exercises
• Surya Namaskara • Backward and Forward Bending Asanas • Inverted and Balancing Asanas • Pranayama • Relaxation and Meditation techniques • Shatkarmas THE PREPARATORY EXERCISES
• Preparatory exercises remove stiffness from
the joints and help the muscles to become flexible. • Co-ordination between bones, muscles, joints and ligaments improves so that they work naturally and spontaneously. • Problems in the knee joints, hip joints, ankle joints, shoulder joints and wrist joints can all be remedied by these Asanas thus minimising injuries. BACKWARD AND FORWARD BENDING ASANAS
• Increase the strength and flexibility of the spine.
• Much accumulated stress tends to stagnate in the
spine, especially in the lower region or at the neck and shoulders. Hence backward and forward bending followed by one or two twisting Asanas will relax the spine and give the feeling of alertness.
• Psychologically, backward bending Asanas prepare the
players to face any situation with courage and optimism; forward bends help to let go and go with the flow; and twists gently squeeze out hesitation and uncertainty. SURYA NAMASKARA (SALUTE TO THE SUN)
Players can use it for overall fitness and as a
warm up before any sport. It prepares the body for handling stressful situations. It is an effective way of loosening up, stretching, massaging and toning all the joints, muscles and internal organs of the body. It stimulates and balances all systems of the body. BALANCING ASANAS
• These induce physical balance by stilling
unconscious movement. They develop the brain centres that control the body functions in motion thus developing the connection between the mind and body. • They increase the co-ordination of movements between different parts of the body, which develops the sense of balance. • They fine tune the efficiency of the use of energy both in action and stillness. PRANAYAMA
• Pranayama or Breathing practices are one of the
most effective means of increasing lung capacity, energy and stamina. • It also helps control over involuntary muscles, enhances concentration and balances emotions. • Bhramari Pranayama (humming bee breath) and Ujjayi Pranayama (psychic breath) can be used before any sporting event to induce relaxation and reduce mental stress; thus bringing calmness and quietness of mind. • Bhastrika Pranayama (rapid breathing from the abdomen) generates heat and vitality and raises the natural energy level; it makes the 'second wind' more accessible in sport after near-exhaustion.
with Kumbhaka (breath retention) also increases lungs capacity as well as being the main practice for balancing the Pranic energy by stimulating both hemispheres of the brain equally.
• Abdominal breathing is also one of the most simple and
effective Pranayamas, which can be done at any time to enable one to be in the present moment TRATAKA
• Trataka is concentrated gazing at one point. All games
require the ability to develop one-pointed concentration and awareness. • This practice not only enhances concentration and one- pointedness to counter distractions, but also increases awareness, intuitive knowledge and discretion.
YOGA-NIDRA
• Yoga-nidra is the systematic method for inducing
complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. It works at three levels simultaneously - the conscious, subconscious and unconscious level • There is a stage in Yoga-nidra where a resolve is made which can increase willpower and single-mindedness to achieve success on the field. • For most players, negative emotional responses, including rage, fear and aggression can be hard to control during high levels of stress. • In Yoga-nidra, players are asked to submit voluntarily to strong emotions, while preserving a state of deep relaxation and witnessing the whole process. This helps to remain balanced and in control in any situation
