health and yoga

Essay by Alekjerome November 2014

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Health and Yoga

Health and Yoga: Benefits of Yoga Related to Human Health

About a year ago this month I injured my back working out at my local gym. My injury was just a pinched nerve in my lower back so it was nothing serious or to be worried about in the long term. The problem I was faced with was that after I healed, which took a couple of months with no exercise, I couldn't get motivated to go back to he gym and continue working out. After two months of doing nothing the last thing I wanted to do was start all over again with my workouts and it was frustrating when I would try. I then began trying different home workouts such as insanity, but at home there are so many excuses not to workout so this experiment didn't last long. By this time it was the middle of winter and I had began to notice some odd things with my health and overall mental well-being.

I gained about ten pounds, I felt tired all the time, my body ached, and my mood was dull. One day I had been talking with one of my friends about my recent observations of my health and told him that I thought the reason for my decline in health was that I wasn't getting any physical exercise. His response was, "try yoga." He didn't say anything else to me and I started to fire off excuses why I didn't want to. His wife is a yoga instructor in my home town and when I came back for spring break he gave me a weeks worth of free passes to try it out. After that week I felt as if my whole perspective was changed about Yoga. I then enrolled...