Yoga empowers and balances your body to the limit

 

Fragment of an interview with José Antonio Cao, certified Yoga teacher - Iyengar Method.

Jordys González (JG) - José, 2 other questions that I think are fundamental to explain - What is the final benefit of yoga, what is it for, why practice it?

And… What is the difference, perhaps, between doing yoga and another sports modality, another fitness or training modality, or another discipline?

José Antonio Cao - Yes, teaching yoga is extremely difficult, because each student is a world, and each personality of the students is a challenge to my faculty as a teacher, to present him with yoga, rather according to him.

Yoga is very versatile, but at the same time it is very complete.

The fundamental difference that it has with the practice of fitness or the practice of spinning, aerobics or any other discipline, which also uses the physical body, is that yoga never takes as its goal the results that reach the physical body, but rather, they are one more tool and a step to reach a harmony that is beyond, to a result of well-being that is beyond, and that includes, but is not limited to the elasticity, strength, balance, health of the physical body merely .

So, from my experience as a teacher I can tell you that I have had students who come to yoga and have told me "I want to lose weight", "I want to be stronger", "I want to gain elasticity", so...

To gain elasticity there is stretching, to lose weight there are many methods that are sold to lose weight, to gain strength there are all the other disciplines that we said, there is fitness, etc...

But yoga, apart from giving all that, connects it in such a way that it balances it.

A yoga practitioner will never have more strength than his joints support, he will not have more elasticity than his muscles can hold, so as not to injure himself, he will not have more control or more nervous development than necessary, for your body to function properly.

So, yoga is defined by harmony at any of its levels, yoga is defined by integrality. From the beginning the practitioner puts all his levels of existence in the practice of yoga, even if he does not know it... it is there.

However, when practicing fitness, his body is practicing and his mind can be perfectly listening to music, totally scattered. In yoga that does not happen.