| Yoga is supposed to be a healing practice. Yoga can | | | | themselves to do better than that person next to |
| do many great things for your overall health. It brings | | | | them. |
| down stress very effectively, it allows for a sense of | | | | It seems that no matter how many times the yoga |
| spirituality to be put into people's everyday lives | | | | teacher tries to impress upon students that the |
| without having to adhere to a specific religion, it | | | | practice is their practice, students still seem to want |
| greatly improves flexibility and helps with blood | | | | to complete. When they compete, they end up |
| circulation, it creates stronger muscles and thus | | | | pushing themselves too hard and their body's revolt. |
| stronger bodies and encourages practices to try new | | | | The results are pulled muscles, torn hamstrings, |
| things that will help improve self-confidence. | | | | busted knees or even broken necks. |
| But yoga, like any other sport, can cause serious | | | | Yoga Teachers |
| injury. In some ways, yoga is more likely to cause | | | | It is not always the student, however, who is |
| injury than other sports because of its unique nature. | | | | responsible for an injury. There are plenty of |
| The number one reason that yoga students end up | | | | questionable yoga teachers who push their students |
| getting injured during practice is because they push | | | | too far. Instead of offering variations to certain |
| themselves. Yoga is supposed to be about the self | | | | positions for those who cannot do them properly, |
| and improving an individual's mind-body relation ship. | | | | they urge those students to push through the pain |
| But as the popularity of yoga seems to be ever | | | | and finish the position exactly as it is meant to be |
| increasing, so do the number of yoga students who | | | | done. |
| do it for the wrong reasons. These students, instead | | | | These teachers can be found liable for negligence in |
| of looking inward, look at the other students and try | | | | reaction to serious injuries. |
| to compete. If they see someone doing a deeper | | | | The best thing to keep in mind when it comes to |
| stretch in a particular pose or a more difficult pose | | | | avoiding yoga injuries is to never push yourself and |
| that they have not yet tried out, they will push | | | | make the practice about you and no one else. |