Today, we attended a yoga session. This was my first exposure to yoga, and it turned out that it was a very different experience to what I was expecting. My preconceptions of yoga were of very fit and healthy people bending into random positions. However, I was surprised when the leader of the session said not to push your body if it hurt as this was not the point. I travelled to the yoga session in a car with several other members of the group. Thinking back now, I realise that on the way to the car we were all chatting, generally about medicine and all the things we have to do and how much work we had. However, on the way back, we were all sat back in our seats, much more relaxed and calm and I don’t think medicine and work was even mentioned! I therefore realise now how yoga has very different benefits to what I would have first thought. Instead of improving your health in purely a physical way, by stretching muscles, instead, I found it worked on the mind and thus making both mind and muscles more relaxed.
Feeling of health: 9/10
What I learned: Yoga is about relaxation, not pain
What I will change: Spend time for relaxing and listening to the stresses of my body
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