Yoga for happy hips
If you have been to a yoga class, you probably know already that it is not just the physical body that the ancient practice affects. Feeling tense and uneasy in a yoga position extends past the inflexibility of the muscles, and may be an indication of the past traumas, unresolved stressful experiences and suppressed emotions stored in your body.
Yoga is an integrative practice, the purpose of which is spiritual growth, and thus it affects not only your physiological state but your mental and emotional bodies at the same time. Yoga teaches that the body, mind and spirit coexist in union without separation. If you repetitively experience stress, feel threatened or emotional or have something worrying on your mind, all these can affect the state of your physical body as well. For instance, you may recall clenching in your body and tightening in your tissues, as a response to the aforementioned situations.
Seasoned yoga practitioners and yoga teachers often talk about emotional breakthroughs and energy shifts that happen on a yoga mat (and off it), which may reveal themselves through tension release, tears streaming down the cheeks, pulsations or temperature changes within the body, along with insightful realisations and behavioural pattern recognition,
