瑜伽真的会让人变好吗？
The yoga industry is booming – but does it make you a better person?
It was 2010 and the newspaper I worked for in Sydney commissioned me to interview yoga entrepreneur Bikram Choudhury.
He was in town to open the first of a chain of hot yoga studios. Choudhury’s brand of yoga – which he had trademarked and franchised – involved 26 poses in a humid, heated room with mirrors and carpets. When I visited the studio and caught the stench(臭气) and the robotic instructions from a mic’d-up(带着麦克的) teacher, I thought: “Yeah, this won’t take off(流行).”
I had been doing yoga for a decade by the time I met Choudhury. Once or twice a week, I’d go to nice, easy hatha(哈达瑜伽) classes, wearing whatever old tracksuit(运动服) was to hand – just like everyone else in the room. Yet
I had never managed to get beyond beginners’ level. I was always at the back of the class, struggling to get my arm behind my calf to touch my other hand. I just assumed that this pace was my natural limit.
In his suite with harbour views, Choudhury told me about all the famous people who did his yoga – people such as Madonna and Jennifer Aniston. Then he looked me up and down.
“You,” he said. “You need to do some Bikram(高温瑜伽). You are overweight.”
“What? Huh?” I said, shocked at this breach in interview etiquette.
“Do my yoga,” he said, indicating a pair of lithe(轻盈的) Bikram yoga instructors seated at his feet, “and you could look like them.”
For years after meeting him, I would walk past the fogged-up(有灰雾的), vile-smelling(恶臭) Bikram yoga studios and think: screw you, Bikram.
But part of me also wondered if he had a point – could you completely change your body shape by doing his yoga? Should this even be an aspiration when you do yoga?
Choudhury is now in the sin bin. In 2016, he lost a lawsuit in which a former employee had claimed sexual harassment and wrongful termination, and he was ordered to pay $7m in damages.
But yoga – hot, cold – and all sorts of novelty yoga (including nude yoga, beer yoga and goat yoga山羊瑜伽，让山羊陪学员上课的瑜伽) is booming. In the past decade it has morphed from being an exercise you might do once a week at your local gym to a lifestyle – and a physical and spiritual ideal to which you aspire.
According to a 2016 Yoga Journal report, 36.7 million people practise yoga in the US, up from 20.4 million in 2012. The yoga market is now worth $16bn (?12bn) in the US and $80bn (?74bn) globally. In the UK, “yoga” was one of Google’s most searched-for words in 2016, while the yoga and pilates(普拉提课程) business brings in ?812m a year, and rising.
People are packed into classes, which cost north of(超过) ?10 a pop(每次), yoga teacher training costs thousands (fees start at around ?1,500 and can go to ?5,000) and yoga retreats are pricey.
It is not just the studios. Take a look at the market for yoga mats(瑜伽毯). According to market research company Technavio, the US yoga and exercise mat business is expected to climb from $11bn (?8bn) now to $14bn (?10bn) in 2020. Sales of athleisure clothing generated $35bn (?25bn) in 2015 – an all-time high – making up 17% of the entire US clothing market, according to market research firm NPD Group. Yoga pants by Lorna Jane cost $110, while GQ magazine has described Lululemon(露露柠檬, 美国瑜伽服装品牌)’s yoga pants as a cult obsession among “a certain set of gym-minded women and busy moms across the country”. You can even buy Lululemon prayer beads for $108 (?80).
In my local area of Sydney, upmarket yogis(瑜珈修行者) have colonised the high street. Most people I see walking around the suburb of Bondi have stopped wearing proper clothes. Unless you are around the bus stops in time for the morning commute, people dress almost exclusively in exercise gear – yoga pants, vest top and hoodie, flip-flops in the summer, trainers in winter. They loiter in the aisles of the organic fruit and vegetable shop, their yoga mats hitting me in the face when they turn around. They zip around the narrow streets by the beach on mopeds(轻便摩托车) or bicycles and, after class, gather around the large communal tables of cafes, sipping $10 juice in mason jars or almond milk chai.
Secretly I wanted to be them. But it was more than just a look. Every yoga class I tried out in Bondi had a semi-spiritual element that I found enticing. At the start of class, the teacher might read some Sanskrit(梵文的) verse, or play sitar(锡塔尔琴, 印度的一种大弦弹拨乐器) music while reading from a spiritual book – such as Eckhart Tolle(美国“心灵作家”艾克哈特·托勒). In increasingly non-religious countries such as the UK and Australia, this is where a lot of young people receive their moral or spiritual teachings.
In many respects, yoga is the perfect pastime for our age – the meditative elements give us the opportunity to find peace and stillness in a time of increasingly hectic and crowded information, the instructional bits give us moral lessons in the absence of traditional religion, while the stretchy, bendy, sweaty physical stuff is a great way of countering eight or more hours a day spent hunched over a computer. But is any of this yoga making us more enlightened or more compassionate(富于同情心的)? Or is it just another wellness industry trend that only the rich and idle can afford to properly indulge in?
One day last year, after my usual weekly class in a studio full of part-time models, I came across a flyer(传单). It promised that in six weeks I could become a “modern yogi”. All I had to do was to attend classes six times a week, meditate daily, keep a journal and take part in weekly meetings that are part tutorial on mindfulness and part group therapy. The programme promised that “an exciting transformation will occur”. Could I become one of those people I saw walking around Bondi – yoga mat strapped to my back, my Instagram feed full of downward dogs on the cliffs, with a Pacific Ocean sunset in the background?
I started the $600 programme, stuck with it and found things started to shift. After doing yoga and meditation every day for six weeks, my body felt looser, more pliable(柔韧的). Getting up during cold winter mornings and bending down to pick a sock up off the floor became a lot easier. Physically it was tough, and it took a month to really get my fitness level moving, but gradually I was able to keep up with the more athletic Vinyasa(串联体位) classes. At the end of 90 minutes, I would be covered in sweat and felt a curious mix of exhausted and blank. The repetitive sequences became a routine that I did robotically, without thinking. I was bored in class, but I also turned off my mind and the classes themselves became like a moving meditation.
As for the spiritual aspect, occasionally the weird speeches the yoga instructors gave hit home. On Friday in my first week, in a move that shocked just about everyone, Britain voted to leave the European Union. The teacher, an Irishman, referenced Brexit in his sermon about 45 minutes into the class. “You might not like change. You may resist change,” he said, walking around the heated room. “You may not agree with it. You may think the change is a bad thing. A very bad thing. But change has happened. It has happened and you can’t do anything about it. To resist it is pointless.” His voice was heavy, sorrowful, and he sighed. “It is what it is.”
There was a feeling in the class that we needed to hear things like this – but afterwards, I thought: is this going to be the extent of our resistance and our protest against political situations that we don’t like? We stretch and get a sermon(布道), go and have a juice – and that’s it?
I started thinking a lot about yoga and so many activities that are part of the wellness industry, and how so many people pour energy into their bodies when perhaps they should be trying to pour energy into the people and politics around them. Self-care is great – but what if there’s no energy left to care about anyone else?
In the New York Times, American writer Judith Warner noted a disturbing social trend. Just as the women of the mid-70s took flight into consciousness-raising groups, the workforce, divorce and casual sex, their daughters are also taking flight, but that flight is inwards. “They’re fleeing to yoga,” she writes in the Times, “imitating flight in the downward-gazing contortion(柔身术) called the crow position. They’re striving, through exquisite new adventures in internal fine-tuning(微调), to feel more deeply, live more meaningfully, better inhabit each and every moment of each and every day.”
Warner glumly(忧郁地), but correctly, concluded: “There is no sense that personal liberation is to be found by taking a more active role in the public world.” In fact, “Such interiority(内在化状态) seems to be a way to manage an unbearable sort of existential(存在主义的) anxiety: a way to narrow the scope of life’s challenges and demands … to the more manageable range of the in-and-out of your own breath.”
The more yoga I did, the more compliments I received. My hair was shiny – people commented – and my skin glowed, my clothes were looser and, like so many others, I began wearing athleisure gear to work. After all, work was just a pit stop(歇脚) on the way to another yoga class. Maybe Choudhury was right after all – maybe I could look different if I did a lot of yoga.
I wrote in my journal, I went to the Monday night tutorials, I meditated, I drank cold-press juices, I did all the right things to become a modern yogi. I was on the way to achieving the ideal of the glowy person in the organic shop. I was almost there before I started wondering – is this really what I wanted to be?
The answer was, of course, no. I was a yogi for about two months before the narcissism of the whole enterprise got to me. There were other things, it turned out, that I had to do.
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练习瑜伽有几大功能
1. 保持青春的瑜伽姿势（Asana）：瑜伽认为衰老的原因是自体中毒（Autointoxication），即身体长年积存大量毒素，无法排出体外所致。多练习瑜伽姿势，身体会变得强壮，体内不会积存过多胆固醇和脂肪，血压恢复正常，心脏变得更健康。整体健康改善了，人自然更青春、更有活力。 瑜伽的每一个姿势都有令身心畅通、提升或恢复元气，达到头脑冷静、情绪稳定的作用。当人变得健康，心灵变得更豁达、更坚强了，自然更能面对生活上种种无形的压力和挫折。
2. 提神醒脑的调息法（Pranayama）：瑜伽调息法可以调节体内的能量。大部分人是用胸部而非腹部呼吸的，这种呼吸方法不能善用肺部的功能，使氧气不能充分填满肺部，因此并不健康。而瑜伽调息法是一种呼吸技巧，为脑部提供更多氧气，令整个精神状态变得平静和积极。它甚至可以在缩短每日所需的睡眠时间的同时，让头脑保持清晰稳定。
3. 洁净身心的瑜伽法（Yoga Nidra）：身心长期处于紧张状态，抵抗力便会减弱，疾病自然有机可乘。在每一趟瑜伽的最后部分，都会以“仰卧式”来结束。它有极大的放松及静心作用，予人一种既松弛又平和的感觉。当我们将这份感觉伸延到日常生活里，人际关系便会变得和谐，我们也能对周遭的一切更宽容、更自在。
瑜伽的治病力量：长期练习瑜伽姿势、调息法及放松法可预防百病，尤其是糖尿病、高血压、饮食失衡、关节炎、动脉硬化、静脉曲张、哮喘等慢性疾病。有研究显示，长期练习瑜伽的人比普通人更懂得控制自身的体温、心跳率和血压水平。
瑜伽可以有效调节神经系统及内分泌系统，进而改善个人整体健康。目前，瑜伽已被应用在治疗艾滋病的层面。而它在心理及精神方面的影响力，更被用来改善囚犯的精神健康，帮助他们减轻精神压力、恐惧感、攻击性，以及改善他们重归社会的能力。 瑜伽的益处多不胜数。当我们明白生理、心理和精神三方面的健康并不能分割处理时，自然会对整体生命有更透彻的了解。瑜伽的最终目的，是拓宽个人意识，令我们更了解当下生命的意义和价值。
练习高温瑜伽的减肥效果会更好一些.
瑜伽的功效有很多的,也许我说的并不是很全面.但希望能给你做一个参考.
另外,这是高温瑜伽的练习效果:
★ 高温瑜伽可以：迅速减脂瘦身
★ 刺激淋巴系统，排除体内毒素。
★ 增强肌肉结实度，锻炼身体柔软度，防止运动损伤。★ 增强自主神经系统，培养专注力，增强自信心。
★ 提高心肺功能，促进血液循环及新陈代谢，帮助消化，提高身体免疫力。
★ 对长期失眠、偏头痛、腰背痛、颈椎病、肠胃疾病有治疗作用，同时还可以减少面部皱纹，使人感觉年轻。
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