Yoga Therapy-中国国际广播电台默瀚(莫汉)采访
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Yoga Therapy
作者:中国国际广播电台Easy FM
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Nowadays people are struggling to keep up with many everyday
things, but keeping fit is one thing we should always keep in mind.
When you feel under great pressure and stress, there's one therapy
that may be very helpful.
Zhang Wan tells us more.
Mohan India is a teacher in China. He says he has lots of
students, all of different ages.
"It's amazing I have students who are 11 or 20 years old, also I
have students who are 65 years old, so all groups of people."
What kind of class could suit students of such different ages? It
could be nothing other than yoga. Mohan, who has been practicing
yoga for 18 years, came to China in 2003 to be a yoga
teacher.
"At that time yoga was still very young in China, and many times
people ask me if yoga comes from America, because there was less
information about yoga."
However, seven years later, he says he feels that for many students
in China, yoga has become part of life.
"It's really wonderful that they are serious for practice. It's
very clear, if you don't get benefit, you would never continue. I
have students who started to practice since 2003, and till now,
it's been 7 years for them with me."
Mohan says yoga tells people how to live a happy life. It not only
makes the body healthy, but also quiets the mind. Lin Xiaohai, who
teaches at a yoga school, is the general secretary of China Yoga
2010, a conference that just concluded in Beijing. He says:
"Currently in China, yoga has gained acceptance from more and more
people. Now the living standards for people in China have been
greatly improved, so an increasing number of people are starting to
practice yoga."
Lin says many people turn to yoga at first in an attempt to lose
weight, but gradually they find their physical discomfort greatly
decreased.
"Such as insomnia, cervical spondylosis and so on. Also we have
people who mentally have trouble, let's say, are experiencing a
setback in life, through practicing yoga, they get the answer to
the question of what we live for, that is, we live for
happiness."
However, is it hard to learn these yoga poses? Mohan says compared
to practitioners from other cultures, Chinese have advantages when
learning yoga.
"I feel the cultures of India and China are very similar, we have
such practices in yoga in India, and in China you have Taiji,
Qigong, and Chinese medicine. So something is very close, and
people know what the essence of the practice is. I feel they can
understand the essence much better and faster, because already in
their culture, they have the Qigong and Taiji, which work with the
same principal of energy to control the mind and calm down the
mind."
Recently when working people in both public and private
organizations in Beijing have been encouraged to exercise during
breaks in their office hours, a set of yoga exercises set to music
has been selected as one of the options in Beijing.
For CRI, I am Zhang Wan.