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A common experience when grocery shopping is how few items cashiers place into bags. Several times I've suggested they fill the bags with more items rather than use up so many bags containing only 2 or 3 purchases. And, several times the cashiers, all 'older' women, have said if they put more items into the bags then they cannot lift them and put them into the grocery cart. In other words, the cashiers don't have functional strength to lift a grocery bag. I wish they would come to my yoga classes because yoga builds muscle and strength – Here’s how:
* by using your body weight
* by doing poses to engage core, arms, shoulders, chest, legs, glutes . . .
* by building muscles without bulking up as experienced in weight lifting
* by developing strength along with improving balance, flexibility and stress reduction
* by maintaining muscle health while building strength
* by providing functional, natural movement rather than isolated movements common in gym workouts
* by offering low impact thereby avoiding damage to joints and tissues
* by using your body weight
* by doing poses to engage core, arms, shoulders, chest, legs, glutes . . .
* by building muscles without bulking up as experienced in weight lifting
* by developing strength along with improving balance, flexibility and stress reduction
* by maintaining muscle health while building strength
* by providing functional, natural movement rather than isolated movements common in gym workouts
* by offering low impact thereby avoiding damage to joints and tissues
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Even if you had the world at your feet, it would will not be enough. Desire is insatiable. - Dalai Lama 14th
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A so-called fault is a weak place where character can change. - Robert Aitken
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If we take refuge in something healthy and life-affirming, we’re able to ease the pain we’re experiencing or eliminate it all together. However, if we take refuge in something unwholesome, then we make our suffering worse. - Alex Kakuyo
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Do not wish for perfect health. In perfect health there is greed and wanting. Therefore, an ancient sage said: Make good medicine from the suffering of sickness. —Kyong Ho
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Meet your defilements with a free and open glance! Be not ashamed, afraid or discouraged! - Nyanponika Thera
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Mind is the fount of all the good and evil that arises within and befalls us from without. - Nyanponika Thera
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Even if you had the world at your feet, it would still not be enough. Desire is insatiable. Excessive desire is not only impossible to satisfy, it’s also the source of torment. Let’s imagine that you are extraordinarily rich, and you have a huge stock of food. But you have only one mouth and one stomach, so you cannot swallow more than an ordinary person. If you ate enough for two, you would die. It’s better to establish boundaries right from the start, and feel satisfied withing those boundaries. - Dalai Lama 14th
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The ultimate aim is to unite or yoke ourselves to the Life-force from which we derive our being, for that is the very meaning of the word Yoga. - Paul Dukes
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To understand reality we must first understand the unreal. - Paul Brunton