A passion for Yoga
Earlier I have read some articles about Yoga and I just want to share to all of you what I have read.
For Bombay-born Shilpa Doshi, yoga is now a passion. Despite growing up in a family that ardently practised yoga, this had not always been the case. "I never took it seriously. I had the same feelings that many people have - ‘its’ not for me’, ‘perhaps when I am older’, ‘no time’, and so on", but well into my tenth year of practising yoga, she now conducts classes in Bangsar, Malaysia and even hopes one day to set up a yoga centre cum foundation so that more people can experience its benefits, as well as encourage research into it. But her passon came about, not in a bid to attain the loftier goal of heightened awareness, but rather out of more temporal physical concerns. Describing herself as ‘health conscious’, she would accompany her husband to the gym on a regular basis, but she admits, "it was really about looking good and noting beyond that!" But following the birth of her second child, a friend suggested she take up yoga to help tone up her body. And after only three months of yoga, she began to see the benefits, feeling great in the process. This was enought to send her off on a search for self-improvement - first advancing her yoga studies in Bombay, Learning pranayama, or breath control, from renowned teacher N.H. Rao, and then later honing her skills through regular trips back to India. Doshi notes she has a ‘hyper’ personality rather high-strung and quaick to lose her temper. Following the move to yoga, which she sayas "works from the inside out". her friends and family noticed a definite change - she was much calmer and more in control of stressful situations than ever before. "Yoga is a gift of a lifetime" says Doshi. One can start at any age. "You work at your own pace and with yourself, the teacher merely guides you along the way. It maintains your youth and vitality, and your mind is more focused." She adds that yoga practitioners look much younger than their actual age - no doubt due to the harmony they engender between their body, mind and soul.
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