Yoga thread

[KingKhanWC]

It's all over the news being International Yoga day.

I can understand if some people want to sit with their legs crossed thinking spiritual thoughts but when people suggest yoga has health benefits it's hard to believe. I've played sports all my life from martial arts, boxing, football, cricket, athletics and never has any of my trainers suggested I use yoga for stretching or for any other health/fitness purpose.

I'm not expert on yoga but from some of the techniques I've seen it's just a fast track to injury. Sure some positions within yoga will help your body but these can be achieved by accepted methods within the sports science world.

Why bother bending your neck or lower back which will likely cause injury?

An interesting article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?_r=0

 

[Smiling Creed]

No one has ever got injured doing yoga.

To rub salt in ur wound....it's India's soft power at full display to the world. Enjoy it.

 

[Bhaijaan]

What's the point of this stupid thread?


Yoga is for peace and harmony as recognized by UN. Its for the masses, a cheap and easy solution to stay fit and peaceful. For people who can't afford gyms and trainers.

 

[KingKhanWC]

No one has ever got injured doing yoga.

To rub salt in ur wound....it's India's soft power at full display to the world. Enjoy it.

The NY times article suggests otherwise.

Maybe if Indians spent time doing martial arts while eating beef rather than pansy yoga poses while eating lettuce they would have been known in history as warriors in combat.

 

[KingKhanWC]

What's the point of this stupid thread?


Yoga is for peace and harmony as recognized by UN. Its for the masses, a cheap and easy solution to stay fit and peaceful. For people who can't afford gyms and trainers.

lol. Peace and harmony can be achieved by talking a walk in the countryside or just lying on the beach for a few hours. You don't need to afford a gym membership, there are basic exercises for the body, accepted by all sport scientists and practiced by world champion athletes anybody can do at home.

Why would anybody want to wrap their legs around their head and end up looking silly? lol

 

[Smiling Creed]

The NY times article suggests otherwise.

Maybe if Indians spent time doing martial arts while eating beef rather than pansy yoga poses while eating lettuce they would have been known in history as warriors in combat.

Yoga is not to build world class body...to provide a way for general people to remain fit.

You would do urself a favour if u saw utube videos of BKS Iyengar... or the latest fad of Baba ramdev.

 

[proud_pakistani]

You cant compare yoga to another sport. It has its own genre. Its all about stretching and inner healing. I have seen some of the most flexible people who do yoga so it does have health benefit. Posture is one of the most important things it helps in. People who do yoga regularly never have issues with their spine.

 

[SULTAN]

Yoga is india's marketing BS.

Just as sheeple will keep on believing in homeopathy, sheeple will keep on believing Yoga has any spiritual or health-related benefits.

 

[Garuda]

People calling it as crossing legs and stretching etc etc, can't survive one hour of proper yoga.

 

[KingKhanWC]

You cant compare yoga to another sport. It has its own genre. Its all about stretching and inner healing. I have seen some of the most flexible people who do yoga so it does have health benefit. Posture is one of the most important things it helps in. People who do yoga regularly never have issues with their spine.

Inner healing? What does that even mean?

As for stretching there are accepted methods which professional athletes use. I've never had any issues with my spine after playing various sports all my life. To strengthen my lower back I do dead lifts and then stretch by lying down on my back and raising my knees to my chest. It's simple and effective.

Maybe yoga has copied ancient techniques of stretching and made them into some hippy type spiritual nonsense?

 

[Garuda]

Inner healing? What does that even mean?

As for stretching there are accepted methods which professional athletes use. I've never had any issues with my spine after playing various sports all my life. To strengthen my lower back I do dead lifts and then stretch by lying down on my back and raising my knees to my chest. It's simple and effective.

Maybe yoga has copied ancient techniques of stretching and made them into some hippy type spiritual nonsense?

And you suggest the same for someone aged with a back problem too ? I hope not.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Why would anybody want to wrap their legs around their head and end up looking silly? lol

Because they are not narrow minded and are open to any free home solution to good health? The world has embraced Yoga for its benefits and peace & harmony message. 177 out of 190 countries have acknowledged International Yoga Day for the same, only a select few communities are struggling to join mainstream

 

[proud_pakistani]

Inner healing? What does that even mean?

As for stretching there are accepted methods which professional athletes use. I've never had any issues with my spine after playing various sports all my life. To strengthen my lower back I do dead lifts and then stretch by lying down on my back and raising my knees to my chest. It's simple and effective.

Maybe yoga has copied ancient techniques of stretching and made them into some hippy type spiritual nonsense?

OK its great that works for you but why do you hate on people who do another art form? What is it you are trying to prove?

 

[KingKhanWC]

And you suggest the same for someone aged with a back problem too ? I hope not.

I suggest they visit their local doctor who will refer them to a physio.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Because they are not narrow minded and are open to any free home solution to good health? The world has embraced Yoga for its benefits and peace & harmony message. 177 out of 190 countries have acknowledged International Yoga Day for the same, only a select few communities are struggling to join mainstream

This is my point. There are very simple exercises and stretches you can do at home without looking like a fruitcake and no risk of injury. These can be done by people of all ages, shapes and sizes. I'll teach you if you like.

 

[KingKhanWC]

OK its great that works for you but why do you hate on people who do another art form? What is it you are trying to prove?

I don't hate on anyone, I just find it hilarious people claim this has any more benefits than common stretching practices. You claimed of some inner healing? Care to prove this instead of worrying about my feelings?

 

[akki]

Inner healing? What does that even mean?

As for stretching there are accepted methods which professional athletes use. I've never had any issues with my spine after playing various sports all my life. To strengthen my lower back I do dead lifts and then stretch by lying down on my back and raising my knees to my chest. It's simple and effective.

Maybe yoga has copied ancient techniques of stretching and made them into some hippy type spiritual nonsense?

because you are nobody in the world na..your opinion doesnt matter.....yoga is one of the gifts to the modern world from indian civilization which is more than 5000 years old...and 177 countries have approved it...doesnt matter what you think...even if you say i can post videos or articles about your best friend china where thousands of people do yoga regularly and even they chant mantras in sanskrit too..isnt this amazing??? and i dnt think whole of pakistan would be against yoga..it is accepted worldwide and its only individual like you may be againt it..and dnt judge upon one article you quoted..there are thousands of articles and almost all over the world its accepted

 

[Garuda]

I suggest they visit their local doctor who will refer them to a physio.

Again proving that you are clueless on the topic.

 

[Garuda]

I don't hate on anyone, I just find it hilarious people claim this has any more benefits than common stretching practices. You claimed of some inner healing? Care to prove this instead of worrying about my feelings?

Mate the problem is it is not just stretching practices. This closed vision of yoga is making these weird comments from you.

There are different levels of yoga. There are yoga, I can bet you will not even be able to do.

 

[QazzarFan]

It's fairly obvious. Many Muslims dislike Yoga simply due to it being associated with the Hindu religion. Any other reasons given is simply BS. Many hardcore monotheistic followers consider it satanic and demonic.

 

[Neferpitou]

It's fairly obvious. Many Muslims dislike Yoga simply due to it being associated with the Hindu religion. Any other reasons given is simply BS. Many hardcore monotheistic followers consider it satanic and demonic.

Yep I hear yoga is popular amongst the Illuminati.

 

[Garuda]

It's fairly obvious. Many Muslims dislike Yoga simply due to it being associated with the Hindu religion. Any other reasons given is simply BS. Many hardcore monotheistic followers consider it satanic and demonic.

Bingo.

I do not see any other reason behind it. Hindus shouldn't try to claim yoga as their own nor other religions should think that its a hindu thing.

 

[akki]

Bingo.

I do not see any other reason behind it. Hindus shouldn't try to claim yoga as their own nor other religions should think that its a hindu thing.

nobody in india saying bro that its hindu thing....for muslims in india what govt said and many yogis that dnt chant om and dnt do surya namaskar etc things if you have objection ......i am proud on these kind of things that we take too much care of the feelings of the minority people and you know that all people saying is yoga is associated with indian civilization and its for every person in this world not only for hindus and yog patanjali was translated in to arabic and went there by al biruni and it was appreciated there as well.

 

[KingKhanWC]

It's fairly obvious. Many Muslims dislike Yoga simply due to it being associated with the Hindu religion. Any other reasons given is simply BS. Many hardcore monotheistic followers consider it satanic and demonic.

I haven't mentioned any relation to Hinduism. I'm more interested in from a sport science perspective but your hatred of Muslims will make you come to this strange conclusion.

 

[Garuda]

nobody in india saying bro that its hindu thing....for muslims in india what govt said and many yogis that dnt chant om and dnt do surya namaskar etc things if you have objection ......i am proud on these kind of things that we take too much care of the feelings of the minority people and you know that all people saying is yoga is associated with indian civilization and its for every person in this world not only for hindus and yog patanjali was translated in to arabic and went there by al biruni and it was appreciated there as well.

I am not saying anyone is saying that. I am just trying to say that's how it should happen. This will take religion out of the issue. In India a lot of muslim scholars also support yoga. So its not a major issue in India as such.

Only thing I am worried about is Indian media. They do not know where to stop.

 

[moumotta]

LOL. OP does not even know that he does not know.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Mate the problem is it is not just stretching practices. This closed vision of yoga is making these weird comments from you.

There are different levels of yoga. There are yoga, I can bet you will not even be able to do.

Interesting.

Show me a couple of version of yoga which you think I can't do?

 

[moumotta]

I am not saying anyone is saying that. I am just trying to say that should happen. This will take religion out of the issue. In India a lot of muslim scholars also support yoga. So its not a major issue in India as such.

Only thing I am worried about is Indian media. They do not know where to stop.

Vote politics. There are forces that will keep people mislead for ever if they could.

 

[KingKhanWC]

LOL. OP does not even know that he does not know.

I don't understand why Indians are so defenisve about yoga. I'm only talking about it from a sports point of view, I have no issue if someone wants to sit around stretching for spiritual reasons because that's their personal religious view even though I may not agree.

 

[Garuda]

Google and youtube for you mate. Search for advanced yoga.

One example is Nauli Kriya which even local yoga teachers perform very well. Try it with empty stomach and I am expecting a video of yours in next hour.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ClelNBucSUw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Be honest and do not try it alone if you are not very sure of able to do it.

 

[proud_pakistani]

I don't hate on anyone, I just find it hilarious people claim this has any more benefits than common stretching practices. You claimed of some inner healing? Care to prove this instead of worrying about my feelings?

I am not a yoga guy myself but I have seen people improve their health drastically by doing yoga and I am cosidering to start it myself.

 

[Garuda]

I don't understand why Indians are so defenisve about yoga. I'm only talking about it from a sports point of view, I have no issue if someone wants to sit around stretching for spiritual reasons because that's their personal religious view even though I may not agree.

No one is defensive. A lot of my friends find it boring due to high learning curve. As for young guys you need to move up to advanced level to get the real benefit. And to do that you need to be very regular and devote time. It's not like using a machine to workout. In yoga your body is the machine and you need to use it. A lot of us can't use it to that level.

If you do not find it interesting its okay as we all can't like everything. But saying its just stretching and cross leg sitting is showing your depth in the topic for which you have created the thread.

 

[filthyfulltoss]

This thread really shows how ignorant Muslim people are when it comes to other cultural and religious practices. No less ignorant than opening a thread that says "What's the point of namaz, all you do is move up and down??"

 

[Garuda]

I am not a yoga guy myself but I have seen people improve their health drastically by doing yoga and I am cosidering to start it myself.

I started it few months back and I can see a lot of benefit. I do not with other exercises like my regular cycling and swimming.


But since I started yoga, I feel that relaxed mind during the day. The feeling of relaxed muscle that I used to feel when I was in my 20s. I was lucky to get a yoga teacher next to my apartment and that makes it easy to learn and do it properly.

But I will be honest that initially I was bored to death.

 

[KingKhanWC]

I am not a yoga guy myself but I have seen people improve their health drastically by doing yoga and I am cosidering to start it myself.

Ok but please don't claim something you can't later justify. If you do find out what this inner healing is, let me know : )

Be honest and do not try it alone if you are not very sure of able to do it.

LOL. You can't be serious. That doesn't grow any abdominal muscles, which is why the bloke looks the way he does. I think I'll stick to my routine of crunchies, scissor kicks, dead lifts, some other excercises I do and a good diet. I have a better body than this bloke could ever dream of

 

[moumotta]

I don't understand why Indians are so defenisve about yoga. I'm only talking about it from a sports point of view, I have no issue if someone wants to sit around stretching for spiritual reasons because that's their personal religious view even though I may not agree.

I am also talking about it from a health and wellness point of you only. I am not a religious or spiritual guy at all so no spiritual benefits for me here but your post does show why you are so uncomfortable learning about it with an open mind.

 

[SULTAN]

LOL. You can't be serious. That doesn't grow any abdominal muscles, which is why the bloke looks the way he does. I think I'll stick to my routine of crunchies, scissor kicks, dead lifts, some other excercises I do and a good diet. I have a better body than this bloke could ever dream of

pics or it didn't happen

 

[Garuda]

LOL. You can't be serious. That doesn't grow any abdominal muscles, which is why the bloke looks the way he does. I think I'll stick to my routine of crunchies, scissor kicks, dead lifts, some other excercises I do and a good diet. I have a better body than this bloke could ever dream of

Question was can you do it ?

Another clue that you even donot have any clue on what is healthy body. Without proper muscles no one can move his stomach that way. That shows how much control he has on his muscles.

 

[Asif khan]

This thread really shows how ignorant Muslim people are when it comes to other cultural and religious practices. No less ignorant than opening a thread that says "What's the point of namaz, all you do is move up and down??"

I fail to see where the OP made this thread from a 'religious' narrative so the notion that Muslims are ignorant is lost on me. Perhaps you need help to overcome such irrational hatred.

 

[KingKhanWC]

I am also talking about it from a health and wellness point of you only. I am not a religious or spiritual guy at all so no spiritual benefits for me here but your post does show why you are so uncomfortable learning about it with an open mind.

Since childhood ive been active in sports and excerise. I've trained with some of the best fitness trainers in my area, one of my friends is a two time British bodybuilding champion. Never has anyone advised me to do yoga to improve my health & fitness. I'm open to learn about about which is why I started the thread, so instead of being defensive prove to me why I should use yoga in my exercise routine.

If people want to use this to help them spiritually, it's understandable. I've never criticised any religious beliefs but there is no evidence yoga is any better than accepted normal exercises and stretching.

 

[Garuda]

Since childhood ive been active in sports and excerise. I've trained with some of the best fitness trainers in my area, one of my friends is a two time British bodybuilding champion. Never has anyone advised me to do yoga to improve my health & fitness. I'm open to learn about about which is why I started the thread, so instead of being defensive prove to me why I should use yoga in my exercise routine.

If people want to use this to help them spiritually, it's understandable. I've never criticised any religious beliefs but there is no evidence yoga is any better than accepted normal exercises and stretching.

Again, its not about better. No one is saying there should not be body building or normal sports. But eveyone do not like to be Arnold.

Like I have said before yoga is not just normal stretching. As I had given you one example which you can not do. That is not even very advanced.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Question was can you do it ?

Another clue that you even donot have any clue on what is healthy body. Without proper muscles no one can move his stomach that way. That shows how much control he has on his muscles.

I would want to, it's not a method which is used by any qualified fitness trainers.

lol The guy has a terrible body, no definition and his abdominal muscles are pretty much non-existent. He's just inhaling and exhaling while squeezing his stomach. Thanks for the entertainment anyway.

 

[Garuda]

I would want to, it's not a method which is used by any qualified fitness trainers.

lol The guy has a terrible body, no definition and his abdominal muscles are pretty much non-existent. He's just inhaling and exhaling while squeezing his stomach. Thanks for the entertainment anyway.

Again, can you do this which you discarded saying normal stretching in your OP ? Show me doing or else accept that you were wrong.

I bet you can not and I knew from your first post.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Again, can you do this which you discarded saying normal stretching in your OP ? Show me doing or else accept that you were wrong.

I bet you can not and I knew from your first post.

I'm sure I do it every time I snore but not as extreme as your old friend in the video.

But by your logic if it's so difficult to do why is he teaching people? lol

 

[Garuda]

I'm sure I do it every time I snore but not as extreme as your old friend in the video.

But by your logic if it's so difficult to do why is he teaching people? lol

Again trying to escape the hook ?

Can you do it ?

 

[moumotta]

Since childhood ive been active in sports and excerise. I've trained with some of the best fitness trainers in my area, one of my friends is a two time British bodybuilding champion. Never has anyone advised me to do yoga to improve my health & fitness. I'm open to learn about about which is why I started the thread, so instead of being defensive prove to me why I should use yoga in my exercise routine.

If people want to use this to help them spiritually, it's understandable. I've never criticised any religious beliefs but there is no evidence yoga is any better than accepted normal exercises and stretching.

You don't have to include it at all if you are happy with what you are doing. But that does not mean it does not work. It improves fitness, flexibility and balance and can also help with body cleansing like the nasal passage. As an example surgeons advise patients to practice nasal irrigation in order to avoid infections after nasal surgery, a practice directly borrowed from yoga (neti kriya).

 

[Garuda]

You don't have to include it at all if you are happy with what you are doing. But that does not mean it does not work. It improves fitness, flexibility and balance and can also help with body cleansing like the nasal passage. As an example surgeons advise patients to practice nasal irrigation in order to avoid infections after nasal surgery, a practice directly borrowed from yoga (neti kriya).

Do you think he is interested in this detail. The dude is criticizing it for other reasons. He even hates indigo color.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Again trying to escape the hook ?

Can you do it ?

There's nothing difficult about it. But I wouldn't tell if I was doing it like him because unlike the old fella, my stomach is flat, rock solid and abs are sticking out like ripples, you could get your dinner off it.

Anyway thanks for the video . If yoga helps people good luck to them but imo it's overrated and people should stick to well known and accepted methods of exercise and stretching. I have nothing further to add here.

 

[Garuda]

There's nothing difficult about it. But I wouldn't tell if I was doing it like him because unlike the old fella, my stomach is flat, rock solid and abs are sticking out like ripples, you could get your dinner off it.

Anyway thanks for the video . If yoga helps people good luck to them but imo it's overrated and people should stick to well known and accepted methods of exercise and stretching. I have nothing further to add here.

You had nothing to add from start either mate.

Atleast be a man and accept that you lost the challenge and you should not argue on something you have no clue on.

 

[moumotta]

There's nothing difficult about it. But I wouldn't tell if I was doing it like him because unlike the old fella, my stomach is flat, rock solid and abs are sticking out like ripples, you could get your dinner off it.

Anyway thanks for the video . If yoga helps people good luck to them but imo it's overrated and people should stick to well known and accepted methods of exercise and stretching. I have nothing further to add here.

There is lot of stretching in yoga as well.

 

[speed]

Laughing yoga is good to relax the mind, I have heard.

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[Robert]

It's all over the news being International Yoga day.
Why bother bending your neck or lower back which will likely cause injury?

I think those are more advanced techniques.

I do a bit of yoga breathing which calms me down at work. A bit of up dog and down dog after cycling too, stops lower back pain. A bit of half salute to the sun sometimes.

 

[justarslan]

I don't understand why Indians are so defenisve about yoga. I'm only talking about it from a sports point of view, I have no issue if someone wants to sit around stretching for spiritual reasons because that's their personal religious view even though I may not agree.

Because their racist half naked Gandhi performed it and their beloved Muslim killing Butcher from Gujarat support it.

 

[Saeed]

lol people will now fight over a freaking yoga? Both yoga threads should be deleted, what a pointless discussion.

 

[hamzie]

Maybe if Indians spent time doing martial arts while eating beef rather than pansy yoga poses while eating lettuce they would have been known in history as warriors in combat.

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lost it so hard at this random yet hilarious line

 

[Indiafan]

It's all over the news being International Yoga day.

I can understand if some people want to sit with their legs crossed thinking spiritual thoughts but when people suggest yoga has health benefits it's hard to believe. I've played sports all my life from martial arts, boxing, football, cricket, athletics and never has any of my trainers suggested I use yoga for stretching or for any other health/fitness purpose.

I'm not expert on yoga but from some of the techniques I've seen it's just a fast track to injury. Sure some positions within yoga will help your body but these can be achieved by accepted methods within the sports science world.

Why bother bending your neck or lower back which will likely cause injury?

An interesting article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?_r=0

But how many people in the world do martial arts, cricket, sports etc? Yoga is the much easier alternate for them for some kind of excercise

 

[Indiafan]

The NY times article suggests otherwise.

Maybe if Indians spent time doing martial arts while eating beef rather than pansy yoga poses while eating lettuce they would have been known in history as warriors in combat.

The day you come out of the mentality of war, warriors, killing, violence maybe you will recognize that the world today runs on soft power, good will and economic policies. Time to get out the 16th century mind-set

 

[shah_1]

I tried it for a week and is extremely boring. For me playing different sports keeps me fit and I tend to enjoy it.

 

[Abhilash93]

Well, it helped LeBron James.


"Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind, and it's a technique that has really helped me," James told the Cleveland Plain Dealer back in 2009. “I had some lower-back problems a few years ago and once I started to do the yoga, it has helped them go away for now.”

Rarely getting more than five minutes of rest per game during his career as a basketball player, James recently credited yoga as the catalyst for his incredible stamina. “Does it work for everybody? I don’t know. But it works for me,” said the King.


http://www.stack.com/2012/09/17/yoga-athletes/

 

[Bhaijaan]

Well, it helped LeBron James.


"Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind, and it's a technique that has really helped me," James told the Cleveland Plain Dealer back in 2009. “I had some lower-back problems a few years ago and once I started to do the yoga, it has helped them go away for now.”

Rarely getting more than five minutes of rest per game during his career as a basketball player, James recently credited yoga as the catalyst for his incredible stamina. “Does it work for everybody? I don’t know. But it works for me,” said the King.


http://www.stack.com/2012/09/17/yoga-athletes/

But our little ninja warrior thinks Yoga is for girls.

 

[Slog]

I didnt enjoy it the one or 2 time i did it but a lot of my female friends are super into it and cant deny it has helped some of the ones who are more serious

But i dont see why the OP has a problem lol. Let it be.

 

[Iqbal'sh]

Well, it helped LeBron James.

Maybe he should have read the NY times article first.

 

[Garuda]

I didnt enjoy it the one or 2 time i did it but a lot of my female friends are super into it and cant deny it has helped some of the ones who are more serious

But i dont see why the OP has a problem lol. Let it be.

I agree. There are lot of people who do not enjoy it as it can be very slow and boring.

But that's okay as everything is not liked by everyone.

 

[leg-side-flick]

unlike the old fella, my stomach is flat, rock solid and abs are sticking out like ripples, you could get your dinner off

Lol... This is so gay

 

[www787]

Trolling at its best hahaha

 

[Captain_Obvious]

OP must be 6'2" or above, good looking, multi-millionaire and probably the happiest man in the world.

Atleast both Modi and this guy share one quality.... that being super phekus

 

[Lurker_Ind]

To the OP,
You can never become a world class athlete by doing yoga.
You never get 6 pack abs and look like Arnold Shwarzenegger by ding Yoga.

Yoga is not just about putting your legs on your head and looking silly. Yoga teaches you about
-> Breathing exercises. Very important for the well being of the body.
-> Calms your body down and helps control your blood pressure and relieves stress. Stress is the main reason for most of the illnesses ranging from endocrine ailments like Diabetes, Hype/HyperThyroid diseases to High blood pressure which can cause heart disease.
-> The gentle bending posture is good for your skeletal system.

Yoga works perfectly for millions of people who cannot afford to go to gym or go to beach like you have been suggesting.

Yoga has lots of benefits. But winning medals in olymics and looking like a buffed dude is not one of them.

Yoga might contradict your religious beliefs as it involves Surya Namaskar and stuff. Nobody is forcing you to do it.

 

[cricketindiafan]

Cultural heritage of India and hence may sound alien to you

 

[Lurker_Ind]

The NY times article suggests otherwise.

Maybe if Indians spent time doing martial arts while eating beef rather than pansy yoga poses while eating lettuce they would have been known in history as warriors in combat.

How much has beef eating helped Pakistan in producing the warriors that conquered the world?

Agreed your ancestors were also lettuce munchers before they converted to Islam, but your country people converted to Islam 500-700 years ago. Which countries or empires have Pakistani people conquered after converting to Islam and stated eating beef?

 

[Abhilash93]

Lol Yoga is not just stretching exercises. Whoever told you that

 

[speed]

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[Eagle_Eye]

I have done yoga...... Found it great initially as i was stiff as a mule from years of lifting heavy weights. I used it as a means to improve core strength and flexibility and it worked to an extent. I then switched to Pilates and that too worked as a treat. In fact better.

The spiritual mambo jumbo attached to yoga is just nonsense, look beyond that and it can be helpful. But from personal experience, Pilates better for improving core strength and flexibility and I dare I say it, safer. Many can get carried away and push themselves too far and injure themselves in yoga.

 

[Laal]

Yoga is for girlie men (to borrow a term from Arnold Schwarzenegger).

 

[Madplayer]

This thread really shows how ignorant Muslim people are when it comes to other cultural and religious practices. No less ignorant than opening a thread that says "What's the point of namaz, all you do is move up and down??"

Absolutely mental comment. Where has ANYBODY associated yoga with religion in this thread. Stereotyping at its best.
And Namaz is worship not some exercise for your information.

 

[Theo_14]

"Yoga develops abs." Oh wow.

 

[Buffet]

International Yoga day around the world


Malaysians participate in a yoga exercise during the International Day of Yoga festival in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Photo: AP


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More than 100 Yoga amateurs from China's Anhui province are taking part in a Yoga demonstration. Photo: CFP4

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Equipped with yoga mats and humming the sounds of Om, over two thousand people in Taipei city performed the 108 rounds of the Sun Salutation on Sunday. Photo: AP

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1,500 people take part in yoga at the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the first ever International Day of Yoga

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Times Square

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5000 people in Brussels Belgium celebrating First International Yoga day

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Beijing, China

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Madrid, Spain

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[Captain_Obvious]

Awesome initiative by the Great Modi ji and UN

Yoga had already become a part of the lives of most people in the world.So I don't think Yoga day is going to make any difference apart from having official status.

 

[Buffet]

Myanmar celebrates International Day of Yoga with a demonstration of 500 enthusiasts in Yangon

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Hanoi Vietnam

 

[KingKhanWC]

But how many people in the world do martial arts, cricket, sports etc? Yoga is the much easier alternate for them for some kind of excercise

Lol hundreds of millions more do sports over yoga . What a strange post .

 

[akki]

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Malaysians participate in a yoga exercise during the International Day of Yoga festival in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Photo: AP


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More than 100 Yoga amateurs from China's Anhui province are taking part in a Yoga demonstration. Photo: CFP4

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Equipped with yoga mats and humming the sounds of Om, over two thousand people in Taipei city performed the 108 rounds of the Sun Salutation on Sunday. Photo: AP

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1,500 people take part in yoga at the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the first ever International Day of Yoga

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Times Square

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5000 people in Brussels Belgium celebrating First International Yoga day

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Beijing, China

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Madrid, Spain

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Amazing pics mate