An ordinary life of the elderly Yoga

Origin Story

In December 2007, a sheer strange winter morning, we were in Beijing Tiantongyuan of a spacious building seen Shen Weide. His middle-heads, the annual session of the oldest old is, bridled slowly, ruddy, vivid and hale and hearty, the body soft, talked, the air full.

Shen Weide, people familiar with the name of yoga is not unfamiliar with this. He took up his 63-year-old has been nearly 20 years of yoga practitioners. Who has not thought aboutA post-retirement idle at home more than 60-year-old, through their own learning hard training ground, will eventually be trained in soft body limbs can be arbitrarily difficult to make a variety of actions to.

Prior to 1992 years, Chen Lao basically in and spent fighting his illness, because of mechanical designers engaged in the work of many years of physical and mental Beishou pressure, crippling, he has had an unfortunate risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, arterial sclerosis, gallstones and other diseases, long-term speech, has made him a result of acute pharyngitis, rhinitis to chronic pharyngitis, rhinitis, or even to patronize the hospital because of bleeding on five separate occasions.It is precisely because the body's health at stake, Chen Lao did not realize that they are really the exercise, and past that most scary psychology, gradually transform into a strong idea of survival. This may be his future driving force behind long-standing practice of yoga bar.

Encounter Yoga

Each life, there are always destined to hit the existence of the mean. "1992" For Shenlao concerned, just as is the fate of a symbol. A friend gave him an introduction yoga books,By Shanghai Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine University's Li Xiaoqing translation of "Yoga Filmography", friends give him a treat for reference, it has no intention to move the sake of a "yoga master" was born.

What kind of a person's personality, it was decided what he will be the fate of pw. Perhaps Chen Lao bones is a self-improvement, ambitious person. At first he practicing tai chi, subscribe to a lot of health magazines and publications, and later destined encounter Shenlao yoga, the practice will be single-minded effort of this gate. Is an old saying: "more is less good, it is better enforcement one." Province, its end will have some success!

Every morning, Chen Lao always go to the riverside park in Shanghai Hongkou fasting attend three hours of yoga, every day for 10 years.

Inf, just attend four years of yoga, Shen Lao had Panruoliangren around, his face rosy, eyes God, walking light. The skin smooth and quick-witted, it is more like a seventies-year old man. Chen Lao 75 years old, Shanghai TCM University, he carried out a pulse test, the results measured by his physical age is much younger than actual age. Today, he is now even more high spirits, healthy self-confidence! The reason for practicing yoga,Shenlao be input in the "World Who's Who", "World Chinese ceremony of excellence", and a number of magazines, TV stations did an interview for him. He himself out three and yoga related books, in the first half of 2008 is expected to have a new book come out.

Subsequently, Chen Lao visitors to learn more about their own understanding about yoga.

Talk Yoga

Author: Yoga for the elderly suitable? Some people think that such a difficult action, many elderly people is not suitable for practice.

Chen Lao: I practice yoga before the body was in poor health, I am also a 60-year-old started training, and the past, my bones are hard, the body is not soft,But through these years of practice, I can now effortlessly cross into the back of the head to his legs, and then the whole body can also be vacated hold up his hands. Some people do not believe that my age so big, I had suspected there must be the basis. I was not born with soft, mostly practiced the day after tomorrow, the world is not difficult, can certainly be done! Any person practicing yoga at any time is not too late, young and old, the sick can be practiced without the disease.

Author: Practice yoga mainly we should?

Chen Lao: modern yoga practice are overload,In order to do the standard position, forced stretch pull the body, often leads to ligament, muscle strain. Now speaking, if you really practice yoga, then it must be the structure of the human body to make a general understanding of how the body inside a structure must be clear. Practice yoga the most important is that the root clock - spine practice. Yoga practice is to practice speaking clearly a spine, called for a very flexible spine was trained very flexible. Yoga posture seems incredibly more than sum up, in fact no more than five kinds of positions: front, back, left, right, reversed. No matter how the changes are not open to escape the five positions, which is always to do some changes.As long as the spine was opened, other parts of the also much easier.

I: In the face yoga some of the difficulties encountered, how you overcome them?

Chen Lao: health is not an easy thing. The early exercise sit cross-legged, some people are not sitting, lying is not, not to put down, that is equal to naught, in short, go through a painful test. Addition, we must talk about a bond, the person destined to find the good method, to have the right guidance, they have firm confidence and indomitable perseverance,Finally will be able to have achieved; on the contrary, some people see it is very difficult too daunting, this is certainly not a. We practice yoga, in fact have "brought this upon ourselves" spirit, no such spirit, it is bad practice.

Hip, knee and ankle joints three first stretch, and these preparations have to do this preparatory work can be played live by the Tongluo role, especially when the activities of the big toe, when the brain health benefits for the elderly particularly well. First open the ankles, knees, hips three joints, and then a single plate. When the legs can be a time when a single disk, naturally you can double-disk, and will be able to sit went.After riding to a forbearance to endure can not just put up feel uncomfortable Take a little bit down.

I: That should help but how to do?

Chen Lao: can not help but to stop doing the exercises, when the face of suffering to be able to be patient. Some people just sit occurs when acid, pain, swelling and other phenomena, it does not matter, this means you have inflammation of that area. Do not exercise your original joints, muscles, ligaments, etc., and now the slightest move it, how can it hurt it? What do you think acid, pain, swelling, indicating where the blood is unreasonable, you make it pain, straining the pain,No pain after slowly. Called "General not feel any pain" is this truth.

I: We want to know who you are beginner yoga What advice?

Chen Lao: Do not competition, not into the position-based errors in thinking and mentality to be correct. First sensible can not be blind study, there must be a clear objective and direction. When beginner can not Yangaoshoudi so-called "Road to Jane," the real truth of the things that are actually very simple logic. As if this double-sit cross-legged,Ask you to calm the mind down and can be, but the heart and they have to really want to do Burongyia.

Postscript

"The lofty sky is the human hands can not match, but we should always keep their hands up position." Shen Vader yoga teacher of life, is the best interpretation of the above this sentence.

Farewell to the Chen Lao, walking the streets in the winter, a kind heart can not tell the strength of ... ...