Presentation:

It does exist many methods to improve the quality of life, but among all of them, the yoga method is highlighted by its antiquity and efficiency.

The quality of anything we do may begin by how we care for oneself.

To care about our personal health reflects on all what we do and in our relations with companions.

It can not be separated the social quality of life from the quality at personal life.

Thus if we want to live a little better we need first to watch our quality of life, our environment and our relationship to what surrounds us.

This method of self improvement shows us that health is the most valuable belonging a person has, that a large part our life is in connection with our health state and that for many people the happiness is to have good health.

Yoga is a practical exercises methodology, whose objective is the correct operation of all the systems that compose the human body.

The human being delays time in understanding the influence that exercise its life habits and its actions in the organism. Normally during the infancy and youth we acquired a style, a way of living that it is difficult to modifying in the rest of life. A high percentage of the diseases that suffers a person are originated therefore by the habits maintained throughout the years. Even being conscious of its nocivity, sometimes we fell ourselves unable to changing them.

The yoga is a valid improvement instrument in two given situations: on the one hand it has a preventive character, that is to say, teaches us how to live healthy; and on the other hand it presents a corrective character, so that permits us to change wrong habits.

The change process suggested by the methodology of yoga is gradual and it is based on education, in a learning process that parts from the own experience and in the regular maintenance of practices.

Traditionally it has been considered of few use the mere theoretical study of yoga without practice. We need physical control to adapt us better, learn to breathe to control the emotional reactions. These techniques based on the tradition of the indian classic yoga, are shown as an integrative discipline of all these aspects, as a practical discipline, of routine accomplishment and based on the human physiology.

We have two types of techniques: postural exercises and respiratory exercises ("asanas" and "pranayama" in its original denomination in Sanskrit). Asanas for the physical control; correcting the spinal column and balancing the muscular tone. The pranayama improves the respiratory functions (ventilation and perfusion) and permits a general improvement.

THE ASANAS (or physical exercises) are models that, by its beneficial influence on the body, serve to improve the health and to maintain the physical form. Provide welfare, stability, harmony, relaxation, flexibility, balance and a greater concentration capacity.

There are different types of asanas according to the position of the body (sitting, lying, standing or inverted) and according to its effect (corrective, relaxing, of stretching and of flexibility), being the general purpose to obtain expansion and quietude.

They are done and undone quite slowly, without jerks, with comfort, softly and slowly, without over stress neither fatigue. They are maintained during some time with firmness but smoothly.

The asanas present an active part, dynamic or of mobility (at the time of doing and undoing) and other passive, static or of immobility (maintenance of the posture), being more important this last one.

Correct practice requires an appropriate mental attitude, a firm mind, with attention and in calmness, never producing exhaustion. Maintaining the attention in observation of breathing helps to that aim. The initial effort required for the maintenance of the asanas will be gone reducing gradually as mastering over it comes.

From all among the existing asanas, one must choose those that suits more to him, without need of practicing all. Once it accomplished the election, one will practice in simple way constantly and regularly until one could maintain them during a period of sufficiently long time.

If we propose ourselves the accomplishment of one or two of these exercises every day during a month, for example, first we have to seek a way of learning these physical exercises (corrective and relaxing) and respiratory, this is easy today and accessible to everybody through the gymnasiums and yoga centers.

Yoga gives us quality of life by helping us:

1. To learn a series of elemental exercises that helps to develop a better health and welfare.

2. To try to incorporating healthy life habits into the daily routine based on the exercise.

3. By muscular easing.

4. By the improvement of the respiratory function.

5. To get relief and prevention of the back aches.

6. By preventing some pathologies due to wrong habits.

The importance of improving and increasing our quality of life, of being better is also in working better, producing more, to reduce the job sick leaves and to improve the quality of our work.

Also we can live better at the same time we are in our job, because in the actual working environment to care of oneself is fundamental for to give an agreeable service and technical quality to the society.

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