Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice or discipline.
Yoga can be beneficial for a variety of musculoskeletal conditions, including knock knees. Knock knees are musculoskeletal deformities resulting in poor knee alignment, affecting the upper leg area including the femur and tibia leg bones plus related tissues. If used consistently, yoga postures can help retrain muscles and improve overall functioning levels.
Yoga for knock knees provides many benefits. Yoga is known as a mind-body activity that increases body awareness, concentration levels and mindfulness. Yoga provides natural relaxation and reduces stress levels.
Increase your yoga awareness by paying attention to how you perform everyday activities such as climbing and descending stairs, stepping up or down, walking and getting in and out of chairs. Stay hydrated by drinking water throughout your yoga routine to keep your body and joints lubricated.
It comes from the Sanskrit root word yu, (union). It is also linked to other root words such as yoke, connect.
It consists of body postures, breath control and meditation. There are many different types. In essence to recognise dysfunction in cognition and overcome it for a release from suffering. Some forms are based on theist belief others non theist. The aim depending on the type you follow is to either connect with the Source, or consciousness, or unified, liberated content state of existence.
Yoga prescribes a dispassionate and neutral outlook towards life. This is achieved when one manages to free his mind from the intellectual and emotional ties that bind it. The individual will eventually attain a state where he cannot discriminate between love and hate, good and the bad and pleasure and pain. Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (truth), Asteya (control desire), Brahmacharya (celibacy) and Aparagriha (avoiding greed) are fundamental principles of yoga.
Yogic techniques were initially viewed with skepticism in the Western world but now all of them have been scientifically proven in the West. People spend more than $3 billion every year in the United States practicing yoga. Many scientists in India are working together to collate all authentic yoga techniques in a single compendium.