Yoga - The Life-Affirming Art
Recently the New York Times ran an article about yoga wrecking your body. It detailed injuries people had suffered after doing yoga. Some of them sounded a bit extreme and all were certainly unfortunate. The two most memorable to me were a young man who sat in the lotus position until his legs gave out and a woman who hit her head trying to do wheel pose. Wheel pose is difficult at first and you do have to tuck your head – it’s so sad no one was there to tell her that – and staying in lotus for hours on end is not really healthy. Holding any pose for that long is counter-intuitive and contrary to the rhythm of the body and of life.
