By Crystal Partin, RYT, CMCA, AMS, PCAM Crystal is a manager with National Reality Partners, LLC, AAMC and has been in the community association industry since 2008. Crystal’s experience includes leading and supervising varying size condo and homeowner associations within both portfolio and onsite management. She is an active WMCCAI member, has co-taught CAI manager level classes and has served on several CAI committees in the past. In addition to the designations in the community association industry, she is also a certified registered yoga teacher instructor (RYT), with Yoga Alliance.
EVERY “BODY� CAN AND SHOULD PRACTICE YOGA!
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any studies have found that a little yoga every day can minimize stress, improve health, and increase productivity! Aside from the health benefits that yoga brings to your body, it encourages a good mood, an increase in mindfulness and a healthy dose of psychological benefits. The biggest misconception is that you need to be in great physical health or flexible to do yoga. This is untrue, every “body� can and should practice yoga! What is yoga and how might it benefit you, you might ask? The answers vary on this one, but in summary, yoga is a way of life that
unites your breath, mind, body, and spirit into harmony. It helps bring awareness and connects us to our internal and external self. As humans, we work, run from place to place, serve others, deprive ourselves of sleep, take care of our families, and at the end of the day offer very little to ourselves.
Yoga is proven to bring all parts of you, as an entire person, back together to work the way you were meant to operate.
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I had a fellow yogi tell me once that yoga saves lives and is the answer to healing the world. I agree, it is the ultimate self-care! The physical and mental health benefits of yoga and meditation are many. For me, the release of trapped toxins & keeping your mind working in harmony with your body is most important. To achieve this, you must move, stretch, and breathe. If you’ve ever studied animals, you’ll note a few things. Take a dog for an example, they always stretch when they first wake up, same thing yoga promotes. Sometimes you will see an animal go into the other room to be left alone or staring into space. They are doing the same thing mediation provides us. Ever see a dog stop in their tracks in the middle of playing, just to breathe? Yep, they are linking their breath back with their body. How about when a dog experiences an unexpected or trauma like event, they’ll literally shake it off. When we are not moving throughout our workday, we are trapping the day’s events into our bodies and over time this is toxic, both mentally and physically. Stress releases cortisol into our bodies which is a hormone that can trigger the flight or fight response. Excessive cortisol can become trapped if you don’t move it and stretch it. In excessive amounts it can cause depression, fatigue, weight gain and other negative health issues. In summary, humans, unlike dogs and other animals, are not listening to what our
