Yoga has taken the West in a very odd manner. There are hard coded associations with yoga that are entirely irrelevant. It's generally known as a slow-paced form of exercise that is spiritual and meditative, and requires either instructors, music, or exquisite scenery. None of this is essential to yoga. In fact, I would describe yoga as a series of poses which aid in mobility, flexibility, balance, and recovery.
These poses often include opening your hips, twisting your spine, and opening the shoulder girdle, which all aid in mobility. The muscles used are mainly the quads and hamstrings. An element consistent in yoga is breathing. Each pose can be considered a sort of body deformation. As it is easy to become stiff and rigid in our every day lives of having too much comfort, the mobility of yoga should be a strong appeal. To be able to breathe in the different poses, you are exercising the lungs and quickening the circulatory system and delivering oxygen to your bodily compartments via blood flow.
It's rather odd how suppressed children are raised being forced to sit in a classroom for 6 hours a day with very limited movement. It's as if we purposely attempt to diminish athletic ability. With today's technology, office jobs where people sit 8 hours a day is also become open to discussion as we don't need to be tethered to a desk to do work all day long. Software can be controlled remotely, files can be accessed in a cloud online (where it's inevitably going to end up since projects are collaborations).
Perhaps in the future when virtual reality is abound, fitness will be more important in order to have more efficient movement within the game. Or that all work is freelance completed at home in shorter duration than a work day, leaving people with the bulk of their day to enjoy the sunlight, and therein train their body to enjoy life to its fullest. Or perhaps our avatars will represent us 99% of the time, leaving our original bodies entirely insignificant.
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