{"id":508,"date":"2013-07-07T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:32:01","slug":"yoga-is-not-just-stretching-it-is-lot-more-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/yoga-is-not-just-stretching-it-is-lot-more-than-that","title":{"rendered":"Yoga is Not Just Stretching \u2013 It Is Lot More than that!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I came across this wonderful forum discussion where a guy who is trying to perform &#8220;Uttanasana&#8221;. Unfortunately, he was not able to perform the complete pose. According to him, he tried some suggestions from Internet but still not able to complete the Asanas.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920181\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc.jpg?_i=AA\"><img width=\"801\" height=\"66\" data-public-id=\"yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-post-508 wp-image-510\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_801,h_66,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920181\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc.jpg?_i=AA\" alt=\"yoga question Uttanasana\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1435920181\" data-seo=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920181\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc.jpg?_i=AA 1272w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_300,h_25,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920181\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc.jpg?_i=AA 300w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_1024,h_84,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920181\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc.jpg?_i=AA 1024w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_768,h_63,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920181\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc\/yoga-question-Uttanasana_nk2apc.jpg?_i=AA 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This question raised various important points in my mind and I am sure many of you may have the same question.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At what extant one should focus on stretching?<\/li>\n<li>What if we cannot perform the exact yoga pose?<\/li>\n<li>Is yoga still beneficial if we cannot perform the exact yoga pose?<\/li>\n<li>And many more questions!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We at YogaCurious took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/category\/interviews-with-experts\/\">interview of Yoga Experts <\/a>around the world and we found that. Yoga is not just a stretching and one should not cross their comfort zone. One needs to start from the base and have patience to achieve the desired result. You can\u2019t become expert over night. <a title=\"Learn to Play with Your Yoga Poses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/learn-to-play-with-yoga-poses\">You need to learn playing with yoga<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here I took one answer from that forum:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920182\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq.jpg?_i=AA\"><img width=\"714\" height=\"311\" data-public-id=\"yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-post-508 wp-image-509\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_714,h_311,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920182\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq.jpg?_i=AA\" alt=\"yoga answer stretching\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1435920182\" data-seo=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920182\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq.jpg?_i=AA 1276w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_300,h_131,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920182\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq.jpg?_i=AA 300w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_1024,h_446,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920182\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq.jpg?_i=AA 1024w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/yogacurious\/images\/w_768,h_335,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1435920182\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq\/yoga-answer-stretching_iltpdq.jpg?_i=AA 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to you, what should be the best way to learn difficult yoga pose? Share your views by comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I came across this wonderful forum discussion where a guy who is trying to perform &#8220;Uttanasana&#8221;. Unfortunately, he was not able to perform the complete pose. According to him, he tried some suggestions from Internet but still not able to complete the Asanas. Here is the original question: This question raised various important points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yoga-exercise","8":"category-yoga-questions-answers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5756,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/5756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogacurious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}