Do Yoga and Enjoy a Healthier Life

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual exercise  which includes religion and philosophy. It’s a practice people can do anywhere and anytime; as a result, has become very popular in Taiwan and many countries. Yoga is originated in ancient India and have different styles. The most popular one is Hatha Yoga which means Sun-Moon Yoga.

In Hatha Yoga, there is a series of poses called The Sun Salutations (拜日式).

It’s combined with several poses that is imitating animals or other things such as bridge and chair.

Let’s take a look at those amazing poses!

Cobra

Cat

Dog

These poses are useful to release our back muscles. It can also stretch our abdomen and arm.

Bound Angle(Butterfly)

This one is very relaxing and can stretch our thighs.

Camel

Bridge

Wheel

The Wheel pose is very good for our health, for it can stretch our back muscles that we seldom use and open the acupoints (穴道) at the same time.

Baby

Baby pose is a good choice to relax our body after Yoga.

Supported Shoulderstand

Plow

Fish

Fish pose helps to stretch our chest and back, stimulating our acupoints on the head at the same time.

Sleeping Swan

Sleeping Swan is a difficult pose which requires certain degree of flexibility, but it’s a healthy pose to stretch our arms and thighs.

Bicycle

Bicycle is a good pose for people who wants nice shaped thighs and calves.

Mountain

Mountain pose is the beginning and ending of The Sun Salutation. Just stand still and close eyes to relax.

Chair

Boat

Forearm Plank

Boat pose and Forearm Plank is focusing on training our abdominal core.

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Love Doesn’t Come With a Price Tag

Written by Ian Chen & Lydia Chiu (Apr 30, 2017)

Animal right has been seen as a big issue nowadays. More and more people have one pet and even more; however, “pets” may not see as an important part of their family many years ago. They were seen as lower class creatures and may be treated badly.

Take my experience for example, there were 2 dogs in my grandmother’s house; nevertheless, they could not enter the house and only could stay outside watching out the suspicious people. One of them was even poisoned by a stranger whom we were not familiar with. After the cute dog was killed, the only thing my family could do was nothing because animal right was not a hot issue at that time. Since the animal right has been focus by people, my family suddenly realize that how they treated the dogs was not friendly or kindly.

 After having this kind of experience, my family have decided not to keep pets anymore.

In my third year of university, I moved from school dorm to my renting house. My new roommate have a black cat called Mimi(咪咪). I asked him how he met Mimi, he said that his friend found a box on the street, and there were five kittens inside. His friend started to ask if anyone can adopt them, and my roommate adopted Mimi. There are four white kittens and one black kitten in the box, and only one white cat and black cat (Mimi) was adopted by my roommate and his friend. He heard that the others are mercy killed. Mimi suddenly lost her family, and could only rely on my roommate and I.

Fortunately, we love Mimi and take care of her carefully. She now becomes a healthy and active cat.

Adopting animals is great, but it also followed with responsibility. Many masters loved their pets at the beginning; however, as they become busy, they started to fell impatient about their pets. Whats more, they might abandon them. If the masters are going to abandon animals, then they should not adopt any of them at the very beginning. 

There are still many pet shops selling animals.

(The cat in the picture is kept in a pet shop, not for sell)

Please Adopt, Because Love doesn’t Come With a Price Tag