Practicing yoga in natural settings, such as the beach or near a lighthouse like the one in Maspalomas, offers multiple benefits for the body and mind. This discipline helps improve flexibility, strengthen muscles, and balance posture, while conscious breathing and associated meditation promote stress reduction, improved concentration, and a sense of overall well-being. Furthermore, practicing yoga by the sea enhances these effects, as the sound of the waves and the fresh air help relax the mind and oxygenate the body.
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When yoga crossed the sociopolitical borders of its birthplace, India, it first spread to Asian lands, thousands of years ago. Then, a few hundred more years passed until, in the 20th century, the United States became its gateway to a scene that had little to do with the one the discipline was part of. That very thing worked like the best hook: by the 1920s, across the pond, yoga was spreading like wildfire (and to practice it, you have to do everything except run).
It unleashed slogans, ideals, frameworks, and principles along with its own unique characteristics. It was "the devil's religion" against the Catholic Church, or so it was called within the church. Religion had never been an impediment to this, though probably because it could always shape every exercise to its liking. Yoga, however, did not lend itself to this. It had its own idiosyncrasies, its own approach; in short, its own religion (along with the one from which it originated). From Sanskrit, its name means "union." It unites the spiritual, physical, and mental, or so it is intended. And thus, it is one of the six darshanas (doctrines) of orthodox Hinduism.
Many women, indeed, took up yoga. The Christian clergy worried that they would leave the religion as they were beginning to leave the paintings and their homes, this time "led astray by the false promises of eternal youth offered by yoga gurus." What they didn't know, or didn't want to know, was that beyond those false promises, yoga offered them diversions far more tangible than youth: the contortion of the body for awareness, for enjoyment, ultimately, for all the things for which many didn't even know they had a body. To possess themselves.
“As early as the 19th century, many Christian leaders warned that yoga wasn't simply about strengthening one's identity and religious commitments, nor was it simply about achieving physical fitness and reducing stress,” notes Andrea R. Jain, professor of religious studies at Indiana University, in JSTOR. “It was a Hindu religious movement that was the antithesis of Christianity.” If this dichotomy still resonates today, the echo was not inconsequential, especially for women, at the time.
