- You are too fit. You already feel fabulous and you just can’t improve upon your physical and mental wellbeing. Especially, if you already practice other sports or exercise regularly, why would you want your body to recover and heal faster?
- You don’t want to lose weight. Regularly practicing yoga would tone your muscles and reshape your body. While you would become more aware of your bodily sensations you would risk of developing a healthier relationship with food along the way.
- You don’t want to be surrounded by cheerful, attractive and fit people wearing tight-fitting clothing.
- You want to keep the pain in your joints. It is difficult to part from old friends. Who does not like to be stiff and achy all over, and feel limited in their movements? A lot of people suffering from arthritis for instance are tempted to avoid movement, contributing to an earlier decay of their joints.
- You don’t want your body to age gracefully. You would prefer to lose your range of motion, strength and energy level because slowing down the effects of time would require regular exercise.
- You don’t like mental clarity. You prefer the mental fog. A large part yoga practice consists of cultivating presence and concentration. In time, this clears up the mind from daily clutter. Since everyone prefers feeling overwhelmed and confused there is just no good reason to practice yoga.
- You prefer living with all the side-affects of a stressful life. You like to lie awake staring at the ceiling for hours with chronic insomnia. You enjoy the feeling of all your muscles tensed up and sore. You relish your heartburn and palpitations from the stress of managing and coping with life’s challenges.
- You think hypertension is cool. Yoga lowers blood pressure. That makes maintaining high blood pressure more difficult.
- You’re a gambler who likes to risk a good fall. In that case, yoga is not for you. Yoga would increase your sense of balance. Falling caused by a loss of balance represents a significant portion of accidents for the elderly, often resulting in broken bones.
- You don’t want to have stronger bones. Yoga helps build bone density. In order to maintain a healthy bone density the body requires calcium to build the bone, vitamin D to assimilate calcium, and regular exercise. The little stresses put on the bone structure caused by small impacts during movement over time increase the density of the bones.
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