Doing Yoga Research Paper

Yoga has helped individuals relax with the help of different body postures, breathing exercises and meditation. One individuals story that really stood out to me was about a veteran who suffered from severe PTSD. His name was Dan Nevins and he was an Iraq war veteran and lost both legs, one leg due to an explosive device and the other one due to an infection. He endured 36 surgeries for his legs, and was also at the time going through a divorce. His life was falling apart. His PTSD was gradually becoming worse and he sought out to a friend to talk to. The friend that he reached out to was a yoga instructor. She gave him advice to do yoga, which he thought at first was something that he wouldn’t even consider, but he agreed to take a couple …show more content…
This has become a strong epidemic all across the United States and the fact that yoga has helped veterans and still does, proves that yoga can be life changing. The power of doing yoga is unlike any other feeling. Reading these stories about how Yoga has changed someone life for the better has inspired me in so many ways. These stories real put everything in my life in a different perspective. I should not be stressing over the smalls things in life like getting a ticket or failing an exam, when people like Dan Nevins have it far worse than I do. I feel like Dan Nevins is an inspiration to war veterans and any other individual who suffers from any type of depression. He shows that even when life gets tough and you feel like there’s nothing or no one that can help, there is another alternative to cope with it and that is yoga. Reading his story has also inspired me to try new yoga poses that may be difficult because if he can do yoga poses that are meant for legs, which he doesn’t have, then I should try my best to do those poses to. He has given the motivation to better myself has a yogi and to be grateful that I have good …show more content…
I took maybe 3 classes, but just by coming to class and meditating and doing these poses for an hour a day, I feel refreshed and relaxed which has definitely put me in a better mood and has given me more motivation to go to my classes and to not stress out as much. When I first started this course, I could barely even do the downward dog position, but with practice and actually believing in myself that I can do these poses, I have succeeded. After taking this course and learning and most of all feeling how yoga has made me more relaxed after having a bad morning has gave me the motivation to get out of bed in the morning and take a yoga class at my gym because I definitely can see how it has just made me feel better about myself as a