Guide_The benifit of Yoga_Jun
Research
At the beginning, I didn’t know anything about yoga, or even about any relationship between yoga and religion. Then with my preliminary investigation, I found that yoga is actually a very, very broad discipline, involving religion, fitness, communication and other aspects. I interviewed yoga enthusiasts, philosophy students and ordinary people. Their understanding and views on yoga are quite different.
Finally, I combined their views and searched a large number of papers on the Internet, and obtained my own critical topic:Different stakeholders and groups will have their own interpretation and development in using yoga as a tool, but it will not alter the original intention of yoga, which is integrating body and spirit to achieve a state of peace and relaxation.
I found that there are many, many different stakeholders, and the following are the obvious ones:
Hinduism: Because yoga can teach us to control our own desires to keep us in a peaceful state, many religions like Hinduism use yoga to preach.
Health (both mental and physical): Yoga can correct posture and promote exercisers’ cardiopulmonary function. And meditation can make people jump out of the stressful life and troubles
Business: The global spread of yoga has brought new opportunities to various industries (clothing, books, videos, equipment factories, holidays, classes), just like a huge golden stomach bag with hundreds of billions
Diplomacy: Unlike other religions, yoga is not exclusive. The characteristics of self-cultivation and all-embracing are very suitable for India government to build diplomatic friendship.
In fact, there are many others. For example, yoga is also widely used in the education of primary and secondary schools, and yoga also has some help for sexual function. However, because of the religious background of yoga itself, yoga education is still controversial, and the help for sexual function also needs to be further demonstrated by medical science. Therefore, this research will not be carried out from these two aspects.
Progress
For the form, I want to make a popular science brochure. The audience and application scenarios may be distributed as promotional materials in similar international yoga days, so that more people who know nothing about yoga or have misunderstandings about yoga can have a better knowledge of yoga.
As for metaphor, I thought we should use something that is easy to understand and everyone knows, so I finally chose blood. Yoga is like blood. It carries innumerable nutrients (peace, meditation, self-discipline, inclusive spiritual culture),
and delivers these nutrients to different organs (stakeholders, governments, religions and organizations). These organs use these nutrients to play their own different functions and thrive in various fields.
Bibliography
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga
Michelle Star Yoga Part 1&2 : mind and body https://bobcat.library.nyu.edu/permalink/f/ci13eu/nyu_aleph004891011
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