About yoga (new research)

Dear Friend,
I’m going to teach you something that completely changed my yoga practice and my life.
Here it is: “80% of yoga poses and stretches are a complete waste of time!”

Here’s how it works: there is a principal called the “80/20 rule” that basically says 80% of your
progress (in anything) comes from 20% of your efforts.

So 20% of your yoga poses and stretches will almost always deliver 80% of your results…… and the rest (meaning the majority) are really not very productive at all. Sad, but true.

Most of us waste a lot of time practicing postures that don’t do much, if anything, and this is why I spend more time practicing on my own than I do in classes.

Here’s why this matters: “If you dump the 80% of stretches that are only generating 20% of your flexibility results (and focus only on the 20%)… you’ll get bendy 16x faster.

I’m not going to get into the math here, but trust me, the results are 16x faster!

When I first learned this, I’d been doing 50+ postures per day for years, and figured my way MUST be the right way. I was dead wrong.

The 80/20 principal is a law of nature. If you practice smart, you move ahead 16x faster.

Practice wrong and you’ll wallow around with a stiff, sluggish body for ages.

This is why I developed the Gravity Poses for flexibility. These poses ALL fall into the 20% of postures that deliver 80% of the results (or more).

And here’s something even weirder. The 80/20 rule applies to everything, not just yoga… but that’s more than I can go into here

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Comment by Anita Maden on October 9, 2011 at 9:03pm: Dr Wequar, I do not think the yoga supplements are at all necessary, basically this is a type of yoga which uses gravity poses which are held for uo 5 minutes.

Comment by kuram srinivasachar anand on October 10, 2011 at 8:07am: What one needs and what an yogic exercise can give are two different things. Every yogasana has a precise benifit to the person who practices it. That is why all people who practice will not do all yogic excercises. So one need not be carried away by a Eighty twenty rule. The rule is just a generic statistical estimation. Like 80% of the population of a country are ruled by 20% of people etc. and 80% problems are due to 20% of the causes detected etc. One can not extend the rule here.

Comment by Dr. Wequar Ali Khan on October 10, 2011 at 9:08pm: "Every yogasana has a precise benifit to the person who practices it." That in my opinion is the spirit of yoga.5000 years of experience? Can it be questioned?