2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is your essential question?
-What is the best way in practicing Vinyasa Yoga to reduce stress levels?

2.  What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?
-Balance the meditation and physical aspect of the practice.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?
1) When I practice yoga at the gym, I notice that you can't just focus on meditation or physical solely. When you practice one over the other, you don't really get the full effect of the restorative process yoga is trying to instill. When I would focus on meditation, my mind would feel stress free, but at the end of the class my body would still feel heavy. When I would focus on the physical, my body would feel light, but my mind would still be burdened with whatever was on my mind.

2) In my third interview with Karen, she mentioned how important it is to maintain a balance in meditation and the poses when trying to reduce stress. She talked about how stress is both mental and physical, therefore if you don't focus on meditation which handles the mental, and the poses which handles the physical, then at the end you'll feel off balanced. She stressed how people that can't find this balance generally don't see the benefits of yoga to its full potential because they are not experiencing it. This can cause people to get turned off by yoga and stop practicing it.

3) In an article entitled "Mind Body Integration", it mentions how the mind and meditation is the act of restful awareness. It talks about how being aware is key to dealing with stress. It mentions how when the mind is more aware, it tends to react less, and with the structure of society today where the mind is always reacting, it decreases stress and calms the mind down to be more aware and react less.

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
Krishnamurthy, Raji. "Mind Body Integration." Proquest.com. India Currents, Sept. 2012. Web. 12 Oct. 2012.

5.  What do you plan to study next and why? 
I plan to try to find that perfect balance in practicing Vinyasa yoga. I want to know how much effort one should put in each to maximize the stress that is lost during the practice.