Smelling this fragrance can double the effect

Aromatherapy is a wonderful thing. Even though you are in a house made of reinforced concrete, a drop of essential oil, a fragrance, and you close your eyes and smell it, it feels like you are in a forest... Using aromatherapy to create a "natural" environment for yourself can make your yoga practice more effective. However, please note that different practices require different aromatherapy.

1. Fragrance for meditation

Selection principles: When meditating, you should choose a fragrance that can help you concentrate and calm your mind. The fragrance should be light and not too strong, otherwise it will disturb your mind and affect the effect of meditation. Therefore, do not choose strong fragrances that grow in the tropics at this time.

Suitable for fragrance:

1. Lavender

The etymology of lavender is "cleansing". It can soothe emotions and calm the mind. Especially when you are upset, you can use the scent of lavender to balance the excitement area of ​​the central nervous system. When practicing yoga meditation, we can use the effect of lavender to help us deepen our meditation and improve the effectiveness of practice. In addition, imagining yourself in a beautiful seven-color lavender field will make your mood much brighter.

2. Magnolia

White magnolia can promote blood circulation, unclog pores, brighten the skin, and make people calm. It is very suitable for meditation and breathing regulation.

2. Fragrances suitable for asanas

Selection principles: If the purpose of the exercise is to lose weight, you can choose the fragrance of tropical plants to speed up the body's metabolism; if the exercise is mainly for health and cultivation, you can use soft fragrance to help the body relieve fatigue.

1. Ylang Ylang

Ylang-ylang is produced in Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and other places in Southeast Asia, and is widely distributed in tropical regions of the world. It can balance the hormone secretion in the body, regulate the reproductive system, make the mood cheerful, relieve mental tension and anxiety, and combine with functional yoga, such as skylark pose, bow pose, camel pose, etc., to make the body lines more slender.

2. Tropical fruit aroma

The rich aroma of tropical fruits reminds people of the dancing butterflies and flying flowers in the countryside, as if they were back in their childhood. The fruity aroma has the effect of increasing appetite and antibacterial, and is suitable for yoga practice to enhance the body's resistance during the change of seasons.