China News Service, Xi'an, January 7 (Mei Yi Taki Gao Cheng) Practicing yoga requires high limbs and requires physical balance and coordination.
For people with disabilities, this is "something you can't even think of."
There is a special yoga studio in Xi'an, which is only open to people with disabilities for free, and helps some people with disabilities to obtain yoga qualifications.
30-year-old Yang Wenting is a professional yoga instructor. She knows that yoga is helpful for physical exercise, so she has the idea of using yoga to help people with disabilities, so that they can get both psychological and physical changes.
In 2016, she founded a public welfare yoga studio, bringing yoga into the lives of people with disabilities.
In September 2020, the yoga studio officially settled in the Lianhu District Disabled Business Incubation Service Center in Xi'an City, which waived venue fees.
The picture shows a disabled person taking a yoga class.
Photo by Gao Cheng
"At the beginning, I took a lot of detours and explored many ways and methods. Finally, with the joint efforts of all yoga teachers, we found a yoga class suitable for people with physical disabilities, which is a customized yoga exercise. At the same time, For the hearing impaired, we also specially invited a sign language interpreter teacher to join us for yoga training." Yang Wenting said.
The reporter saw in Yang Wenting’s yoga studio that in a room of about 100 square meters, more than 10 disabled students were sitting in wheelchairs. Under the leadership of a yoga teacher, they were doing "customized" wheelchair yoga exercises. Student Gao Shuzhen is sitting in a wheelchair, slowly turning her neck, carefully imitating every detail of the teacher's movements.
"Yoga in my impression is relatively difficult. It belongs to that kind of particularly difficult action. I think I should not be able to do it. But by chance, I came into contact with wheelchair yoga and it felt pretty good, and then I insisted on it." Gao Shuzhen said , Practicing yoga has brought a kind of strength to people, and people's mental outlook and mentality have been greatly changed, and the whole person is more confident.
The picture shows a hearing impaired person taking a yoga class.
Photo by Gao Cheng
The reporter learned that while helping the disabled exercise and soothe their bodies, this yoga studio also discovers and trains disabled students who are interested in yoga, helps them obtain yoga qualifications, and recommends them to do some public welfare courses, or Yoga teachers, lecturers, etc.
It is understood that at present, the yoga studio has provided free yoga teaching for nearly 200 disabled people.
"Everyone thinks that we helped the disabled, but after we contacted them in class, my biggest feeling is that they helped us. We can’t measure the changes they made to us by money. They treat me psychologically. The change is also one of my gains for so many years." Yang Wenting said that she will continue to run the public welfare yoga studio to benefit more people with disabilities. (Finish)