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Benefits of Yoga to Your Bones,
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# The physical benefits of yoga are myriad. Yoga keeps your
body strong, as it involves all the muscles in your body to hold and
balance yoga asanas (poses). The various yoga postures strengthen
your feet, legs, hands, abdominals, lower back, legs, and shoulders.
# Yoga's stretching and breathing exercises improve your
flexibility, helping joints, tendons, and muscles stay limber.
People suffering from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis will
see a noticeable improvement in their stiffness, pain, and other
arthritic symptoms by practicing yoga poses and postures.
# Yoga improves your endurance, especially the more athletic
forms of yoga such as ashtanga yoga, power yoga, vinyasa yoga, and
Bikram yoga. These rigorous yoga practices follow a specific
sequence of poses (asanas) that become more challenging as you
progress. Unlike the more gentle hatha yoga, the forms of ashtagna
yoga, power yoga, vinyasa yoga, and Bikram yoga require you to keep
your body in constant motion between poses, resulting in a strenuous
cardiovascular workout and improved core strength. |
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* Hatha yoga can relieve chronic back and neck pain, since the
poses and postures gently stretch and strengthen your back and neck
muscles.
* Yoga is often prescribed to help heal various injuries, including
repetitive strain injuries, knee and back injuries, pulled
hamstrings, even minor skin burns. Of course, you should consult
your physician before using yoga as a treatment for any injury!
* Yoga is an excellent weight-bearing exercise that can improve your
bone density. This is particularly beneficial for women approaching
menopause, since yoga can help ward off osteoporosis, or thinning of
the bone.
Benefits of Yoga to the Cardiovascular System
Yoga has tremendous health benefits for your heart. Most notably:
* The gentler forms of yoga lower your blood pressure because the
asanas (yoga poses, postures, and yoga positions) keep blood flowing
evenly throughout your body while you focus on your breathing.
* People suffering from hypertension can benefit from yoga
tremendously, as hatha yoga can lower your heart rate and blood
pressure.
* Many practitioners claim that yoga has also lowered their
cholesterol.
* Power yoga is an excellent form of cardio conditioning, which
strengthens core muscles while it keeps blood and oxygen circulating
throughout your body.
Benefits of Yoga on Mental Health
* Yoga benefits anyone's mental health by helping him or her relax,
and it is an effective form of psychological therapy. Yoga reduces
anxiety and stress, resulting in better health, better mood, and
better concentration throughout the day. Yoga has been used to help
treat a wide variety of emotional and mental disorders, including
acute anxiety, depression, and mood swings.
* Even children can benefit from yoga. Those with attention deficit
disorder and hyperactivity can learn to relax and get control by
using yoga breathing and yoga asanas.
* Because yoga is a form of meditation, it results in a sense of
inner peace and purpose, which has far-reaching health benefits.
* Yoga has been used to help heal victims of torture or other
trauma.
Benefits of Yoga on Other Health Conditions
* Do you have frequent headaches? Yoga can rid you of tension
headaches and migraines because yoga circulates blood and oxygen to
your head, which can often prevent headaches from starting.
* A regular yoga practice helps boost antioxidants throughout your
body, resulting in a stronger immune system and improved ability to
heal quickly from disease or injury.
* Yoga can help you lose weight and maintain a healthy weight
throughout your life. Power yoga is a vigorous form of yoga that
burns calories, resulting in weight loss.
* Many women going through menopause report an easing of symptoms
when they begin practicing yoga.
Benefits of Yoga in Everyday Life
* Yoga can help cure insomnia, as regular yoga practice leads to
better and deeper sleep.
* Yoga can help fight fatigue and maintain your energy throughout
the day.
* Yoga is an effective treatment for a variety of autoimmune
diseases because it can reduce the symptoms these diseases often
cause, such as stiffness, malaise, fatigue, and weakness.
Regular yoga practice will create multiple and noticeable benefits
to your health. Try some yoga postures today! And as your instructor
will no doubt tell you at the end of your practice: Namaste.
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