KEEP YOUR SPIRIT AT THE PINK OF HEALTH – HEALTH BENEFITS OF YOGA (INCLUDES PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH)

 To understand what are the health benefits of yoga, we first need to look at what yoga is. Yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning union, and yoga is the union of body, mind, and spirit. Yoga is an age-old science made up of different disciplines of mind and body. It originated in India 2500 years ago and is still effective in bringing overall health and well being to any person who does it regularly. The word yoga is based upon a Sanskrit verb Yuja. It means to connect, to culminate or to concur. It’s the culmination of mind and body or the culmination of the soul and the universal spirit.

Yoga is not just yoga exercises, that part is actually just a very small part. The benefit of yoga is that it leads to profound changes in your whole life. The changes that yoga will make in your life are all great benefits, leading to a more relaxed way of life, better health, better sleep and being better able to deal with problems. (1)

Flexibility

The yoga exercises will help your body to become and remain flexible. The twisting bodies are really interesting. People at this starting point release their tense and inflexible joints that have resulted from spending too much time sitting at a desk or behind the wheel of a car.

Reduces Flab and Increases Bone Strength

Muscles that have become weak and flabby become toned through practising yoga, leading to increased strength. This also helps to lose excess flab from your body. While you will be encouraged to practice yoga at your own level, as you increase in flexibility you will perform the more weight-bearing exercise. This is important in keeping your bones strong to protect against osteoporosis.

Detoxify Your Body

While performing the asanas you will be massaging your internal organs, helping to clean out accumulated toxins and also giving them a soothing workout. This helps to keep disease away. Drink water after your yoga session to flush the toxins away. (2)

Learn to Relax, Handle Stress and Sleep well

There are also a few poses meant to be a relaxation pose that is used to allow you to accept all the changes that your body has undergone during the class. It is also incredibly relaxing. It is a form of meditation. When you do this in your yoga class you will get the benefit of relaxation and also you will learn a skill that can be called upon at moments of stress, or at times when you cannot sleep.

Look and Feel Younger

Gently stretching muscles and massaging your organs brings a supply of fresh blood to your organs, this flushes out toxins and brings a supply of fresh blood to nourish every part of your body, helping to keep you looking and feeling younger.

Increase Your Lung Capacity

Most people do not realise that they have forgotten how to breathe completely and fully and find great benefit in the simple practise of breathing fully. Complete breathing is also wonderfully relaxing. (3)

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