Yoga's benefits

Here are a few of the outstanding health opportunities via the art form of Yoga:

Anti-Aging - Yoga actually helps in slowing down the aging process by providing elasticity (flexibility) to the spine, firming up the skin (as does Apple Cider Vinegar), removing tension from the body, strengthening the abdominal muscles, eliminating the likelihood of a double chin, improving the quality of loose arm muscles, correcting poor posture and so on.

Balance - Asymmetry and unbalance in different parts of the body can create stress and unwelcome strain. Many times this leads to injury, pain, or just simple discomfort. Yoga helps in creating balance and harmony while correcting symmetry throughout your body, making you strong, flexible, and balanced.

Flexibility - Pain and stress are forms of blocked, jammed, misplaced and misused energy. Being more flexible means opening these energy blockages and freeing your energy circulation. As the blocked energy is freely circulated, your complete body will feel clean and new because the trapped parts are freed and released, in a sense it is a form of detoxification.

Personal Values - Our body is the vehicle that carries our mind. It is here that Yoga assumes great significance. Personal Values are very important as they define your character and they develop your personality and Yoga helps our quest to be stronger.

Mental Health - Yoga helps in freeing the mind from mental disturbances as it aids our ability to steady the mind. Moreover, decreases in nervousness, irritability, confusion, depression, and mental fatigue are some additional mental health benefits experienced from practicing Yoga. Yoga exercises help in the renewal of mental agility. Yoga possesses the magical power to revive the capacity for alertness, attention and willingness to tackle problems.

Strength - Your everyday experiences are strengthened the moment you come in the fold of Yoga. With an increase in strength the whole tendency of your body changes. Yoga has the power not only to increase your mental health but physical attributes as well.

Healing – Yoga has the magic power of healing. Studies have shown Yoga has been used for healing disorders such as acidic stomachs (acid reflux), asthma, bronchitis, cancer, constipation, heart disorders, hypertension, insomnia, menstrual disorders, obesity, sinus’ and a number of other diseases.

Knowledge - The knowledge gained through Yoga is not simply that of the practical kind relating to techniques, but of a spiritual sort pertaining to grasping something about the natural self and other matters. Knowing the self at rest, at peace, as a being rather than merely as an agent or doer, is a legitimate kind of knowledge but unfortunately that is lost in the mad rush of fulfilling our desires.

Weight Reduction – Yoga’s deep breathing helps to increase the oxygen intake to the body’s cells, including the fat cells. This results into burning up of fat cells. Another amazing aspect of Yoga is that it reduces anxiety which, in turn, reduces anxious eating (as eating has been linked to the pleasure principle). It is human tendency that whenever we are tensed, or stressed, we tend to swallow our food without deriving much satisfaction and pleasure. In the process we end up eating more. Yet, if we approach our meals with better mood, we tend to be less likely to overeat in a worried effort to calm our anxieties. Yoga plays an important role in making us more calm and cool.

YES, sign me up for some yoga!!!

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