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Top 10 Reasons To Do Yoga
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An estimated 20 million Americans are practicing yoga as a means for managing stress, promoting health, retarding the aging process, and creating a more meaningful life.
Why aren't you?
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1. Yoga is good for what ails you.
Research shows that yoga can help manage and sometimes alleviate anxiety, arthritis, asthma,
back and neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, epilepsy,
headaches, heart disease, high blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, repetitive stress injuries,
stress and many other conditions and diseases.
2. Yoga makes you healthier in body, mind, and spirit
Practicing yoga will improve muscle tone, flexibility, strength, and stamina, reduce stress and tension,
boost self esteem, improve concentration and creativity, lower fat, improve circulation, stimulate the
immune system, quiet the mind and create a sense of well-being and calm.
3. Yoga will help you in all of your favorite sports and activities.
Golf, tennis, running, biking, softball, baseball, football, .............yoga is a great compliment
to any activity. Yoga teaches proper breathing and breath control, strengthens the core, increases flexibility
and balance, improves awareness of the body and emphasizes the importance of engaging
muscles purposefully. These techniques and benefits will have direct impact on your activity
or sport and provide better performance. Yoga is also a great tool for injury prevention during
your favorite activity. Strong bodies and joints reduce the risk of injury on the sporting field.
4. Yoga makes exercise fun, easy, and safe.
Whether you're trying to start a new exercise program, or trying to maintain an already
established one, the motivation to exercise can be difficult. For most people exercise is
tedious, unenjoyable, painful, intimidating and time consuming. Consequently, many refrain
from exercise and others are compeled in order to stay young and healthy. Physical activity
doesn't have to be so troublesome and yoga is a great alternative for traditional monotonous
exercise. Yoga provides a form of exercise that is challenging and fun. With over 1000 postures,
every class provides variety and is sure to be stimulating. It is adaptable for every fitness level
and ability, and modifications allow for individuals to choose the intensity of their own practice.
Unlike other forms of exercise that isolate specific parts of the body, yoga is designed to benefit
the entire body and make the most of your time. Yoga postures are uniquely designed to strengthen,
tone, and increase flexibility for every muscle and joint, promoting full body health. Its low impact
postures are kind to the body, and differ from other exercise by preventing injury, promoting
recovery from injury, and aiding in the reduction of pain. In addition yoga distinguishes itself from
other forms of exercise by providing many other health benefits. By practicing yoga you can get fit,
and simotaneously fight disease, reduce stress, generate energy, build concentration, eradicate fatigue,
and create a happier lifestyle.
5. Yoga boosts your immune system.
Immune systems are weekend by lack of sleep, stress, poor nutrition, and inactivity. Doing yoga
has been shown to reduce stress, cure insomnia, and stimulate the immune system to help prevent
colds and other illnesses.
6. Yoga reduces stress and alleviates repetitive stress injuries.
Stress and tension accumulate in the body daily. Physical inactivity, sedentary desk positions, poor
posture, strenuous workloads, over extended schedules, and lack of sleep are all contributors. Yoga
postures and breathwork provide the tools necessary to manage and alleviate stress and tension.
Reduction of physical and mental stress from the body lowers risk of disease, prevents stress injuries
and facilitates the recovery of already existing conditions. Research shows that back, neck, and
shoulder pain, and carpal tunnel are the most common injuries caused by repetitive stress. Yoga can
relieve pain, create a healthier body, and provide a happier mind through stress reduction.
7. Yoga can change your figure.
Studies have shown that practicing yoga and eating a sensible diet can lower body fat and
tone the body. Physical activity and exercise in general will reduce body fat, however yoga's unique
2000 year old postures are responsible for transforming the body. Each yoga posture is designed to
help strengthen, tone and create greater flexiblility for every muscle. Creating sequences
of postures that are practiced consecutively, provides the physical activity that burns calories
and reduces body fat. The combination of strengthening, toning, increasing flexibility, and
reducing fat allows the body to slim and transform.
8. Yoga will keep you young.
Yoga has many physical and mental benefits that provide a younger appearance and maintain your body
to promote youthfulness. Yoga practice slows down the aging process by promoting supple
abdominal muscles, flexibility to the spine, elimination of tension and stress, firm skin, and correction
of poor posture. Breathing exercises open lungs and enhance oxygen supply to cells. Increased
oxygen to cells promote health of internal organs and skin. Healthy organs and skin reduce the risk of
disease and signs of aging. Yoga acts as a natural face lift to reduce wrinkles. Asana practice
(physical exercise) promotes strength and flexibility, which keeps the body active and fit
preventing degeneration and injury as we age. Yoga makes you look and feel younger with heightened
mental ability.
9. Yoga boosts self esteem.
Yoga helps you learn more about your body and who you are. Each time you practice yoga you
grow and develop. Postures, breathwork, and meditation purify the mind, body, and spirit in order
to help find your true self. Knowing your true self brings happiness, liberation, and enlightenment
to your life. It also produces a more confident you.
10. Yoga will improve your concentration and creativity.
By focusing on breath and movement in yoga, we create more focus in our daily life. We learn how
to quiet chatter and outside noise to achieve greater concentration. Greater focus and concentration
provides a more productive and creative environment around us . This sense of awareness can help
achieve the goals and tasks in our lives.
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