Benefits of yoga

Yoga can make even the stiffest body into a supple one and even the heaviest person feel light and joyful. The postures of whatever system of yoga you adopt will increase your flexibility; exercise your joints, your ligaments and tendons. Some of the more dynamic forms of yoga like ashtanga, bikram, hot yoga also produce muscle definition.
Some of the postures even though they may appear relatively undemanding massage your inner organs, improving vital functions like digestion for example. In stimulating and massaging your inner organs you keep away disease and the onset of any sort of disorder. Similarly it's not unheard for women struggling to ovulate on time to kick start a regular cycle after a programme of yoga.
The use of the breath is what makes this exercise unique. It forces one to think about gaining awareness of every aspect of the body, not just the breath but each element of the body, joint, finger and toe, all of which we often take for granted. The breath or prana is considered all so important in Yoga. If your are not conscious of your breath whilst doing Yoga your doing gymnastics it's often said. In Ashtanga yoga this breath is called Ujjayi breath, and is made by constricting the back of your throat.
Sequences of careful thought out stretching movement as well as the more subtle postures that massage your innards ensure your body pumps an optimum blood supply to various parts of the body, flushing out of toxins caught in every cell. In doing you delay ageing and increase you level of energy and vitality.
Yoga has helped correct the posture of tall people and realign parts of the body that may not be sitting in their most natural position. Yoga does re energize those suffering from stress and/depression Follwed by meditation will also help calm the mind, help you create balance your life overall. There's a reason why your told to take long deep breaths when you are panicked, angry or scared, deepening your breath is your body's most natural way to bring you back to "normal" to a state of calm, so an exercise that utilizes this natural mechanism has to be good for you.
Like all exercise Yoga helps the body release the feel good hormones called endorphins but what is also beautiful about it that once you know the postures - you can practice it for free in the comfort of your on home. Because surely its shouldn't cost money to keep yourself fit and healthy.
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