Inner World of Yoga – Day 0
10 REASONS TO TRY YOGA
Stress Relief: Yoga encourages relaxation, reduces physical stress lowering the stress hormone cortisol; lowers blood pressure, lowers heart rate, improves digestion, boosts the immune system, and eases symptoms of anxiety, depression, fatigue, asthma and insomnia.
Pain Relief: Studies show asana and meditation can reduce or ease pain for people with cancer, MS, hypertension, back and neck pain, and chronic conditions including auto-immune, arthritis, and emotional pain as well.
Breathe Better: Yoga breathing techniques help develop slower, deeper breathing, improving lung function, triggering relaxation response, and increasing available oxygen to the body.
Flexibility: Yoga helps improve flexibility, mobility, range of motion, and through continued practice improves body alignment and posture, helping relieve back, neck, joint and muscle problems and pain.
More Strength: Yoga asanas involve every muscle in the body head to toe, building more muscle tone and strength, and relieving muscular tension.
Weight Management: Yoga asanas (even more gentle styles) and deep breathing can aid weight control by reducing cortisol levels and stress. Yoga study and practice also encourages healthy eating habits, and increases sense of wellbeing and self-esteem.
Better Circulation: Yoga asanas and pranayama (breathing practices) help improve circulation and movement of oxygenated blood more efficiently to cells, helping with detoxification of the body.
Cardiovascular Conditioning: Even gentle asana practice can lower resting heart rate, increase endurance and improve oxygen uptake during exercise.
Improve Focus: Yoga practices are designed to bring us into the present, develop more awareness of body/mind connection, and improve concentration, coordination, reaction time and memory.
