Benefits of practicing yoga
1. When you slow down your breath, you calm your mind by regulating your autonomic nervous system. Yoga helps with this.
2. When you do restorative yoga, you help move your body out of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) and into the parasympathetic (rest and digest). This is amazing for reducing stress.
3. When you move your body, you are moving your lymph. This is one way yoga helps us to boost our immune system. Your lymph doesn't have a pump like the heart so you need to move your body to move your lymph.
4. When you practice vinyasa yoga (flowing yoga) with the aid of props to protect your knees and lower back, you are raising your heart rate and helping stimulate your circulatory system. The American Heart association recommends 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week. Yoga is a good start. Yoga also helps to build muscle and bone mass .
5. Meditation is a form of yoga that helps us focus the mind. When practiced regularly it can relieve stress and clarify our goals.
6. Fitness in the body is not just measured by the ability of the muscles to contract, but also how quickly they can relax. Both contraction and release of the muscles, cued with the breath are practiced in yoga.
1. When you slow down your breath, you calm your mind by regulating your autonomic nervous system. Yoga helps with this.
2. When you do restorative yoga, you help move your body out of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) and into the parasympathetic (rest and digest). This is amazing for reducing stress.
3. When you move your body, you are moving your lymph. This is one way yoga helps us to boost our immune system. Your lymph doesn't have a pump like the heart so you need to move your body to move your lymph.
4. When you practice vinyasa yoga (flowing yoga) with the aid of props to protect your knees and lower back, you are raising your heart rate and helping stimulate your circulatory system. The American Heart association recommends 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week. Yoga is a good start. Yoga also helps to build muscle and bone mass .
5. Meditation is a form of yoga that helps us focus the mind. When practiced regularly it can relieve stress and clarify our goals.
6. Fitness in the body is not just measured by the ability of the muscles to contract, but also how quickly they can relax. Both contraction and release of the muscles, cued with the breath are practiced in yoga.