Most people know yoga as a form of exercise that can help you become more flexible but its benefits can go a long way to help you retain (or rediscover) your youthfulness. The easiest way to defy gravity and put the breaks on those wrinkles is to invert yourself every day – this means turn yourself upside down! Check out our website below for some great resources that will instruct you on different postures to beat those wrinkles! Here are some other benefits you will enjoy from practicing the physical side of yoga.
- Increased strength and flexibility
- Increased energy levels
- Improved balance and coordination
- Better quality of sleep
- Regulates metabolic rate – helping with weight loss
- Improves circulation
- Benefits digestion
- Improves joints keeping them supple
- Helps to balance the endocrine system
- Gives you a beautiful posture
Yoga works on the physical body by massaging the organs and glands. This helps to remove toxins and unblocks energy (prana.)
It is blocked energy (prana) that causes stiffness in the joints.
Stretching the muscles equally helps to realign the skeleton.
It is not only the postures of yoga that have such wonderful benefits, the breathing techniques have wonderful side-effects too.
- Helps to calm and quieten the mind
- Improves concentration
- Improves the circulation
- Increases lung capacity
These are only two of the eight branches of yoga to be discovered from the 'Eightfold Path' as systematic by an ancient Sage Patanjali around about the same time as the birth of Christ, in "The Yoga Sutras."
If you would like to deepen your yoga practice, incorporating all of the eight branches will truly help you to unite mind, body and soul.
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