Getting Healthy With Yoga

People have always believed that yoga can do more for your body than just keeping it fit and flexible.  Research now shows it can help weight control, lower back pain, insomnia and even heart disease. Studies indicate yoga helps with weight loss and maintenance. In a study of 15,000 adults, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found that those who did not practice yoga gained approximately 18.5 pounds more over a 10-year period than those who practiced for at least four years. There was also a study done at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California. This study found people who regularly practiced yoga and meditation, exercised and watched their diet lost more weight than those who exercised, and ate a balanced diet, but did not practice yoga.

Using Yoga to Improve Your Health and Well Being

With all the new television infomercials on gadgets and videos on improving one’s health and wellbeing there is one strong hold on low impact exercise that not only improves your body but also improves the psychological state which give your entire being the sense of positive well being.   By being involved in Yoga on a regular basis one can expect to feel better and more alive.  Yoga does promote positive energies within the body which in turn will create positive energy in the mind increasing your total well being.

One of the physical benefits you will experience is increased flexibility.  As most people know Yoga consist on many movements, stretches and poses which act on various joints in your body.  Many of these joints are joints that are rarely used.  So the stretching and use of these joints, ligament and tendons help to increase your flexibility.  These movements also provide flexibility to the supporting joints, ligament and tendons.

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