Monday, January 07, 2008

Benefits of Yoga
By Bob A Nicholson


One of the perks of practicing yoga regularly is achieving harmony between our body and soul. Many times we find that we cannot perform daily activities because of the chaos going on in our minds.

Yoga benefits are a sense of remarkable calmness... a positive outlook on life, which also benefits the physical health of the body.

Stress impacts us physically and emotionally. Yoga helps to relieve us of our stress. The end result is a balanced body and soul.

The various poses performed within a yoga routine help increase flexibility. The poses trigger the different joints of the body that are typically not used in other exercise routines.

Yoga also increases the lubrication of joints, ligament and tendons. The well-researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body.

For those just starting out doing yoga, you will find that your body may be rigid when performing the various poses. If you keep yoga as your workout routine, you will notice quite a remarkable increase in your flexibility in a short bit of time.

Be sure to have the necessary Yoga Accessories.

In addition to the joint, ligament and tendon benefits yoga brings, yoga also benefits the body's internal organs. Yoga may be the only workout type that massages and stimulates the body's internal organs.

All of these benefits have an ultimate one of keeping illness and disease at bay. Those performing yoga are in tune to their bodies and have a sense of forewarning at the first possible sign of illness or disease; obviously, enabling the yoga practitioner to take pre-emptive corrective action.

Another benefit of yoga is complete body detoxification. As yoga gently stretches the muscles and joints and stimulates the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply throughout the body.

By achieving optimal blood supply, toxins are flushed out of your body and total nourishment is accomplished. The resulting side effect includes delayed ageing, increased energy and a remarkable zest for life.

Yoga is also an excellent way to tone your muscles. Muscles which have been flaccid and weak are stimulated repeatedly to shed excess fats and flaccidity.

In addition to these numerous physical benefits, yoga brings harmony to the mind and, which results in quantum benefits.

People have experienced mind over matter again and again. This has enabled people to achieve extraordinary physical feats. This indicates the extraordinary power behind the connection between the mind and body.

Yoga is a form of meditation. Just as meditation does, yoga brings unity to mind, body and spirit which can lead to an experience of eternal bliss.

The meditative practices through yoga help in achieving an emotional balance through detachment.

The overall results of these yoga benefits are a sense of remarkable calmness as well as a positive outlook on life, which also has tremendous benefits on the physical health of the body.
I am a practitioner of yoga and detail much of what I found to be useful at Yoga Workout Advice

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