Benefits of Yoga

Maintains a healthy lifestyle

The word “move more, eat less” is glued to the heart of a dieter. Yoga can help with those two. A good routine practice helps you move your parts and born calories. The emotional and spiritual aspects of Yoga can equally help you solve problems regarding weight and eating habit. You can become more conscious of yourself with Yoga.

Drops blood sugar level

Yoga helps to lower level of blood sugar and bad cholesterol while it boosts the level of good cholesterol. This is of great benefit to diabetic patients. Through a reduction in the levels of adrenalin and cortisol, there is weight loss and improvement in the sensitivity to insulin effect. In essence, Yoga helps you reduce the risk of diabetic complications including kidney failure, heart attack and even blindness.

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Leaves you happier than you were when you started

Sitting in Lotus can help you if you’re feeling sad. You can equally take the King Dance pose or backbend. It might not be as simple as said, but study has proven that being consistent at Yoga practice will help increase serotonin levels as well as decrease monoamine oxidase (neurotransmitters breaking enzyme) level and cortisol. Richard Davidson, a doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, found that greater levels of immune function and happiness leads to heightened mediator activity in the left cortex. Only in dedicated, long-term practitioners was a more dramatic left-sided activation noticed

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Yoga lowers your blood pressure

For patients having high blood pressure, Yoga might be a plus. Two different studies on hypertensive patients examined the difference between simply lying on a couch and taking the Savasana (Corpse Pose). After 3 months of the research, there was a 26-point reduction in systolic blood pressure (the top number) in patients taking Savasana and a 15-point reduction in diastolic BP (bottom number – the drop is higher with higher initial BP).

Yoga ups your heart rate

Depression or risk of heart attack is taken far from you when you engage your heart in serious aerobic exercises. Every Yoga practice that is aerobic in nature, vigorous engagement in most of the Yoga exercises will take your heart into the aerobic range. However, it does not mean that those Yoga exercises that can’t take your heart rate very high are not beneficial to the heart, they also improve cardiovascular functioning.

It has been established that Yoga boosts your endurance, maximum oxygen uptake and reduces the resting heart rate – all as a result of good aerobic conditioning. One study demonstrates that people who were taught only pranayama could endure more exercise using less oxygen.

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Yoga Drains your lymph and also boosts immunity

 Your lymph (the viscous fluid in the body rich in immune cells) continues to drain as you move organs around, contract and stretch, and take one Yoga posture or another. As a result, the lymphatic system is able to protect your body against infections, kill cancerous cells, and eliminate toxic and cellular waste product from the body.