Yoga is an old health practitioner exercise. Yoga is good for body and many yoga practitioners has discovered and enjoyed the benefits of yoga. Some of the benefits of Yoga are
Physical benefits:
- Flexibility – Stretching of a body helps to gain more flexible and greater range of motions to muscles and joints. It brings flexibility, mainly to hamstrings, back, shoulders, and hips.
- Strength – It helps to build strength in the body. Many yoga poses like tree pose or downward facing dog pose requires support of the own body.
- Pain prevention – Back pain of the body can be prevented doing this type of exercise. People who drive car or sit on chair for long time are mainly affected by back pain problem.
- Better breathing – Yoga poses like pranayama helps to focus on breathing and teaches how to better use our lungs. These practices help to clear the nasal passages and even to calm the central nervous system.
Mental benefits
- Mental calmness – The effect of yoga bring calmness to the mind. Yoga’s based on breathing technique helps for better breathing and calm mind.
- Stress Reduction – This is good for mental activity. Because of this both large and small troubles melt away whilew doing yoga.
- Body Awareness – This will allow to make small, subtle movements to improve alignment. As time goes by, these yoga practices increase the level of comfort of the body.
