Benefits of Regular Yoga

Time for a guest post. This time this is by Krista Harper.

In its most simple terms yoga is a practice incorporating physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines. While lying under a broad term, yoga actually has several schools of thought, practices, and goals.

While yoga’s mindful benefits are well known, what many people don’t realize is that yoga also provides physical benefits such as flexibility, pain relief, weight management, and strength. Yoga provides a full range of benefits tackling nearly all of your body’s needs.

Here are 5 amazing benefits of yoga

1. Helps improve posture

One of the components of yoga is moving your body through different poses and postures. This helps to strengthen your muscles, tendons and joints, as well as improves your posture in areas such as your neck that supports your head, and your spine which supports your full bodies weight and protects your spinal cord.

By improving the strength in your posture areas, yoga helps prevent common aging related issues such as lower back pain, neck pain, and spinal curvature disorders.

2. Strengthens bones

Much like how performing squats will help to increase strength in your core and leg muscles, yoga utilizes postures which require you to lift your body weight. The process of weight bearing in slow methodical movements helps to improve joint flexibility as well as strengthen bones which helps to prevent bone fractures and reduces the chance of a person getting osteoporosis.

Some thoughts are that limited cortisol production created by yoga helps your bones maintain their calcium and thereby increase bone density.

3. Helps you sleep

About a quarter of adults experience acute insomnia every year, while a large percentage of adults such as those suffering chronic pain, mental health, and even parents of young children experience chronic insomnia.

Yoga is a practice of mindfulness that helps relax both the body and mind which reduces the stress that often results in insomnia. In addition, yoga has been shown to reduce cortisol levels resulting in hyper-arousal that is triggered by a fight or flight response.

4. Boosts Immunity

Physical exertion of yoga helps to improve physical strength and blood flow which improves the body’s cardiovascular and immunity systems. Though, it is the meditative aspect which seemingly has the most benefit to improving the immune system by raising antibody levels when the body is attacked and regulating immune function when your immune system should be relaxed.

5. Reduces Stress

Likely, when someone thinks of yoga, they picture mindful meditation. Yoga is one of the most beneficial exercises that can be done to help reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Mindful yoga helps a person focus on their current state of being by creating awareness of the world around you. This enables a person to realize that the past cannot be changed, and the future is highly unpredictable. Awareness helps to regulate the mind’s fluctuations that can result in emotional extremes.

Yoga practiced regularly can improve your physical and emotional health. The benefits are far reaching and deeply routed in our body’s needs with the ability to improve posture, bone strength, immunity, stress-relief, and how we sleep.

💗 Jennikatja

💗The Amazing Effects of Yoga

💗8 Tips to Relax When You´re Busy
💗Exercises for Recovery
💗My Healthy Morning Routines

Comments

I Quit Drinking Coffee and it Changed My Life

The U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says about 80 percent of U.S. adults take some form of caffeine every day. Accordingly, coffee is one of the most commonly used ingredients in the world. But caffeine does so much more than just keeping you awake.It’s a central nervous system stimulant that affects your body in numerous ways. So, let's talk about this and why drinking coffee might not be good for for you. While there has been numerous studies about the benefits of coffee, such as it increases alertness , lowers the risk of depression and reduces the risk of brain diseases , it has also negative effects on sleep and anxiety and it can cause headaches, panic attacks, adrenal fatigue, loss of energy, it can deprive minerals and vitamins from your body (read more on here ) As I mentioned before( here ), I quit drinking coffee last spring. Well, how did I get the idea to stop drinking coffee? After consuming my morning coffee, I noticed that at first it made me feel

Why Are Cola Drinks So Addictive?

Did you know that in Argentina people drink the most soft drinks in the world? Their annual consumption is 155 liters per capita. Not far behind is number two, the USA with 154 liters per capita. Americans are one of the largest consumers of the soda drinks in the world because of their modern lifestyle and high incomes. As it is very common to drink colas or other soft drinks but I have heard many people saying that they cannot stop drinking them. I started to wonder what is it that makes drinking Coca-Cola so addictive? Is it the caffeine, sugar or the artificial sweeteners? Besides what's the harm in drinking Coca-Cola? Below I will examine these three issues. Caffeine content The caffeine content in a 330ml serving of regular (sugar) Coca-Cola is about 32 mg. Compared to a a mug of coffee which contains 100 mg of caffeine that is a bit less. According to the Coca-Cola company the caffeine in their drinks is not addictive. However, if you are really sensitive to caffein

Viimeinen hormonimyrsky: imetyksen lopettaminen

Olen imettänyt lähes vuoden ja nyt tämä tie on tullut päätökseen. Imettäminen herättää paljon tunteita ja vaikka olenkin ollut onnellinen siitä, että olen pystynyt tarjoamaan molemmille lapsilleni parasta ravintoa, ei se ole aina sujunut ongelmitta. Usein pohdin, että pulloruokinnassa olisin päässyt "helpommalla". Kuitenkin molempien kanssa jatkoin imetystä sitkeästi ja näin jälkikäteen ajatellen onneksi niin tein 💗 Ehkäpä tämän vuoksi imetyksen lopettaminen kuopuksen kohdalla ei ollutkaan niin helppoa. Viimeiset imetyskerrat sijoittuivat rauhallisiin aamuhetkiin joten sen lopettaminen minulle olikin haikeaa. Miksi? Ehkä se oli se läheisyys ja tunne siitä, että se on sitten niin lopullista. Nautin, kun sain pitää vauvan vielä hetken aikaa rauhallisena vieressä. Lopulta tulikin päivä, jolloin tyttö heräsi mieheni kanssa enkä enää imettänytkään. Eilisen kerta olikin ollut tietämättäni viimeinen kerta. Mitä kehossani sitten tapahtui, kun imetys loppui? Pari päivää lopettamise

5 Effective Weight Loss Drinks

When it comes to losing weight, there is a lot of different kinds of detox packages and weight loss drinks available. However, I would not recommend using these products because they only offer short term benefits if any benefits at all. Instead I encourage to use a weight loss method which is sustainable. Usually this is acquiring healthy eating and exercising habits for life. You can achieve this by following my online nutrition programmes . Surely different starter kits, such as detox kits and ready to eat soup diets may come in handy but eventually when you have lost some weight, you should opt for methods which offer permanent results. Therefore, in this post I will share with you 5 effective weight loss drink recipes. I would like to remind you that drinking these drinks are not your only diet. On the contrary, these are recommended beside your healthy meals and these healthy drinks could replace your other sugary sodas and juices..Besides they are also healthy and delicio

How to Stay Young and Healthy

The other day I watched a really interesting BBC document about how to stay young and more specifically how to prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease. As you get older your brains begin to shrink. As a result of this your cognitive skills diminish. How to prevent this? The key is to use your brains on a daily basis. More specifically scientists have discovered that learning a new language has the most efficient way to prevent dementia because learning will increase the size of your brain. According to these scientists other important ways to affect the size of your brain were reading exercising in general learning a new skill, such as playing guitar studying In the document researches investigated whether regular walks or ping poll plays had an effect on the brain tissue. The test groups walked or played ping poll for 2 hours per week. The results revealed that both test groups gained positive effects on their brain tissue because of their increased exercise. Mo

Paljonko mökin rakentaminen maksaa?

* kaupallinen yhteistyö osakesijoittaja.fi Rakentaminen on arvokasta puuhaa varsinkin tänä päivänä, kun rakentamiskustannukset vain tuntuvat nousevan. Kuitenkin suurimpaan osaan rakentamiskustannuksiin voi vaikuttaa itse omilla valinnoillaan. Kustannukset syntyvät muun muassa kesämökin koosta, muodosta, toteuttamistavasta sekä varustelutasosta. Erot syntyvät varsinkin lämmitys- ja ilmastointiratkaisuista sekä materiaalivalinnoista. Näiden lisäksi myös valmiin mökin sisustaminen maksaa. Olemmekin kohta pääsemässä tähän vaiheeseen rantasaunassa. Kun kustannuksia on tullut hieman odotettua enemmän rakentamisvaiheessa tarkoittaa se sitä, että joudun miettimään sisustusvalintoja tarkemmin. Alun perin ideana olikin ostaa mahdollisimman paljon käytettyä, sillä oma arvomaailmani on muuttunut paljon parin viime vuoden aikana. Käytetty linjalla siis mennäänkin, mutta muutamia tavaroita, joudumme teetättämään, jotta saadaan esimerkiksi sopiva keittiötaso. Mitä tulee rakentamiskustannuksiin, nii

Search This Blog