Health Benefits of Yoga

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About Yoga Yoga is beneficial from health point of view and it helps to improve your flexibility, strength, sleep, or your overall quality of life.

Yoga is a panacea for the majority of health problems such as pain, stiffness, depression, stress, bad posture, sleep problems. By doing yoga on regular basis it can help you to achieve a healthy mind and body.

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Building Strength Practicing a wide range of poses regularly also builds your strength. You can start to increase the strength of your major muscle groups such as legs, back, core, and arm as well as smaller support muscles.

One of the great yoga poses for strength is the plank pose that works on the abdominal muscles. Chaturangadandasna is another variant of the plank. Cobra pose or Bhujangasana is an efficient pose to increase the strength of your underused muscles in the back.


Promoting Mental Wellbeing

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Mental health is as important as your physical health. Yoga is a great tool to improve your overall health. It helps manage your stress and calm down disturbing thoughts. Yoga includes meditation and breathing exercises to improve your wellbeing. Regular yoga practice promotes calmness and mental clarity; improves body awareness and increases relaxation.

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Improving Posture

If you want to improve your posture, yoga can help with that.

A good posture not only helps you look better but also leads to certain health benefits. It adds to the bodily alignment— when one walk or sit upright, all the organs work as they are supposed to.

Besides, a good posture minimizes the problem of back and neck pain as it supports the bones and spine. When you are in a slouching position, your lungs get less room for breathing due to the shrinkage of your rib cage.


Improving Immunity Practicing yoga consistently can support and improve the immune system. In this context, the International Journal of Yoga opines that yoga “resists the autonomic changes and impairment of cellular immunity seen in examination stress.”It means that yoga is useful to keep your and your cells in the top shape even when you feel stressed. This can be owed to yoga’s ability to reduce stress. This way, it minimizes inflammation

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Improving Your Sleep Quality Apart from improving your strength and flexibility, yoga can help you sleep like a baby. In other words, it can help you overcome insomnia problems and improve your quality of sleep as well. This is because it affects melatonin that plays important role in your sleep-wake cycle as well as other factors.

With daily yoga practice, you can sleep for longer and return to sleep more easily if you wake up in the middle of the night. This is really useful for the elderly as well as those who have sleep problems due to stress. Some of the efficient yoga poses for sleep are legs up the wall, lying butterfly, and corpse pose.

Encouraging Healthy Eating Habits Mindful eating or intuitive eating is all about being inthe-moment aware of the food and drink you take. In this practice, you pay attention to the smell, texture, and taste of your food and take note of any experience or feelings while eating.

It is useful in weight loss, blood sugar, and controlling the eating disorder. Given that yoga stresses mindfulness, it can be useful in promoting healthy eating. According to one study, yoga can minimize eating disorder or food anxiety

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