4 Reasons to Do Yoga: Yoga Health Benefits on the Body
If you’ve done your “downward dog” yoga pose today, you’re probably feeling more relaxed. Regardless of your level of yoga expertise, if you’re practicing regularly, you can feel better from head to toe.
Yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages. And, if you’re going through an illness, recovering from surgery, or living with a chronic condition, yoga can become an integral part of your treatment and potentially hasten to heal.
A yoga therapist can work with patients and put together individualized plans that work together with their medical and surgical therapies. That way, yoga can support the healing process and help the person experience symptoms with more centeredness and less distress.
Reason 1. Yoga makes us feel good
Proper exercise leads to improved overall physical well-being, improves mood, and sets you up for positive thoughts, experiences of happiness, and a feeling of success. (6 Healthy Habits that Reduce the Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease)
Reason 2. Yoga teaches how to relax
Relaxation skills help to quickly calm down and relax in the most adverse stressful situations, preventing our physical and psychological resources from being depleted.
Reason 3. Yoga increases bodily awareness
Yoga teaches: what and when to eat and drink; To understand one's own well-being; How to get comfortable for work and rest; How to properly distribute physical activity.
Reason 4. Yoga calms the mind
In order to do the exercises correctly, we need to concentrate on them. By doing so, we develop the skill of concentrating our attention and consciously directing it in the right direction for us.
Yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages. And, if you’re going through an illness, recovering from surgery, or living with a chronic condition, yoga can become an integral part of your treatment and potentially hasten to heal.
A yoga therapist can work with patients and put together individualized plans that work together with their medical and surgical therapies. That way, yoga can support the healing process and help the person experience symptoms with more centeredness and less distress.
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Importance of Yoga
Reason 1. Yoga makes us feel good
Proper exercise leads to improved overall physical well-being, improves mood, and sets you up for positive thoughts, experiences of happiness, and a feeling of success. (6 Healthy Habits that Reduce the Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease)
Reason 2. Yoga teaches how to relax
Relaxation skills help to quickly calm down and relax in the most adverse stressful situations, preventing our physical and psychological resources from being depleted.
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Reason 3. Yoga increases bodily awareness
Yoga teaches: what and when to eat and drink; To understand one's own well-being; How to get comfortable for work and rest; How to properly distribute physical activity.
Reason 4. Yoga calms the mind
In order to do the exercises correctly, we need to concentrate on them. By doing so, we develop the skill of concentrating our attention and consciously directing it in the right direction for us.
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