Balance Yoga for a Healthy Body, Mind & Spirit
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If you add up the list of health benefits that balance yoga provides, your list would be a mile long. You’re sure to feel the effects happening the minute you leave the yoga studio. It’s an emotional feeling of elation, but also a full body feeling of flexibility and exhaustion.
Everyone associates yoga with flexibility and yes, it’s true, you’ll become very flexible with the practice of yoga. It’s tough at first, your muscles won’t like you and you’ll feel just how tight your body is. After even just a few classes, you’ll feel your body start to loosen up and your muscles start to work with you. The deep breathing they teach you, will help relax your muscles further into each stretch. With each practice you’ll be able to stretch deeper and deeper into each pose.
Your strength will also be challenged in the practice of yoga. You won’t turn into the muscle man you see pumping iron in front of the mirror, but we’ve all seen what yoga has done for Madonna’s arms. If us common folk can see a quarter of that definition we’d probably all be satisfied. Many yoga poses require that you support your own weight during or through one pose to the next. At first even downward facing dog will make your shoulders burn. Unlike traditional weight training, yoga uses your own body as resistance and your muscles begin to learn how to precisely control your movements. Your muscles become long, lean and toned – and who doesn’t want that, right?!
Another physical benefit you’ll achieve in yoga is that you’ll begin to really breathe.
Many yoga followers live by the saying of Hatha Yoga Pradipika, “When the Breath wanders, the mind is unsteady, but when the Breath is still, so is the mind still.”
Breathing is a normal everyday thing that if we’re lucky, we don’t have to think much about. When you practice yoga, you are also in training to fully breath deeply and consciously. It is believed that yoga breathing gets more oxygen to your brain and your blood. You fully use your lungs in a way that you don’t with normal unconscious breathing.
For more information on The Health Benefits of Balance Yoga, please visit this Yoga Resouce Site
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