The Benefits of Yoga

Here are 10 benefits of starting and maintaining a physical yoga practice such as the one offered in all Hyp-Yoga Weight Loss Classes.

1. Weight Loss  - Yoga allows you to lose weight by giving you a low impact exercise that starts burning fat, as you relax and move.

2. Strength - Did you know you have triceps? You will after you try yoga! Yoga's poses (called asanas) come together to give you a well rounded strength class, giving you definition and tone.
 
3. Flexibility - Many people are scared to try yoga because they "are not flexible." This is no reason - we do yoga to become flexible, not because we already are. Yoga is for everyone, and yoga will encourage everyone to move a little deeper and stretch a little farther, one step at a time. Stretching is a necessary component of an exercise plan to balance out strength gain.

4. Better Posture - You can grow an inch with yoga! It's really not magic, just learn how to stand up straight (tadasana or mountain pose) and then build the muscles necessary to keep you upright all day. Better posture can lead to lessening of joint and muscle pain and will lead to more confidence!

5. Stress Prevention - Approach life with a calm and joyful spirit! Yoga allows you to slow down, breathe and foster awareness which leads to stress prevention on the mat you can take with you off the mat. Even when life is crazy, you are not because of the tools you have learned in class to keep you peaceful in the middle of a storm.

6. Pain Reduction - Learning to move your body correctly and heal yourself through the power of your mind, is one of the major benefits of yoga. Many of the physical poses of yoga will allow you to alleviate pain in certain areas with preventing pain in others. Meditation and breathing in yoga also can heal the body and even sometimes heal emotional pain.

7. Slower Aging - Anytime you slow down and take care of yourself you are stopping the damage of free-radicals in the body which lead to faster aging. Yoga also stops the production of Cortisol and other stress related hormones that age our bodies more rapidly.

8. Deeper Breathing - Become better at other physical activities with the deeper lung capacity you gain through yoga. Also, breathing better will lead to more concentration in your life and better health as your body is supplied with cleansing breaths from your entire respiratory system.

9. Uplifted Spirit - Physically, yoga can give you more energy, but even more importantly, emotionally and spiritually yoga can lift you up and give you the extra motivation to live life to the fullest.

10. Better Body Function - We already know that your respiratory system loves yoga (see #8), but every other system of your body seems to also be positively affected by yoga. Your digestive system loves all the physical twists, your lymphatic system loves the stress prevention, and your circulatory the proper body alignment and oxygenated cells.

Start reaping the benefits of yoga now! Join a Hyp-Yoga Weight Loss Class near you!

Written by Carly Cummings, President Hyp-Yoga Inc.
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