It's almost April! Time for all of us to get outside and play, finally! Yoga is instrumental in helping all of us avoid and deal with unnecessary aches and pains, sore, tight muscles we get with our active lifestyles. Yoga is the balance we all need to keep ourselves healthy and well.
Here are 10 facts about why Yoga Works:
1. Main purpose of Yoga is to help us find and achieve balance.
2. A big misconception about Yoga is that it is only about becoming flexible - not so.
3. Yoga strengthens our muscles, increases our balance, elongates our muscles, improves our flexibility and breathing, helps us feel at peace within, decreases stress and is both physically and mentally therapeutic (assisting in healing from injuries).
4. Our well-being is increased from practicing yoga, because it can transform reactions to stress. Result - we then respond to difficult situations with more grace and patience.
5. Yoga helps decrease insomnia, improving sleep, increasing relaxation.
6. Meditating has been proven to restructure the brain, so you concentrate better, feel more compassion, and work through stress in a much calmer way. This is an important part of Yoga.
7. Yoga will increase range of motion and improve the body's alignment, which helps to avoid injuries.
8. Yoga improves breathing through deep-breathing exercises, which greatly counters stress and assists in stretching, becoming more flexible, less prone to injury.
9. Yoga plays an important role in treating numerous aches, pains and conditions. For instance, when you treat foot problems with Yoga, you end up treating back pain, hip pain, and many other structural body problems; all connected.
10. Yoga is the exercise we should be including in our fitness routines in order to become healthier, improve fitness and achieve real balance.
One more thing about Yoga ---- The best news is --- it's not just for adults! It's for all ages (they even have fun Mommy and Me yoga classes). Yoga truly is for every age group, so let's get the word out -- Let's Do Yoga, Yoga Works!
