The Health Benefits of Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga has both preventive and therapeutic benefits. It has been shown to offer both physical and mental benefits to the body and the mind.
Flexibility: Safely stretch your muscles, ligaments, tendons, and the fascia sheath that surrounds your muscles. This releases the lactic acid that builds up with muscle use and causes stiffness, tension, pain, and fatigue. Yoga increases the range of motion in joints. The outcome is a sense of ease and fluidity throughout your body.
Strength: Improve muscle tone, strength and endurance; strengthen the spine, often easing back pain.
Posture: With increased flexibility and strength comes better posture. Also yoga cultivates increased body awareness. This heightened awareness tells you more quickly when you're slouching or slumping so you can adjust your posture.
Breathing: With deep, mindful yogic breathing, lung capacity often improves thereby improving breathing disorders. Also deepening and lengthening your breath stimulates the relaxation response.
Less stress, more calm: Specific meditation techniques quiet the constant "mind chatter" and deep breathing techniques focus your mind on the breath. When this happens, your mind becomes calm.
Concentration and mood: Yoga relaxes the mind and body; centers attention; sharpens concentration; and frees the spirit.
Heart benefits: Yoga has long been known to lower blood pressure and slow the heart rate. A slower heart rate can benefit people with hypertension, heart disease, and stroke.
Other benefits of yoga: Improves muscular-skeletal conditions such as bad knees, tight shoulders and neck, swayback and scoliosis; increases stamina; creates balance and grace; stimulates the glands of the endocrine system; improves digestion and elimination; boosts immune response; decreases cholesterol and blood sugar levels; and encourages weight loss.
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