(28-08-10) Yoga is Good for Your Body and Mind

by Maddie Ellison, citizen journalist
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Yoga is a combination of a series of postures and controlled breathing
exercises. It is considered a mind-body type of alternative medicine. It brings
together both the physical and the mental aspects of the body to realize
peacefulness and help your body relax.

Research has shown that yoga helps you manage or control anxiety and reduces
stress and tension as well as helps reduce depression. It helps you draw your
focus away from the stresses of life and makes you focus on your movements and
your breathing. It gives you an overall sense of relaxation and well being.

Yoga is also great for your body. It improves circulation, muscle tone and
flexibility. It has also shown to lower blood pressure and help physical
ailments such as carpal tunnel syndrome, back pain, multiple sclerosis,
arthritis and even asthma and epilepsy.

The key to yoga is the movement along with the breathing. The postures, also
called poses, are a series of movements that were created to increase your
strength and flexibility. Many yoga poses have names taken from nature like the
dolphin pose or the firefly pose. The poses range from simple and relaxing
poses where you lie flat to more difficult poses that require you to bend and
stretch your body. Don't be intimated by the poses. Anyone can practice yoga.
There are many poses for beginners. There are also specific classes for
children, pregnant women and the elderly.

The act of controlling your breathing is vital to practicing yoga correctly.
If you can control your breathing you can control your body and quiet your
mind. Your instructor, whether it be in a class or from a video will show you
the proper way to breathe. It's important that you never hold your breath
during any of the movements. You should always either be inhaling or exhaling.
Our bodies eliminate almost half of our waste through breathing. Not breathing
correctly will keep the toxins inside our bodies which can cause illness.

It takes time to relearn how to breathe and to master the poses but your
efforts will be rewarded. Your mind and your body will be stronger, you will
stand a little taller and you will have a calmness about you that you didn't
even know you could achieve.

Resources

http://www.yogasite.com/why.htm
http://www.yogajournal.com/basics/2321
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/yo...


Source: NaturalNews

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