1. Stress Relief: Yoga encourages relaxation and helps to lower the levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Regular classes can improve your digestion, blood pressure, heart rate, and boost your immune system.
2. Pain Relief: Studies have shown that practicing Yoga asanas (postures), meditation or a combination of the two, reduced pain for people with conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, auto-immune diseases as well as arthritis, back and neck pain, and other chronic conditions.
3. Better Breathing: Yoga teaches deeper and slower breathing. This can improve lung function, help the body relax, and increase the amount of oxygen available to the body.
4. Flexibility: Yoga increases your range of motion and reduces aches and pains. Over time, the ligaments, tendons and muscles lengthen, increasing elasticity. It also helps to improve body alignment leading to better posture and helping to relieve back, neck joint and muscle problems.
5. Increased Strength: Yoga poses use every muscle in the body. This helps increase strength throughout your body, relieving muscular tension in the process.
6. Weight Management: All styles of Yoga promote weight control by reducing cortisol levels, burning excess calories, and reducing stress. Healthy eating habits which provide a heightened sense of well-being and self-esteem are a result of Yoga.
7. Improved Circulation: Yoga helps improve circulation by moving oxygenated blood to the body's cells.
8. Cardiovascular Conditioning: Yoga can lower the heart rate, increasing endurance and improving oxygen uptake during exercise.
9. Focus on the Present: Yoga helps to become more aware and creates mind body health. It can result in better concentration, coordination, reaction time and memory.
10. Inner Peace: Meditation can help you reach a deeper, more spiritual and satisfying place. Yoga can become a essential part of your daily lives.
(Provided by Yoga Alliance)
The Wellness Connection offers all levels of Yoga from beginner to advanced. Check out our schedule here.
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