Weight loss bucket list item 891, (there are A LOT of bucket list items.) I want to go to a yoga retreat. I want to practice yoga while I listen to the ocean crest against the sand and rocks..
It's an exercise that just about anyone can do no matter what your fitness level. Never be intimated by the the positions, there is always a modification.
Here are some health benefits of yoga listed on Web MD
1) Improved Flexability
2) Help Improve Posture
3) Help Improve Breathing. - Super important for those of us with Asthma.
4) Less Stress -This is a stressful world we live in. Anyone who has walked into an exercise class knows that stressful feeling of can I really do this? Am I going to finish this class? The dreaded feeling when the position in the back by the door is already taken. Because Yoga is not as strenuous as other exercise classes you can leave that stress at the door. But also the focus on breathing and relaxing into the yoga positions tends to lead to a reduction of stress.
5) Improved Mood. -The less stress we feel the more elevated our mood tends to be. But did you also know that improved breathing allows more oxygen to reach the brain which improves things such as depression and along with therapy can help people with OCD?
6) Heart Benefits- Studies have shown that yoga helps with Heart Disease which is the number one killer in the USA. This is far to cool for me not to quote " Yoga has long been known to lower blood pressure and slow the heart rate. A slower heart rate can benefit people with high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. Yoga was a key component to the heart disease program designed by Dean Ornish, MD. This was the first program to partly reverse heart disease through lifestyle and diet rather than surgery" It can decreased cholesterol and triglyceride levels and boost your immune system function.
After reading all of that don't you want to run and find a yoga studio?? I know I do! Namaste!!
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