Yoga is great for healthy people but it is also a huge blessing for those who are not healthy.
The best way to be and stay healthy is to maintain good physical and mental habits and yoga is a big help here.
It prevents ill health by keeping your body, mind and spirit in good form.
One of the main focuses of yoga practice are the postures that stretch, loosen and align the spine which allows energy to flow freely throughout the body and spinal health and wellbeing is widely considered by most mainstream and alternative specialists to be a major factor in keeping the body well.
Physical or Hatha Yoga exercises don't just work on the major muscle groups as do other exercise systems but actually tone the organs, improves breathing and posture and cleanses our system of toxins, aiding digestion, respiration and circulation.
A major objective in Hatha Yoga asanas (postures) is to stimulate the lymphatic system which is critical to our immune system by filtering toxins and giving the blood the nutrients it needs.
Every major or minor movement we make pumps lymph through our system, whether it is our breathing, our heartbeats, our tensing or relaxing of muscles, even the movement of our digestive system.
Yoga gives us full, conscious control of these movements, many of which we had no idea we could control in the first place.
It is not necessary that you be in good shape now in order to practice yoga.
In fact, even if you are unable to move very much, you can practice yoga with very minimal movements, tensing and relaxing of the hands, feet, legs, back, head, neck and even the eyes and internal organs! A lot of the benefit comes from merely connecting the smallest movements to conscious mental effort, commands and awareness along with the all-pervading cosmic energy called 'prana'.
If you have chronic health conditions or are injured, you can make yoga treatment and practice a complement to your doctor's treatment.
And it goes without saying that when you do have serious health issues, you should always consult your doctor about the possible help that yoga can give you in your particular condition.
The best way to be and stay healthy is to maintain good physical and mental habits and yoga is a big help here.
It prevents ill health by keeping your body, mind and spirit in good form.
One of the main focuses of yoga practice are the postures that stretch, loosen and align the spine which allows energy to flow freely throughout the body and spinal health and wellbeing is widely considered by most mainstream and alternative specialists to be a major factor in keeping the body well.
Physical or Hatha Yoga exercises don't just work on the major muscle groups as do other exercise systems but actually tone the organs, improves breathing and posture and cleanses our system of toxins, aiding digestion, respiration and circulation.
A major objective in Hatha Yoga asanas (postures) is to stimulate the lymphatic system which is critical to our immune system by filtering toxins and giving the blood the nutrients it needs.
Every major or minor movement we make pumps lymph through our system, whether it is our breathing, our heartbeats, our tensing or relaxing of muscles, even the movement of our digestive system.
Yoga gives us full, conscious control of these movements, many of which we had no idea we could control in the first place.
It is not necessary that you be in good shape now in order to practice yoga.
In fact, even if you are unable to move very much, you can practice yoga with very minimal movements, tensing and relaxing of the hands, feet, legs, back, head, neck and even the eyes and internal organs! A lot of the benefit comes from merely connecting the smallest movements to conscious mental effort, commands and awareness along with the all-pervading cosmic energy called 'prana'.
If you have chronic health conditions or are injured, you can make yoga treatment and practice a complement to your doctor's treatment.
And it goes without saying that when you do have serious health issues, you should always consult your doctor about the possible help that yoga can give you in your particular condition.
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