Yoga is referred as physical and mental exercise, a spiritual discipline and branch of philosophy which was enlightened 5,000 years ago in native India. Now a days yoga is gaining immense popularity due to its short-term as well as long-term benefits to our health, mentally and physically. Yoga comes from a Sanskrit word YUJ, which means to yoke, join, or unite.
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Yoga is an activity which increases our flexibility, strengthens muscles, centers our thoughts, and make us feel relaxe and calm. Yoga does even more than this. It was practised by yogis millions of years ago, and they passed this discipline to their students, and many different schools of yoga were developed as it spread. There are different type of YOGA ASANAS (postures) and each has its benefit, on different body part. The very popular breathing technique called PRANAYAMA, integrates body with mind and mind with soul.
Benefits Of Yoga For
KIDS:- Now a days with the pressure of studies, kids life remain in so much hurry and stressful with school pressures, incessant lessons, video games and malls. With impact of that they are getting less physical education these days. But you don’t think, this enhances the burden on kids. Yoga is a best way to counter these pressures. Through yoga, children learn techniques like concentration, and their sense of calmness and relaxation improves. Doing yoga, children connect more deeply with inner self which encourages self-esteem and body awareness.
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GROWN UP’S AND SENIORS:- After the age 25, usually people start facing some health related problems, like blood pressure, weight gain, diabetes, mental or physical stress. Yoga shows its impact in all these diseases. How yoga does all this, see below!
BLOOD PRESSURE - Practising yoga and breathing techniques on regular basis helps to lower down blood pressure and stress. It keeps blood in proper circulation, which further reduces chances of high and low blood pressure.
REFRESHES MOOD - It is a known fact that physical activity has a mood-elevating effect. Just after one yoga class, men felt decrease in tension, fatigue, and anger, while women reported mood benefits.
DIABETES - Many scientific researches have proved that after just eight days of doing yoga the imbalanced blood glucose level falls down, which is great for diabetic patients.
ASTHMA - According to a scientific research, yoga has shown reduction in symptoms of asthma and even reduction in asthma medication, are the result of regular yoga.
STRENGTENING AND FLEXIBILITY - It has been noticed that men and women of 18-27 years of age who participated in yoga sessions for two days per week for eight weeks increased the strength in their arms from 19% to 31%, and by 28% in their legs.
PREGNANT WOMEN:- For to-be-moms, no other time and feeling is as special as that. Yoga for pregnant women consists of abundance of techniques that helps to eliminate usual pregnancy-related fear. Medical experts agree to that yoga exercises during pregnancy can be beneficial for mom’s health as well as baby’s health. Yoga asanas actively target those muscles which are used during delivery. As Prevention is better than a cure so say goodbye to stretch marks, weight gain, bad posture and other pregnancy-related problems with yoga. But for pregnant women their some specified yoga asanas. So it is always advised to consult a doctor first.
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