The ancient art of yoga is more popular today than ever with more than one million Australians practising it this year, and the number is growing! Yoga combines breathing, stretching, and meditation to deliver some very healthy results for the mind and body!
You don’t really need much to get started, do a few safe and basic poses on one of these great cork yoga mats and you will have begun a wonderful journey to well-being!
Here are just some of the many good things that yoga can do for you!
- Yoga improves your strength, balance, and flexibility. The deep breathing and slow movements help to increase your blood flow, warming up your muscles and building strength as you perform the poses.
- Yoga can help soothe symptoms of arthritis. Arthritis was once the scourge of older people, but yoga can push back time by easing the discomfort of swollen joints.
- Yoga can help ease chronic back pain. Millions of Australians suffer from back pain thanks to our too-often sedentary lifestyles. Yoga can help by improving flexibility and gently stretching out sore muscles so the pain subsides and you can breathe a bit easier.
- Yoga improves heart health. Heart disease is a killer, so we have to do everything we can to prevent it! Practising yoga on a regular basis will reduce stress and body inflammation that can lead to heart trouble. High blood pressure and excess body weight are harbingers of heart disease, yoga can help reduce those as well. There is really no better way to maintain a healthy heart than yoga!
- Yoga is relaxing and helps you to enjoy a better sleep. People who practise yoga, particularly in the hours before bedtime, are more physically and emotionally relaxed so that drifting off to sleep and getting a good rest becomes much easier.
- Yoga is a great way to manage stress. The calming effects of yoga practice are conducive to better mental health, stress management, eating a more healthy diet, and weight loss, all important factors in determining how we feel about ourselves and our lives. It’s a fact that too much stress is very harmful to us, yoga is the calming spiritual balm that strung-out modern people need to mellow them out so they can enjoy life!
- Yoga gives you more energy and fosters better moods. Doing yoga will boost your personal drive and mental alertness, you will become more enthusiastic and those old negative feelings will fall away as you fill your mind and body with refreshing positive energy!
- Yoga tones your muscles and improves your physical appearance. What more do you want?
In all seriousness, it may all sound a bit too good to be true, but yoga does everything we have mentioned here for you and much more! We recommend you join a yoga class at your local community centre or college or learn some of the basic poses at home to get started!
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