How Yoga affects your physical health

I am starting my online Yoga e-course with part 1, which is titled: Yoga and your physical health. I am sure it will be very interesting and informative for you as a beginner to Yoga.

The first thing you should know is this: In Yoga there is no differentiation between your body and your mind. This is something new for the western world as we are used to think about mental health and physical health as two different things.

With that said, Yoga can be understood as a way of helping your body (and mind) heal or improve itself through a process of releasing blocked tension and energy in your body. Further on, Yoga helps with making your muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments and other body parts work to the fullest.

According to Yoga, human beings are optimally built by nature itself. That means your body is designed in a flexible and agile way. Being stiff or lacking in mobility is for Yoga a sign that your body is unhealthy or out of alignment.

So, whenever you find yourself in a Yoga lesson or class, or perhaps doing Yoga mat in your home with the help of a Yoga video or DVD, be aware that you are working on your health and well-being. Practising Yoga is proven to help you achieve the following benefits for your body and mind:

• it increases your flexibleness and range of motion,


• it reduces the hurt in your muscles and joints,


• it strengthens your immune system,


• it strengthens the capacity of your lungs,


• it increases your metabolism (this is good for losing your weight as well),


• it helps you sleep better (mostly because Yoga improves your breathing and better oxygenates your body).

Learning and doing Yoga obviously helps you with several things related to your health and the quality of the life you are living.

To sum it up: Yoga does not only help you with getting more flexible, but it also detoxifies you because of the increased blood flow in various parts of your body. Your muscles will become more tone and invigorated as well due to various postures performed during your Yoga practices.

Therefore, Yoga does not only provide you with mental benefits (such as relaxation, calmness and happiness), but also gives you llots of clear and proven physical benefits too!

In case your goal is to lose weight, or perhaps staying in good health during winter time, then Yoga is certainly something you should be doing on regular basis. It will help you with your goals just the same as it will help corporate executive get the stress out of his mind.

Now that you know how positively Yoga affects your physical health, I am sure you will want to start learning and practising as soon as possible. That is all for the first part, make sure to subscribe so you will not miss on the second part where I go into even more details about why practising Yoga is beneficial for you.