1. More feksibelThese benefits are most directly felt. Maybe in the beginning of the exercise have not been able to touch your toes while doing backbend movement. However, if you keep practicing, the body slowly began to feel more flexible and you can finally touch the big toe. You will also find the pain and fatigue disappeared.
2. StrongerStrong muscles make you look more attractive. Muscles also keep our bodies from diseases such as arthritis and back pain as well as easy to fall in the elderly. Build strength through yoga, you balance it with flexibility.
3. Improve postureDid you know, our head like a bowling ball is big and heavy? Need to balance the spine and back muscles to support it. Not impossible if you feel tired. The problem is with bad posture. Yoga can improve posture and prevent aches, fatigue, arthritis, and also because of poor posture.
4. Protect joints from rheumatism and arthritisEvery time doing yoga, you train your joints to move in full range. This means you prevent degenerative arthritis by "squeezing and soaking" areas of cartilage that is rarely used. Cartilage like sponges that absorb nutrients only when fluid is expelled. Without latthan, the network will be decomposed and left the bones without pads.
5. Protect the spineThe joints of the spine as the rear shock absorber between bones also need to be trained. If diligently practicing backbend, forward bend, and twist, you keep the joints of the spine become more flexible.
6. Preventing osteoporosisThere have been many studies have shown that weight-bearing exercise strengthens bones and osteoporosis dispel. Many yoga postures require you to lift your own body weight. Pose Downward or upward facing dog helps to strengthen the arm bones are vulnerable got osteoporosis. Yoga is also good increases spine density.
6. Blood circulationYoga trains you to relax. Relaxation exercises that help the blood circulation, especially in the hands and feet. Yoga also helps oxygen to enter the cell. Pose a good twist to bring blood to the organs in and drain it out after the pose is complete. Pose headstand, handstand, and shoulderstand helps bring blood from the legs and pelvis to the heart and from there pumped to the lungs, so it gets fresh oxygen. Yoga also increases levels of hemoglobin and red blood cells that carries oxygen to tissues.
8. Clean the lymphWhen the contract and stretch muscles, move organs, you increase the lymph cleansing, fluid rich in immune cells. This will help the lymphatic system fight infection, destroy cancerous cells, remove toxins from the production of cellular functions.
9. Protects the heartAerobic exercise is great for protecting the heart. Although not included aerobic, if you do yoga, you increase your heart rate to aerobic levels. Although yoga does not increase heart rate to improve cardiovascular function, the study found that yoga practice lowers resting heart rate, increased stamina, and improve maximum oxygen intake when the sport. This value is similar to aerobic exercise.
10. Lowering blood pressureYou should try yoga if you suffer from hypertension. Two studies of hypertension of the British medical journal The Lancet, compared the effects of savasana pose to just lay on the sofa. After three months of savasana is called systolic blood pressure lower than 26 points and 15 points in diastolic pressure.
11. Keeping the MemoryYoga lowers levels of the hormone cortisol. Normally the adrenal glands to release cortisol in response to a state of acute crisis which then temporarily promote immune function. If cortisol levels remain high after the crisis had passed, it can undermine immunity. Temporary increase in cortisol is to help long-term memory. However, if continuous, high cortisol interfere with memory and cause permanent changes in the brain. Excess cortisol is associated with depression, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and insulin resistance.
12. Bring happinessResearch shows that yoga exercises consistently improve depression, increase serotonin levels, and lower cortisol. Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin, USA, found that the left prefrontal cortex appear to rise in people who meditate. The discovery was to correlate the higher levels of happiness and immune function better. Higher levels found in yoga lovers who have many years of practice.
13. Lose weightDo not be lazy to move and do not be greedy. That's exactly the principle of maintaining a healthy weight. Yoga can help us do both of these principles. Yoga exercises to help you move and burn calories. Emotional and spiritual side of yoga encourage you to look at eating and weight problems more deeply. Maybe yoga will inspire you to become more conscious while eating.
14. Lowering blood sugar and cholesterolYoga lowers blood sugar and bad cholesterol, while raising good cholesterol. In diabetes, yoga helps control blood sugar by decreasing cortisol and adrenaline levels, lose weight, and improve sensitivity to insulin.
15. Improve intelligenceAn important component of yoga is to focus on the present situation. The study found that regular yoga exercises to improve coordination, reaction, memory, and even IQ scores. People who practice transcendental meditation are able to solve problems, process information better because it is able to concentrate, easily distracted and not another problem.