The many benefits of yoga

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Sun, 18 Jun 2017 - 07:43 GMT

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Yoga - CC via Pixabay

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CAIRO – 18 June 2017: Yoga is a spiritual Hindu and ascetic discipline, which includes simple meditation and adoption of specific bodily postures. It is healthy and leads to relaxation.

Practicing yoga is much more than an exercise regime. It not only provides energy and helps build muscles and flexibility, it is also an entry point for a healthy and balanced life, according to the National.

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Yoga is for kids and adults alike. Yoga helps people to express themselves in a safe, trusting environment. Yoga can help unite the body and the mind and can make demands of daily life easier. Yoga helps the practitioner recover faster from gym workouts and it helps people feel much more relaxed.

Here are 5 benefits of yoga.

It protects your spine:

Yoga helps maintain the natural curvature of the spine through proper body alignment and good posture. It helps reduce the lower back pain, as mentioned on peer-reviewed spine-health.com.

Increase the blood flow:

The relaxing exercise in yoga helps blood circulation, especially in the hands and feet. It gets more oxygen to the body’s cells.

Makes people feel happy:

The University of Wisconsin found out that yoga is correlated with greater levels of happiness and better immune function.

Helps people to focus:

Yoga improves coordination, memory and IQ scores, according to Yoga Journal. People that practice yoga solve problems faster and recall information better.

Helps people to sleep deeper:

As stated in the Yoga Journal, yoga helps people to sleep because it makes them less stressed.

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