Consisting of activities such as relaxation, meditation, socialization, and exercise, yoga has been proven helpful in reducing your anxiety and depression. According to a Harvard University article, yoga is able to accomplish this by helping regulate a person’s stress response system. With its ability to lower blood pressure and heart rate as well as improve…
Do you always seem stressed and tense? Do you feel as if you’re carrying the entire world on your shoulders? With the help of yoga, you can definitely put throw those unhealthy feelings on the wayside. According to the British Psychological Society, yoga involves concentration on the breath and body, which makes it a great…
Yoga helps improve your metabolism, which has many trickle down benefits, not the least of which is effortless weight loss. With all of the tempting foods around us and all of our creature comforts it’s easy to fall into a state of a sluggish metabolism. The good news is you have the power to make…
The pain we experience is largely do to the lack of motion and activity we face. It’s the body’s answer to atrophy, and many times just getting moving will make many of those aches and pains go away. If the pain you’re experiencing is from a trauma you can use yoga to help as well.…
Doing yoga should lower your blood pressure, even though it may be frustrating at first and you feel like it’s raising it. But it is actually a good workout for your heart, and will improve your cardiovascular function over time. The key is sticking with it long enough to get these benefits. You don’t have…
Yoga requires you to get into and hold positions that will naturally strengthen your muscles, using only your bodyweight for resistance. This is a very unique approach because as you do more yoga, your body weight should naturally decrease, which logic would say should make the poses more easy to complete. But the beauty of…