Is yoga REALLY all that helpful?

Here are some of the ways it can keep your physical and mental well-being in check.

1. Yoga has the potential to bring awareness to the mind, body and thought patterns.

2. Different poses have specific benefits; such as forward bends help with relaxation, twists can raise energy.

3. Yoga poses can help release stress in the body, e.g high, low lunges (as cortisol often gravitates to large muscles such as the thighs).

4. Poses can help build up strength in the body, as well as stretch into injuries or areas of stiffness.

5. Yoga can help aid sleep.

6. Through the mindful movement of yoga, it can help promote meta-cognition (the ability to witness thoughts ‘I am not my thoughts’, by simply drawing attention to the breath and sensations in the body).

7. Mindfulness can help us be the in the present moment, ‘Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally’ -Jon Kabat-Zinn.

8.. Mindfulness helps promote emotional resilience.

9. Yoga and mindfulness are regulators of stress, through breathing and exercises.

10. Yoga balances aid concentration, as the mind is stilled to focus on the balance.

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