What Are The 5 Benefits Of Yoga?

Yoga is the best way to improve your physical, mental and body health. All you need are a yoga mat or a naked yoga if you want a comfortable clothes or none! Evidence has shown that incorporating this former activity in your lifestyle will help boost the strength and flexibility of your brain and your heart as well as of your body.

There are five reasons to inspire and drive you forward if you have been thinking about getting started.

• Reduce Your Stress Level

Lowering your stress leve,l Yoga will help you relax your mind and body and give you the sense of unity when you practice yourself consciously. Yoga postures that incorporate stretching exercises, guided respiration and techniques of relaxation can help you reduce tension, lower blood pressure and boost heart function, according to Yoga Journal.

• Develop Your Strength

While yoga’s iconic spiritual and transformations are worth trying, it is not successful as a physical activity that is distributable. Some yoga poses or postures help you relax, raising your weight and lower your level of stress. According to the Yoga Exercise Survey of the American Council, 8 weeks of Hatha Yoga were used by participants who increased their muscle mass and strengthened their physical force (they were able to perform additional stirring and seating after the survey). Yoga practitioners are not shocked, as traditional postures like four-limbed staff also known as Chaturanga and a boat pose are bodyweight exercises that relax muscles in the same way pushups, crunches and boards do. Yoga builds strength, flexibility and endurance through different poses.

• Improves Your Flexibility

You probably noticed that they were quite versatile if you ever watched the Yoga class or people posing for Yoga. Particularly performing poses like the dog facing downward, sitting forward and standing forward. This does not mean you need flexibility to do yoga, but if you practice and stick to it daily, the versatility will gradually increase. And then, positions that seem unlikely become a piece of cake. In addition to enhancing the strength, discomfort and aches can begin to disappear, often with tight knees, the lower back and the rounded shoulders sitting at a desk for long hours. Overall, your posture and body alignment will all significantly improve as your flexibility improves.

• Increase Your Sex Drive

It’s been said that our overall appetite for sex decrease as we age. Okay, research suggests that yoga will help you boost your sex drive and improve it. A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine (November 12, 2009) shows that regular yoga research increases the sexual desire, anticipation, orgasm and overall satisfaction of women.

Does this have a clear pose? You’re playing! Cobra is described as a yoga pose by Harvard Health publication which enhances sexual function. Yoga can also help you sleep better at night in addition to improved physical strength and flexibility, reduced stress and increased focus. Patients with sleep disorder enhanced sleep quality by practicing yoga everyday over 8 weeks, according to Harvard Medical School.

• May Help You Lose Weight

Yoga can be an efficient tool for weight loss like any other kind of exercise. While most yoga isn’t as fast as some cardio and HIIT workouts, calories continue to be burned that contribute to weight loss.

According to Harvard Health, the most popular form of yoga in fitness gyms and yoga studios will burn 149 calories for 30 minutes of Hathas yoga, which is 155 pounds. Since the most effective way to lose weight is through exercise and healthy eating, practicing yoga definitely qualifies as a weight loss tool.

Why Choose Yoga at Peak Performance Float?

We believe yoga is an essential tool to maintaining and enhancing your overall well-being. Peak Performance Float yoga classes are small, caring and full of friendly people which help to create an intimate environment to relax and restore your mind and body.

Learn more about our amazing yoga teachers here, check our weekly yoga class schedule here, and  sign up online for a class here. Your body, mind and spirit will thank you for it!  New students enjoy two weeks of unlimited classes for $25.  Save with packages and memberships!