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Benefits of Yoga (cont.)

Some of the many benefits yoga offers you are:

  • Maintaining good health, a sense of stability and achieving inner balance
  • Yoga helps the body become stronger and more flexible
  • Reduces stress
  • Increased level of fitness
  • Cardiovascular strength improved
  • Improved focus and concentration
  • Helps to alleviate depression and encourage positive energy
  • Yoga helps regain and retain youthfulness
  • Blood flow increased in the body as a result
  • Relaxation of nervous system
  • Brain activity to be stimulated
  • Spine free from tension and reinforced
  • Hip joints, the knees and the ankles are strengthened and the sciatic nerve is toned
  • Quietening effect on the mind
  • Chest expansion improving breathing function
  • Fatty deposits around the waistline are gradually eliminated
  • Tensions removed from head and neck
  • Flow of energy downward from the navel area favours the digestion and elimination processes as well as the ovarian function in women.
  • Thyroid gland is stimulated and produces an overall regeneration of the system

"As the result of contentment, one gains supreme happiness."

Yoga sutras of Patanjali
(i.42)