by Singgih Dirga

Created on: November 10, 2009   Last Updated: November 14, 2009

1. More feksibel

These benefits are most directly felt. Maybe at the beginning of your training has not been able to touch your toes when doing backbend movement. However, if you keep practicing, the body slowly began to feel more flexible and you can finally touch the big toe. You also will find the pain and aches disappeared.



2. Protect joints from rheumatism and arthritis

Every time yoga, you practice the joints move in full range. This means that you prevent the degenerative arthritic disease by "squeezing and soaking" kartilage areas that are rarely used. Kartilage like sponges that absorb nutrients only when the fluid expelled. Without latthan, the network will be obsolete and leave the bone without pads.



3. Preventing osteoporosis

Many studies have shown that weight training strengthens bones and dispel osteoporosis. Many yoga postures require you to lift your own body weight. Pose downward or upward facing dog helps build strong bones vulnerable arm got osteoporosis. Yoga is also good increases spine density.

4. Circulation

Yoga trains you to relax. Relaxation exercises that help the blood circulation, especially in the hands and feet. Yoga also helps oxygen to enter the cell. Twist poses both to carry blood to internal organs and flows out of the pose was finished. Pose headstand, handstand, and shoulderstand help bring blood from the legs and pelvis to the heart and from there pumped to the lungs, so that fresh oxygen. Yoga also increases levels of hemoglobin and red blood cells that carries oxygen to the network.

5. Cleanup lymph

When the contract and stretch the muscles, organs move, you increase the lymph cleansing, fluid rich in immune cells. This will help the lymphatic system fight infection, destroying cancer cells, removes toxins from the production of cellular functions.

6. Protect the heart

Aerobic exercise is good for protecting the heart. While not including aerobics, if you do yoga, you increase your heart rate to aerobic levels. Although yoga does not increase the heart rate which can improve cardiovascular function, the study found that yoga exercises lower resting heart rate, increased stamina, and improve maximum oxygen intake when the sport. This is equal to the aerobic exercise.

7. Lowers blood pressure

There's a good idea to try yoga if you suffer from hypertension. Two studies of hypertension from the British medical journal The Lancet, compared the effects of Savasana pose with just lying on the couch. After three months of

• 1
• 2
• Next Page >>