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IdentityMaintaining a regular yoga practice can provide physical and mental health benefits
Learn about the different types of yoga and how it can be used as a tool to help you stay healthy.
Like yoga, the osteopathic approach to wellness focuses on your bodys natural tendency toward health and self-healing.
The purpose of yoga is to build strength, awareness and harmony
While there are more than 100 different types, or schools, of yoga, most sessions typically include breathing exercises, meditation, and assuming postures (sometimes called asana or poses) that stretch and flex various
Physical benefits
The relaxation techniques incorporated in yoga can lessen chronic pain, such as lower back pain, arthritis, headaches and carpal tunnel syndrome. Yoga can also lower blood pressure and reduce insomnia.
Other physical benefits of yoga include:
increased flexibility
increased muscle strength and tone
improved respiration, energy and vitality
maintaining a balanced metabolism
weight reduction
cardio and circulatory health
improved athletic performance
protection from injury
Mental benefits
Aside from the physical benefits, one of the best benefits of yoga is how it helps a person manage stress, which is known to have devastating effects on the body and mind.
Stress can reveal itself in many ways, including back or neck pain, sleeping problems, headaches, and an inability to concentrate.
Yoga can be very effective in developing coping skills and reaching a more positive outlook on life.
Yogas incorporation of meditation and breathing can help improve a persons mental well-being. Regular yoga practice creates mental clarity and calmness; increases body awareness; relieves chronic stress patterns; relaxes the mind; centers attention; and sharpens concentration, Body- and self-awareness are particularly beneficial.
because they can help with early detection of physical problems and allow for early preventive action.
Beginners welcome
Because there are so many different kinds of yoga practices, it is possible for anyone to start.
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