What are the benefits of yoga

The top ten benefits of yoga

1, reduce stress and nourish the mind, release the body and mind, the whole body is relaxed, calm mind, calm thinking, to achieve the purpose of cultivating the mind and nourishing the nature.

2, increase blood circulation, repair damaged tissues, so that the body tissues get full nutrition.

3, students and stressed people to improve learning and work efficiency of the best rest method, exercise method.

4. It allows you to jump out of the limitations of your mind, so that you can better return to your role and openly meet all the challenges in your life.

5, increase vitality, come to the role of yoga on the brain and glands.

6, appearance and mood of youth, yoga reduces facial wrinkles, producing a natural "facelift" effect.

7, increase disease resistance, yoga exercise a strong body, immune system also increased. This strengthened resistance can deal with a variety of serious illnesses from colds to such as cancer.

8, improve vision and hearing, normal vision and hearing is mainly dependent on the eyes and ears get good blood circulation and nerve transmission.

9, mental and emotional improvement, because yoga makes the glandular nervous system, including the brain, to produce the effect of spring, mental and emotional naturally show a positive state. It makes you more confident, more enthusiastic, and more optimistic. Everyday life also becomes more creative.

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Taboos of practicing yoga

Taboos 1: Mood swings Yoga should not be practiced. Yoga belongs to the body and mind are to cooperate with the movement, if angry, anxious, nervous situation, muscle groups tight, it is best not to practice yoga, so as not to injure, only in the case of soft muscles to practice yoga, can be more healthy and safe.

Taboo 2: Feeling sore joints and tendons after a few classes may not be suitable for practicing yoga. Some people's body flexibility is not good, and yoga is to train the body's flexibility and muscle strength of the extension, if every time after practicing yoga, joint pain or tendon inflammation, may be their own body flexibility is not enough, is not suitable for yoga movements.

Taboo 3: For those with osteoporosis, be careful when practicing yoga. Some yoga poses require you to use your hands or feet to support your body weight. If you have osteoporosis, you may not be able to train your core muscles well enough to support your elbows, and then you may fracture your elbows.

Taboo four: eye pressure is too high, high myopia, not recommended head down foot up inverted movement. Forward bends or inversions will increase eye pressure, so people who already have high eye pressure and high myopia are not recommended to practice yoga.

Taboo 5: Yoga should not be practiced when you are in poor physical condition, recovering from a serious illness, or in the early stages of a fracture. Yoga requires good physical condition in order to achieve the effect of exercising body functions and muscle groups, if the physical condition is not good, muscles, joints, ligaments can not play the strength, practicing yoga, it is easy to get hurt.

Taboo six: epilepsy, cerebral cortex damage. Many yoga movements will involve stretching to the neck, and if you have epilepsy or cerebral cortex damage, bending forward and backward to massage the neck stretching, may induce seizures.

Taboo 7: Avoid practicing yoga if you have a blood clotting disorder or blood clotting disease. Yoga movements need to pose, limb stretching and twisting, the process may lead to a reduction in peripheral blood flow, more likely to lead to severe blood coagulation, triggering cardiovascular disease.

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