Yoga is one activity that’s good for both young and old.
Yoga is Sanskrit for "union" and it is an activity where body poses and breathing techniques let one feel utmost serenity and get strength of mind and body,
among other health benefits.
Yoga has been proven to give regular practitioners greater flexibility by increased lubrication of joints and muscles through numerous positions which affect the different body joints (even those joints previously ignored or taken for granted), tendons and ligaments.
Several researches confirm the beneficial results of constant yoga. Supposedly "non-strenuous" poses also influence various portions of the body. The various yoga positions perform in sync to attain flexibility of the body, even those that were at first stiff.
Yoga is said to be the only activity that gets to massage all the body’s internal glands and organs thoroughly, even glands, like the prostate, that are barely moved in an entire lifetime. Yoga totally changes the body in all its many parts. Triggering and manipulating the organs help us keep away illnesses; and alert us to the beginnings of any possible ailment.
The yoga positions manage to gently stretch the muscles and joints and massage the different organs, thus ensuring maximum blood supply to all parts of the body. This aids the toxins being rinsed out up to the farthest points of the body, at the same time feeding the different parts. These cleansing process produces more power and zest for life and surely delays the aging process.
Doing repetitive yoga postures also encourages the elimination of excess flab and the muscles which had become weak and slow from idleness.
One lasting advantage from constant yoga is growing consciousness of approaching illness which can help us recover or prevent it from intensifying.
These are but the visible advantages we get out of yoga. Eventually, yoga effects the wholistic and tangible synergy of mind and body. Nowadays we can get various accounts of mental strength behind astounding physical achievements and this confirms the mutual connection between mind and body.
Meditation during yoga results in the union of body and mind when it stirs the mind to perform together with the body. We are usually unable to perform, or perform well, our regular functions – at home or work, when our minds are focused on problems, concerns, anxieties.Stress is known to disrupt our physical and emotional structure but is also known to be treated with yoga meditation.
Yoga has been equated with meditation.Performing these two actions lead to a concerted oneness of mind-body-spirit which is equated with unending joy.Meditation and yoga teaches us detachment from our surroundings, physical and otherwise, and this results in balancing our emotional make up. It grants us the serenity and peace for an upbeat standpoint which certainly gives our physical well being great benefits.
The ancient yogis (yoga practitioners) practiced yoga interdependently with meditation, for the ultimate objective of “self-realization” or “enlightenment.They meditated not for minutes but days or weeks. This required much energy and also being able to live on just the basic needs. Numerous asanas, yoga positions, gave them the greatest amount of power with the least strain and meditation provided the energy and the will to perform the asanas well. It is a good case of cause and effect.
The oneness of mind-body-spirit aim of yogis is realized through the interconnected benefits from the asanas and meditation.
