Benefits of Yoga

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Benefits of Yoga

Upward facing dog, downward facing dog, child’s pose, and more. If you’re not familiar with the practice of yoga, all these terms may sound new to you. Over decades, yoga has influenced many regions of the world and many cultures to explore this popular practice. Contrary to popular belief, yoga is not only for the flexible. It is a practice that is open to all different body types whether or not you can touch your toes. There are numerous benefits to practicing yoga, and exploring these wonders will help you achieve the full benefit of practicing poses.

Yoga not only benefits your body physically, but mentally as well. Practicing yoga comes with meditation, stress relief and developing self-awareness. Stress causes great damage on the body. Its harm on the body can be seen with sleeping disorders, headaches, chronic back/neck pain, and numerous negative side effects. Yoga helps create clarity and calmness of the mind, increases mental concentration and relief of stress-related chronic body pains. During the mediation portion of yoga, it helps your mind declutter from all the chaos of your daily life. Your “me time” allows you to self- reflect on possible negative experiences throughout your day and helps you develop better coping skills with these situations. Meditation through yoga also helps in creating a more positive outlook on life.

The extent of yoga physically not only stems from your esthetic outer appearance, but your inner health as well. When starting your yoga practice, you will start to notice changes in your body immediately. Not only will your flexibility gradually increase, but yoga aids in preventing the break down of cartilage and joints. Taking your joints in full motion during practice each time helps prevent certain diseases such as degenerative arthritis. Weight- bearing activities are recommended to increase bone strength and to prevent osteoporosis. During yoga, lifting your own body weight during different poses, such as upward facing dog or crows pose allows you to strengthen not only your muscles, but your bones as well. Throughout your practice, you will notice that seasonal colds start to affect you less, and the amazing reason behind that is the increased blood circulation and drainage of lymph. While you are contracting and stretching muscles, moving organs around while flowing through different poses, your body is allowing more blood flow and oxygen to surge throughout your body, therefore releasing all the toxins out of your body. Yoga boosts your immunity, therefore giving you less sick days and giving you more time on the mat.

Through numerous research done and decades of practice, the benefits of yoga for the mind and body are limitless. Yoga is for everybody, no matter what body type you have and how physically fit you are, all you need to do is start. At Museum Smiles, we consider overall health and wellness very important. And provide helpful information for your dental and overall health. We are located within a few minutes of Downtown Fort Worth. And proudly serve patients from Arlington, Keller, and Fort Worth Areas.