| s many advantages over other methods of maintaining | | | | Improves heart condition. |
| health, such as gymnastics, athletics, aerobics, games, | | | | Proper blood circulation. |
| and various other forms of exercise. It does not need | | | | The benefits of Yoga includes: it develops postures; |
| any costly equipment and materials, or playgrounds, | | | | reinforces the spine; relieves back pain; increases |
| swimming pool, gyms, etc. Yoga can be practiced | | | | stamina, blood circulation; creates balance and |
| throughout the year. It can also be practiced inside the | | | | refinement; stimulates the glands of the endocrine |
| house or in the open, singly or in groups. The only | | | | system; decreases cholesterol and blood sugar levels; |
| requirement is a thick carpet spread on the floor and | | | | and encourages weight loss. |
| covered with a clean sheet of cloth. Yoga should only | | | | Mental Calmness: Yoga asana practice is intensely |
| be practiced on empty stomach. | | | | physical. Concentrating so intently on what your body |
| Yoga also has health benefits for the heart. Yoga | | | | is doing has the effect of bringing calmness to the |
| lowers blood pressure and slows the heart rate, which | | | | mind. Yoga also introduces you to meditation |
| can help people with hypertension, heart disease, or | | | | techniques, such as watching how you breathe and |
| who have had a stroke. Yoga also helps to decrease | | | | disengagement from your thoughts, which help calm |
| cholesterol and triglyceride levels and helps to boost | | | | the mind. |
| the immune system. | | | | Spiritual Benefits for Yoga: - The benefits of yoga |
| Physical Benefits of Yoga: - Yoga has both its | | | | through meditation are stress corrections, which have |
| preventive and therapeutic cures over ailing mind and | | | | an effect on our physical, endocrinal, and emotional |
| body. Yoga improves all the problems associated with | | | | systems. Yoga and meditation collaborate to attain a |
| the body, like: | | | | general goal, which is the unity of the mind, body, and |
| Recovers breathing disorder. | | | | spirit, all creating an everlasting pleasure. |
| Boosts immune response. | | | | The longer an individual practices meditation, the |
| Decreases cholesterol, diabetes. | | | | greater the likelihood that his or her goals and efforts |
| Maintains blood pressure level. | | | | will shift toward personal and spiritual growth. Many |
| Strengthens the spinal cord. | | | | individuals who initially learn meditation for its |
| Increases the stamina. | | | | self-regulatory aspects find that as their practice |
| Recovers back aches. | | | | deepens they are drawn more and more into the |
| Increases flexibility in muscles and various muscular | | | | realm of the "spiritual." |
| joints. | | | | Let the yogi eat moderately and abstemiously; |
| Improves muscular skeletal conditions, digestion and | | | | otherwise, however clever, he cannot gain success. |
| elimination. | | | | The Yogi regards the physical body as an |
| Maintains a balance and grace all over. | | | | instrument for his journey toward perfection. |
| Stimulates glands and endocrinal system. | | | | |