So how beneficial is yoga for weight loss? Although yoga focuses more on improving your health and well being rather than weight loss itself, I’m sure that we would all agree that as our health and well being improves, so does our weight. So indirectly, yoga does contribute to weight loss.
Over the past decade, yoga has had an upsurge in popularity among Western medical, health & fitness professionals. Yoga, however, is an ancient practice for connecting the mind, body & spirit through body poses, controlled breathing and meditation.
When you practice yoga, you stretch not only your muscles but all your soft tissues, including your ligaments tendons and fascia sheath that surrounds your muscles.
Given the many benefits yoga provides, over the next two posts, we’re going to summarise the 33 top physiological & psychological benefits of yoga:
- The pulse rate decreases
- Cardiovascular efficiency increases
- The gastro-intestinal function normalises
- Excretory functions improve
- Respiratory efficiency increases
- Joint range of motion increases
- Hand-eye coordination improves
- Endocrine function normalises
- Posture improves
- Energy levels increase
- Balance improves
- Mood improves & subjective well-being increases
- Memory improves
Wow – that’s a pretty impressive list of benefits & we haven’t even finished the list yet! Yoga anyone??
To your optimum health, well being & ideal weight!
Dr Ian Kaminskyj
Melbourne NLP Hypnosis Centre
1300 983 717
