Yoga For Health

With a fitness career, the only limit is your imagination!  Do you like yoga? This is a great addition to your personal training toolkit. 

Yoga originated in India, and refers to a practise of achieving a higher state of awareness through traditional physical, mental and spiritual disciplines. It was in the early 90’s that yoga really started to take off in the United States with celebrities like Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Meg Ryan becoming avid followers. 

Today the practise of Yoga as an exercise is widespread throughout the Western world.  Practitioners of yoga carry out poses or postures and breathing techniques to bring about a state of relaxation and to strengthen the body.  Many health benefits flow from the practise of yoga including the following: 

1. Physical Strength: Physical strength is developed through extending the time of holding a posture or stretch 

2. Mental Clarity and Focus: Because of the meditative nature of yoga, people have reported improved levels of concentration and focus.

3. Emotional wellbeing: Yoga encourages the flow of energy through the body helping to clear emotional blockages and provide a sense of wellbeing. People often report they are calmer after regular practise of yoga. 

4. Bones, muscles and joints: Because of the nature of yoga, over time your body becomes stronger and more flexible helping joints and muscles to stay supple. 

5. Injury prevention and enhanced immunity: Yoga puts you back in touch with your body as you develop more of an awareness of what your body actually needs helping you to break those unhealthy lifestyle habits.  It also assists in injury prevention as your immune and natural healing system develops.

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