Yoga Improves Health
Improves your flexibility
Builds muscle strength
Perfects your posture
Prevents cartilage and joint breakdown
Protects your spine. If you’ve got a well-balanced asana practice with plenty of backbends, forward bends, and twists, you’ll help keep your disks supple.
Betters your bone health – Downward Upward-Facing Dog, help strengthen the arm bones, which are particularly vulnerable to osteoporotic fractures.
Increases your blood flow - Yoga also boosts levels of hemoglobin and red blood cells, which carry oxygen to the tissues.
Drains your lymphs and boosts immunity - This helps the lymphatic system fight infection, destroy cancerous cells, and dispose of the toxic waste products of cellular functioning.
Drops your blood pressure - Two studies of people with hypertension, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, compared the effects of Savasana (Corpse Pose) with simply lying on a couch. After three months, Savasana was associated with a 26-point drop in systolic blood pressure (the top number) and a 15-point drop in diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number—and the higher the initial blood pressure, the bigger the drop.
Regulates your adrenal glands
Relaxes your system - Yoga encourages you to relax, slow your breath, and focus on the present, shifting the balance from the sympathetic nervous system (or the fight-or-flight response) to the parasympathetic nervous system.
Improves your balance - Regularly practicing yoga increases proprioception (the ability to feel what your body is doing and where it is in space) and improves balance.