Yoga for Life

In the last few blogs on #benefits of #Yoga, I talked about #Pranayama and #physical benefits. As the benefits of Yoga are numerous, and I’ve experienced them more on a #psychological level, here the article #continues. Yoga encourages you and helps you #relax, slows your #breath, and increases your #focus on the #present, shifting the #balance from the #sympathetic #nervous #system (or the #fight-or-flight response) to the #parasympathetic nervous system which is calming and #restorative. It also lowers #cortisol levels (chronically high levels may lead to #permanent #changes in the #brain and #memory and are linked with #depression, #osteoporosis, #highbloodpressure, and #insulin resistance). In my previous blog on physical benefits of yoga   https://headandheartchild.blogspot.com/2018/11/benefits-of-yoga-holistic-connection-to.html I talked about the research done on #rats and #food-seeking behaviours. These are all linked to #mental behaviours and depression. What I ...

Following on from my last blog on #mentalhealth in the next few blogs I will outline the numerous #benefits of #yoga. I’ve been practicing yoga for over 20 and #studying it for the last three years. 20 years ago, yoga practice was not the same as #today – it certainly wasn’t something everyone was talking about.   If you were interested in having #biceps like #Madonna, then you would have perhaps heard of #Ashtanga yoga and would have pursued the same road to gaining biceps and more #muscle #tone. My first class I attempted to do an impossible. I wanted everything – the #flexibility and the strength (although I was already quite strong), I wanted to come out of that #class and be Madonna! And I was very #proud with myself for being able to get into #Tittibhasana or the #Firefly #pose Bearing in mind that this was my first class, and knowing what I know now, I should have never been allowed to even attempt that pose without a proper preparation.   20 yeas on and...