Yoga; Mind Body Exercise

Yoga is a way of balancing your body, mind, emotion, and spirit through gentle exercise, meditation techiniques, philosophies of spiritual wisdom. Yoga allows you to harness you energy and lead your body toward enlightenment. There are many health benefits of yoga, such as increasing your flexibility and strength, improving your posture, reducing you stress levels, and many more. Since there are so many different aspects of yoga, there are many ways to approach it. Lately Yoga has been becoming somewhat of a trend, and a well known aspect is Asana which is the poses that help strengthen your body and help increase your flexibility. Asana involves stretching, bending, and balancing in a way to help align your body. A study from 2005 states that yoga significantly improves bodies flexibility, strength, balance and endurance when practiced on the regular; holding poses for approximately 30 seconds. Improvements lead to improvements in every day way of life. Check out the study at Yoga Study 2005. Yoga is one of the best "mind body" exercises and therefore can help make both your mind and body feel good.