Welcome 2015! You have 50 weeks left, and I am going to use them to feature one blog a week about why everyone should be doing yoga this year, and for many years to come!
Although yoga is famous for it’s physical benefits and fitness trends, it is also respected as an ancient (healing) art to assist one in attaining enlightenment. Below I have listed 50 reasons why you should try yoga, I’m sure you will find at least one reason worth trying it for!
- Improves organ function
- Improves breathing
- Improves circulation
- Improves digestion
- Improves muscle tone
- Improves balance
- Improves focus
- yoga Builds strength
- Strengthens the back
- yoga Opens the body:
- Lungs (side stretches)
- Heart (back bends)
- Back (forward bends)
- Gives the spine 6 major movements to optimize whole body function
- Detoxifies body (twists)
- Can help gain more flexibility
- Can help gain more mobility
- It’s fun!
- Size does not matter
- Age does not matter
- It’s more than fitness
- It’s meditation in motion
- Soothes anxiety
- Can help improve sleep
- Can help clear the mind
- Can help ease depression
- You can do it anywhere
- You get to know your body in a unique way
- Rest on a very deep level (Yoga Nidra)
- Rejuvenate body and mind
- Rebalance the nervous system
- De-stresses!
- Sets intention
- Manifest your dreams
- Self-care
- Nurturing
- Letting go (The Edge)
- Finding peace
- Offer peace to others
- Opens intuition
- Encourages compassion for self and others
- Helps us discover our passion/purpose/path (Sankalpa)
- Connects us to the Divine within us.
- Gives us true power (helps us let go of the need to control)
- Helps us dissolve Maya (the veils of illusion)
- Teaches us to listen to our bodies
- Helps heal/integrate all layers of the human experience (mental/emotional/physical/energetic).
- Tunes us into the energies around us
- Awakens creative potential (visions, movement, sound, etc.)
- Prepares us for Enlightenment
Namaste~
Gentle Hatha Yoga | Jenni Burke 
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