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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