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It is very empowering to know, and realize with practice, that the human body can achieve all the benefits of most stimulating physical sport just by practicing the different Asanas in Yoga, without any exertion. Physical exercise and sports would involve loss of breath, increased heart beat and fatigue which points to the fact that they are not optimally stimulating to the body. Instead they cause fatigue and friction within the body.
While it is better to indulge in sports than lead a sedentary life, the practice of Yoga ensures that you get all the benefits that sports offer without the fatigue and the wear entailed in it. Asanas are a continuous sequence of contraction and expansion of muscles that lead to higher blood flood, stronger muscles, more elasticity and the resultant better functioning.

When you practice yoga regularly:

You become supple, flexible, strong and fit
Yoga postures stretch and strengthen muscles and ligaments and put joints through their full range of movement. Combined with appropriate breathing, they provide exercise that increases fitness without being tiring.
you live longer and remain healthy and vigorous, well into old age
Many people work hard and save for a comfortable retirement, only to find that when the time comes, failing health prevents them from enjoying it. With yoga, your ‘prime of life’ can last into your seventies and eighties. Taking up yoga is the very best investment you can make towards a long, healthy and active life.
You concentrate and focus well
Posture, yogic breathing, relaxation and meditation all help to calm and still the mind. When your mind is calm and still it can be your servant rather than your master and is available to you for whatever you wish to do with it.
You suffer less from illness and unpleasant symptoms the energizing, relaxing and balancing effect of yoga all serve to boost the autoimmune system, helping it to prevent and fight illness and disease.
The list of illnesses acknowledged by the medical profession as ‘psychosomatic’ grows every year. The peace of mind which yoga brings serves to heal and prevent these illnesses and symptoms.
Yoga exercises massage and tone the internal organs and balance the glandular and endocrine systems. They thus serve to regulate the chemistry of the body helping it to remain free from disease.
You are more relaxed and live comfortably in your body
Deep relaxation, so central to yoga, feeds into your daily life, reducing your stress level and making you more relaxed generally. One of yoga’s prime rewards is a sense of feeling comfortable in your body; a sense of lightness and transparency, which is not just an absence of discomfort but a positive sense of well being.
You enjoy increased self respect and self esteem
To practice yoga is to be kind to yourself, to nurture yourself, to ‘treat your body as your temple’. When you realize that you are beginning to transform your health and sense of well being through yoga you grow in self respect and self esteem.

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