What is yoga?

Yoga originated over 5000 years ago as meditative practice, and it was to include the breath work that allows you meditate. It causes your spine to relax while enhancing flow to the brain.

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are increasing your health benefits through meditation by letting go of your stressors. This causes your body fluids to balance and the fixations in the body to return to homeostasis, or a natural state. The meditative part was the main emphasis of the yoga. A yogi would sit and meditated for hours. Over time movements were added, and yoga became a walking meditation or a moving meditation. The focus was then on mind, body, and breathing coming into unification. Today we have more yoga postures to increase that unification.

Yoga is beneficial for stress relief, circulation, and the lymph system. It also enhances breathing and posture. The fitness benefit would be a stretching of the muscles. There are spinal twists which send an energy flow up the spine to the brain. This in turn benefits the organs and glands because of the postures used.

The medical profession is sometime prescribing people to go take a yoga class. They are seeing the benefit of stretches and meditation, and seeing that it retards aging because your muscles are being activated all the time. You are staying in peak performance if you do a yoga practice. People who practice yoga often find that they need their chiropractor less. They can see a great deal of progress in their health with stress reduction and muscle tone. Their breathing becomes calmer, and their life changes, because they become more attuned to breathing, mind, and body. They are less likely to be accident prone and less likely to have immune disorders.