There are many benefits to practicing yoga regularly. It will not only give you a stronger and better-looking body, it can also enhance your concentration and other mental abilities.

Most people think of yoga as being some strange form of exercise that requires you to turn yourself into a pretzel. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Some types of yoga like Hatha and Iyengar most focus on perfect postures, and peculiar ones too, but others like Kundalini yoga are easy enough for anyone to do.

Some people also think they are too old for yoga. In most cases, however, yoga is low impact, with the exception of Ashtanga and Bikram styles, so you can get a good workout through yoga but often without even breaking a sweat.

Yoga is an excellent form of strength training, so it can be used as part of an overall exercise program that balances strength building with cardio exercise to get the heart pumping faster to exercise it more, since the heart is the most important muscle in the body. Continue reading →

One of the most common questions about yoga is what age you need to be in order to do it. The truth is that people of all ages, from infants to the elderly, and all levels of fitness, including having arthritis, or being pregnant, can do yoga provide that they put safety first and don’t try to overdo things.

Yoga is a great way to keep fit because it uses your own body weight to tone and trim. It builds long, lean muscle, which boosts the metabolism, which in turn helps yoga practitioners lose weight.

Older people tend to steer clear of yoga due to the mistaken impression that you have to be as skinny as a rail and as flexible as a rubber band. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, if you are a senior, you owe it to yourself to start developing a yoga practice sooner rather than later.

This is because yoga offers many benefits in relation to exactly the kind of health challenges that seniors face. These include: Continue reading →