Yoga is a way of maintaining health, strength and harmony of the three basic human principles, the unity of the body with the spirit, proven for millennia. Yoga fills the body with energy and brings the body into general good shape, helps to achieve spiritual harmony of your body with your soul.
There are five main reasons why people practice yoga.
- The first reason is that yoga improves health, which is very much fading away in the modern stream of life, especially in metropolitan areas. Modern medicine is not able to preserve human health in its original state, doctors can only cure a disease or reduce unpleasant symptoms, but any disease leads to bad consequences for the body in the future. Therefore, it is advisable from the very beginning to find preventive measures for most diseases. Yoga helps to establish the natural processes of full nutrition of all organs and the elimination of harmful substances from the body, equalizes pressure, makes joints flexible and elastic, improves metabolism, makes bones stronger. Yoga does not require special equipment, performance conditions and halls.
- The second reason is that yoga has a beneficial effect on the psyche, saves from mood swings, relaxes the nervous system, restores healthy sleep, drives out apathy, fatigue, neuroses. Thanks to yoga classes, concentration of attention, poise, a person feels relaxed. For this, smooth anti-stress yoga is practiced, which increases the level of gamma amino acid, which causes positive emotions.
- The relaxation that yoga classes give, promotes physical and mental discharge, restores the balance of vital energy in the body, distributing it in even streams. Even a short relaxation with yoga brings a boost of energy, strength and vitality.
- Another huge advantage of yoga is that it preserves natural beauty and prolongs youthfulness by strengthening the body and giving the skin and joints firmness and elasticity, preventing premature aging.
- However, as some might think, yoga is not a sport at all and is just physical exercise. It has an impact on all levels, including intellectual and spiritual development, removes restrictions from the mind, opening the heart and mind to the higher, spiritual. Meditation helps to look inside oneself, to see the inner mental light, yoga helps to realize oneself, to free oneself from inner shackles, to become more confident and successful.