Hot yoga has many benefits. After reading this you will want to get to the hot room immediately! 1. Flexibility: The heat allows you to safely reach new levels of personal flexibility in beginner’s postures, which is therapeutic for your body. 2. Strength: This yoga is low impact and uses muscles you didn’t know you had. Also, a prime focus is on spine strength, which is key to a long healthy life! The postures involved in hot yoga help strengthen core muscles, helping with prevention and relief of back problems and other chronic pain or sports related injuries. 3. Breath: The definition of Hatha Yoga asana is: stillness in a posture while breathing normally. With the added element of heat, you won’t get far unless you breathe deeply, calmly and only through the nose! This steady, deep breathing helps relieve mental stress and anxiety, improves lung function, and lowers the level of the stress hormone cortisol. 4. Cardio and weight loss: Your heart can work the same way doing yoga postures in a heated room as it does when running a mile, particularly in postures when you are balancing and contracting your muscles at the same time. A 90-minute class can burn up to 1,000 calories. Also, some find their appetite is reduced. 5. Body Awareness: hot yoga will increase the awareness and acceptance of your own body as you work to improve your alignment. Small, subtle movements of posture and acceptance of your body leads to greater self-confidence. 5. Detox: The poses involved with hot yoga include postures that generate an enormous amount of body heat. This combined with the heat of the room produces heavy sweating that helps flush toxins from the skin (skin is the body’s largest eliminating organ). Your body will naturally want to drink more following class, continuing to help flush the body. Increased blood circulation and movement of oxygen to cells also improves bowel function. 6. Focus: Just finishing a hot yoga sequence can take a great deal of focus, you’re testing your limits of strength and balance in a heated room, helping you to go inside yourself and understand your body’s limitations. Most hot yoga classes follow a routine of postures, the repetition helps you to advance your practice and gain tremendous focus and determination. The ability to focus carries over to your daily life. When you can focus on balancing in a hot room, with sweat running down your back, you can handle anything in life! 7. Healing: The primary purpose of this yoga is therapy. With a regular practice, these postures can help to heal old injuries and also prevent them in the future. This is especially true for, but not limited to, back pain. Don’t skip the postures that are slightly uncomfortable.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:13:40 +0000
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