Article: How Yoga Can Improve Your Strength, Balance, Flexibility, And Your Health

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Did you know yoga can do more than just strengthen and tone your body? Recent research shows it can have a powerful effect on your health—making it a perfect remedy for everything from heart disease to high blood pressure to anxiety and depression.

For years, yoga was considered a fringe practice embraced mostly by celebrities and "New Agers." But today yoga studios are cropping up all over the country, and millions of people are giving it a try.

You may already be familiar with some yoga moves such as downward dog and mountain pose, but yoga is more than that. It's a total mind-body workout that includes: postures (like tree pose), breathing practices, deep relaxation, and meditation that helps transform your health in dozens of ways.

Some of the Benefits of Yoga that you may be interested in include:
1. Improve in balance, flexibility, strength, and coordination
2. Reduction of your risk of heart disease
3. Relieving migraines
4. Fighting of osteoporosis,
5. Fighting and prevention of Multiple Sclerosis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or fibromyalgia
6. Undoing the harmful effects of stress
7. Helping you stay calm and release tension 

One study showed how yoga increased the flexibility of blood vessels by 69%, and even helped to shrink blockages in arteries without the use of medications!

That's not all. One study showed how yoga increased the flexibility of blood vessels by 69%, and even helped to shrink blockages in arteries without the use of medications!

Plus, the meditation component of yoga may even help to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease and fight age-related declines in memory

Why not give yoga a try and see how it can help your health? There's no risk.

Original Post by
Lauren E. Elson, M.D.
Harvard Health Publishing Editor

Source: Harvard Health Publishing
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