Yoga Yagya – 3 Yoga for Women
In this third part of Yoga series we look at how Yoga is helping women lead a healthy, happy and blissful life.
Yoga is a physical and mental live out that involves the body, mind and spirit. The following for Yoga, which originated in India, is designed to enhance awareness, create a mind-body-spirit balance, cleanse, heal and strengthen the body, liberate the true self and, as practiced today, improve fitness. The most common form practiced in is Hatha Yoga, which includes specific movements or postures (asana) and various breathing techniques (pranayama) and is often complimented with meditation (dhyana).
Yoga’s gentle, mindful and controlled movements can provide a non- or low-impact workout for people in almost any physical condition. Yogic exercises—and there are many—can ease tense muscles, improve flexibility and enhance strength, balance and endurance. Poses, breathing practices and meditation can also increase concentration, reduce stress and, among other therapeutic benefits, relieve back pain.
Yoga is a mixture of physical poses and breathing techniques that strengthens the psychological and physiological features of health. It has been known to bring in mindfulness, self-awareness and physical health benefits. These include weight loss, fitness, stamina, emotional wellness, peaceful sleep, and acceptance of one’s thoughts and emotions. Yoga, in general, is helpful to both men and women. But what specific benefits does it bring to women?
Benefits
Yoga’s most obvious benefits relate to stress reduction, flexibility and relaxation. But as more studies are conducted, there is evidence of other tangible health benefits. While it’s no cure, Yoga can be an effective adjunct therapy for a variety of conditions, including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, asthma, diabetes, depression, fibromyalgia and migraines. Even if you are in perfect health, you can benefit from Yoga. It improves strength, flexibility, coordination and range of motion. And since Yoga promotes relaxation, improves circulation and reduces stress and anxiety, it enhances cardiovascular health and benefits the respiratory and nervous systems. Because it promotes relaxation, Yoga also aids sleep and digestion.
Practicing Yoga regularly can prove very beneficial for women. Yoga can provide innumerable benefits to women like improving reproductive system, helping in natural child birth, giving complete workout to the body. Read on to find more about the health benefits of Yoga for women.
Women’s body is fragile and soft. This is a general view and fact. Exceptions can be everywhere and in every field. Women are designed by nature to nurture and take care and so all women are sensitive and soft at heart. On the other hand, she has to be strong from within because she has to undergo the strenuous activity of bearing a child and going through the childbirth. So, every woman has to be strong not only outwardly, she should have a strong system inside also.
Yoga asanas prove to be very beneficial for women provided they do the right asanas in the right way. The yogic asanas, in fact, work in such a way that supports the basic systems of the body and boosts the immune system as well.
Advantages
Workout to Body: Yogic asanas give a complete workout to the entire body and this is not possible from any other workout system.
Improves Endocrinal System: Endocrinal system of the body is very important as all hormonal secretions are controlled and secreted with the help of this system.
Reproductive Organs: There are yoga asanas like camel pose that adjusts the reproductive organs and helps the woman remain fit and healthy.
Weight Loss: ‘Shoulder stand’ stimulates thyroid and parathyroid glands and encourages metabolism. All the yogic asanas are good for weight loss.
Flexibility: The yoga asanas that are for stretching your muscles and body parts will help you have flexibility and keep your joints free.
Check on Diabetes and Blood Pressure: Yoga asanas and meditation helps in keeping diabetes and high blood pressure under control.
Stress-free: Yoga is beneficial in relieving stress and discomfort during menopause and even helps get rid of osteoporosis also.
Pregnant Women: Women, who attend yoga classes before, during and after pregnancy, have almost no problem during and after childbirth. Practicing yoga regularly during pregnancy can help to give birth to a child naturally and without any complications.
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