Yoga Promotes A Healtheir Life

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Article Title: Yoga Promotes A Healtheir Life

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What goes on in the body when you are doing your asanas? Most

of us realize that yoga increases and maintains flexibility,

strengthens muscles and increases one's stamina. All forms of

yoga invite the participant to attend to their breath and

notice the inward quieting. Most individuals who participate

sense a uniqueness in this movement form. Many of us are

satisfied with just sensing this, leaving an explanation of how

it affects our bodies and spirit to the realm of the mystical.

Those who seek to understand how things work ask:

What effect does yoga have on one's physicality? When one

assumes and holds a yoga posture, this act of stretching and

bending at the joints facilitates feedback to the central

nervous system. This is done by means of beds of proprioceptive

nerve endings located within the joints and muscles.

Proprioceptors provide information about position, direction

and rate of movement as well as the amount of muscle tension in

a locality.

Yoga causes the central nervous system to respond with

appropriate self-regulatory measures by promoting proper bio-

mechanical use.

Self-regulation and self-healing are the physiological

responses of the living body. The central nervous system takes

the input from the proprioceptive nerve endings and by relaxing

and tightening muscles in an organized fashion allows one to

hold that posture. Changing balance of any one portion of the

spine requires compensatory adjustments throughout it. Muscles

respond automatically to stimuli from the nervous system which

controls and integrates the activity of the whole body.

Flexibility is the proper and full range of motion within the

joints of the body. This is brought about by the coordination

of muscle tension and muscle relaxation via the nervous ystem.

Slowly moving into a proper postural stance and holding it

provides for proprioceptive feedback that allows the nervous

system to coordinate muscle action. Stretching slowly protects

muscle fibers and their tendons from strain while resistance

set up by holding the posture increases muscle strength.

Improved muscle strength and stretch provides stability,

flexibility and protection to the joints.

Stimulating the proprioceptive system or massaging the nervous

system is but one of yoga's benefits. The encouragement and

development of proper structural alignment reduces strain on

muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Proper alignment allows for

better functioning of the organ systems.

Structure determines function. If body cavities are distorted,

so too are the contents within. Distortion caused by poor

posture changes the relationship of tissues within organs,

leading to the dysfunctioning of the system. Stress, a product

of the distortion, reduces circulation throughout the area.

By improving posture, yoga supports the proper functioning of

internal organs by maintaining structural integrity of these

systems. Proper position and relaxation of tension improves

circulation. Nutrition to the whole system is encouraged by the

fluctuating internal pressures generated by the different

asanas. This fluctuation in pressure enhances cellular

diffusion and osmosis.

Simply, motion is life! By moving us through bio-mechanically

sound postures, yoga promotes a healthier life. To say that

yoga only affects us physically would be denying the larger

reality of our existence. However, it is the profound effect

that it has on our physicality which frees us to experience the

depths of our existence.

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host, Sintilia Miecevole and explore the world of yoga and

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postures, exercise, poses and much more. Visit

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