The Benefits of Yoga

Regular practice of asanas helps to keep our body fit, controls cholesterol levels, reduces weight, normalises blood pressure and improves heart performance. Asanas also strengthen the mind and give it the tenacity to withstand pain and unhappiness stoically and with fortitude. In this way, they lead to mental equilibrium and calmness. Pranayam re-educates our breathing process through the correct breathing technique. This helps us manipulate our energies. It helps release tension and develop a relaxed state of mind. It balances our nervous system, thus reducing the need for sleep. It encourages creative thinking and increases the amount of oxygen to our brain. This improves mental clarity, alertness and physical well being. Yoga Nidra is a wonderful way of relaxing. It is a type of meditation, done while lying on our backs in Shavasana. It relaxes our entire physiological and psychological system, thus completely rejuvenating the body and the mind. It thus helps us to relate better to people and things around us, giving us a sense of well being.

Regular practice of Nidra help prevent disorders and ailments such as diabetes, blood pressure, heart conditions, asthma, varicose veins, digestive disorders, arthritis, arteriosclerosis and chronic fatigue. A person who practises Yoga can consciously control autonomic or involuntary functions, such as temperature, heartbeat and blood pressure.Yoga creates a balance in the nervous and endocrine system which directly influence all other body systems and organs. There is no doubt that Yoga is an effective curative and preventive medicine. Yoga is a holistic remedy that combines the faculties of mental peace and improved concentration and power, with a relaxed state of living, good relationship and harmony with people.

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Yoga relaxes the mind. It reduces stress and anxiety levels and thereby reduces aggressiveness. It gives one the mental fitness to overcome psychological problems.

The practice of Yoga creates within one an awareness of the inter-relations between the emotional, mental and physical levels, and of how a disturbance in any one of these states affects the others. Gradually this awareness leads to an understanding of the more subtle areas of existence.

Ultimately Yoga expands one's consciousness to a vast number of things around us, which we are otherwise unaware of.

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