Yoga Benefits

Routine 5 improves the strength and flexibility of your wrists, shoulders, and ankles to confidently support your weight and to build long, lean muscles and strong bones. The poses convey several benefits:

• Steepled Shoulder Squeeze fully rotates your wrists and shoulders and improves focus and concentration.
• Half Boat strengthens and tones your lower-back muscles to improve your posture.
• Stimulating the Kidneys energizes your kidneys, which are one of the main filters of the body. Kidneys are responsible for eliminating the body’s toxins and for maintaining the proper alkaline/acid balance in the body. It also stimulates your adrenal glands to reduce stress levels.
• Vinyasa 5 improves the strength and flexibility of your abdominal muscles and hips.
• Bellows Breath cleanses your body of toxins. It also strengthens and tones your abdominal muscles so that you have a stronger eliminatory system as well as a flatter abdomen.
• Mental Housekeeping is a visualization that clears your mind of mental clutter and improves the quality of your sleep. When you consciously let go of mental clutter before sleeping, you will awake to feel refreshed, renewed, and ready for the day ahead, with all of your body systems energized. When it’s combined with soothing music or a warm bath before bedtime, this visualization promotes a deep, relaxing, and restorative sleep.

Routine 2 is more challenging than Routine 1. It builds strength in all the muscles and joints of the body with deep lunges and a variation of the Salute to the Sun. The poses convey several benefits:

• Lunge in Prayer stretches and opens up your hips so that exercising becomes easier and more enjoyable. The more easily your body moves, the more you will want to keep moving, which will speed up your metabolic rate throughout the day.
• Mountain Pose increases your awareness of how to correct poor posture, which can make you look heavier and older.
• Cleansing Breath is recommended by the Bihar School of Yoga in India to reduce gas and constipation while toning the digestive organs.
• Vinyasa 2 requires you to jump your feet back and support your body strongly on your arms, which improves bone and muscle strength. The strong arch in your lower back strengthens your back muscles to improve your posture.
• Full Yoga Breath forms the basis for many yoga poses and ensures that you get the maximum amount of oxygen into every cell of your body to nourish and repair cell tissues.
• Affirm Your Existing Qualities is a visualization to help reprogram your mind with positive thoughts about who you are.

Each of the incases in this site is designed to increase your percentage of lean muscle over time. Gaining 1 pound of lean muscle is enough to burn approximately 25 calories a day and can prevent weight gain as you age. You can easily gain lean muscle tissue by consistently increasing the amount of time spent on any physical exercise: gardening, housework, walking, or sporting activities. It does not have to be formal exercise; just keep moving, because it all adds up at the end of the day. Practiced dynamically and regularly in combination with your other daily activities, vinyasas will keep you lean and toned, and your resulting high metabolic rate will burn excess calories. (Unfortunately, it works both ways, for every pound of lean muscle tissue you lose, either due to inactivity or lack of essential nutrients, you will burn approximately 25 calories less each day.)Routine I introduces you to one of the best-loved incases, Salute to the Sun, which quickly stretches and tones all the muscles and improves the function of the hormonal system, which controls mood and appetite. The poses convey several benefits to hear this wisdom quieting your mind

• Head-to-Knee Stretch releases tension throughout your spine and the backs of your hamstrings, allowing you to extend in Salute to the Sun.
• Pelvic Rocking makes you aware of the way that subtle stretches can improve the strength and tone of your abdominal and back muscles.
• Stomach Bandha tightens abdominal muscles and improves the way that food is moved through your eliminatory system. It also massages your pancreas, so that you have a steady flow of energy throughout the day, to avoid sugar cravings.
• Vinyasa I, Salute to the Sun, improves the flexibility of your spine and major joints and speeds up your breathing rate and heart rate to increase your metabolic rate.
• Present-Minded Awareness Breath keeps you focused in the present moment as you coordinate your breath with leg and arm movements.
• Creating a Healthy Self-Image is a visualization that helps you release old thought patterns and ideas (e.g., feelings of sadness, hurt, resentment, or guilt over the past or present) that may be preventing you from reaching your goals by taking up your best energies.