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.