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The COVID-19 Pandemic gave us tons of spare time to spend for ourselves. Due to the safety and preventive measure implemented in our community, all have to stay in their respective places and residences. We all knew that.

As we get to spend more time these days in our houses we all hope you make an extra space and time dedicated to your Yoga practice. For better immunity is your armour in this fight against the virus. The best way to strengthen and boost your health is to become healthy both inside and out.

Regular Yoga practice will not only make you relax and stress-free amidst this pandemic concern, Yoga practice will help you get through anxieties, fears, doubts, and living with reservations. Your Yoga journey will keep your mind calm and clear of negativity; your body well built; and soul with inner peace.

Much to say, we will give your more reasons why you should START, for those who are yet to decide and give Yoga a try (please do it soon), and CONTINUE, 

One of the Health benefit in practicing Yoga is getting a better PHYSIQUE

Asanas are the postures you practice in Yoga. It’s the position you make as guided breathing techniques (pranayama). Asanas like lotus pose, tree pose, happy baby pose, lizard pose, crow pose, shoulder stand and so much more!

These Asanas practice with breathing techniques utilized in specific Yoga classes can make you sweat, challenge your arms strength, engage the core muscles, test your endurance, pump up your heartbeat, squeeze your glutes, stand firm on one leg, twist your upper body, challenge your core strength in an inversion, and test your flexibility and balance.

Gentle Asana with calming breathing techniques where you find your body melting on the mat, in a relaxing pose.

As you keep coming back into the Yoga practice, you will become aware of the changes happening with you.

You will notice:

• You can reach and touch your toes in a forward fold pose;
• You can gracefully transition from plank pose to chaturanga;
• You find downward dog a relaxing pose;
• You can hold longer in a crow pose;
• You can do headstand without a wall or any fallback support;
• You feel grounded and taller in the tree pose;
• You are breathing well in the 3rd round of Sun Salutation;
• You feel shoulder and neck relax;
• You feel lighter after a Hot Yoga class;
• You look forward to the highly appreciated Savasana.

Others will notice the changes in you too! They will see on you:

• Your muscles in the body are in showing in the right places;
• You look younger;
• Your body become lean and strong;
• You look happier;
• You look more confident;
• You physically become amazingly stunning!

Getting better physically is a journey that starts within you. Regular Yoga practice yoga reflects on you in ways others can see and somehow felt it too.

According to some research sited on nbcch.com, practicing Yoga comes with increasing awareness on your body and the more attention you put to the sensation it stirs affects your eating habit and sleeping pattern.

Another health benefit in practicing Yoga is having better EATING HABITS

Becoming aware of each and every part of you motivates you to eat healthier. 

Regular Yoga practice will teach you the solid and liquid that goes into your mouth makes a difference to the practice. 

Being mindful of what you eat and what you think and how & when makes a huge impact in your breathing and postures.

You will later realize what food you eat that doesn’t coincide in your poses. Like eating heavy meal a few minutes before your class schedule. In the class, you will likely feel bloated, heavy with a shallow breath.

As you develop your practice, your eating habit improves. Yoga promotes detoxification through body twist poses and holding of poses for longer breathing, thus, activating and improving your digestive system.

Another health benefit in practicing Yoga is getting GOOD QUALITY OF SLEEP.

Sleep is essential in sustaining and maintaining a healthy body. Our body needs to physically rest to re-charge and allow the body to repair internal functionalities.

As we grow, some adults develop difficulty in falling asleep. And there are nights where sleep is so elusive. Some opt to intake sleep-inducing medicine, however in the long run is no good.

In Yoga, there are specific poses that help you to fall asleep faster and better.

There are certain Yoga poses to help you fall asleep easier. It works by preparing your body to fall asleep. Poses like butterfly pose, spinal twist, and legs up on the wall are few of the gentle, passive, and effective poses you can easily do.

Staying in the pose for few minutes with breathing deeply relaxes your body, particularly your neck, shoulder, legs, and face. It also releases any tension in the body, slows the pulse rate, and calms your thoughts.

In less than 10 minutes of these you’ll find yourself curled up in your comfortable sleeping position… slowly drifting to sleep.

Difficulty in sleeping is one of the common problems particularly with breast cancer patient suffers with. Health professionals have concluded that having a better sleep helps reducing body fatigue enabling them to engage with other activities and continue to live with a positive mindset.