Aging is a normal phase in the life cycle. Everyone will experience it in one form or another no matter how many ‘magic’ creams or pills we buy. While yoga cannot turn the clock back, regular practice can help you enter the later phases in life with grace, strength, vigour and dignity despite the years rolling on.
Why yoga?
Not unlike most other forms of exercise, yoga is a useful tool in maintaining physical appearance, fitness and mental agility. However, attributes of yoga tradition combine gentle exercise with deep breathing techniques and meditative practices to restore full body functions and maintain a harmonious balance between the body, mind and spirit.
Internal and physical fitness
Age is not just a number! It can be attributed by the flexibility or rigidity of the human spine. As we grow older, the spine tends to lose its flexibility and stiffen. Regular practice of yoga and allows you to maintain spine elasticity, ensuring the flexibility of a much younger person.
In addition to flexibility, yoga helps maintain and improve body function. It builds immunity which keeps life-threatening conditions at bay. It improves posture, develops the body’s core muscles and stimulates the glands and organs in the body. Using anti-aging yoga, you can avoid all the aches and pains and severe limitations that could be caused by aging. Regular practice can help you avoid or at least control joint pains and other symptoms associated with aging; it allows you to be in great shape, despite the growing years.
Youthful features
Yoga helps you control those very visible aging signs. The exercises involved in a yoga practice help keep the skin firm and well toned. This reduces the chances of sagging skin, excessive wrinkle formation, and dry skin. Deep breathing helps expel toxins and other waste material from the body, keeping it healthy and beautiful. The fresh flush of oxygen injected into the system keeps you looking young and refreshed without even trying.
Mental Integrity
Apart from the physical aspect of yoga, its deep breathing and meditative practices help maintain mental, emotional and spiritual balance. Meditation helps infuse the individual with a positive attitude and optimism. It fights off depression, stress and anxiety. It also helps you maintain mental function, without any loss or compromise.
“People remind me of my age , but while practicing I am beyond my body and its age “
-BKS IYENGAR -
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