Underestimated? Healing Potential & Health Benefits of Yoga

Yoga brings energy and healing potential in to the body by increasing the amount of life force we have in our bodies.
We have billions of cells in the body. The cell is the basis of all tissue, bones, muscles, fluids.  The cells of the body are nourished by the blood flow, the rivers of life that bring nutrients and oxygen and take away the trash and carbon dioxide.

Yoga For Oxygen Flow

Lack of oxygen in the body leads to disease on every level. Oxygen is what supports the healing abilities of the circulatory, respiratory and endocrine systems.  Oxygen is a very important ingredient for tissue renewal.  Oxygen is half of what makes water. We are about 97% water. Oxygen is life.

We stretch the heart and lungs with breathing techniques and physical postures thus increasing our lung and heart capacity. This increases the body’s ability to feed the cells by improving circulation and the amount of oxygen in the blood stream.
Circulation is stimulated in yoga by contracting muscles, doing inversions, increasing the heart rate, and applying the “tournequite effect; essentially, creating a dam on the blood flow, then opening the dam allowing the blood to surge through tissues, cells, muscles, and joints with extra power. More circulation means more oxygen, more life-force, and more healing.

Yoga’s Health Benefits Found in Millennia of Study

Yoga is in a class of it’s own in the modern day world. It comes from thousands of years of study and gaining knowledge through doing and seeing the results over time. It is a very sure outcome of increased health and vitality if properly practiced.
Many very famous yoga teachers including mine, Bikram Choudhury, have made it their life work to prove with the Western medical community,  the specific affects of yoga on specific parts of the body and on the whole body as a whole.
Yoga is an ancient study of breath, of consciousness, of body, and all that follows. It is an endless study of human potential.

Author - Peggy Preston is a yoga teacher at Studio Sangha, Queenstown (03 442-YOGA). For more information on yoga and a class schedule, see www.queenstownyoga.com.