Can Yoga Transform Your Life? Yes, I Believe It Has Mine!

Yoga Benefits May Include the following:

The Body

1. Builds Muscle Strength
2. Perfects Your Posture
3. Improves Flexibility
4. Prevents Cartilage and Joints Breakdown
5. Betters Your Bone Health
6. Drains Your Lymph
7. Boosts Immunity
8. Increases Blood Flow
9. Decreases Elevated Blood Pressure Levels
10. Builds Your Heart Rate and then Slows It Down
11. Regulates Your Adrenal Glands (Calms the SNS or Sympathetic Nervous System)
12. Lowers Blood Sugar Levels
13. Helps You Become a More Conscious Eater - Move More; Eat Less
14. Increases Focus and Concentration
15. Improves Ability to Balance
16. Induces Relaxation to Improve Sleep
17. Encourages Pratyahara (ability to move inward for relaxation response)
18. Gives Your Lungs More Room to Breathe
19. Helps Balance Auto-Immune Diseases 
20. Prevents Digestive Issues through Twisting and Calming Stress Related IBS
21. Eases Arthritic Pain and Fibromyalgia
22. Benefits Asthma and Improves Respiration
23. Opens the Sinuses and Soothes to Facilitate Drainage
24. Decreases Frequency of Headaches
25. Improves the Quality of Life for Cancer and HIV Patients
26. Supports Your Connective Tissue (Fascia)
27. Increases Back Strength 
28. Gives Energy and Vitality
29. Improves Athletic Performance and Protects Body from
30. Repetitive Stress Injuries
31. Increases Body Awareness (Pro
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The Mind

1. Improves Relationships
2. Cultivates Emotional Support
3. Develops Greater Kindness and Compassion
4. Helps to Find Equanimity
5. Improves Self-Care and Confidence Levels
6. Gives the Focus of Serving Others
7. Encourages Truth Telling
8. Reduces Stress
9. Helps to Release Chronic Anger and Hostility Issues
10. Facilitates Healing through Mantra and Chanting
11. Focuses Mind on Well-Being and Tranquility
12. Increases Mental Stamina
13. Develops Coping Skills
14. Relieves Chronic Stress Patterns
15. Improves Positive Outlook
16. Cultivates a Sense of Ease
17. Shifts Your Awareness to the Sensations, Emotions, and Thoughts of
18. Every Day Life for Discernment
19. Reduces Feelings of Anxiety and May Help Defer a Panic Attack before Occurrence
20. Helps to Alleviate Depression
21. Soothes PTSD through Breath Practice and Para-Sympathetic Nervous System Response
22. Discharges Tension as a Stress Response
23. Helpful for Adolescents Mental Illness and Behavioral Issues
24. Counterattacks the Ravages of Trauma Based Experiences

The Spirit
Connects with God for Peace and the Ability to Pray Without Distraction