Yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages. And, if you’re going through an illness, recovering from surgery or living with a chronic condition, yoga can become an integral part of your treatment and potentially hasten healing.
Benefits Of Yoga
- Yoga improves strength, balance and flexibility.
- Yoga helps with back pain relief.
- Yoga can ease arthritis symptoms.
- Yoga benefits heart health.
- Yoga relaxes you, to help you sleep better.
- Yoga can mean more energy and brighter moods.
- Yoga helps you manage stress.
- Yoga connects you with a supportive community.
- Yoga promotes better self-care.
Facts Of Yoga
- There are 196 Yoga Sutras or aphorisms.
- There are 84 classic Yoga Asanas, the Asana being one of the 8 limbs of Yoga.
- Swami Vivekananda is credited for being the greatest proponent of Yoga in the West.
- According to Hindu mythology, Shiva is considered the Supreme Lord of Yoga.
- The first known appearance of the word “yoga”, with the same meaning as the modern term, is in the Katha Upanishad, composed about fourth to third century BCE.
- Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian yogi who taught Kriya Yoga to millions around the world.
- Lenovo has a tablet named Yoga.
- Research has suggested that yoga improves social and occupational functioning in schizophrenic patients.
