In today’s stress filled world, everyone could benefit from mind clearing, muscle stretching and body strengthening Yoga. Research shows Yoga can help to maintain or control many medical anxieties including arthritis, asthma, back pain, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression & anxiety disorders, epilepsy, chronic headaches, multiple sclerosis, stress, as well as many other conditions and diseases.

Yoga:

• Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
• Reduces stress and tension
• Boosts self esteem
• Improves concentration and creativity
• Lowers body mass index and targets fat
• Improves circulation
• Stimulates the immune system
• Creates a sense of calm and total wellbeing

Yoga helps those practicing get in touch with their ‘true self.’ Between work, home and general life stressers, it is easy to lose track of oneself. We women are not only their jobs, daily demands, the car we drive, the house that we live in, the emotions that we feel, the sole provider paying the bills, or the ‘crazy stressed out lady’. We are so much more than those things. When you feel stress, think of all of the ways it affects your body. Your heart rate increases, your blood pressure goes up, you may start to sweat. You cannot concentrate on anything other than what is stressing you out. You may forget things– creating more stress, snap at people—making you feel regretful, tired and agitated.

None of this is good for your body. As difficult as it may be in the beginning to clear your, forget your stressors, and just concentrate on your breathing, calming yourself and getting a breath of good, clean oxygen into your body will make you feel like a new Woman! You will find yourself dealing with stress better and it not affecting you the same way. You will realize that it is not you, but the environment putting stress on you, that has become the issue.

So, through a continuous practice, dealing with people and things from a clear perspective, you can transform not only yourself, but those around you. People will notice the change, you will feel better. You may even halt those furrows and frown lines from slowly imprinting on your face.

So, find a good Yoga instructor, put on your comfy, stretchy clothes, and leave your stresses behind.

Namaste