Busy schedules might allow time to attend yoga classes and receive instruction perhaps once per week. You like the yoga benefits. So why would students of yoga practice at home? After all, the conditions at home are quite different from the studio and might not be ideal. Time might be an issue. Still let's look at 5 reasons I found for having a daily practice.
1. Make yoga your own
Yoga on your own becomes an exploration of your body and mind. You practice the poses you like at first. Eventually you'll include the others. There are many bodies practicing; how does a particular technique work for your body? How does it balance your lifestyle and other exercise routine? Questions and uncertainties will arise in your mind. I have found these are answered sooner or later with available resources.
2. Become more familiar with your body
Many Yoga poses are bilateral. Balancing poses make us quite aware of muscular imbalances. Shoulder stretches like Cow's Head reveal disparities right to left. You notice strength increasing some places, and flexibility in others. You notice aches and pains appearing and disappearing.
3. Inspire you to 'be' more
You discover which short practices draw the mind inward; and definitely miss that place when you recognize overdrive or overload. Overdrive - when you want to achieve more and move so quickly it's like a top spinning out of control. Overload - when you feel burdened by events and activities. You know a balanced way to be, and want that state more and more.
4. Develop a helpful habit
Formal practices can be as brief as 10 minutes. A conscious decision to move the body, or practice breathing exercises, or meditate in 10 precious minutes. It might be morning, lunch time, or evening - spring, summer or winter. It's your special time in the 24-hour day. Then without intending to, having a practice becomes part of one's life.
5. Better health and wellness
Yoga benefits include stress management.. It relieves tight muscles, supports the immune system, improves circulation, and tones the nerves. Emotionally, we become calmer, and we learn to express negative emotions; mentally we gain better concentration and focus.
Yoga stories and philosophy cause us to look at ourselves deeper, to observe ourselves more, and to accept ourselves, even when time prevents us from making it to the mat.
May making it to the mat become easier and easier as you claim the many yoga benefits.
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Heather Greaves helps yoga enthusiasts learn more therapeutic yoga even though their primary teacher is a book. "To learn more about something, teach it." Since 2005 this Yoga Therapist and owner of Body Therapies Yoga Training has been training teachers in a certified yoga teacher training program.
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