Benenfits Of Yoga
 

Yoga brings flexibility in your body, Yoga helps in breathing better,
Yoga increased your strength, Yoga stable autonomic nervous system balance
Yoga improve the mood and the subjective well being....

Yes yoga has enormous advantages for our body to keep fit.

Here are some benefits of do yoga as it is so important for health and body.Yoga make the body flexible and strong.Yoga make our mind and body relax and fresh all the time.It make the breathing system correct.It take the useful nutrients in our body that help our body.It make save our body from harmful diseases like heart,liver and stomach problems.It make the body stamina.It make away the stress far away from us and made our mind eligible for think positively and up to the mark.

Yoga is healing of body, mind and spirit. It calms, it energises as appropriate. It tones, it works the digestive system and internal organs. It brings us in touch with ourselves.

Yoga is not just about the body but also is very beneficial for mind and spirit. What most people think of when they hear the word "yoga" is the asanas (postures). But asana is only one of the 8 limbs of yoga.

Yoga is an ideal workout for our physical fitness and mental health.
It helps a lot to improve our body strength, flexibility, and stamina.
It is mostly recommended to fight against the stress, depression, and anxiety.

That's a really important point and in the West we probably only do a tenth of all the postures available.

I'm not aware of all the other limbs - I can think of
- pranayama
- meditation
- karma yoga
- bhakti yoga (devotional)
- chanting

What others? I might have crossed over some of them. It's hugely complex.

Only did Yoga a few times but enjoyed it so much. Very relaxing and de-stressing. I should make it a 2013 to-do-thing

Yoga is a natural exercise that has many benefits. It helps in weight loss. It deals with stress. It provides freshness to the body and mind. With doing yoga we can get perfect body shape and can easily prevent from many infections and diseases.

The following are the eight limbs(angas) of ashtAnga yoga (yoga of eight limbs).

(1) yama - moral restraint - these have to do how we deal with others. The moral restraints are non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, spiritual living and non-possessiveness.

(2) niyama - ethical observances - these have to do with how we develop our personal lifestyle. The observances are cleanliness (internal and external), contentment, effort, study (of ourselves and spiritual writings) and surrender to higher controller (Ishvara).

(3) Asana - posture - A proper posture is required to develop our bodies for concentration and meditation. Asanas were developed by hatha yogis for this reason. This is the part of yoga that is most known in the West.

(4) prANAyAma - controlledbreathing or voluntary breathing. It purpose is to focus the mind on yogi's goal and preventing it from wandering.

(5) pratyAhAra - resistance to sensory input or ability to withstand the onslaught of the senses.

(6) dhAraNA - concentration - the stilling of mind achieved through Asanas and pranayama is then to be followed by developing single-pointedness of purpose, that being understanding of ourselves.

(7) dhyAna - meditation - single-pointedness of the mind is directed towards mediation on ourselves, which leads a yogi to

(8) samAdhi - integration of personality.

Note: I have followed translations of Sanskrit terms following Edwin F. Bryant, R. C. Zaehner, and Nicholas Kazanas.