Healing With YOGA....

Yoga is well known as a stress reducer, especially when combined with meditation and pranayama. Recent studies now show that Yoga can help in treating and preventing a number of ailments, ranging from back pain to Diabetes. Taking a single Yoga class can help you lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.

The six well known benefits of Yoga include:

1.Heart health: Heart disease patients who did Yoga for six weeks showed significant increase in artery, resulting in lower blood pressure and increased heart output.

2.Chronic back pain: Chronic lower-back sufferers experienced less pain after practising Yoga twice a week for six months.

3. Asthma and other pulmonary disorders: Practising Yoga for 2-3 hours a week, for ten weeks, helps in reduced symptoms of asthma and other chronic pulmonary disorders.

4. Binge eating: Binge eaters who participated in 10-week Yoga therapy programme showed significant reduction of bingeing episode per month and were also able to manage stress more effectively.

5. Migraine and other headaches: Practising Yoga daily for about four months leads to significant reduction in incidences of headaches due to migraine and tension.

6. Metabolic disorders: People at high risk of developing diabetes, can lower their risk factor for the disease after doing Yoga for three months.