South Yogic Centre

It does not matter that what level of class one attends; a person should be completely familiar with the advantages and benefits of yoga. While instructing in yoga classes, instructor must give more emphasis on the benefits of yoga rather teaching complex postures so that the knowledge about the advantages of yoga will that person’s learning a target oriented one, especially if he has more serious issues to deal with.

Following are list of benefits of regularly participating in yoga classes:

• Expanded capacity to breathe deeply and fully using the lower, middle, and top parts of the lungs


• Warms and tones up muscles thereby preventing injury, cramps, and sprains


• May prevent or improve chronic illness


• Fabulous body toning effects


• Weight loss or gain, depending on your body’s needs


• Posture is improved


• Body awareness is heightened


• Improves the healing and regenerative powers of your body


• Strengthens your immune system


• Improvement in your lymphatic system


• Muscles and ligaments are lengthened and strengthened


• Increased flexibility


• Improved peripheral circulation


• Improved metabolism/digestion


• Gives the body a cardiovascular workout without negative impacting forces


• Prevents build up of cholesterol and plaque in the arteries, thereby reducing the risks of a stroke and/or a heart attack


• Revitalizes the arteries and makes them elastic


• Nervous system is exercised


• Endocrine and exocrine glands are massaged and stimulated and normalised


• Muscular and skeletal systems are enhanced


• Weight-bearing exercise may help in preventing osteoporosis


• Every organ, gland, nerve, tendon, ligament, and muscle in the body is made to work


• Improved heart and lung function


• Improved back conditions of pain and misalignment


• Improved flexibility of your spine in its range of motion in all directions allowing the improvement in function of your central nervous system


• Better nervous system communication means a better functioning of body and mind


• Better quality of sleep – you may even need to sleep less as your sleep is better


• Builds mental strength and teaches you to hold your mind in a focused and meditative state


• Integrates and optimally uses both sides of the brain to improve memory, learning, body coordination, poise, equilibrium, and balance.