Benefits of Yoga for Women

Women practicing yoga can experience many health and mental benefits. Yoga is especially helpful in alleviating the lower back pain common in women before menstruation, during pregnancy and towards menopause. A regular yoga routine helps in weight loss and has the ability to even out periods and lessen the anxiety and depression common at ‘that time’.

Physical Benefits:

Blood pressure:  Regular yoga practice helps in decreasing high blood pressure.

Pain:   various instances of back pain, chronic pain, neck pain can be relieved with yoga practice.

Heart disease: As yoga relieves stress and decrease blood pressure, there are lesser chances of cardiovascular diseases.

Diabetes: yoga stimulates insulin production and reduces glucose to prevent diabetes.

Metabolism: yoga balances the metabolism which helps in weight loss.

Psychological Benefits:

     Stress reduction: women get stressed out more than men, this is why most physicians advice their patients to practice yoga as it improves concentration and reduces the stress.

Anxiety and depression: yoga controls breathing which reduces anxiety .It also clears all the negative feelings and thoughts from the mind leading to reduction of depression. 

Memory: yoga stimulates better blood pressure circulation especially to the brain, which reduces stress and improves concentration leading to better memory.

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