Health benefits
Depression:
Improved Body Image:
Retreats:
- Yoga can lift your mood by focusing your attention on the way your emotions are expressed in your body.
- Negative feelings that are blocked or suppressed may come to the surface during certain yoga poses, these move negative energy from the places in your body that won't leave.
Improved Body Image:
- The practice yoga gives more body satisfaction, less self-objectification, and greater satisfaction with physical appearance
- Fewer symptoms of eating disorders are reported by the practice yoga because it encourages you to listen to your body's feedback and learn to be sensitive to your bodily sensations.
- Yoga may also help you tune out society's messages that thin is the only worthy body shape, and only beautiful people are valuable.
- The discipline of yoga makes you think differently about your mind and body by enhancing your mind-body connection.
- Chronic stress, such as the daily worry and pressure that a cancer patient typically experiences can raise stress levels and biochemical markers such as cortisol and cytokine production.
- Stress reduction exercises, like yoga, can reduce stress and therefore reduce cortisol.
- Studies have shown that the practice of yoga calms down anxiety, symptoms of cancer, and betters immune based diseases.
Retreats:
- Yoga serves as a perfect get-away and a chance to bond with others that share the same interests in the the practice of yoga
- Retreat camps specializing in yoga are established all over the world to provide people with the ability to practice this well-known and appreciated creation.