YOGA is an ancient system of health and fitness that originated in India improves physical well being.
“Yoga is an excellent activity for people who haven’t exercised in years or those who aren’t very strong,” says Dr. Suzie Bertisch, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Bertisch has studied the benefits of yoga and other mind-body techniques. A promising body of research suggests that yoga’s combination of stretching, gentle activity may have special benefits for people with cardiovascular and many other diseases.
According to recent scientific medical research conducted in Europe and The United States, people who regularly participate in Yoga exercises which involves the stretching of the muscles through certain poses or postures, improve circulation, stimulate the abdominal organs, and put pressure on the glandular system of the body, which can generally result to better health.
Yoga includes various postures, each posture enabling the body to heal itself by improving one’s immunity and hence live longer. Each posture has special benefits to each part of the body.
Olivier Biraro, a yoga practitioner in Rwanda says: “I am experiencing a very happy life because of yoga. When I have flu for instance, I practice a certain posture and it disappears. And since I have made it a regular practice, becoming sick has become a myth to me”
Yoga practices, which in some ways contribute in mental and bodily balance, many report improved diet and weight loss. They also report increased relaxation and calm which help manage their daily stress at work.
Biraro continues saying’’ one posture named ’the arrow’ has the following advantages
This posture gives a good massage to the abdomen so it cures prolonged constipation, dyspepsia and other diseases of the stomach.
It cures spinal hump and rheumatism of the legs, the knees and the hands.
It also cures gas and other intestinal disorders.
Yoga, currently practiced by a minor number of people in Africa and increasingly being embraced in the Western and eastern world, is contributing and working in hand with and as an alternative with modern medicine to prevent before hand diseases caused by the dearth of body exercises, and good diet in improving the well being of a human being as a whole (mind and body).
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