Get Your Om On

Think you know everything there is to know about the health benefits of yoga? Well, think again! And while the list of benefits extends well beyond simply improving your flexibility, here are a few fun facts about how this once ancient and now widely loved and utilised practice can help boost your physical and mental well-being:

1. Yoga can help reduce stress, improve your mood and overall levels of happiness by releasing feel-good chemicals in the brain.

2. Yoga builds full-body strength; and while the poses may look easy in practice, using your own body weight to move through and hold them for longer periods of time, may actually allow you to experience even faster strength building.

3. It’s not just your muscles that benefit from yoga; your joints do too! With weight-bearing exercises helping tremendously with improving joint-mobility by engaging the body’s full range of motion. And since it's low-impact, it’s much easier on your body in comparison to more HIT like running & weightlifting.

4. It boosts your immunity - The act of contracting and strengthening muscles and moving in and out of poses stimulates internal organs, which in combination with the intense breathwork and state of relaxation that comes with practising yoga, can help to detox the lymphatic system and keep it strong for fighting infection.

5. It helps you sleep like a baby! Yoga can help inspire more restful sleep by decreasing stress and muscle tension, promoting deep relaxation and a sense of peace. 

So, are you ready to put its benefits to the test? Whether you prefer to visit in-studio, move to your own flow or tune into an online class (like one of the many from our very own Sudor trainers like the 15 minute Morning Mobility by Esther Marie Yoga or the 40 minute Being and Gratitude Flow from Mindful Sonder); with its ease and accessibility, as a form of exercise yoga is hard to beat!

Team Sudor