BENEFITS OF YOGA IN DAILY LIFE
                     BENEFITS OF YOGA 
IN DAILY LIFE
YOGA HELPS IN ALL-AROUND FITNESS
• Improves health
• Gives mental strength
• Improves physical strength
• Protects from injury
• Detoxifies the body
Source: www.artofliving.org
BENEFITS IN WEIGHT LOSS
• Sun Salutation and Kapal Bhati pranayama are highly useful for losing weight. 
• Moreover, with regular practice of yoga, we tend to become more sensitive to our body and 
its needs. 
Source: Health Tips Diary
IMPROVES FLEXIBILITY
• Improved flexibility is one of the first and most 
obvious benefits of yoga.
• Inflexibility in muscles and connective tissue, 
such as fascia and ligaments, can cause poor 
posture.
Source: yogajournal.com
BUILDS MUSCLE STRENGTH
• Strong muscles protect us from conditions like arthritis 
and back pain, and help prevent falls in elderly people.
• When you build strength through yoga, you balance it 
with flexibility. 
Source: Gaiam
BEST SOLUTION FOR STRESS RELIEF
• A few minutes of yoga daily can be a great 
way to get rid of stress, both in body and 
mind. 
• Yoga postures, pranayama, and meditation 
are effective techniques to release stress.
Source: Harvard University
IMPROVES IMMUNITY
• Yoga poses help massage organs and 
strengthens muscles while breathing 
techniques and meditation release stress and 
improve immunity.
• This helps the lymphatic system fight infection, 
destroy cancerous cells, and dispose of the 
toxic waste products of cellular functioning.
Source: Pinterest
PROTECTS THE SPINE
• Spinal disks, the shock absorbers between the vertebrae 
that can herniate and compress nerves crave 
movement. That's the only way they get their nutrients. 
• With the well-balanced asana practice & with plenty of 
backbends, forward bends, twists, one can help keep 
the disks supple.
Source: Yoga Journal
 IMPROVES BONE HEALTH
• Yoga's ability to lower levels of the stress 
hormone cortisol may help keep calcium in the 
bones.
• Yoga practice also increase bone density in the 
vertebrae.
Source: Shape Magazine
 IMPROVES BLOOD FLOW
• Yoga gets your blood flowing. More specifically, 
the relaxation exercises you learn in yoga can 
help your circulation, especially in your hands 
and feet. 
• Yoga also gets more oxygen to your cells, which 
function better as a result. 
Source: Health Tips Diary
 
LOWERS BLOOD SUGAR
• Yoga lowers blood sugar and LDL ("bad") 
cholesterol and boosts HDL ("good") 
cholesterol.
• In people with diabetes, yoga has been found 
to lower blood sugar in several ways: 
– By lowering cortisol and adrenaline levels
– Encouraging weight loss
– Improving sensitivity to the effects of 
insulin
Source: FITPASS