Yoga Challenge

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Yoga is a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, originating from ancient India. It is a form of exercise that employs a combination of breath control, meditation, stretching, and the adoption of specific postures so to enhance health, strength, flexibility, balance, and relaxation (NHS, 2018). Research has also demonstrated how yoga is helpful in managing high blood pressure, heart disease, aches and pains (including lower back pain), depression, and stress (NHS, 2018).

Whilst yoga came into being around 5,000 years ago, the benefits are still very much practiced and popular today cross-culturally, and is in fact a commonplace exercise across a variety of sectors such as leisure centres, health clubs, schools, hospitals and surgeries.

Quarantine and lockdown has been hard on so many of us during the current Covid Crisis, therefore it’s more important now than ever to make sure that we are keeping our bodies flexible and active whilst we are confined in our homes. By keeping moderately active, we reduce the risk of depression, weight gain, joint pain, heart problems and a whole host of other issues (Cooney et al., 2014; Swift et al., 2014; Kind et al., 2013; Jin, 2013).

So, will you take the pledge and give yoga a go this month? Try it out with our handy-dandy beginner’s guide below, for your weekly routine! Unsure, what each pose looks like? Click on the poster below to be taken to all of the how-to’s!

References

Cooney, G., Dwan, K. and Mead, G., 2014. Exercise for depression. Jama, 311(23), pp.2432-2433.

Jin, J., 2013. Obesity and the Heart. Jama, 310(19), pp.2113-2113.

King, L.K., March, L. and Anandacoomarasamy, A., 2013. Obesity & osteoarthritis. The Indian journal of medical research, 138(2), p.185.

NHS., 2018. A guide to yoga [online]. NHS. [Viewed 30 April 2020]. Available from: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/guide-to-yoga/

Swift, D.L., Johannsen, N.M., Lavie, C.J., Earnest, C.P. and Church, T.S., 2014. The role of exercise and physical activity in weight loss and maintenance. Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 56(4), pp.441-447.

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