Get a Fit, Tone & Supple Body with Yoga and Yolates

Yoga can help fight stiffness, hardening of the arteries, hormonal fluctuations, depression and loss of bone density. It helps you become more aware of your body's posture, alignment and patterns of movement. It makes the body more flexible and helps you relax even in the midst of a stress stricken environment. Yoga helps clean blood of waste material through lymphatic stimulation, and trains us to loosen muscles and joints that are ignored in our day-to-day lives. Routines like sun salutation get the blood flowing as we warm up and free our body to experience the new stresses we will face. The practice also gets us to handle the weight of our body more effectively, which builds bone and muscle strength so we are more resilient to the frailty that afflicts many. This is why power yoga practitioners have great bodies.

Yoga
Detoxify and to remove toxins from your body, effective for cleansing purposes, part of the regimen for chronic liver diseases.

Your skin is one of the best waste disposal systems in nature. While it is different from your waste-extraction organs like kidneys or livers, your skin is an equally effective organ for removing waste, especially toxic wastes. It does this through sweat.

You would be tapping the ability of your skin to convert toxins that come from various fats into simpler and water-soluble compounds that can be easily removed. You will begin to sweat, amonia and urea is eliminated as well as sugars and salts.

Exercises are performed in a studio, you go through a program of specified postures in a vigorous but very aerobic workout. The internal heat generated by the stretching exercises will make you break out in torrents of sweat.

On its own, stretching is already a powerful healing regime. When you do streching exercises, you are working out every muscle in the body, making them strong, supple, and flexible. Aside from being able to help in cardiovascular problems, stretching is also excellent for people suffering from arthritis, stress reduction, and a host of other body conditions.

Every stretching posture is for detoxification exercise is complemented with proper breathing techniques to assist you in reaching the maximum limit of the movement. Thus, you may notice that apart from the regular stretching exercises, you are also trained in the proper breathing techniques. Proper breathing techniques is vital in detoxification and cleansing.

By boosting circulation and metabolism through deep breathing and stretching posture, this stretch class accelerates the result of any detoxification program. Additionally, you also get to learn the techniques of relaxation. You learn to relax your mind, thus addressing stress toxins. In conclusion, Fat-Burning & Therapeutic Stretch for detoxification is a powerful means to achieving balance between mind, body and spirit.

The stretching series involves standing postures and floor postures. Standing postures are significantly more difficult than the floor series, require more balance, strength, and stamina. Once you make it over “the hump” of the standing series and move onto the floor series, the class becomes somewhat more managable (but still a very challenging exercise).

Most of the postures, in some way or another, are aimed at increasing the flexibility of your spine. The class actually helps improve digestive function, strengthen your spine, release fresh blood to your brain, one thing is for sure it does burn a lot of calories.

Based on sex and body weight , you'll burn about 300 - 800 calories in completing this class. This is roughly equivelant to the amount of calories you would burn from jogging 6 miles in 60 minutes.It's an amazing. Without changing your diet at all, you could lose about one pound of body weight per week by going to 5 yoga classes

Pilates

Pilates is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates in Germany, the UK and the USA. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States.

Pilates called his method Contrology, because he believed that his method uses the mind to control the muscles. Pilates is a body conditioning routine that helps to not only build flexibility, but also strength, endurance, and coordination in the legs, abdominals, arms and back.

Pilates emphasizes the concepts of core strength and stabilization. Students are taught the concepts of core strength and stabilization, as well as to use your “powerhouse” throughout life’s daily activities. As Joseph Pilates called it, your “powerhouse” is the center of your body or your core and if strengthened, it offers a solid foundation for any movement. This power engine is a muscular network which provides the basic control and stability in the lumbopelvic region, which furthermore consists of the Pelvic floor muscles, the Transversus, the Multifidus, the diaphragm, the muscles of the inner thigh, and the muscles encircling the sitting bone area.

You activate the power engine effectively by hollowing of the deep abdominals and pelvic floor muscles (“Deep muscle corset”), by drawing the navel back into the spine in a zipping-up motion, from the pubic bone to the breast bone thereby engaging the heels, the back of the inner thighs, the deep lower back muscles, and the muscles surrounding the sitting bones and tailbone area without inhibiting the natural function of the diaphragm – that is without holding your breath either from lifting the chest upwards or contracting the chest.

Apart from providing core control and stability to the lumbopelvic region, in the sitting position the power engine elevates the torso and places the centre of gravity at its highest and most efficient position; in prone position it elongates the body bi-directionally to reduce weight in the upper body; in supine position it elongates the body bi-directionally and places the centre of gravity again at its highest and most efficient position.

The Power Engine opens up the vertical dimension of the body by grounding the pelvis to the earth and by elevating the spine towards the sky, much like a tree; the pelvis being the root and the branches being the spine.

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