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Yoga to Relieve Chronic Lower Back Pain

Yoga instructors have the knowledge to design specialized lesson plans. Studios, fitness centers, and schools should have workshops that specialize in taking care of the back. Instructors can guide students through poses that help the strained and tight back to relax. Yoga teachers can design sequences that help to decompress the spine. As instructors, we teach prevention and methods for dealing with pre-existing injuries. With that said, yoga instructors need to contact the the corporate sector about methods for improving employee back health.

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Skeletal Alignment – What Can Yoga Asanas Do?

Practicing yoga asana regularly helps people gain a level of fitness unlike anything before and achieve mental serenity. Many people who practice yoga don’t even realize the positive benefits that happen underneath their muscles in the skeletal frame. Yoga is known for to having more positive impact on joint function as certain yoga poses strengthen the muscles by releasing fluids throughout the body. Here are some ways for anyone to practice yoga to improve their joint health and their overall skeletal alignment.

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About Yoga and High Blood Pressure

We need more medical studies to figure out how Yoga lowers blood pressure, but we can use the information we have to stay healthy in the meantime. Medical and scientific research regarding Yogic techniques for high blood pressure is hard to come by, which leaves us with more anecdotal information than we have from medical studies at this time.

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Yogic Approach for Chronic Backache

If you are feeling uncomfortable while doing Yoga Asanas by yourselves, do not push yourself. It will be helpful to actually sign up for some Yoga Classes where a professional teacher will guide you through each Asana and will make sure that you are doing the exercise correctly.

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Is Yoga Weight Loss Really Possible?

Yoga is a holistic practice involving more than just the physical body and its methods are gradual. There is no encouragement to injure oneself for short term gain. As a comparison, a 135-pound person would burn about 150 to 200 calories for an hour of Yoga exercise.

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Therapeutic Hatha Yoga for Scoliosis

Therapeutic Hatha Yoga for scoliosis can help address these imbalances because, even though each scoliosis patient is unique, there are common patterns. The spine often moves to the side and rotates. This shift creates a rounded back, the ribs compress toward the front, while the pelvis and lower back rotate toward the back. Yoga can help to relieve the discomfort brought on by the results of the curving spine. For example, compression in the vertebrae can cause one hip to be raised. This imbalance can find balance with the breath awareness and postures that emphasize hip alignment.

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