Don’t choose Yoga, let the YOGA choose you!
People like the staunch preachers and followers of Yoga in ancient times used to live for years practicing yoga as a part of their lifestyles. They had wrinkle-free and radiant skin along with the elf-like shapely body. Yoga being the secret, we have gone under the surfaces and tried to find out the hidden truth about Yoga and its magical results. Here we go:
- 8 Exclusive Anti-Aging Yoga Poses
- 7 Face Yoga Poses- To look younger and beautiful
- 6 Most Effective Yoga Poses to Delay Aging
- Yoga and Anti-Aging: How Yoga Helps Us Delay Aging?
- Yoga to Maintain a Healthy Mind and Body
- How to Get the Best Results of Yoga!
- Top 7 Celebrities Who Follow Yoga
- Yoga and Meditation
- Conclusion: My Perspective of ‘Aging’?
8 Exclusive Anti-Aging Yoga Poses
Yoga asana is a complete body movement exercise that helps you stretch, tones your muscles, achieve a radiant glow, and feel the sense of peace.
So, set the alarm, grab the mat, meet the sun, and practice these seemingly pleasing yet easing yoga asanas at your home.
Let’s do it one by one-
1. Chair Pose (Utkatasana)
A funny chair punishment that will take back to your school days.
How hard could it be for you to sit on a chair? Quite simple? Yes, it’s obvious, but what about turning yourself into a chair? Let’s check out this interesting yoga move and rest on an imaginary chair.
Benefits of Chair Pose
- Helpful in reducing weight from buttock area
- Strengthens your lower back and torso
- Stimulates the heart movement and diaphragm
How to Perform
1. Stand straight and make a small gap between your feet to keep them apart
2. Slightly bend your knees with hips in a sitting position. Stretch out your arms with palms facing the ground. Remember not to fold them, just them the straight.
3. Now be comfortable in the pose with the forward bend of knees and try to act like you’re reading a newspaper or book.
4. Hold the posture until you start feeling the little stretch on your muscles.
5. Get back to the rest position and sit quite comfortably before start doing it again.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
Avoid including chair pose to your yoga regime if you’re suffering from any of the below-mentioned problems:
- Headaches
- Knee problems
- Arthritis
- Low blood pressure
- Insomnia
2. Child Pose (Balasana)
Let’s take a relaxation break in between the complicated moves. (Where are you going? We didn’t ask you to crawl like a child, get back to your mat and practice this asana).
Benefits of Child Pose
- Stretches, lengthen, and strengthens the spine
- Promotes blood circulation throughout the body
- Encourages right breathing to keep mind and body calm and stress-free.
How to perform
1. Put your heels on the hips and kneel on the floor with hands open (Hands should be in a straight line with knees)
2. Place your forehead on the mat and take a deep breath.
3. Stretch, exhale, and take your hands and body to its normal position. (Heel on hips with palms resting on knees)
4. Repeat this easy and convenient move 4-5 time to give a great stretch to your body.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
- This relieving exercise can be a nightmare for the pregnant women so do not attempt to include or practice this yoga during pregnancy.
- If you have knee, ankle, or any back injury then opt other poses instead of child pose to experience the benefits of yoga.
3. Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar)
Meet and greet the sun every morning in a traditional manner to welcome unparalleled health and fitness.
It is a simple but effective yoga asana that includes 12 poses in a sequential manner to lead your way to the good health. Let’s check out this amazing yoga to unfold the Vedic mantras and movements to stay calm, happy, and peaceful throughout the day:
Benefits of Surya Salutations
- Gives glowing skin
- Keeps anxiety away at bay
- Complete natural body detox
- Improves blood circulation
- Strengthen bones, joints, and muscles
How to perform
1. Pranamasana
- Stand still and look straight while holding your hands together in ”Namaste” pose.
- Keep your feet attached, while making the perfect Pranamasana pose.
2. Hastauttanasana
- Inhale and,
- Stretch both your arms in backward position and bend your back to make a partial C.
- Expand your chest and remember to keep feet closer together.
3. Hasta Padasana
- Exhale and,
- Bend down to touch the touch your palms to the ground.
- Keep your knees straight and face towards the knee area. Your spine should be erect during the whole Padasana.
4. Ashwa Sanchalanasana
- Now inhale,
- Take your left leg backward from and bend your right knee.
- Place your arm right next (parallel) to the bended knee.
- And keep your head straight and gaze forward
5. Dandasana
- Exhale,
- Now also take your right leg back to make and downward dog with both palms on the ground or mat.
- Your hips should perfectly bend without putting to much pressure on the back
6. Ashtanga Namaskara
- Now, slowly bring your knees to the floor and place your chest alongside with the palms resting on the ground. Exhale,
- Your toes should be on their tips. Now you should notice that in total 8 points of your body should be touching the mat. (Palms, knees, chest, and toes)
7. Bhujangasana
- Let your lower body rest on the surface and raise your chest area
- Keep your head facing up the front side
8. Adho Mukha Svanasana
- Exhale and,
- Lift your lower body and hips upwards to make a downward dog pose
- Your heels should and palms should be touching the ground.
9. Ashwa Sanchalanasana
- Inhale and,
- This time you’ve to take your right leg to the back and place the left arm parallel to the left knee bent.
- Look forward with a perfect Ashwa Sanchalanasana stance.
10. Hasta Padasana
- Exhale
- Now, get ready to stand again in Hasta Padasana like you’ve done before in 3 step with an inhalation of breath.
11. Hastauttanasana
- Inhale to make a Hastauttanasana pose and end your Surya Namaskar.
12. Tadasana
- Look straight, say ”Namaste” with feet together to form a perfect Tadasana.
- Here ends your magical yet simple sun salutation formation.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
This amazing meet and greet exercise should not be practiced by the person suffering from any of these issues:
- During the onset of Menstruation
- Hernia or intestinal tuberculosis
- Stroke, coronary artery diseases, and high blood pressure
4. Fish Pose (Matsyasana)
Get ready to float like a fish from all your health related issues to stay fit and healthy for long.
Benefits of Fish Pose
- Instigates body’s nutrient absorption
- Relieves menstrual pain
- Great exercise to delight your abdomen with a gentle massage
- Encourages right kind of breathing
- Regulates digestion to make you glow for long
How to perform
1. Lie on the floor and tuck in your stomach under your hips.
2. Lift your body above the floor with the aim of forming a curve frame while making a
3. beeline for the hips
4. Hold this pose for 60 seconds
5. Return to your natural position
Let’s learn what you must not do:
Practicing fish pose can put immense strain on the womb during pregnancy.
People with serious neck or lower back injury should avoid practicing this yoga.
5. Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana)
A safe stretch for your core and abs. (Don’t make a hissing sound)
It stretches, tones, and tightens your body muscles. Cobra pose is a fantastic practice to maintain a healthy and glowing skin. This pose can also help you in tightening your sagging skin.
Benefits of Cobra Pose
- Decreases lower back stiffness
- Firms and tones body muscles
- Tighten your skin to make you look younger than actual
How to perform
1. Lie straight with your chest facing the floor and keep your legs touching the ground
2. Gradually start lifting your torso and arch your back towards your toes
3. Hold this pose till you feel a little stretch, for 20-25 seconds
4. Return to your normal position slowly
Let’s learn what you must not do:
Like every other yoga pose, it also has its own contradictions and limitation. You should take care of them to get the maximum benefit of it without affecting body functioning.
- People with issues if intestinal tuberculosis, peptide ulcers, and hypothyroidism are advised to stay away from the cobra pose practice.
6. Trikona Asana
Become a triangle (Remember not to apply Pythagoras theorem here :P)
Triangle pose is a great pose to practice that will give your body a complete stretch. Strengthen your muscles, expand and grow healthily against the pull of gravity.
Benefits of Trikona Asana
- Increases both your mental and physical stability
- Opens up your groins, hamstrings, hips, calves, spine, shoulders, and chest with a complete stretch
- Stimulates your abdominal organs
- Cures anxiety and depression
How to perform
1. Stand perfectly straight and open slightly open your legs to a comfortable position (with at least a 2 feet gap)
2. Open both your arms parallel to the ground in opposite directions
3. Slightly lean and bend to touch your right feet with the right hand while looking towards the sky or tip of the other hand.
4. Rest your arms on the shin, tip or wherever you want and keep stretching the muscles with deep breaths.
5. Release the breath and get back to your normal standing position
6. Repeat the cycle on the other remaining side.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
Few things should be taken care of before practicing Trikona asana to maintain a perfect health from every side.
- If you’ve severe back pain or migraine, then it’s better to drop the idea of performing triangle pose.
- Patients detected with high blood pressure and diarrhea must avoid this asana to improve their health.
7. Dolphin Pose (Ardh Pincha Mayurasana)
Open your shoulders and hamstring to strengthen them and take your mind and body to dive into the sea of purity like a dolphin.
It is highly effective posture to build stability and strength. Being a dolphin you can swim across the oceans to attain an unparalleled health with this yoga pose.
Benefits of Dolphin Pose
- Helps regulate digestion
- Tones your core muscles
- Relieves stress, mild depression, and fatigue
- Helps prevent the condition of osteoporosis
How to Perform
1. Begin the practice by getting on your hand and knees (Like a downward dog)
2. Place your forearms carefully on the ground. Elbows and shoulders should lie in a straight line.
3. Lift your hips and take your toes to the back into a perfectly straight stance.
4. Now walk in with your head into the gap between the arms
5. Take a few deep breaths and try to hold the pose for as long as you can.
6. Exhale back to your knees into a rest position.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
You need to keep these cautions in mind before beginning with dolphin pose practice sessions:
- People with neck or shoulder injury should avoid performing this pose.
- Do not over-stress your muscles while acting like a dolphin to avoid any injury.
8. Kapalbhati Pranayama
Kapalbhati is a great way to keep your mind, body, and spirit healthy. It is the most important yoga asana that can help you in flattening your stomach and help you say goodbye to wrinkles.
Benefits of Kapalbhati Pranayama
- For a bright intellect and a shining forehead
- Improves natural breathing
- Increases core strength
How to perform
1. Sit cross-legged on the ground
2. Breathe-in normally and breath out forcefully through your stomach
3. Continue this cycle for about 15-20 times
Let’s learn what you must not do:
All it takes a few simple breaths to perform Kapalbhati Pranayama. It a simple yet effective Pranayama exercise that gives you the amazing health benefits. Below are the tips to keep in mind before practicing it:
- Never attempt to practice Kapalbhati in progress with an asthmatic attack.
- People have heart and high blood pressure issues should avoid this yoga.
Note: Every yoga that we’ve mentioned above can also be performed with various variations. Don’t worry you’ve done them in a right way so need to stress about as you’re already tired. We also have something special for you to treat your beauty with perfect care. Here we’re talking about the term ”Face Yoga” which is quite popular these days. Pamper this newborn baby to put your skin on work.
7 Face Yoga Poses- To look younger and beautiful
Whenever you hear the word yoga, the first thing that comes to your mind might be some complex poses that turn your body completely upside down. But not all the yoga poses are the same, and not all of them target the same area. Also, as we are discussing anti-aging, then why not we just discuss some yoga poses that can eliminate those annoying signs of aging and bring back the glow of youth to your face. You might not be convinced enough about the anti aging yoga poses to get back your skin glow, but these benefits of face Yoga will surely grab your attention:
Now, not wasting much of your time, let us simply discuss some of my favorite face yoga poses that can help in making your skin look younger and flawless:
1. Oh!
This Yoga pose can certainly help in eliminating saggy skin and the cheek lines. Probably save a lot of money that you might have spent on lower facelift and fillers. This is how to do this simple yoga pose:
- Open your mouth by dropping your jaw and hide your teeth using lips, this will certainly make your mouth look like an ‘O’
- Move your mouth like you are smiling while holding the ‘O’ pose. This will certainly make your mouth look like a bigger O than the previous time.
- Get back to the initial position with the smaller O. Repeat this small O big O about 10 times.
2. Swim Under Water (Fish Face)
Practicing this pose can be extremely beneficial for your cheeks and lips, toning them up and make them firmer. All you need to hold your face like a fish swimming underwater and this is how you can do it:
- Purse your lips and then suck the inside of your cheeks towards the empty space side of your teeth.
- This will certainly make your face look like a fish face.
- Smile while holding the fish face and then get back to initial fish face. Repeat this process simultaneously.
3. Relax for a Moment (Buddha Face)
Certainly, the simplest yoga pose, to perform and it can help in removing all those fine lines from your face and makes it look younger. Just follow the steps given below to perform this pose:
- Calm down for some time and leave your face neutral, releasing all the stress.
- Imagine that an image of Lord Buddha has been photoshopped on your face and try to imitate the similar expression without forcing it.
- Make a slight smile and keep holding this pose for a few minutes.
4. Surprise Me
This pose is for you if you have a stiff forehead. It can certainly help in relaxing the muscles around your eyes and forehead and also helps in relieving the stress. This is how to perform this pose:
- Open your eyes wide as much as possible and hold.
- Try to expose the white portion of your eyes as much as possible.
- Hold your eyes open until they start to water, and then relax.
5. Get Weird, Get Mad
Well the name already suggest that your face is going to look quite weird when you will perform this pose. But, the best part is that it can firm your cheeks and strengthen them, preventing them from looking hollow and thinner. To perform this pose, follow the steps given below:
- Take a deep breath through your mouth and then close your mouth tight while holding it.
- Puff the breath through your cheeks a few times just like a bullfrog would do.
- Release the breath slowly
6. Let Me Enjoy the Moment
You are actually going to enjoy this moment a lot because this yoga pose will help you get rid of crow’s feet, the annoying lines around your eyes that grow with age. When you perform this pose you exercise the muscles around your eyes and make them strong enough to counter the effects of aging. The right way to perform this:
- Wink with the lower lid of your eyes. This might sound complicated and difficult to do but you will eventually be able to do this with some practice.
- Lift your lower lid up without disturbing any other facial muscle and get it back to the initial position.
- Now put some pressure on the outer crease of the crow’s feet by lifting it with the finger (don’t pull the skin) and this will help in improving the function of the muscle too.
7. Why So Serious!
Remember the smile of the joker from the Dark Night? You have to imitate his expression. This will help in lifting the nasal labial folds and make your cheeks plump and round like the days of your youth. Do this yoga pose in some simple steps:
- Smile wide with your teeth showing and then use your fingertips to lift up the is between your nose and lips.
- Once lifted, push down your fingertips to provide resistance to your hold.
6 Most Effective Yoga Poses to Delay Aging
1. Lion Pose (Simhasana)
Show your tongue, wake up your face, and practice seemingly weird Simhasana. (Remember not to roar)
This is quite a comfortable asana that anyone can easily perform. Although it is not a
familiar asana for all and might make you laugh while practising sessions. Check out what this pose has to offer:
Benefits of Lion Pose
- It strengthens your throat, voice, and lungs.
- Relieves tension from your face and chest area.
- Pulls down the corners of your mouth to reduce wrinkles around the neck.
How to perform
1. Put your hips on the heels in a seated position and let the palms rest on the knees. (Show your sharpened finger-like claws)
2. Now, place both of your palms on the mat and take a deep breath through the nose. Simultaneously open your mouth to stretch out the tongue. Open the eyes wide and make a “ha” sound while exhaling through the mouth. (Remember: The breathing you have taken should pass through your throat during the process)
3. Inhale back and get ready to repeat this 2-5 times.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
This is a safe and easy to practice yoga asana without any preventive measures. Although, people with a knee injury are advised to avoid it. If necessary you can practice the pose by sitting on a chair.
2. Bow Pose (Dhanurasana)
Bend as the bow, be like an arrow, and get ready to aim fitness, flexibility, and strength. (Remember you’re not in a war, so relax)
This is a great Yoga pose to add in your stretching exercise sessions to experience imparting flexibility. You can get so many benefits from this archer’s bow by bending over your mat every morning:
Benefits of Bow Pose
- Improves appetite and digestion
- Cure menstruation disorder
- Helps achieve a perfect posture
- Strengthen chest, thighs, ankles, groins, and abdominal organs.
How to perform
1. Lie down flat on stomach. Keep both your hands toward the knees.
2. Now, exhale and bend your knees and try to touch your heel to the buttocks. Hold your ankles with hands, making an upward D or a bow shape.
3. Look straight with a stress-free face. You can smile if you want to, you’re not bound to stay this much serious while performing Yoga.
4. Get comfortable in the pose and take a long deep breath.
5. Hold your position for 10-15 seconds and slowly release your catapult with an exhalation.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
- People with high or low blood pressure, neck injury, lower back pain, hernia, headache, migraines or a fresh abdominal surgery are strictly advised not to add bow pose in their yoga regimes.
- Pregnant ladies should avoid this pose for their safety.
- If you’re suffering from a heart problem then you should try to avoid this pose.
3. Tree Pose (Vrikshasana)
Stand and bend to take one-leg stand challenge. (Don’t forget to greet the sun with a Namaste)
Isn’t it an amazing Yoga to mine and replicate a trees’ stance? You need to keep your eyes open and try to make the balance. This tree-pose will definitely help you coordinate better standstill, and walk with a perfect posture.
Benefits of Tree Pose
- Improve individual’s sense of balance and coordination
- Stretches groins, inner thighs, chest, and shoulders
- Helps to deepen your thorax
- Strengthen spine, ankles, and calves.
How to perform
1. Stand straight and drop your hands on the sides.
2. Now, bend your knee to place the sole on the opposite thigh (just above the knee)
3. Breathe in to find your perfect balance.
4. Keep your spine straight and join hands to greet your mornings with a ”Namaste”.
5. Maintain the pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute and exhale to repeat the process with legs reversed.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
- This pose should not be practiced if you’re facing issues with blood pressure.
- Skip tree pose in conditions like migraine and insomnia
- If you have any acute knee injury or hip injury then do not stress your muscles to bend in this pose.
4. Warrior II Pose (Virabhadrasana II)
Unarmed, Unshielded, but can still fight like a fierce warrior against illness (An incarnation of Shiva)
Benefits of Warrior II Pose
- Strengthens your chest, legs, and hip area
- It also energizes the entire body by improving blood circulation and respiration process
- Relieves backaches, chronic pains, and increases stamina
How to Perform
1. Open both your arms in opposite directions parallel to the ground.
2. Wide open your legs bend the front knee to look straightforward in a balanced pose.
3. Turn your back right foot to a 90-degree angle and align left heel with the right one
4. Breathe in and hold it up to 3-6 natural breaths
5. Release to straighten your posture to the natural stance.
6. Reverse the feet position to repeat the process.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
- Advised not to perform in knee, neck, or hip injury.
- Do not add this to your yoga practice sessions if you have problem of high or low blood pressure.
5. Standing Forward Bend (Uttanasana)
Turn on your hamstrings and soothe your mind just with a simple bend.
This is a powerful stretching pose that helps tip to toe blood circulation. Take your head closer to the heart and hear the beat with every bend. Have a look at what this amazing asana can do for you:
Benefits of Standing Forward Bend
- Helps relieve insomnia and headaches
- Stimulates kidneys and liver
- Gives a perfect stretch to your hamstring, calves, and hips
- Eliminate menstrual and other problems associated with menopause.
How to Perform
1. With your hands on the hips, stand straight and inhale.
2. Exhale and bend forward while folding your hips and try to touch your forehead to the area below the knees.
3. Do not over stress the knees and keep them soft as much as possible during the whole bend
4. Now take your hands toward the mat and try to hold the heel from the back side.
5. Keep holding the pose until you start to feel a pressure or stretch on your hamstrings.
6. Repeat the process 2-3 times and experience the freshness in sore muscles.
Let’s learn what you must not do:
Do not practice this standing forward bend If you suffer from any of these health conditions:
- Knee problems
- Hip, ankle, or spine injury
- Abdominal hernia or back pain
6. Downward Dog Position (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
Bend in a rejuvenating stretch and act like your most loyal friend.
Similar to a dog, this pose has many health benefits that will help you to stay stunning to enjoy the beauties of this world for years. This asana offers a wide array of benefits and is worthy of getting added to the daily exercise regime.
Benefits of Downward Dog Pose
- Tones the hands and feet
- Decreases anxiety
- Improves digestion and strengthens abdominal muscles
How to perform
1. Get down on your hands and knees on a flat surface
2. Bend forwards and keep your palms beneath your shoulders while keeping your palm flat on the floor and your back flattened
3. Raise your feet on toes Lift your hips upwards and try to make an inverted with your chest facing the knees and hands straight
4. Hold this pose for 15-20 seconds while breathing normally
Yoga and Anti-Aging: How Yoga Helps Us Delay Aging?
They might seem crook, yeah, I’m talking about the yoga poses but they can make things straight in our life.
Yes, you read it right. Yoga has two fundamental working principles strength and relaxation. First one is based on the physical moves which build the strength of the muscles. It slows age-related muscle loss (Sarcopenia) when we head towards our 50s and 60s. Another principle works on the breath control in meditative part of yoga. Meditation helps relieve stress, tension and anxiety. So, focusing on breath slows aging at cellular levels of our body. Now we can say yoga helps to slow down the aging process and sometimes it reverses the process especially when it comes to muscle loss.
Practicing yoga on a regular basis along with a healthy diet which includes some exclusive anti aging superfoods definitely slows aging by building strength and calming your mind. It also improves the posture and sets your balance right.
Some of the anti-aging benefits of yoga are:
Producing Anti-aging Hormone in the Brain:
Mediation is an important yoga pose. Several studies have confirmed that deep meditation boosts production of critical anti-aging hormones linked to enhanced wellbeing, increased longevity, and stress. These hormones are cortisol, melatonin and DHEA.
Giving a Lean, Flexible Body:
One of the visible benefits of yoga includes a lean and flexible body. Our bodies stiffen with age and make them more prone to aches, pains, fatigue, injury, and more. But we can prevent all of this with a regular yoga practice. It allows our body to stretch, move, and lengthen out the spine, giving us a younger, limber, flexible body.
Promoting Retention of Muscle Mass:
It is natural to lose muscle mass with age. However, with a regular yoga practice, we will get anti-aging benefits by curating the body to retain the muscle mass. A study has revealed that yogis showed a lower rate of protein synthesis and breakdown, which is required for efficient muscle mass maintenance.
Relieving Stress:
We all feel stressed out and drained which is common and natural. Chronic stress can accelerate the aging process. Yoga can help reduce stress because it promotes relaxation. This anti-aging practice has a calming effect on the body and allows our minds to return to being light, something that can now be achieved at any age.
Yoga to maintain a Healthy mind and body
Yoga is not only for the outer beauty but it also benefits you from the inside. It takes care of your body to fight every problem and help you experience the best health. Here we’ve listed some of the benefits of yoga that will make you run, experience the fun, and shine like a sun. Check them out to tempt yourself to try the idea of practising yoga in your daily life:
Physical Benefits-
- Improves Flexibility: Following mundane Yoga, routines stretches and tones your muscles to make you more flexible. It brings the greater range of motion to every tight area of your body and helps you perform every physical activity without any problem. Yoga is not for young and active people but it also for older ones who want to stay in shape and look beautiful for long.
- Perfects your Posture: A great posture signifies your health and confidence. Yoga teaches you to control and carry your body in a perfect posture. With the regular practice of Yoga, you’ll automatically achieve a right stance to walk, sit, and even sleep in a proper posture.
- Builds Muscle Strength: Yoga is an amazing strength training program that improves both your strength and stamina to hold a perfect body for a long period of time. Holding yoga poses and breaths for a certain course of time helps to lose weight in a healthy way and increases your muscle strength including the facial ones. Along with these yoga poses there are some healthy weight loss diet plans we need to follow for better results.
- Prevents Joint Breakdown: Yoga includes low-impact movements and exercise that allow you use your joints more efficiently without injuring them. It also helps to strengthen the muscles around joints to make you move and walk in a perfect posture for long. With regular yoga practices, you’ll definitely feel young and balanced enough to perform every job with an ease, even after crossing your 60’s.
- Betters your Bone Health: This is a complete body movement and exercise that helps you to learn to lift your own body weight. Yoga found to be improving bone density that helps to fights and prevents critical health condition such as osteoporosis. It also lowers the stress hormone (cortisol) and keeps adequate levels of calcium in bones.
Physiological Benefits-
- Increases your Blood Flow: Yoga improves blood circulation into the body that helps to transport oxygen and nutrients to the various body parts including the skin. Improved blood flow is also responsible for a healthier and glowing skin. So, it’s better to start practicing yoga to experience maximum anti-aging benefits without any additional cost.
- Boosts Immunity: Yoga and immunity are to aspects that go hand in hand. Yoga has the magical abilities to heal and enhance body cells to make you more immune to a variety of diseases and illness. It not only boosts your immunity, but it also ensures overall wellness to keep you and your skin healthy and wealthy for long.
- Improves Breathing: Breathing control is an ultimate key to yoga practice, that helps us to breathe perfectly. It may sound weird, but most of us don’t know how to breathe properly (still surviving?) No worries! Practicing everyday yoga will definitely uplift your breathing cycle that will help in better transportation of blood to every body part.
- Modify your Genetics (Only for good): This is one of the amazing benefits of practicing yoga. Many studies suggest that regular yoga and meditation effectively modify our gene expressions to transform into a better version of its own.
Psychological Benefits-
- Makes you Happier: As a tiny part of this huge & modern-world, there might the maximum chances that you’re not satisfied and happy with what you have. But why worry, when there is yoga to bury your sadness. Yes, you heard it right, practicing yoga can make you feel happy and good. It is also reported that long-term yoga practitioners are found to be more active and enthusiastic towards a better life. So, be ready with your mat and our yoga poses to enter the world of happiness.
- Helps you focus: According to various researchers, practicing regular yoga improves your ability to focus, coordinate, memorize, and even IQ scores. Yoga won’t let you distract from your path and goals and help you achieve the desired with an ease. It is also found to improve short-term memory in older age people and help them remember and memorize things without any trouble.
- Helps your Sleep Deeper: Stimulation is good for humans, but everything reacts better when added in the proper amount. Yoga can provide you relief from the daily hustle-bustle and let you sleep deeper without any burden. A beauty sleep is a perfect gift that yoga gives you at no price. It not only reduces the chances of the appearance of common signs of aging such as fine lines and wrinkles.
- Gives your Peace of Mind: Yoga can help quell the fluctuations of one’s mind. It reduces frustration, anger, and irritation to help you achieve a peace of mind. Yoga also fights a variety of health conditions such as lupus, insomnia, and migraines. A quiet and stress-free mind must be the possible key to live healthier for longer.
- Increases Your Self-esteem: Yoga is a complete philosophy that teaches you about the liberation and divinity. Yoga poses effectively releases burden, stress and other disturbing elements and leads you to an unparalleled path of gratitude, forgiveness, and empathy. You’ll meet the better and healthier version of you to live happily for years.
How to Get the Best Results of Yoga!
When it’s time, everything looks favorable and best, same applies to the yoga. With the right accessories, directions, and dedicated efforts your yoga workout will definitely turn out to be pleasurable. Below are the points to keep in mind before practicing yoga to experience the optimal results:
Timing:
Studies have suggested practicing yoga between 3:40 to 4:40 AM in the morning, which is practically not possible for everyone living in this materialistic world. So, it is recommended to perform yoga asanas every morning at the dawn (sunrise). This is considered as the best time to breathe in the fresh air and feel active near to nature.
Place of Practice:
Always choose a calm, clean, and peaceful place to practice your everyday yoga. Closer to nature and greenery will be more preferable. Ensure to make yourself comfortable in the atmosphere to focus on every move and every pose. Avoid practicing in direct sunlight, cold winds, or any other uncomfortable place that may harm you and your practice sessions.
Yoga Accessories:
Your practice sessions will become more comfortable and you will move more smoothly with the right accessories. Go get a fine yoga mat to practice these seemingly interesting poses to fill you with amazement and happiness. Beginners and people with pains and aches can use them to support yoga moves and perform every move with an ease.
Clothing:
Always wear loose or medium fit clothing that won’t restrict your yoga moves. This will make you move, turn, and twist without any discomfort or trouble. Remember to remove accessories such as glasses, jewelry, wrist watches, and other objects that can come in your way to complete a perfect move
So, now you have had enough of it and can start practicing anytime soon. And of course, we would even make you feel practicing it with your favorite celeb who you adore acting on silver screen.
Top 7 Celebrities who follow Yoga
We keep flipping the pages of those celebrity magazines and adore every star for their fitness and glamorous looks. But have you ever think how much they invest and work to achieve this level of successful health. No matter what you dream of it can be fulfilled and you never know what day might come when you’ll get a chance to become a star. So, what are you waiting for, all the below mentioned celebrities are reported to practice yoga to keep themselves motivated to maintain a great health.
With the simple yoga movements and poses you cannot only fight the aging but also stay healthy and happy to wait for the next breakthrough in your life. Read on and find the secret to the beauty and health of your favorite stars:
1. Kim Kardashian
There might be the maximum chances that you’re following Kimberly “Kim” Kardashian West on Instagram. And why not? Kardashian family is a symbol of luxury, fitness goals, and style statement. This supermodel of super-rich family is also influenced by the benefits of yoga as she takes private yoga lessons to keep herself fit, flexible, and walk like a fashionista.
2. Robert Downey Jr.
Thanos just killed half of the universe, but your favorite Ironman is still alive. You know how? Just because of yoga *Chuckles* Kidding! But it’s been reported by various magazines that RDJ follows a daily yoga routine to keep himself active and agile.
3. Miley Cyrus
Being a youngster, Miley Cyrus had decided to choose yoga for her to stay fit and glowing. She also regularly updates her photographs from her yoga sessions and talks about its benefits in life. Just like she released her song adore, she also preaches everyone to follow you adore and take care of your beautiful skin.
4. Madonna:
She’s 59 but her love for yoga can be seen in her live choreography and stage performance. She smoothly incorporates those moves and poses into the dance steps just because she regularly takes yoga classes to maintain her body. So, if the next time you hear her songs streaming doesn’t forget to follow these amazing anti aging yoga poses and movements.
5. Lady Gaga:
She might sing for the moment, but still rely on yoga movements. Lady Gaga also is a regular yoga practitioner and shares her experience about the yoga sessions.
6. Kendall Jenner:
Another bomb from the Kardashian family, Kendall is a top super-model and also a follower of yoga asanas. She practices a variety of poses and movements during her workout to stay fit, healthy, with her hot figure.
7. David Beckham:
From selected in Manchester United to achieve the heights of success, yoga was always with him. He keeps himself fit and motivated by performing yoga asanas.
Yoga and Meditation
Yoga and meditation walk hand in hand like you walk with your partner. Yoga has surprising benefits, we all know. But when yoga is performed with meditation, it turns out to be a mysterious remedy of another level. They both can do wonders for your health and let you experience what you always imagined of. Either it’s a beautiful looking skin or the stamina to lift heavy, they can easily fulfill your every desire.
So, if you have known this much about yoga and meditation, what about giving it a chance to transform. Here we’ve differentiated them on their performance and impact on human body. Read on and grab the most and best of them:
| Yoga | Meditation | |
| Description | Yoga is a traditional exercise form and an integral part of culture that is needed to be practiced regularly to achieve unparalleled health benefits. | Meditation is a spiritual art to stabilize your mind to attain the sense of peace and calmness. |
| Inclusions | It is a huge cultural and traditional study a variety of asanas and movements to form a perfect exercise | It focuses on the stability of inner mind to meet the satisfaction and liberation. |
| How it is Practiced | It is practiced with various movements and poses that includes stretching, relaxing, and other body formations | One can practice meditation without bodily movements and need to focus on one point (OM) with closed eyes. |
| Body Movement | Your body moves according to the requirements of specific exercise. | No motion is the only solution to meet the perfect meditation move. |
| Possesses | It is for internal and external body stability. | Meditation is an integral part of yoga. |
| Advantage | It is necessary for overall body, freshness and feeling good vibes. | It helps you concentrate, focus, and achieve unmatched peace. |
Conclusion: My perspective of ‘Aging’?
Well, do we really need to interrupt something which is inevitable?
Do we need to slow aging?
Let’s try to dive a bit deeper into it.
Apparently, not all I would say, but most of us get terrified even thinking of aging and its repercussions. Although aging is not that bad as we sometimes assume it to be. If it makes us feel older by the passage of time, there are certain life aspects get simply better with passing age. For instance, capability to deal with life-situations, self-confidence, decision-making and a better perception of life.
Experts say, “The older we are, the happier we are.”
So, we admit things change with the time but a lot of them better our life. But we, in the end, are humans and our eternal affinity towards appearances are quite obvious. And we, of course, are not going to overlook your urge to look younger.
So, after this much reading, bending, and some optimistic feelings, you have definitely got the idea what yoga can do and how surprisingly it can help to stay healthy and younger for longer. It is a no-cost practice to perform at your home and achieve a glowing skin and mind-blowing fitness naturally.
Now, what are you waiting for? A miracle? This might not be possible, but with yoga can definitely see visible changes in your health. We’re done from our end, now all the information is yours. Go set an alarm, jump out of the bed and hop on your mat to experience the change in Yoga.
We would really love to hear from you. Do you agree that including yoga in your life is the key to youthful appearance and longevity? Share your thoughts below, in the comments section. We would love sharing more anti aging yoga poses with you to become a healthier and optimistic person.