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    A Guide To Yoga Exercises

    Practicing yoga exercises allows you to practice both your body and your mind, an offer that is not made by most other types of exercise. It truly takes great willpower and dedication to be able to accomplish each yoga pose properly and make the practicing of the exercise a part of your daily routine, but it is definitely more than worth it to do so.

    Practicing yoga can benefit you in a number of different ways, including improving your health, increasing your resistance, and developing your mental awareness. It also helps to build your concentration as doing the yoga poses requires you to have to study each pose carefully and execute it slowly so that you can keep your body and mind in control.

    Yoga Exercises

    There are basically eight different major categories of the yoga exercises, which are: warm-up poses, standing poses, seated poses, twist yoga poses, supine poses, inverted postures and balance poses, backbends and finishing poses. The warm-up poses that you should do will depend on what specific type of yoga you are practicing, but regardless the point of them is to help get your body warmed up to start exercising.

    The standing poses are the yoga exercises that you remain standing for, and this includes the triangle pose, hands to feet, standing side stretch pose, stand spread leg forward fold, warrior pose, tree pose and sun salutation. The seated poses are poses which are done while sitting and this includes the spread leg forward fold, hero pose, seated forward bend and the child pose.

    Then there are the twist yoga poses, which are yoga exercises that help especially to strengthen the back, as well as help to tone and massage the abdominal area and improve digestion. The supine poses are done in lying face up position, and this includes the leg reclining lunge, locust pose, leg pulls, leg raises, and the wind relieving pose. The inverted postures and balance poses are considered as being helpful to increasing circulation, stimulating the brain, enhancing glandular system functioning, and relieving pressure on the abdominal organs.

    Backbends are the yoga poses that work to promote more flexibility in the spine and strengthen the arms, legs, and abdomen, and finally, the finishing poses are those which are typically used to end off a yoga session. They are usually practiced as final relaxation at the end of a yoga class to calm and cool down the body.

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