Yoga originated in India over 5,000 years ago and involves breathing exercises, meditation, and body postures. It aims to purify the body and improve spiritual growth by giving people awareness and control over their internal states. Regular yoga practice provides numerous health benefits such as reduced blood pressure, anxiety, and stress as well as enhanced memory and sleep. Various poses strengthen muscles without moving joints, while meditation quiets the mind and seeks enlightenment. Yoga also impacts the body's energy centers and channels consciousness throughout these chakras.

1. Intro to Business
By Jasmine Afzali

2. Yoga: Introduction
• Yoga was founded in India
• 5000 years od
• The word yoga means “discipline” or “effort”
• Includes breathing control, simple meditation, and an
adoption of body postures

3. Purpose
• purifies the body
• giving one awareness
• control over its internal states and rendering it fit for
meditation
• contributes to spiritual growth
• improves the quality of life

4. Health benefits
• Yoga is a natural cure
• intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, heart disease, and
hypothyroid
• Blood pressure decreases
• Pulse rate decreases
• Memory is enhanced

5. Physiology of yoga
• Energy levels increase
• Positively impacts mood
• Increases neurotransmitters in the brain that reduce anxiety
• Rejuvenation of cells of pancreas
• Sleep improves

6. What Science Says
• People who practice yoga maintain their health
• Improves function
• May reduce lower back pain
• Results in better function than any other care
• Has helped people with arthritis

7. Postures
• Poses are a form of isometric strengthening exercise
• Contraction of muscles without moving the joint
• Used for physical therapy

8. Meditation in yoga
• A conscious mental process to induce a set of physiologic
changes
• Technique to quiet the mind
• Meditator seeks a deep state of relaxation
• Seeks a state of enlightenment
• Frees the mind from our tranny of
worries

9. Chakras: energy centers
• Seven main energy centres(chakras) of the body
• The body has energy centers
• Certain postures reach this every centres
• Consciousness and energy move in the centres

10. Graph of health benefits
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