Yoga by Jasmine Afzali

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

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11. Why You Should Start Yoga
• Has significant health benefits
• Releases body stress
• Hones your mental focus
• Rid body of toxins
• It can improve your posture