Intro to Business

By Jasmine Afzali

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

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

Health benefits• Yoga is a natural cure • intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, heart disease, and

hypothyroid• Blood pressure decreases• Pulse rate decreases• Memory is enhanced

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

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

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

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

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

Graph of health benefits

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