Yoga : Questions and Answers

I highly recommend it! Yoga done with cardiovascular and muscle conditioning exercises will keep you managing body fat and reducing cardiovascular disease and musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis.

Physiologically, no! We lose flexibility in as little as 12 - 24 hours! I know! Yet, if you do a little bit of yoga, even as little as 10 minutes a day, this can keep the gains entrained in the involved muscle fibres. Be sure to do 5 basic poses: 1. Forward bend; 2. Balancing pose like Tree Pose; 3. Spinal twist; 4. Back bend like Cobra or Sphinx; and 5. Inversion (legs in the air) such as Shoulder Stand.

You will know that your yoga practice is deriving benefits as you will feel a different "energy" in your cells after you practice. This upgrade in energy is from the increased circulation caused by more oxygenated blood flow to all the capillaries, and the fibres in all the muscles involved in the poses. The increase in energy is often described as how it feels to hear about unexpected good news.

Physiologically, no! We lose flexibility in as little as 12 - 24 hours! I know! Yet, if you do a little bit of yoga, even as little as 10 minutes a day, this can keep the gains entrained in the involved muscle fibres.
Be sure to do 5 basic poses:

1. Forward bend;
2. Balancing pose like Tree Pose;

1. Spinal twist;
2. Back bend like Cobra or Sphinx; and
3. Inversion (legs in the air) such as Shoulder Stand.

The answer is twofold: 1. If you wish to increase your energy to enter your evening with more vitality, practice energizing breathwork like Kapalabhati breath. 2. If you wish to wind down, practice breathing in for 3 - 5 counts and exhaling for 5 - 8 counts. The longer the exhalation, the more you will elicit a relaxation response in the body.