BENEFITS OF BIKRAM YOGA
Bikram yoga uses heat while performing yoga. Thus Bikram Yoga has many benefits as we shall see below.
- Easy stretching of joints, ligaments, muscles.
- Burns fat more effectively.
- Capillaries dilate in heat and thus oxygenate tissues, organs, glands
- Speeds up breakdown of glucose and fatty acids.
- Increases concentration and determination.
- Helps in meditation.
- Flexibility of muscles and connective tissue.
- Sweating promotes elimination of foreign particles from skin.
- Rise in temperature assists proper functioning of immune system.
- Improves functioning nervous system.
- Efficient transmission of messages through the brain.
- Improvement of metabolism in body cells and digestive system.
- Weight loss or gain depending on body’s response.
- Accelerates body growth and makes it strong.
- Improvement in problems of alignment, rheumatoid, diabetes, heart disease, insomnia, asthma,
- Expands capacity to breathe deeply and fully.
- prevents injury, promotes better sleep.
- Improvement in lymphatic system.
- Improvement in blood circulation.
- Improves heart and lung function.
- Improves flexibility of spine in all directions.
- Helps the mind to focus on one thing.
- Muscular and skeletal systems are enhanced.
- Improves body’s posture and its awareness.
Bikram’s yoga process consists of 26 yoga poses and 2 breathing exercises. Each of the yoga poses has its own benefits based on scientific and anecdotal evidence. Pranayama improves the mental strength of mind and accelerates positive thinking. It enables the body to work for more hours without any stress. As you can see the benefits of Bikram yoga are many and varied. It is highly advantageous when done regularly.
