4 Reasons to Add Yoga Classes to Your Wellness Program

Are you looking to regain your mind and body balance? As you know, long hours, multi-tasking, rigorous commutes, irregular eating habits and bad sitting posture all negatively impact your health and wellness.

Initiating a holistic wellness program for yourself is one good step toward regaining your work-life balance, and one way to do that is to integrate yoga into your routine. There is evidence to show that if yoga is practiced regularly, notable behavior changes occur in an individual.

Here are four reasons to add yoga classes to your wellness program:

1. Reduce pain. Yoga helps to reduce back pain, which can be chronic. The spinal column and its contiguous muscles are made to move, and any limitation leads to pain. Yoga postures gently stretch the back and abdominal muscles by requiring you to hold poses for 10 to 60 seconds, which helps relieve tension. When muscles are in their best condition, pain is alleviated.
   
   
2. Increase strength and flexibility. Yoga postures make use of every muscle in your body. Within a pose, certain muscles stretch while others relax, strengthening each one of them during your practice. Unlike with other exercises, both sides of your body are strengthened equally with the head, shoulder and pelvis in proper alignment. Consistent practice results in improved strength and flexibility.
   
   
3. Improve mental health. Mental health is as crucial as physical health. Through frequent practice, you achieve self-realization and improved awareness. When you truly become more aware of yourself and your surroundings, you begin to develop a truly healthy mind and body.
   
   
4. Practice meditation. Meditation is known to improve problem solving, the ability to recall information and overall self-awareness. At some point, you have an emotional release, which is an inner shift to being open to do your best with your weaknesses and hidden strengths. You handle traveling, working and relaxing better with focused meditation, and yoga helps you achieve that.
   
   

As you can see, yoga has tremendous benefits and is very important to consider adding to your regular health and fitness routine. If you're considering yoga, we invite you to find the nearest Prime Fitness location near you. With this program, you get access to 9,500+ fitness locations at one low monthly price and with no annual commitment.