Restorative Yoga Lifestyle Guide

By Shawn Burke

Yoga a way to lead quality life!
So in this era of advancement , Yoga serves as an ingredient to bring a good balance in the lives of people without hampering In this world where complexities are developing immensely, the alternative options of medicinal healing techniques are getting more and more popularity and yoga is one of the significant ones.   
Yoga isn't only a physical exercise but at the same time is a method for keeping the psychological state flawless. Yoga helps in keeping the body fit and fine and furthermore clears the brain from any stress which in a roundabout way demonstrates to be negative with regards to living a healthy lifestyle.     
The word yoga begins from the Sanskrit word 'Yuj' which implies addition - the addition of strength, energy, and beauty to the body, mind, and soul. Restorative yoga, a practice that relies on the use of props support and the prolonged holding poses to achieve a deep level of relaxation guides the yogi toward relaxed healing and recuperative experience .
 The practice  involved  in restorative yoga training will focus on how one  will experience on breathing  method and  typically  on one’s holding on  tension, and to relax our body graciously allowing the breath to come in more, so the habitual  tension within  can be cooled off and softened
 Yoga as a new Lifestyle
In this modern world, yoga is adopted as a lifestyle and it is the best lifestyle ever designed and is effective in managing various lifestyle disorder occurrences. One must remember to have both the senses of “being healthy as well as feeling healthy”. 
Restorative Yoga Lifestyle Guide
Restorative yoga  practice  encompasses several different  styles of relaxation techniques  and healing orientated  Hatha yoga practices which are able to  cultivate mental conscious relaxation and most  necessary to release both mental  and habitual tension in the body and mind, this bring positive results of Yoga 
As per the perspective of yoga, the problem of quality life has two basic angles and both material and spiritual angles are co-related to one another. The spiritual side includes both body and mind perspectives. It is essential with a healthy body there should be a healthy mind and vice versa. The human feelings, thoughts, ideas, and beliefs somehow directly or indirectly affect the biological process of the body. Minds have capabilities to create an impact on how healthy the bodies are!
There is a complex interconnection union between the mind and body as mind can affect the body simultaneously mental state can impact the human physical body. Restorative yoga is the perfect practice to help you revolve around this divine union bringing  them  together  with the right  techniques of the practice, you awaken the divine balance with grace, a positive poise with strength  and clear mind awareness.  As a proven practice  for self-transformation, restorative yoga allow  the fine integration of all the aspects  of life converging  spiritual ,physical ,emotional    psychological within one’s environment which help  to reclaim  from the stress inflicted from a strenuous lifestyle , therefore  awakening to your own nature’s quest with set goals

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publisher s21598
• Release date: Feb 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835372301

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Introduction

In this world where complexities are developing immensely, the alternative options of medicinal healing techniques are getting more and more popularity and yoga is one of the significant ones.  It is a no-contact, no medication treatment, which does both prevent and cure illnesses. Yoga isn't only a physical exercise but at the same time is a method for keeping the psychological state flawless. Yoga helps in keeping the body fit and fine and furthermore clears the brain from any stress which in a roundabout way demonstrates to be negative with regards to living a healthy lifestyle. The advantages of yoga are colossal.

Therefore, nowadays yoga becomes a training that has gained worldwide acknowledgment and has become a trend now.

Yoga is characterized as basically the association of a person with divine cognizance. The word yoga begins from the Sanskrit word 'Yuj' which implies addition - the addition of strength, energy, and beauty to the body, mind, and soul. The best part of yoga is, it achieves physical health as well as infiltrates through the numerous layers of being to heal the soul and mind. This means through training, it helps in controlling an individual's mind, body, and soul. It additionally helps in overcoming stress and uneasiness and keeps you calmer. Yoga asanas are known to enhance flexibility, confidence, and vigor.

In this guide, we will teach you how you can attain forever fitness in your life as well as manage your stress levels, ease or prevent back pain, muscle or joint injury also equipped you with self-esteem, confidence, and self-reliance.

Along this journey, we will also teach you different the different practices and workouts that rejuvenate not only your outer body but also improve your inner well-being.

So let’s get started...

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Chapter 1: Yoga – An Overview

1.1 What does Yoga mean?  

Yoga is practiced by people since ancient times and it is an ultimate solution to all the problems that people are facing in their day to day life such as health and fitness, mental and inner peace, improvement in the quality of life, provide with natural beauty etc. Yoga is a vast collection of various techniques and practices that are focused on integrating mind, body and spirit in order to achieve success and collaborating with other beings. There are different types of yoga techniques that are practiced in order to achieve the set goals of individuals as per their choices and preferences.

Yoga helps in attaining combined targets and to bring a balance among mind, body, and spirit; this is done through practicing various yoga postures (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), various body gestures (mudra) and internal peace and cleansing (shatkarma). These yoga steps help in purifying the body, mind and soul and pour all positive energy and fill the body with liveliness.

Yoga is becoming trendy in modern times and again gaining the people’s confidence as it is helping in shaping the lives of people through natural methods. Practicing a few yoga poses daily on a regular basis provides incredible results in both physical and mental fitness. One can practice yoga for satisfying his/her purpose and with the least expensive and with no side effects.

Mindset

One must stick onto the decision of the following yoga, there must be a desire. Desire is an impulse that comes prior to any action, without which not much will occur.

Relaxed body and mind

Through daily yoga practice, both mind and body get relaxed. One feels calm and relaxed. Yoga helps to fill the body with positive energy, which helps an individual to perform day to day tasks with more energy and enthusiasm. All the body and mind stress is released and helps the body to feel more relaxed and calm. Yoga provides relaxation to the body and simultaneously to mind and soul also.

Smooth and controlled breathing

For good well-being and health, breathing exercises play a vital role. Deep and controlled breathing is beneficial as it helps in reducing the level of stress, tension and anxiety, fills the body with energy, improves athletic performances, helps to build physical and emotional awareness, helps to focus more in present and reduces the risk of chronic diseases.

Proper and balanced diet

Practicing and performing yoga on a regular basis won’t be sufficient enough. Yogic approach lays emphasis on the type of food consumption which is somewhat similar to healthy eating. A proper diet schedule must be followed which must include all the food items that are rich in proteins, nutrients, vitamins and products that are required for a healthy diet. The quality and quantity of food intake have a direct impact on the body. A proper diet chart must be prepared keeping in mind to add all the necessary and important building strong and fit body.

Positive thoughts and positive energy

For a long period of time, people are using meditation for positive thoughts. Through yoga, all the negative and bad thoughts are pushed out and a new entry for positive thoughts and energy is brought in. It helps people to realize their strengths and weaknesses and directs them to see reality. Practicing yoga brings discipline in the lives of people with positive thoughts and energy they can perform well and can gain great success in life.

Establishes a link between mind and body

The sole purpose of yoga is to bind both the mind and body together. For example, yoga postures on both the hands calm and stimulate the brain functioning. Yoga has the ability of simultaneously calming the brain and relaxing the body. The main aim is to amalgamate and to bring union of the two. The mind-body connection is such that good mental health helps to improve the physical state. A strong mind and body bond lead to calmness, courtesy, happiness and so on.

1.2 Transformation of life (body) through yoga

Over the last few decades, yoga is been adopted as a new lifestyle by population. Many professionals and red carpet celebrities have adopted this lifestyle due to its several benefits and advantage those results in their better mental, physical and emotional health. Yoga is not just about bending or twisting the body and holding the breath, it is a technique to bring you in a state where an individual experiences reality of life and how can they make it more beautiful.

Another way yoga encourages transformation is by assisting oneself to shift the habits, some of which are unhealthy and non-relevant those have been developed over a period of time. Yoga just not helps to shape your body but helps people to make wiser decisions in life. Practicing yoga allows an individual a glimpse of joyfulness and freedom. Yoga is considered as one of the most effective self-help approaches to living and life.

1.3 Physical health benefits of yoga

Practicing yoga serves with lots of benefits to the physical health. Yoga is considered to be the best and natural method to become healthy and fit. Performing yoga exercises helps to cure many diseases that are related to the heart, liver, kidney, liver and brain. Though yoga is not considered to be the ultimate solution to each chronic disease yet yoga helps in relieving and curing many issues and disorders. Some of the major benefits are as follows:

-Enhances your flexibility - It helps to improve one’s flexibility and it the most visible benefit of yoga. Practicing yoga daily, one will notice a slow and gradual loosening of muscles. Slowly and steadily all your pains and aches start to disappear and you will figure out the flexibility in your body.

-Helps in building strong muscles - Muscle strength is essential apart from it provides you with good looks, it protects from various conditions such as back pain, arthritis and when strength is built one balances it with flexibility.

-Provide with correct posture - It helps to get your body with perfect posture. Poor posture can result in neck, joint, muscle and back problems.

-Yoga prevents cartilage and joint breakdown. Yoga helps joints to go through their full range of motion.

-Yoga consists of asana practice which includes various backbends, forward bends, and twists that help to keep your disks supple.

-Many yoga postures require lifting of your body weight, such weight-bearing exercises strengthen the bones. Yoga has the ability to lower stress hormone cortisol which helps to keep calcium in the bones.

-Yoga helps to keep the flow of blood. It helps to increase the blood flow in your body. Performing Relaxation exercises helps to circulate the blood flow in your hands and feet. It helps to increase the levels of hemoglobin and red blood cells.

-While doing various yoga postures; it stretches muscles, movements of organs which results in drainage of a fluid that is rich in immune cells and helps the system to fight harmful cells and dispose of toxic wastes out.

-It helps in relieving depression and lowers the risk of heart attacks by setting the heart rate into the aerobic range. Many studies have proved that yoga practice lowers the resting heart rate and can help to improve your maximum uptake of oxygen while exercising.

-Drops and control the blood pressure – One suffering from high blood pressures can be benefitted from yoga. It helps to control blood pressure levels.

-Yoga helps to bring out the inner happiness out and makes the person happy and satisfied. Continuous yoga practice is a depression buster and helps in releasing tensions which result in boosting happiness.

-Yoga control blood sugar and lower cortisol level. It decreases the risk of diabetic problems like kidney failure, heart attacks, etc.

1.4 Yoga benefits for mental health

Yoga for mental health is receiving a lot of attention from both scientists and yogis, with the benefits of yoga for mental health covering various areas from mood swings and anxiety disorders to stress and depression reduction. That is why Yoga is known for relaxing and calming effects on both body and mind. Yoga has the ability to subside the power of negative thoughts and emotions and the person can experience calmness and peace. The effects of yoga on mental health also promote