What are some surprising benefits of hot yoga we need to know?

Last updated on July 17, 2022

Unexpected Health Benefits of Hot Yoga

What is hot yoga?

Hot yoga is a vigorous form of yoga performed in a workplace that's hotted (temperature for hot yoga)  to 105 F (40 C) and has moisture of 40 percent. The formal name for hot yoga is"Bikram yoga."

Hot yoga Bikram is a 90- minute program that consists of a series of 26 postures (hot yoga poses). The postures require lengthy, forceful, and well-controlled compression of all major muscle groups. 

The demanding nature of the acts and the heat are designed to raise your heart rate and tire your muscles. Because of its intensity and eventuality to beget heat-related illness, hot yoga is not for everyone. 

 

Surprising  hot yoga benefits and hot yoga postures

  

 1. Improves flexibility: The heat will allow you to safely reach new levels of particular flexibility in beginner’s postures, which are curative for your body.  

• For your body to move and function efficiently, you need to be flexible. Exercising in the heat allows people to feel a little bit more flexible and makes their muscles more elastic

 2. Strength: This yoga is low impact and uses muscles you didn’t know you had  Also, a high focus is on spine strength, which is vital to a long healthy life! 

• Yoga builds muscle strength by using your own body weight as a form of resistance

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 3. Breath With the added element of heat, you won’t make it far if you don’t breathe deeply! 

If there's no breathing, there's no yoga. It won’t take long before you learn to breathe in a full and controlled manner. 

 4. Cardio: Your heart can work the same way doing yoga postures in a heated room as it does when running. A 90- minute class can burn up to calories. The way you stretch and compress your internal organs and glands also stimulates metabolism so you're burning calories hastily outside the room as well. 

 

 5. Detox: The heated room helps you to stretch further and get your cardio, but it also helps you sweat. The postures themselves are detoxifying for your muscles, organs, and glands and sweating furthers that. 

 

6. Healing The primary purpose of this yoga is a remedy. With regular practice, these postures can help to heal old injuries and also help them in the future. This is especially true for, but not limited to, back pain. Do not skip the postures that are slightly uncomfortable. 

Hot yoga is also known to reduce symptoms of conditions and illnesses including diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, depression, arthritis, and obesity. 

 Source:

https://www.insider.com/hot-yoga

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