With Yoga ,Balance Expectations,Expand Your Calm , Flexibility

Why do so many people spend all that time and money learning to put themselves in unusual positions as they concentrate on each breath and try to free their minds? They do it for their well-being and for their health.
Keeping Healthy People Healthy

 
Combining movement with meditative practices can help protect your good health -- but let common sense control expectations and don't, for example, expect reverses in disease or other miraculous results from so-called Eastern exercise practices.As with any physical effort, you must practice correctly, safely and in accord with your own ability. There's no doubt that practicing yoga can increase flexibility.
Stress Control

But aerobic exercise isn't the only way to protect your heart. Reducing stress and lowering blood pressure also may be protective and it is here that disciplines like yoga have shown their value. Yoga has been found to reduce anxiety among medical students just prior to their exams. It was shown to lift depression and ease anxiety in people who were caregivers to dementia patients.
Yoga may reduce inflammation, a marker increasingly seen as associated with all sorts of bad health outcomes: heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, gum disease, osteoporosis -- even cancer. The mechanism for reducing inflammation may be related to stress reduction. In one study, for example, women who practiced yoga regularly for at least two years were compared to women who were just starting yoga. They found the novices' blood had 41% higher levels of a stress-related compound, cytokine interleukin 6, thought to play a role in heart disease and diabetes. They also found that the novices had levels of a marker for inflammation called C-reactive protein -- it's also associated with heart disease -- that was five times higher than that of the yoga experts. It could be researchers speculated that yoga's protective effects kick in after months or years of practice.
Balance, Relaxation and Tranquility 

For healthy people and devotees of the latest trends in exercise, descriptions of a practice that combines terms like power and yoga have become familiar. But think about this: It's something of an oxymoron, akin to competitive relaxation or extreme meditation. In each case, the adjective can't help but contradict the noun. After all, in addition to good health, the goals of meditative disciplines include tranquility and spiritual insight. yoga is not meant to be Western-style sports, sweaty, cardio-pumping, testosterone-thumping, endurance- and muscle-building pastimes. When these traditionally gentle moves are pushed to extremes of haste, musculoskeletal deployment and other stresses on the body, its unsurprising practitioners may experience injuries.

when doing any kind of exercise, all things in moderation. Build up strength and flexibility slowly, pay attention when your body's pain signals are pleading with you to stop, and, especially if you're an older adult, talk to your physician about a fitness plan. As with any exercise routine, use common sense. After all, jogging may be good for you, but that doesn't mean you should tackle a 100-mile run in the desert.