Boost Your Immune System with Yoga

Boost Your Immune System with Iyengar Yoga. There are a lot of colds and flu around at this time of the year. We all want to improve the immune system so that we can fight infections naturally. In this yoga video, Lin and Leo show you how you can use yoga to protect against, and fight off, common ailments like colds, flu, viruses, coughs and winter tummy bugs. Here the yoga sequence involves chest opening actions with long holds. These asanas help to activate the lymph glands, the cells, the muscle fibres and internal organs by stretching and extend the abdomen, chest and neck. It is designed to help to stimulate the endocrine system, ((like the thyroid and parathyroid glands.) The two poses in this yoga sequence, which you may need to look at the tutorials for are: 1. Supta Virasana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH1MXvDgYss 2. Setu Bandha on cross bolsters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjFTMn3FXeI Subscribe to our channel by clicking the Subscribe button. If you opt for notifications, you will be informed each time a new video is released. We aim to publish each Sunday at 01.00 GMT. In addition to a yoga mat, the equipment you will need for this Iyengar Yoga Class is: 1 x yoga bolster 4 x foam pads 1 x yoga brick A regular yoga practice can help you gain and maintain good mental and physical health and good posture - all of which are linked. Yoga practice can improve strength and flexibility and yoga for back pain relief and yoga for weight loss has been supported by many studies. Yoga is not a sport but regular practice of yoga sequences can improve fitness levels. Practiced correctly, yoga will stretch muscles and strengthen joints, as well as helping with mental and physical wellbeing; indeed many studies have shown that yoga can have remarkable effects on problems with back pain, shoulder pain and neck pain as well as demonstrating positive effects on mental health problems such as depression. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/body-on-yoga_n_4109595.html?ncid=engmodushpmg000000 The asanas in this online yoga class are: Supta Tadasana Adho Mukha Svanasana Virasana Supta Virasana Setu Bandha Sukhasana Iyengar yoga is slow and strong with a focus on alignment and precision. This is Iyengar Yoga for Beginners, however, the deep stretch in these twists means that we would recommend that you take this yoga lesson slowly and come into the poses with a degree of caution if you have not done Iyengar Yoga before. If you want shorter, more energetic sequences, look at our 19 Days of Yoga series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLTwDvdKnrC5GGGEhq_u2TFX3evL2JMov Our 13 Days of yoga series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLTwDvdKnrC402WmB-SdWrgZWOgp74S4x or our 30 Days of Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLTwDvdKnrC5dsXRuxiz8pkN_pF5bqApr Subscribe to our channel; if you opt for notifications, you will be advised as new videos are launched. We will be posting videos for all levels but if you have never done yoga before or you want to re-visit some of the basics - then start here! Get out your mat and build the foundation of your own yoga practice with this 30 minute home yoga video. Enjoy! Stay connected~ We always recommend going to classes with a qualified Iyengar Yoga teacher near to you. For more structured classes: http://myyogatutor.com/ For booking face to face classes: http://www.iyengar-yoga.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaidstoneYogaCentre/ Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/MaidstoneYogaCentre/ For our ebook, "Yoga for the Stiffer Body": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yoga-Stiffer-Body-Inspirational-Accessible-ebook/dp/B01IYO67M8 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/craddock1310