What is Warm Yoga?
A practice of stimulating yoga poses in a heated setting between 27°C to 30°C. Let’s explore the benefits of practicing warm yoga to boost your health.
Top 5 Reasons To Do Warm Yoga, Especially In The Winter Months:
- Shed Holiday Pounds
Practicing yoga in a heated setting increases your core body temperature and circulation. This elevates your heart rate to simulate vigorous exercise, while maintaining safe and low-impact activity. The increase in your heart rate and metabolic activity makes your body work harder to bring down the heat and burns extra calories.
- Injury Prevention
Colder weather brings stiffness and rigidity to the body leaving us more susceptible to injury, such as slips and falls. Warm yoga helps loosen stiff muscles, tendons and joints, allowing us to relax deeper into yoga poses to improve flexibility, strength and range of motion. This intern reduces the risk of pulled or strained muscles and injury.
- Tames the Winter Blues
Peeling off the heavy layers of clothing and allowing your body to feel the heat on your skin has a cathartic effect to offset seasonal depression. By tricking the mind and body you fire up depression combating endorphins leaving you feeling joyful, as if you’re enjoying summer heat.
- Strengthens Immune System
The heat combined with holding yoga poses stimulates the lymphatic system by causing your muscles to squeeze the lymphatic vessels, and effectively circulating lymph. This circulation of white blood cells helps boost your immune system and reduce inflammation.
- Reduces Stress & More
Warm yoga promotes a deep relaxation of the body, easing tension and releasing cortisol, the stress hormone. This reaches beyond your time spent on the yoga mat and affects many aspects of life. You’ll experience the bliss of mental calmness, improved sleep quality, better digestion and increased metabolism, just to name a few.
Spice up your winter season by trying out a warm yoga class and reign in all of these fantastic benefits!
