Although sometimes I do manage to come up with very creative ideas, I can hardly find any excuses to skip my Yoga With Adriene daily classes. Western medicine has been proving the benefits of Yoga on our physical and mental health for decades.
From reducing anxiety and depression to regulating hormones in the stress response system, the ancient yogis knew exactly what they were doing.
Given that Yoga is a meditation within a workout, you can experience the benefits immediately. Whenever I do a class, I know that day I'm going to be productive. Case closed. No need for fancy medicine papers. If you ever tried a yoga class you probably know, your body knows, and your overall mental state shows the blessing of "finding what feels good".
I have to credit Adriene (yet again) because I honestly think I wouldn't be doing yoga if it weren't for her. I wrote in the past about how I had to go to the gym, pretty much like a zombie, completely forcing myself, knowing that I wouldn't enjoy any of the classes that I was mindlessly doing there. You name it: spinning, aerobics, weight training.
Having said that, I'm open to try Tae Bo though. Being the grand daughter of a, very fit, amateur boxer, I guess I've always been curious about the training part, and I hope I can try that discipline soon, before I get too old!!
In this video I found some similarities between yoga and psychology and rambled for quite a while about my yoga journey, apologies in advance.
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