Luxury on your own way – Relax and practise yoga without having to leave Gran Vía Capital

Yoga is a discipline born in India that combines different positions and movements (asanas), breathing and meditation techniques that help you balance your body and mind. If you don’t usually practise it, you’re missing out in all these benefits:

1. It reduces stress: To breathe in a slow and deep manner relaxes the muscles and slows down the heart rate. The dairy practice of this activity helps to relieve the accumulated day-to-day tension. Yoga reduces the cortisol levels, helping to lessen the stress. Yoga also improves sleeping quality and combats insomnia.
2. It strengthens bones and helps to improve the muscular tone. Yoga can help you to maintain your vertebrae healthy, prevent osteoporosis and strengthen muscles, what will protect you from diseases like arthritis or back-pain.
3. Helps on weight loss: As any other physical activity it can alleviate constipation, it regulates metabolism and accelerates weight loss. in a yoga class you can burn between 250 and 400 calories.
4. It increases sexual energy. Yoga will help your flexibility and will make your pelvis bones stronger, what will improve the quality of your sexual relations. Several studies that yoga can treat premature ejaculation and raise your libido.
5. It has many mental benefits: Memory improvement, concentration capacity, increase in self-esteem and better humour.

Practise yoga without having to leave your home:

If the gym is too far away, you want to save some money on the classes or it’s very difficult to combine it with your schedule, you can practise yoga at home. You only need to find some time for you (you only need 10 minutes per day), a good atmosphere, a floor mat and comfortable clothing.

Get rid of all the interruptions. Put your phone on silence mode, and let the people you live with know that you need some serenity time for yourself.

Choose the positions and movements that you like the most according to your objectives. There’s specific movements for beginners, to lose weight, to sleep better, for pregnant women… There’s a wide variety of Youtube channels to learn to do yoga at home. So come on! try it, you’ll feel much better and be happier.