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  It is a well-known fact that Yoga can improve our health and add years to our natural lives. For ages, Yogis have worked towards finding new ways and new combinations in Yoga asanas to help us get the best results. This work to extract the most possible out of Yoga has led to the discovery and creation of many forms of Yoga. When it comes to sports and enhancing physical performance, Yoga has helped many top athletes achieve peak seasonal performance over the years. Be it boxing, swimming, football, horse riding or chess, athletes all over the world have admitted to administering Yoga into their workout routines to increase performance metrics. But how exactly does it work and where does it help us advance? Yoga can benefit athletes in a number of ways. Let’s take a look at some of them. 1.      Refined Proprioception – Practising Yoga on a daily increases one’s awareness of self. Knowing where your limbs stand and how they move may sound silly but in...

There are a lot of working theories around what is the best way to detox our bodies. Some decide to go on a cleansing diet while some look to cardio and weight loss as a means to flush out toxins. Fact of the matter is there is no one size fits all measure. Each person has his own reasons for detoxing and accordingly must find his own way. But there are a few proven ways in Yoga that one can adopt to further along their detox process. Pranayama is the Yoga of breathing. This particular form of Yoga has been widely accepted as a means for cleansing the nasal track and the respiratory organs. There are many factors that can cause discomfort and ultimately congestion in our breathing patters and Pranayama is the ultimate defense against all of them. When practising Yoga it is pivotal to get your breathing right first so I suggest learning Pranayama prior to moving into more intricate and detailed asanas later on. Start with Kapalbhati, wherein first you hold your posture in a seated...