What is Yoga?
Yoga is an ancient Indian spiritual practice used to keep the mind and body clear and healthy.  In India, the practice is primarily to achieve mental and spiritual well-being.  In other countries, the practice of yoga is spreading as a great form of exercise.  This kind of yoga uses a combination of stretches, different postures, and breathing to achieve the health benefits.  Yoga is useful for meditation, weight loss, muscle toning, flexibility, and circulation.  Yoga can also be used for detoxification on all levels- physical, mental, and spiritual.

Need for Detoxification
Cellular waste tends to accumulate inside of the body.  The accumulation of these toxins can cause numerous ill effects such as

• Loss of energy
• Speeding of the aging process
• Lack of overall enthusiasm

Detoxification is necessary to flush out all of these toxins in the body and reverse the symptoms.  Just like automobiles need to have their oil changed regularly, you need to flush out the impurities from your body’s circulatory system to ensure proper functioning.  Detoxification involves infusing the body’s bloodstream with oxygen to carry away the harmful accumulations.

How Toxins Work
You may wonder why and how all of these toxins get into the body and why they harm it.  Our environment, including stress levels, nutrition, and hormones, can cause toxins to form around the body’s cells.  These toxins become free radicals which are highly unstable and cause cellular degeneration.  The free radicals lead to premature aging and loss of energy.  Therefore, detoxification should be a crucial and necessary part of your self-care routine.  Detoxification is just as important as nutrition and other forms of exercise.

Benefits of Yoga
Yoga is a great way to detoxify the body.  Exercise that is too strenuous can actually have an adverse effect upon the body.  The body produces lactic acid in certain levels of exercise.  This acid can undo all of the positives that the exercise would have otherwise accomplished.  Stretching positions of yoga help to make sure that good blood supply is flowing to all parts of the body.  Meanwhile, breathing exercises create an ample supply of oxygen in the blood.  This oxygen flowing throughout the body flushes out and carries away the toxins which have accumulated from cellular activity.

Establishing a Routine
Yoga should become a regular part of your routine.  Yoga is not a one time thing that you do.  Yoga must be practiced on a regular basis to have a healing and detoxifying impact on your body.  You should establish a regimen of at least once per week to focus upon your yoga.  You will begin to feel better and have more energy the more regularly that you cleanse your body through yoga.  Yoga has positive effects both physically and mentally for those who practice it with conviction.  Once you settle into a comfortable yoga program, you will begin to feel your body and mind reacting to the healing treatment.  Your bloodstream will detoxify, and you will feel better in general.