{"id":8,"date":"2021-03-01T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raratheme.com\/preview\/pranayama-yoga\/?p=8"},"modified":"2021-04-19T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:45:22","slug":"benefits-of-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/benefits-of-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yoga can help you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Reduce stress &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Yoga can help ease the mind and lower stress levels. It helps by focusing the mind on the moment and the movements.<\/li><li><strong>Reduce the risk of injury &#8211; <\/strong>Yoga poses focus on specific muscles, increases your elasticity, and reduces your risk of injury.<\/li><li><strong>Increase your focus \u2013 <\/strong>Rhythmic and focused breathing is the central part of yoga, and that can help you concentrate.<\/li><li><strong>Understand the body and mind balance &#8211; <\/strong>Yoga makes you focus all your energy on each move and pose correctly. It can help you feel the mind and body to work together.<\/li><li><strong>Increase strength and stamina &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;More vigorous styles of yoga promote strength and stamina.<\/li><li><strong>Enhance balance and stability &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Balancing poses compel you to use your main muscles to help you improve your overall strength.<\/li><li><strong>Improve pose &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Yoga poses strengthen and open tight areas of the body like the shoulders and muscles of the upper back and help keep good posture.<\/li><li><strong>Build Up body awareness &#8211; <\/strong>Yoga makes you contract or relaxes particular muscles as you stretch into each pose, and you become more aware of your body\u2019s strengths and weaknesses.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a broad variety of Yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Among the most well-known types of yoga are Hatha yoga and R\u0101ja yoga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yoga-trauma-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apf-wellness.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}