Muscle Strengthening and Toning With Yoga

Yoga is certainly a unique art form with many beneficial values. There are many who have practiced yoga for hundreds of years and are able to attests to its healing and health values. As an art form of exercise, yoga has strengthened and toned the muscles of many practitioners thus giving them more strength and the ability to experience more vitality from life.

The practitioner is able to derive strengthening of the muscles from yoga based on the consistency of practice. Daily practice allows the muscles to be awakened and used in such a way as never before. Ordinary exercise does not allow the training, flexibility, and strengthening of the muscles as yoga does. The daily stretching of the muscles based on a variety of yoga positions eventually brings flexibility to the muscles. Additionally, daily practice strengthens the muscles in a different way unlike doing every day chores which does not.

Toning of the muscles is also achieved from the strengthening practice of yoga. One of the great aspects of yoga is that it is gentle. Unlike the lifting of weights in the gym and punishing of the body, yoga has a tender spot which motivates the practitioner to appreciate the ease of practice without any straining, grunting, or excess physical exertion. Yoga does not produce masses of muscles as one would find in Mr. World Body Builder; however, it works with the muscles in a natural way thus producing normal perfection in toning and conditioning.

Finally, yoga allows the practitioner to appreciate a better quality of life based on the benefits derived from strengthening and toning the muscles. The person is able to feel better, sustains a more active posture, and feels more alive on a daily basis. The flexibility achieved from the strengthening and toning of muscles by yoga, allows better range of movement, more ease of efficiently in movement, and a quality of appreciation which comes with the streamlining of the body.

Joseph S. Spence, Sr. (aka "Epulaeryu Master"), authored "The Awakened One Poetics" (2009), published in seven languages, "A Trilogy of Poetry, Prose and Thoughts for the Mind, Body and Soul," and "Trilogy Moments for the Mind, Body and Soul." Joseph is a Goodwill Ambassador for Arkansas, and is a US Army veteran. TheAwakenedOnePoetics.com TheAwakenedOnePoetics.com/