#WhyheatedClasses
What are the benefits of practicing yoga in the heat?
- Increases your range of motion through heated muscles ligaments and joints. With more flexibility, it is possible to work deeper into the postures with a reduced risk of injury
- Dilates your smallest capillaries in your body, helping to deliver oxygen and nutrients more efficiently through the body systems while flushing your tissues of toxins
- Improves your metabolism by helping to break down glucose and fatty acids more efficiently
- Stimulates your cardiovascular system
- Boosts and strengthens your body’s immune system
- The challenge of the heat creates an opportunity to exercise your patience, self-control, willpower, concentration and determination
- Improves your circulation, especially to peripheral areas and the extremities
- Detoxifies your body by the heat induced sweating process