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You build lung capacity. From the first breathing exercise to the final posture, you're working on increasing your lung capacity. You will find you are taking bigger and deeper breaths than you ever have before. Those long distances won't seem quite so challenging!
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Yoga strengthens and aligns muscles, ligaments and tendons, improving your running performance.
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You get used to sweating. For 90 minutes, you're exercising in a room heated to 40 degrees. So, your body becomes efficient at maintaining an optimum working temperature.
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Bikram Yoga improves cardiovascular activity! Your heart rate is elevated, but your breath and mind are absolutely calm.
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Yoga can assist in the healing of old injuries. Injuries can remain dormant in your body for a life time. Whether you recognize it or not, old injuries affect your performance. Yoga works through the tourniquet effect of compression and release. As you practice yoga, circulation reaches these parts of your body and works like a pressure washer to clean out scar tissue and damage that has been done, restoring your body to its natural state.
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Yoga makes you alkaline! Practicing yoga creates an environment in your body that makes you much more immune to sickness and disease. Less time in bed and more time out in the fresh open air!
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Yoga encourages healthy habits. The more you practice yoga, the more you find yourself making better choices. Including lifestyle, diet and nutrition, and overall decision making. Supporting your ability to participate in any sport that takes your fancy!
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You will have a better spine than you did when you were a kid! In Bikram Yoga, the natural body's range of motion is restored, reversing the impact of all that pavement pounding.
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Yoga and running can be used to find and fulfil our potential as human beings. We are responsible for our experience on this planet! Acceptance of this is liberating and can bring infinite happiness and success to your life.
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Many of us run to raise awareness and funds for charities and causes that we care deeply about. This is an invaluable resource for helping people in need. Keep up your yoga and keep running to change lives for the better!