Try SUN SALUTATIONS as part of forming a DAILY HABIT OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE for MENTAL WELLBEING.
🏃♀️ We’ve all heard about the numerous benefits of regular physical exercise, including it’s importance to our mental health.
🏃♂️ Being creatures of simple and complex connections, physical exercise is one piece of the puzzle to keeping us healthy.
Whilst you may regularly exercise or may want to cycle, run, walk, go to the gym, play a sport, scooter, it’s important to stay active and raise your heartbeat throughout the day.
This is where Surya Namaskar - Sun Salutations, ‘The Ultimate Asana’ come in. Here are some facts of the benefits of a daily Sun Salutation practise:
• 5 minutes of Sun Salutations burns between 70 calories, whereas Weightlifting burns 33 calories, tennis around 39 calories, football around 50 calories, rock climbing 61 calories and running 69 calories
• It instills discipline, stability and dynamism
• It brings down blood sugars
• It aids a regular menstrual cycle for women
• The pace of your practise has different benefits
o Slow pace for flexibility
o Medium pace for muscle tone
o Fast pace for cardiovascular workout and weight loss
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