What are the Benefits of Hot Yoga

One would wonder why people would deliberately sweat themselves out by performing rigorous yoga exercises in a heated room? The answer is, for quicker results. It has been performed that hot yoga simply provides the actual benefits of yoga, but at a quicker pace. It is this quality that has made this type of yoga so popular among the masses. Here are some hot yoga benefits you should know about.

• The biggest benefits of hot yoga is for weight loss. The strenuous exercise in a heated room is obviously going to help you burn calories at a quicker rate, by increasing your metabolism. An increased metabolism means you are burning more calories than you consume, even when you are inactive, thereby losing weight quicker than you would.
• Not only does your body lose excess weight, it also becomes toned by performing hot yoga that involves stretching your body to its limits. In fact, these stretches make the body more flexible and less prone to injury.
• One of the health benefits of hot yoga is that it detoxifies the body by releasing toxins in the exercise process. Performing physical activity in a heated room causes the capillaries to dilate, and this enables oxygen to be delivered throughout your body and release toxins.
• Exercising in a heated environment increases the body temperature, that increases its ability to fight infection and disease. In fact, the detoxification of the body strengthens the immune system and protects the body from the onset of disease, and this is one of the best hot yoga health benefits.
• Performing hot yoga on a regular basis makes the body feel more energized, and ready to tackle the most stressful day with composure.
• There are also several benefits of hot yoga for skin. While the profuse sweating gives the skin a radiant glow, regular detoxification process leads to flawless, blemish-free skin.
• Working out in a heated environment increases will power, concentration, and focus of the person performing it. To be able to hang in there, while drenched in sweat, and still want to do it is the result of increased will power. All these benefits result in improved of the functioning of the brain. This is one of the lesser known benefits of Bikram yoga or hot yoga.
• Another benefit of hot yoga is the overall sense of calm and well-being that is experienced after a workout. The exercise creates a 'feel-good' factor, and also pride that the yoga poses, that seemed impossible to perform in such an environment, were actually possible to do.

Finally, it is also believed that hot yoga benefits not only the body but also the mind and the spirit. It is believed that when performing even thebasics of yoga in this manner, you are attuned with your inner self, which makes you more spiritually and emotionally aware. This makes you release all those pent up emotions and allows you to calm down. The only way to experience these benefits of hot yoga is to perform it yourself. However, before you do so, ensure that you are in proper health to exercise in a heated environment. Speak to a qualified yoga instructor and your doctor, before you decide to enroll yourself in a hot yoga class. Hot yoga should work for you, not against you. Make the most of this form of physical exercise to connect with your body and your mind.