What are the benefits of the 3-week yoga challenge?

As per Ekhart Yoga, a study of over 700 people found that practising just 12 minutes of yoga poses either daily or every other day improved their bone health. Another small scale study found that 20 minutes of yoga improved focus and working memory.

Other researchers, too, have found that yoga may help improve sleep quality, enhance spiritual wellbeing, improve flexibility, and reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression.

Essentially, yoga is very good for you. Go figure.

The 3-week yoga challenge: week 1

I’ve heard a lot about Yoga With Adriene, so I decide to have a bash at her 30-day Yoga Journey video series on YouTube.

I don’t have a mat, so I use a towel (that’s fine, right?) and turn the living room into a yogi studio after dinner every evening. By which I mean, of course, that I whack an Adriene tutorial up on the TV, switch on my trusty Himalayan Salt Lamp, and (very occasionally) get an incense stick on the go, too.

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