99 Reasons to Practice Yoga . . .
An Incomplete List

1. Relaxation
2. Stress reduction
3. Quiet the mind
4. Calm the emotions
5. Strengthen your digestive system
6. Tone and regulate the endocrine system
7. Improve mental clarity
8. Improve body posture
9. Manage your energy more efficiently
10. Reduce risk of heart disease
11. Increase muscle strength
12. Increase flexibility
13. Reduce hypertension
14. Strengthen ligaments and tendons
15. Open subtle energy flow within the body
16. Improve circulation
17. Assist in relieving headaches
18. Increase oxygen absorption
19. Strengthen bones
20. Improve endurance
21. Calm anxiety
22. Assist in losing weight
23. Assist in efforts to stop smoking
24. Assist in efforts to stop drinking
25. Increase creativity
26. Help to resist against upper respiratory infections
27. Boost immune system
28. Loosen the spine
29. Strengthen and calm the nervous system
30. Slow rate of joint deterioration from arthritis
31. Enhance sexual sensitivity and ability
32. Help to incur fewer medical and health-care expenses
33. Improve your ability to recover from injury
34. Improve your ability to recover from illness
35. Improve your ability to recover from physical exertion
36. Relieve back pain
37. Relieve pain from arthritis
38. Relieve pain from lupus
39. Ease labor and delivery
40. Increase lung capacity
41. Increase rate of oxygen exchange
42. Help reduce the risk of cancer
43. Help to alleviate depression
44. Help to regulate and ease menstrual flow
45. Help to lower heart rate
46. Help to improve memory
47. Help to alleviate neck and shoulder pain
48. Improve mental alertness
49. Improve physical appearance
50. Strengthen your self-esteem
51. Increase confidence
52. Promote self-responsibility
53. Helps your body in absorption of nutrients from food
54. Increase productivity
55. Strengthen self-discipline
56. Increase respect for yourself and for others
57. Hydrate the vertebrae
58. Improve balance and coordination
59. Raise energy levels
60. Help regulate your appetite
61. Help to increase your tolerance for discomfort
62. Reduce sick days from work
63. Strengthen organs
64. Raise your general outlook and mood
65. Enhance your athletic abilities
66. Foster body awareness
67. Raise appreciation for silence
68. Raise appreciation levels in general
69. Increase overall health and well-being
70. Help the body purify itself of toxins
71. Improve your overall quality of life
72. Slow the aging process
73. Improve relationship with self and with others
74. Reclaim your connection to your body
75. Increase ability to listen to others
76. Reduce self-defeating thought patterns
77. Clarify your life's purpose
78. Strengthen family bonds
79. Strengthen your understanding of your personal faith
80. Release unwholesome habits
81. Dissolve self-perceived obstacles to success
82. Find Love
83. Find strength in surrender
84. Experience Joy
85. Help to purify the mind of toxins
86. Recognize the mind for what it is
87. Respond more quickly to the body's needs
88. Put the past to rest
89. Share your gifts with others
90. Deepen your understanding of truth
91. Serve the community and humanity
92. Progress in your individual spiritual evolution
93. Contribute to the development of our collective spiritual evolution
94. Develop compassion for all beings
95. Let go!
96. Wake up!
97. Move on!
98. Trust in your Divine presence
99. Discover the True Self

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