How Does Hot Yoga Reduce Toxic Substances?
Posted by yogateachertrainings on Thursday, July 14, 2011
Under: Yoga Teacher Training
Hot yoga is praised as a fantastic workout for not only enhancing one's flexibility and well-being, but as an exercise to help your body "detox". With alternative options available that entail rigid and often unsafe diets that have you subsisting on nothing more than juice or smoothies for months at a time, hot yoga definitely looks to be a gentler choice. However, many individuals have misconceptions about what causes detoxing within your body during hot yoga. It is true that hot yoga is a great choice to rid your body of hazardous chemicals, but it is not primarily through hot yoga's most well-known aspect - sweat - that your body is losing the most toxins.
Certain people believe that sweating allows toxins to be secreted from the body's sweat glands. This is vaguely true, but to a small extent - 1%, in fact, according to an Auburn University Ph.D in Alabama. This makes toxin removal due to sweat a fact, but doesn't make hot yoga seem to be very effective if you're looking to cleanse your entire system. Sweating is only one part of hot yoga though, and not the most important by far. The numerous poses one performs during hot yoga are made to "massage" and stretch different parts of the body, one of which is the liver. Unlike sweating, the liver is specifically designed to remove bodily toxins.
Hot yoga actually works to stimulate all of your body's biggest detoxification units, including your intestines, kidneys, lungs, and skin as well. One of hot yoga's poses, called the "Wind Removing" pose, stimulates the transverse, ascending, and descending sections of the large intestine. This partly allows built up toxins to continue to be moved through your body. Additionally, your liver is compressed in poses such as the "Half Tortoise" pose. By doing this your liver is essentially getting a massage, and as hot yoga also stimulates blood flow, your internal organs will function more efficiently and naturally cause your body to become better at removing toxins. Even during hot yoga's breathing exercises your organs will be receiving stimulation throughout the entire class, as these actions compress them too.
So what about the detoxification of your largest organ, the skin? Once again due to the circulation of blood during hot yoga, your skin will be refreshed and feel renewed after a hot yoga session, but be sure you are drinking plenty of water before, during, and after your practice to avoid dehydration. If you want to take a step further, since your pores will be thoroughly opened after a class, take to the showers and use a facial mask product to easily help draw out additional impurities.
Hot yoga can provide numerous healing benefits aside from body detoxification, and can be taken up by individuals of any fitness level despite its apparent difficulty. Moving one step at a time is important, and you will find yourself growing more accustomed to the warm environment and stretches involved even if you can't finish a class initially. You may even end up becoming an instructor after getting past the learning curve, and helping others reach their fitness goals as well.
Few vocations deliver the satisfaction and flexibility of being a yoga teacher. Yoga teacher trainings offer the guidance and support needed to receive your official yoga instructor certification.
Certain people believe that sweating allows toxins to be secreted from the body's sweat glands. This is vaguely true, but to a small extent - 1%, in fact, according to an Auburn University Ph.D in Alabama. This makes toxin removal due to sweat a fact, but doesn't make hot yoga seem to be very effective if you're looking to cleanse your entire system. Sweating is only one part of hot yoga though, and not the most important by far. The numerous poses one performs during hot yoga are made to "massage" and stretch different parts of the body, one of which is the liver. Unlike sweating, the liver is specifically designed to remove bodily toxins.
Hot yoga actually works to stimulate all of your body's biggest detoxification units, including your intestines, kidneys, lungs, and skin as well. One of hot yoga's poses, called the "Wind Removing" pose, stimulates the transverse, ascending, and descending sections of the large intestine. This partly allows built up toxins to continue to be moved through your body. Additionally, your liver is compressed in poses such as the "Half Tortoise" pose. By doing this your liver is essentially getting a massage, and as hot yoga also stimulates blood flow, your internal organs will function more efficiently and naturally cause your body to become better at removing toxins. Even during hot yoga's breathing exercises your organs will be receiving stimulation throughout the entire class, as these actions compress them too.
So what about the detoxification of your largest organ, the skin? Once again due to the circulation of blood during hot yoga, your skin will be refreshed and feel renewed after a hot yoga session, but be sure you are drinking plenty of water before, during, and after your practice to avoid dehydration. If you want to take a step further, since your pores will be thoroughly opened after a class, take to the showers and use a facial mask product to easily help draw out additional impurities.
Hot yoga can provide numerous healing benefits aside from body detoxification, and can be taken up by individuals of any fitness level despite its apparent difficulty. Moving one step at a time is important, and you will find yourself growing more accustomed to the warm environment and stretches involved even if you can't finish a class initially. You may even end up becoming an instructor after getting past the learning curve, and helping others reach their fitness goals as well.
Few vocations deliver the satisfaction and flexibility of being a yoga teacher. Yoga teacher trainings offer the guidance and support needed to receive your official yoga instructor certification.