Yoga has so many amazing benefits for women’s health and youth! Beyond the obvious things like flexibility and slimming that immediately come to mind, yoga offers us more than that all-important peace of mind. It enriches us with many other joys and benefits. Here are 11 reasons why every mom should start practicing yoga today!

Raise your hand if you have kids. If so, you can relate to how they can drive you crazy sometimes! Before yoga came into my life, I was a short-tempered, shaky ball of nerves. But yoga? Total game changer!

I still remember the day I walked out of my first yoga class with my eyes closed as if I had seen the face of God. I was calm! Relaxed! I even smiled when my toddler had a tantrum. Moms love it!

That blissful Zen state was the yoga bug that bit me hard. Ten years later, I still swear by my yoga mat to keep me sane. And slim. And not look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame from carrying babies. Interested in some yogi wisdom? Read on for the best reasons every mom needs yoga now!

11 Reasons Moms Need to Start Yoga Right Now

As moms, we carry so much on our shoulders. Our days are filled with the constant demands of little ones, coupled with an endless to-do list. No wonder we often feel stressed, exhausted, and stretched thin!

And that’s where yoga comes to help. What a blessing it is!

But yoga offers more than that all-important peace of mind. Besides the obvious things like flexibility and slimness that immediately come to mind, yoga enriches us with many other joys and benefits.

The best part – all those benefits allow us to stay young!

Now read more about them. One of the most interesting is at the end)

1. Flexibility is Fabulous

This is an obvious fact that yoga improves flexibility because most of us picture yoga as a knotted man in a loincloth. Am I wrong? 🙂

But it’s true. Yoga develops flexibility better than any other activity or sport. And not just flexibility of the body, but flexibility of the mind. When you look at things with understanding, those things that used to make you angry and make you exhale smoke from your nostrils.

Of course, in the beginning, many asanas are not given at all because the body is not flexible enough.

It may feel like you’ll never be able to do it. Right now, right now, this muscle is going to tear… but if you persevere, soon your body will surprise you with its new possibilities – you will start doing the impossible!

And I’ll tell you frankly, your husband will not be indifferent)

2. Muscles That Don’t Quit

Yoga slyly strengthens muscles without bulk, giving us that lean, sculpted look we desire.

This wasn’t obvious to me at first, because I’m used to the idea that if you want a flat stomach, you have to do at least 50 crunches a day.

In yoga, there is no excessive effort involved, you just stay in the asana and make sure your efforts are going in the right direction.

But what makes yoga so amazing is that it strengthens and deeply works all of your muscles without building them up to unnatural proportions. The result is a strong, beautiful, sculpted and harmonious body.

I like to compare yoga to a sculptor who carves the body, leaving nothing superfluous, but evenly and naturally distributing all the necessary accumulations throughout the body.

3. Stand Up Straight, Young Lady!

Yoga improves posture.

I remember when I accidentally saw myself in the mirror while carrying my first baby to his crib. He had just fallen asleep in my arms and I was afraid to move, lest God forbid I wake him up.

Do you know what shocked me?

I was a question mark! A question mark! That’s what shocked me… Yeahhhhh, that’s when I decided it was time to start working on myself. And (hooray, hooray, hooray!) I signed up for yoga.

I tell this story because many mothers have two obvious problems when they have children: back pain and a completely inexplicable posture.

Yoga focuses most of its attention on the spine. Its flexibility and straightening into its natural shape. So these two problems will soon disappear once you start practicing yoga.

In addition, posture directly affects another very important issue for all mothers: maintaining the shape of the breasts after breastfeeding.

Yoga works both on a physical level (by developing the right muscles through asanas) and on a hormonal level by improving the overall hormonal background.

4. Birth Bliss

Yoga really helps with pregnancy and childbirth.

I’ll be honest: I don’t know if I would have decided to have a second and third child if I didn’t have yoga in my life.

During my pregnancy, yoga gave me relief from back pain by relieving the strain on my spine. Yoga prepared my muscles for more strain during labor and even more afterward when we are constantly carrying the baby.

Yoga gives us calmness and mental balance so that the pregnancy goes smoothly and calmly, without crazy mood swings and cravings. Isn’t that what all men are so afraid of :)?

Yoga helps you stay fit and toned during and after pregnancy. So the chances of gaining 30 pounds (and not knowing how to lose it) are minimal.

And the most important thing is the birth. Without yoga there is nowhere! Everyone knows and uses different breathing techniques during labor. And in fact, no matter how you look at it, they are yogic pranayamas.

In between contractions, it is yogic asanas that help you to fully recover and withstand the next wave.

Personally, I was saved by a child’s pose in both of my last childbirths – I can’t imagine how I would have managed without it!

5. Zen Out the Chaos

Yoga forces us to focus on the present. Understand, accept and enjoy the here and now.

It has helped me many times and it still helps me now. I try to remember it all the time.

Because even now I realize that babies are not going to be so small and cute forever. They will grow up, move away, start their own lives… And I will be sitting on my porch with a cup of fragrant tea, wrapped in a blanket, and my sweet memories of their happy childhood…

So savor every moment, even the smallest!

Let’s return from lyrical digressions to an important topic. Studies have shown that regular yoga practice improves coordination, reaction time, and memory.

Aren’t these the skills all super moms need to be able to keep track of everything and everyone at once: from the baby climbing into the socket with a stick, to calling the school’s office for important documents, to helping build a wondrous tower of toothpicks, to designing a holiday cake for dad. It’s every mom’s standard day, right?))

So yoga gives me ability to focus my sometimes chaotic thoughts. When little ones whirl around me in a frenzy, I take a centering breath and regroup. These mindful moments refresh me to handle whatever toddler meltdowns may come with equilibrium. What a relief!

6. Relax and Reset

Yoga really relaxes our nervous system.

After an ordinary day full of worries and excitement, we need to teach ourselves how to relax properly and let go of all the tension and stress. After all, these tensions are the cause of our wrinkles, bad posture and unhappy attitude towards life.

Yoga helps us relax by slowing our breathing and focusing on the present.

Yoga is great for helping you sleep better by relaxing your mind and providing meditation to relax your nervous system. You can even do yoga in bed!

It also relieves frazzled nerves, easing tension, quieting worries and lulling the mind. The emphasis on slow breathing and present awareness is profoundly relaxing. Sleep is deeper, my outlook brighter.

Did you know that one of the major causes of unwanted weight gain is stress? We often try to “eat” problems or lack of sleep.

Here yoga is just and gets rid of stress, thus bringing us closer to one of the most important points for all women, and mothers especially after childbirth (about it at the end of the article).

7. Joint Guardian Angel

I know that few of us think about arthritis and old age when we are young. But I have only recently become aware of the characteristics of older people.

Do you know how many ladies I have seen in Europe, slim, well-groomed and young-looking, who would get up from a table in a cafe, start moving, and instantly turn into old women? All because there was no flexibility in their joints…..

How do we think of an old person? Yes, yes, like this: with a stick, can hardly move his legs… It is the stiff joints that give us this image.

To visualize this, think of your cartilage as a sponge that needs fresh nutrients.

The only way to get fresh nutrients is to flush out old fluids. This happens when the joints contract, after which a new supply of nutrients can be absorbed.

Without this constant refreshment of new nutrients, areas of cartilage can eventually wear away, exposing the underlying bone.

Yoga forces the joints through a full range of motion, which helps prevent degenerative arthritis. And thus Yoga prevents cartilage and joint destruction.

8. Spine Saver

Yoga protects our spine.

Spinal discs love movement. And movement is multidirectional.

As you just learned, there is only one way to get nutrients into the joints. Keep them active and moving.

And the spine is the backbone of our bodies. Everything is connected to it. If the foundation is healthy, the rest will be healthy.

By practicing yoga, you guarantee that your discs and spine will be flexible and strong.

9. Up the Oxygen Ante

We all want our kid to have healthy and beautiful mothers for a long, long time, don’t we? And that we get to see our grown children get married?

Yes?)) It means this paragraph is very important – read it carefully.

Do you know what diseases are often inherited?

Cardiovascular: strokes, heart attacks and all kinds of nasty things.

A quick test will show if we are at risk: is there at least one person in your immediate family who suffers from cardiovascular disease? If so, you are at risk. And it’s time to start working now so you don’t get a nasty surprise at the age of 51….

It is important to have as much blood circulating throughout the body as possible because blood carries oxygen. Our cells work much better when they get more oxygen, and that’s why yoga is important.

Twisting poses, for example, draw venous blood away from our internal organs and allow oxygenated blood to flow to them as soon as we come out of the twist.

Inverted poses, on the other hand, cause blood to flow back to the heart, where it can be pumped to the lungs for more oxygen.

Yoga is also known to increase hemoglobin and red blood cells, which carry oxygen to the tissues.

Yoga also helps to thin the blood, which leads to fewer heart attacks and strokes.

10. Sugar Smasher

Yoga lowers your blood sugar.

I’ll be honest, it came as a complete surprise to me – a total NOT sweet tooth – when I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes (i.e. diabetes during pregnancy).

Turns out it’s not related to a love of sweets, but is also hereditary.

So the previous test for the risk of getting the same horrible disease would be relevant here too. If you have relatives with diabetes, you are at risk.

Yoga lowers blood sugar and LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and raises HDL (“good”) cholesterol.

Thus, yoga reduces the risk of developing diabetic complications.

11. Weight loss miracle

Well, I think a lot of women after 40 have a problem with this point)).
So how does yoga help us lose extra pounds?

First of all, yoga is a great way to improve digestion. It helps our body get rid of the toxins that are poisoning our system. After all, we don’t want to carry around all that junk all the time, even when we eat right, do we?

Second, yoga speeds up your metabolism. Yoga is one of the few systems, if not the only one, that works on all the glands of the body at once. Thus, the hormonal background is normalized and all systems work harmoniously, giving us a healthy and beautiful body.

Thirdly, appetite gradually decreases and we naturally change our eating habits: we want to eat less junk food and stop “eating” problems.

Finally, I would like to say that yoga improves our whole life so holistically and comprehensively that the extra pounds will disappear of their own accord, as there is no longer any reason for their appearance and maintenance.

And for everyone who starts practicing and likes it (and it’s like oysters: either you enjoy them all your life or you vomit at the thought of them), amazing discoveries are waiting for you on this long path of learning and improving yourself.

You don’t do yoga because you have to. You do it because you want to.

Because you see the changes happening in and around you, you enjoy the quiet joy and peace that yoga brings, and you rejoice at each new opportunity to improve yourself.

I sincerely wish that we all take care of ourselves, practice yoga and become better and more beautiful!

And finally, I would like to ask you: What do you associate with the word “yoga”? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? Because most of the time our inner voice is the first to tell us what we need most. And maybe the first thing that comes to mind is the most important thing we need to start changing right now!

Please write in the comments what exactly you need yoga for.

Thanks so much in advance! And sorry for such a long post)))

Sofi