
Yoga & Happy Heart Health
According to both the American Heart Association and the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, practicing yoga benefits your heart. Remarkably, traditional yoga asana (like those taught at AHA Yoga in Lake City, FL) includes slow or moderate movements, so they are not part of the vigorous 150 minutes of aerobic exercise recommended by the American Heart Association. How, then, might yoga help heart health? Yoga lowers your blood pressure—often immediately. It also increases your lung