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Yoga has helped millions of people worldwide to live a quality life through maintaining healthy physical and mental health. Through practicing yoga you make your body immune to several diseases and make your body flexible and strong. Yoga also improves your mental stability and mental concentration. Yoga also balances physical exercises and postures with breathing exercises as it believes in the overall health of the outer as well as the inner body. Yoga consists of hundreds of asanas or positions that are categorized in different groups targeted towards the well being of different parts of the body. In addition to warm up and stretching exercises the different types of yoga positions help to bring your body, mind and soul together. Lets us discuss the major types of yoga positions- 1) Seating Yoga Position - The beginners of yoga start with the sitting position as they are comparatively easier to do than other postures. Sitting position concentrate a lot on breathing exercises and providing flexibility to your body parts like your arms and legs. Sitting position generally includes sitting cross legged on the mat and then relaxing and doing breathing exercises. 2) Standing Yoga Position - Standing position normally comes next in the hierarchy of position categories. They are amore difficult than sitting postures and concentrate more on improving the flexibility of your spinal column and also prove to be beneficial to your arms, legs and back. 3) Supine Yoga Position - Supine positions are very much beneficial for the back as they help to strengthen the spinal column and make it more flexible. Supine positions also help you to release stress and improve the overall flexibility of your body. 4) Belly Down Yoga Position - Belly down positions are best for building body strength especially in the lower back and the abs region. Belly down position are relatively simpler to do than most of the other postures in yoga. 5) Balancing Yoga Position - Balancing positions are great to build up body flexibility and also your body balancing ability. These positions also improve your memory and concentration power and it is necessary to keep your eyes focused in a particular direction for optimum concentration and results. 6) Twisting Yoga Position - Twisting position are definitely good for added body flexibility. These positions also help you to lengthen the spinal column and also pen the back muscles. All the above mentioned yoga positions should be done with extreme care and under the guidance of a yoga instructor at least in the beginning.


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