The CDC estimates that nearly 75 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure, which is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.

Studies have shown that only 10 minutes of yoga a day can improve your overall health, but up to 1 hour a day can actually help lower blood pressure in patients with prehypertension and hypertension.

In addition, the postures and movements of yoga can subtly strengthen the body and help stretch the muscles, tendons and joints of the body, making the body stronger and able to cope with the stress of daily life with less stress and inflammation.

3) Relieve insomnia

As mentioned earlier, more than one-third of American adults do not get the recommended amount of sleep.

In addition, 25% of adults suffer from insomnia every year—acute and chronic insomnia—and you can imagine how this affects the overall dynamics of family and work.

Focusing on the present can help you realize that worrying about what has happened is not important because it cannot be changed and the future is not easy to predict.

By relaxing the body and practicing mindfulness, yoga can help eliminate lingering worries and combat insomnia.

4) Get high quality sleep

It is well known that yoga helps to avoid the stress effects caused by insomnia, but did you know that yoga can also improve your sleep quality? Insufficient sleep can be caused by a variety of reasons, such as an environment that is not conducive to sleep and restless legs syndrome. Although insomnia keeps you from falling asleep, lack of sleep due to sleep quality is also influential.

Yoga can improve your overall sleep quality by actually strengthening the gray matter and pons areas of the brain, which play a key role in sleep and dreaming.