Enjoy bite-sized yoga for International Yoga Day

The refreshing energy boost you get from a Rockit™ apple is hard to beat … but a quick yoga session comes close. Yoga is renowned for its invigorating qualities. In particular, the ability to lift your mood and your energy levels, improve strength, balance and mobility, and help ease anxiety and stress.

5 reasons we love yoga

1. Anyone can enjoy it. Regardless of your fitness level or yoga expertise you can move at your own pace and feel the benefits.
2. It creative positive energy. Yoga creates a connection between mind and body, helping you balance your parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems and easing stress and fatigue – so you feel more energized.
3. It improves your strength and control. The mix of slow movement and deep breathing helps increase your blood flow and warm your muscles, and holding poses builds strength.
4. It enhances mobility, balance and flexibility. The stretches and poses can help improve the way you move and reduce the risk of injury.
5. It helps you sleep better. Using yoga to foster feelings of calm before bed can help you enjoy a more restful and restorative slumber.

The quick and easy way to enjoy yoga
There’s a common misconception that you only benefits from yoga if you spend hours on the yoga mat. But this is not the case. If you’re juggling a busy schedule, all it takes is a few short yoga sessions to sink your teeth into the perks.

When researchers began exploring the benefits of short yoga sessions, they found that as little as six quick sessions can deliver remarkable results. They took a group of people and go them to do a 30-minute sequence of yoga stretches and meditation (based on the Les Mills BODYBALANCE yoga programme) three nights a week. After just two weeks they saw improved heart rate variability (which impacts how your body responds to stress), better sleep quality, an increase in confidence and motivation, and reduced anxiety, tension, and sadness. Another study found that even just one yoga session a week can positively influence blood pressure and hypertension. And a further study of home office workers found that just 10 minutes can ease aches and pains and deliver a quick mood boost.

If you’re keen to add quick yoga sessions to your routine, you can do so anytime, anywhere, without any equipment or accessories – although having a tube of Rockit™ apples on hand is great for a pre- or post-flow snack!

Ready to Rockit now? Follow this quick yoga flow at your own pace or learn the yoga basics during this 12-minute BODYBALANCE tutorial.