Top 10 health benefits of SuryaNamaskara/Sun Salutations (Vedio Link : How to Perform Suryanamaskara)

• Helps in losing weight
• This combination of 12 asanas, when practiced rigorously, turns out to be an extensive cardio routine.
• It helps you to shed down any extra calories and also helps you in toning your arms and abs.
• Improves digestion
• Theasanas in this practice which involve forward bending helps in creating abdominal space so that the accumulated gas is released.
• Thea also regulate blood circulation which ensures a faster and better breaking up of food.
• Improves postures
• The practice of this asana requires you to stretch your body multiple times.
• During the times of stretching, you make sure that your spine is straight.
• This in turn helps you maintain a comfortable and straight posture.
• Relieving and strengthening muscles
• The extensive involvement of your body prepares your muscles and joints to endure pressure.
• This in turn, strengthens them. Not only that, the involvement of these very muscle helps in releasing any kind of tension gathered up within the body.
• A regular practice of Surya Namaskar can help you become equipped enough to deal with the every cramps and body aches.
• Improves Skin’s glow
• Thesea asanas have a great impact on your heart and the flow of blood.
• This ten impacts the freshness, rejuvenation and glow of our skin.
• It also tightens it and makes it firm, saving it from any kind of premature wrinkles.
• Gives you morning energy
• The practice of this yoga early in the morning, amidst the fresh morning breeze, helps you to relax your mind and make it fresh.
• The freshness of the mind ensures that you energize each and every part of your body and carry out an active day
• Helps you detox
• The asanas require you to carry out long and deep inhalation and exhalation process.
• This results in proper ventilation of your lungs where sufficient amounts of oxygen reach your body.
• This, in turn, helps in detoxifying the body.
• Improves sleep schedule
• As this yogic exercise is carried out early in the morning, a regular practice of it will set up a body clock because of which you will automatically start waking up on time.
• Now that you’re waking up early, your body will function efficiently throughout the day and then tires enough to put you to bed early.
• This cycle of going to bed early and waking up early, improves your sleep schedule.
• Ensures hormonal balance and a regular menstrual cycle
• A regular practice of Surya Namaskar will help in suppressing the irregularities in your menstrual cycle and will ensure a proper cycle by keeping a check on the hormonal balance.
• It will also ensure ease during childbirth.
• Helps you in maintaining a positive vibe
• The practice of this yoga is capable of giving a very relaxing and relieving feeling.
• It helps you remove all the clustered thoughts from your mind and reach a state of mindfulness and tranquillity.
• It fills you with happiness, contentment and positivity.

Points of Precautions

• People with bone weakness or muscle weakness should avoid it
• The sequence should be avoided by people who suffer from high blood pressure
• Those suffering from arthritis should avoid Surya Namasker series
• Injuries to the wrist can worsen with poses like cobra pose, downward dog pose, etc.
• Pregnant women should not indulge in practicing this series (only under expert guidance it can be practiced).
• Yoga isn’t something that you learn overnight.

Therefore take your time and always enjoy the practice without putting yourself under too much pressure.