Yoga is a great form of exercise for people of all ages and morning yoga has even more benefits. Long Island has hundreds of different yoga studios all the way from regular yoga to hot yoga for you to take advantage of.

Beginning your day with some morning yoga can provide you with many physical and emotional health benefits that will last throughout the entire day. Starting your day in asana, which are the basic yoga poses, helps you to start your day by calming your breathing. By doing this first thing in the morning, you are setting your breathing for the day. Morning yoga also sets your mental tone for the day. If you begin your day by calming your body with yoga, you are more likely to keep a calm mind throughout the whole day.

Yoga has many physical benefits to it. Not only does it increase the flexibility of the body, but it can help increase muscle and strength tone. It is also known to improve athletic performance and can even help protect the body from an injury. Yoga is also related to metabolism functions. By performing yoga early in the morning before eating breakfast, you can offset the possible effects from bad eating habits. Morning yoga speeds up the metabolism which can enable you to burn calories faster and not have to worry so much about your diet. Although morning yoga is done hours before you return back to bed that night to go to sleep, it is known that it can help with sleep, even insomnia. Some benefits of morning yoga that people may not be aware of are PTSD treatment, helps with memory, helps MS treatment, arthritis, asthma, heart disease, back pain, depression, and can be used as a fertility aid as well.

Yoga is excellent exercise and can be performed during any time of the day, but yoga in the morning will give you the most benefits for your health and body.