International Yoga Day 2020: Rujuta Diwekar Teaches How To Get Fit, Slim And Healthy With Yoga

Is yoga useful? Yes, very much. Celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar has been acknowledging the health benefits of doing yoga in our busy lives. As the time has gone by, men and women have been opting for natural ways to stay fit and healthy. She is 45 now and still looks so much younger. This International Yoga Day 2020, take inspiration and get on with this amazing form of exercise.

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Recently, this diet expert took to her Instagram handle and captioned: “It’s never about what you are looking at, it’s perspective that matters. So when you are looking to get healthier, fitter, skinnier, you should know that it’s not just about how light you feel on your feet but also how easy you feel in your head. Can you look within to find the strength that uplifts from everything and everyone that bogs you down? #iyengaryoga #inversions #yoga.”  Looks like, her secret mantra to stay fit is yoga.

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Why yoga is important? It is an open secret; yoga merges the mental and physical disciplines to attain a peaceful body and mind. Here are some of the health benefits of doing yoga:

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• It improves the flexibility of your body
• It is helpful in building muscle strength
• It is crucial in helping in preventing cartilage and joint breakdown
• It protects your spine by making it more flexible and stronger
• It helps in attention, focus and concentration
• It activates the parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress and tension in the physical body
• It betters the quality of your bone health
• It increases your blood flow. This can decrease the risk of heart attacks and strokes
• It improves your immunity system and maintains a fine balance

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As per Rujuta, it is very much necessary for the people to be more active to participate in yoga. You cannot be lazy at all. “The tendency of the body is to be lazy and that of the mind to be wavering. So, inspired by nature, yoga was developed as a practice to help the body move and keep the mind still. #internationalyogaday.” She is often seen performing stringent yoga postures with her guru and it is quite evident in her social feed. “My yoga teacher is your quintessential Bawaji, very serious about practice and Sadhana but very unique (or sanki as they are lovingly described in the city) in his approach towards it. Today, @kobadvariava declared in the class that all this philosophy vilosophy is just bakwaas, it’s just smoke madam. The fire is in the asana, philosophy is just smoke. Focus on the fire, baaki sab timepass hai,” she wrote in one of her Instagram images.

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