Power Yoga

Power yoga it enhances stamina, flexibility, posture, and mental focus. Like all physical activities, it also relieves tension and releases toxins through sweat. Because it is rigorous, it burns more calories than most traditional forms of yoga and therefore can help with weight loss.

What is difference between yoga and power yoga?
Power yoga is a more dynamic version of traditional yoga it s faster, more intense and the focus is more on building strength and less on meditation or chanting. And while in yoga there s a fixed set of asanas, in power yoga teachers have more flexibility in terms of arranging postures according to their preferences.

 When You Should Avoid Power Yoga?

However, as beneficial as this yoga sounds, it must be avoided under certain specific circumstances. One should avoid doing active power yoga when:

1. One does not feel very fit. Performing this form of yoga requires a minimum amount of fitness. If one does not even fell moderately fit one should not do power yoga. This is because the physically intensive asanas can end up doing more harm to your body on the contrary.
2. Pregnant women must avoid doing this yoga form. For them, traditional yoga is a better option to go for. Even in traditional yoga, there are certain asanas that one must avoid doing as pregnancy advances.
3. If you are particularly looking for meditation and calmness of the mind and soul through yoga, then doing this yoga is not a good option. This is because power yoga involves strenuous physical exercise which focuses more on body movements than on chanting or meditation.However, again it depends on the yoga expert who is supervising how they would like to incorporate meditation along with power yoga.
4. One should also avoid doing this form of yoga when one is suffering from a chronic physical ailment. And if you still want to do it, go for a doctor’s consultation before you head out to be so physically active.