I read the article below and it was another one that was spot on for me (like it was coming from my hand itself, one day I will write like this!) and is aligns with this post.
http://blogs.yogajournal.com/omchorus/2013/01/from-flow-to-slow.html#.UQLYYW_SsfE.facebook
I was also having a relevant conversation with a friend who wants to do yoga but the few times she did she thought that using that hour to run would yield more of a workout. I have heard this a lot. There might be other ways to easily feel like you got a workout - more cardio and we natural feel more tired and more successful towards a "workout" goal.
However if you take the right class, push yourself in the right ways, you will learn to get a workout and more about your body and yourself in the process.
We do have to do what makes us feel better. These days there is so much coming at us, confusing life, complicated our experience. We must find a way to shut off, an outlet that gives us perspective, piece of mind, direction, hope and closer to our happiness. Key word is DO. When we physically are in shape, we just feel better, more energy, more happy. When we have a clear mind and control our emotions, we can navigate out of our emotional web to get closer to being happy now. Yoga does do all of these things - systematically. If you can find an outlet in running, great do it. If you can find it walking the park - great do it.
If you do yoga for a workout, eventually you will be working in - inward growth, spiritual understanding, a fulfillment. These days with hot yoga and all kinds of intense yoga types emerging it is not hard to find a class that will leave you soar for days!
UPDATE: more studies being done about yoga benefits and cardic benefits.
http://www.runnersworld.com/workouts/study-cardiac-effects-yoga?cm_mmc=Twitter-_-RunnersWorld-_-Content-News-_-CardiacEffectsYoga
It’s not just the work out, it’s the work-in and the work-through!
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