3 Reasons to Commit to a Short Home Yoga Practice Every Day

The long-term health and wellness benefits of a short home yoga practice are much greater than a one hour weekly practice.

Here are 3 reasons why:

• The effects of your yoga practice will be greater.
• It's easier to fit into your day so more likely to do it. 
• The frequency of a yoga practice will harness a greater health and well being results compared to length of practice. 

1. The effects of your yoga practice will be greater.

By doing a short home yoga practice every day, between 15-45 minutes depending on your time,  the effects of your practice will be much greater than doing a 60 minute class once a week. 

Your mind, body and soul will appreciate the daily movement  and connection of breath to movement. 

Your progress with postures will be quicker and you will increase your stamina to stay in postures. 

Short and sweet but frequency is the key.

Also when you do go to the longer studio classes you will find that your practice has progressed in more ways than one.

2.   It's easier to fit into your day so more likely to do it. 

it’s obvious that a short 15 or 30 minute home yoga practice is a lot easier to fit into your day than a 60 - 90 minute yoga practice in a studio.

For one you can just roll onto your mat at  home.  You don’t need to leave the house or put on your best yoga pants to do a class. 

You can arrive as you are on your yoga mat at home, do your practice and then move onto the next thing.  No travel, no worrying about what you look like, no waiting around in class or trying to book into class. 

A home yoga practice is quick and simple.  With that in mind you are more likely to stick to a daily yoga practice by doing shorter home practices. 

Just to note, I’m not against the longer 60-90 minute studio/home practices, they are still important and can be a nice break, please do fit them in once or twice a week when you can.

3. The frequency of a yoga practice will harness a greater health and well being results compared to length of practice. 

 I would always recommend five 20 minute home practices per week over one 60 minute practice every week. 

Frequency in your yoga practice (or any other practice!) is always such more important than the length of practice.

So in short, to harness the long-term health and wellness effects of yoga one of the most important factors to consider is frequency of practice.  By frequency i mean practicing yoga at least five times a week.  At the very minimum three times a week.

 Making your yoga practice slightly shorter than the traditional 60-90 minute class which you typically find in gyms and studios which suits their calendar, you are more likely to be able to stick to a frequent, regular yoga practice.

 Lastly be practising at home, your yoga practice can become super easy and quick. I find doing yoga at home easy to fit into my day either before breakfast, lunch or dinner.  Or after I wake up or just before bed I go to bed depending on what I have done that day.

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