PREVENT CORONA INFECTION AND STAY HEALTHY WITH YOGA TRAINING

Corona virus is currently a trending topic worldwide. Corona virus pandemic has various impacts in all aspects of human life in the world. Restrictions on social activities, panic, death all over the world cause an increase in stress and anxiety of people in the world. Then, what can we do to prevent corona infection? In addition to applying the habit of washing hands and social distancing, one of the efforts we can do is to fortify our body by maintain our immunity system. Practicing yoga is one of the physical training we can do to maintain immunity system and reduce stress. Who does not know yoga? Physical training that originated from India is being one of the most loved activity all over the world. Yoga comes from the Sanskrit language "Yuj" that means union. This training integrates and harmonizes physical and mental.

There are various types of yoga that can be chosen according to your physical condition. How can practicing yoga help us to maintain our immune system? Practicing yoga can reduce stress hormones so that it can boost the immune system. Practicing yoga can reduce stress hormones because yoga combines various physical postures (asanas) with meditation and breathing regulation (pranayama) so that it can provide a relaxing effect. In addition, various yoga postures can increase the blood and lymph flow so it optimize detoxification and function of all organs in our body.

Various studies have proven that yoga training give positive effect on the immune system. Regular yoga has been proven to prevent the occurrence of immune dysfunction that occurs in stressful conditions. Immune dysfunction facilitate infections including viral infections. The human body has a mechanism to fight viral infections through the formation of antibodies (humoral immunity) and immunity mediated by immune cells (cell-mediated immunity). Scientific data based on various studies have proven yoga training by combining physical posture (asanas), breathing regulation (pranayama) and meditation optimize the humoral immunity function through the formation of immunoglobulin A, M, and G (Ig A, IgM, and Ig G). These three types of immunoglobulins have anti-viral functions. Ig G is an antibody that neutralizes the virus in the serum while Ig A is the more dominant antibody that plays role when the virus infects the mucosal surface. Yoga has also been proven to optimize the function of cell-mediated immunity where there is a significant improvement in the percentage of natural killer cells (NK cells). NK cells also play a role in fighting viral infections.

You can choose various types of yoga postures according to your physical condition. The recommended intensity of yoga training is 2-6 times / week with duration 30-70 minutes per session. Of course the intensity of yoga training must also be adjusted to your physical condition. You can get the benefits of yoga to increase your immunity system function by doing yoga training for at least 4 weeks. One thing that is very important is a commitment to consistently doing yoga training. If yoga training is carried out inconsistently and irregularly, you will not get the positive effects of yoga to optimize your immunity system function. Let's stay healthy and prevent corona infections by practicing yoga regularly.