Yoga encourages you to turn inwards and create awareness of the outside factors that cause you stress. When you practise regularly, you'll start to understand how the breathing techniques, stillness and heat of the room help your body and mind relax.

A few simple yoga exercises can add a permanent glow to your face. Practicing these yoga asanas will help increase blood circulation to the head and face area. This will give you a naturally beautiful skin tone.

Working out in a hot room is no doubt a physical challenge. Your heart, lungs and muscles work harder, thus giving your respiration, heart rate and metabolism a boost.

Type 2 Diabetes is a complex multisystem disease caused by a combination of genetics, environment and lifestyle. There is a growing evidence base that regular practice of yoga can improve blood sugars and reduce day-to-day variability, which have separately been shown to reduce the risk of long term complications.

The evidence that yoga and meditation improve symptoms from depression is considerable. One study alone demonstrated a reduction in self-judgement, pessimism, poor quality of life and reduced cognitive function.

Because yoga concentrates on breathing techniques and staying mindful of your breaths, you train your ;lungs to retain more air . Taking regular, deep breaths allows more oxygen to enter your bloodstream, keeps your lungs healthy and increases your lung capacity, which naturally tends to decrease with age.

Stretching when your muscles are warm—as you do in hot yoga—improves flexibility in your muscles and increases range of motion in your joints.

Flexibility makes certain yoga poses easier to get into and out of, especially ones that require deep stretching. Yoga also strengthens your muscles: That same study found participants also increased the amount they could deadlift.

Bone density naturally decreases as people age. Over a 5-year period, perimenopausal people who practised yoga had increased bone density in their hips, lower back and neck, according to a May 2014 study in Scientific Research. The study concluded that a heated environment reduced the effects of osteoporosis for women by improving circulation, respiration and perspiration.

A standard yoga class can burn anywhere from 180–460 calories, depending on the intensity and duration of the class and how much you weigh. You sweat a lot more in a hot studio, which means your body must work harder to regulate your temperature and your heart must circulate more blood. That means burning more calories than you would in a traditional yoga class without heat.