What is Yoga?

Benefits Include:

• Increased lung capacity -
  Yoga focuses strongly on the breath and being aware of your breathing, which is something people don't often do on a regular basis. Through various breathing techniques, yoga allows us to increase our lung capacity, boosting oxygen to our blood and tissues, and helping to calm the mind and nervous system.


• Increased flexibility -
  Through slow and careful stretching, yoga postures increases lubrication of the joints, tendons and lengthens the muscles providing the body with a freer range of motion.


• Strength building -
  Yoga postures allow you to build strength along with flexibility. Many of the posture allow you to use your own body weight to build strength, which in turns helps prevent injury and conditions like arthritis and back pain.


• Improved circulation -
  A yoga practice increases blood supply to various parts of the body, which flushes toxins leading to benefits such as delayed in ageing and increased energy.


• Injury prevention -
  Practicing yoga is a perfect complement to anyone who participates in an athletic activity. It prepares the muscles, tendons and joints by increasing flexibility and blood flow.


• Muscle-tension relief -
  After moving through the postures of yoga you may feel similar to having received a gentle massage. With the toxins expelled from your muscles you feel a deep sense of relaxation where you may have been tense before.


• Improved balance and posture -
  One of the major benefits of Yoga, it increases and improves physical coordination as well as the balance between the left and right, front and back and high and low aspects of one's body.


• Stress reduction -
  Because yoga is a slow and gentle form of exercise combined with a controlled breathing techniques and mental imagery it promotes relaxation to the body.


• Mental clarity and calmness -
  As with stress reduction, yoga provides techniques for remaining calm in stressful and high anxiety situations.


• Increased body awareness -
  Practicing yoga teaches you to pay attention to your body in ways you may never have before. Learning how to listen to the subtle messages and nuances of your body provides information to help you make better choices and appreciate your body as it is.


• Cultivate inner peace -
  Yoga teachers us to focus on the present, learn to accept what is and to avoid negativity, which in turn allows us to make positive decisions in our lives.