The benefits of yoga
The combination of physical movement, relaxation and meditation
has many benefits!
Yoga means Union. The practices stretch, tone and energise
your body and help focus the mind, allowing a greater capacity
for health and wellbeing and true happiness and freedom in daily
life.
Yoga postures build strength and flexibility, massage internal
organs and glands encouraging optimal function, stimulate
the circulation, encourage full deep respiration, help to optimise
the nervous system, and energise the body, no matter
what shape it may be in.
Relaxation and meditation help you
to calm the mind and experience inner peace, which
is very helpful for managing the stresses we have in our life.
Increased awareness of body and mind, combined with some of
the other yogic practices such as meditation, help us to see
that we can experience union or oneness with the universe - a state of pure conscious aware
being.
The poses are explained clearly and you are encouraged
to notice your body and feel the work you are doing.
Yoga is about coming more observant and in tune with
one's own body and it is important to listen to your body and
work in a steady and easeful way - nothing should be forced! Flexibility,
strength, and the experience of health and wholeness
increase gradually as a consequence. This union of small individual
self with the larger consciousness of the universe already exists,
but our usual habit is that we don't notice it, and so
our yoga practices help us to really experience that union.
Comments from the classes
I felt awesome after the first class!
I cope better. My family says I'm a nicer person after I've
been to yoga!
Not only am I more flexible, but my body feels stronger
and leaner and my mind is calmer.
I have a bad back but it feels so much better if I keep
doing yoga.
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