Benefits of Yoga

Flexibility and Opening the Heart

Yoga postures act on muscles, joints, bones and connective tissue to increase flexibility and open up the heart to improve posture and align the spine to protect the body from injury.

Courage and Self Confidence

Facing fears and persevering in difficult postures during your yoga practice build courage and give you the confidence to face everyday challenges.

New Perspectives

Putting your body in new and unusual positions creates the space for viewing life from new perspectives and questioning redundant beliefs in order to become fully aware of who you are.

Strength and Balance

Yoga postures strengthen body and mind and restore the body’s natural internal and external balance that sometimes get thrown out by life’s challenges.

Stillness and Breath

Using the breath to turn your focus within quiets the mind and creates the stillness required to reduce stress and anxiety and become fully aware of your body and emotions.

Yoga means different things to different people. It has physical, emotional, intellectual, biological and spiritual benefits, like stress relief, stimulating digestion, rehabilitating of an injury, weight loss, strengthening or toning of muscles, improving concentration, mood, memory, etc.

You might start yoga for one reason and then continue for quite another. You might find that a dedicated yoga practice touches your life in many extraordinary and valuable ways.

The path of yoga that leads to samadi (enlightenment) creates conscious awareness of our bodies and minds, leading to living consciously and fully aware in every aspect of our lives.