Yoga Benefits

 Yes - you can!

With regular yoga practice, You can have the following:

You can look better…

      Firm muscle tone, bright eyes and clear complexion contribute to the radiant appearance of the person who has embraced yoga. This, combined with good posture and grace of movement, makes for a pleasing outward appearance.

 You can become supple, flexible, strong and fit…

      Yoga postures stretch and strengthen muscles and ligaments and put joints through their full range of movement. Combined with appropriate             breathing, they provide exercise that increases fitness without being tiring.

You can concentrate and focus well…

      Posture, yogic breathing, relaxation and meditation all help to calm and still the mind. When your mind is calm and still it allows for improved memory retention. We absorb information better when our brain waves are in a slower pattern.  When we limit outside distraction and work on the sound of our breath and relaxing our body, our brain waves will naturally slow down.  

You can cope well with stress…

      The improvements to your health and the ability to relax deeply that come with yoga make you more resilient. Even in times of crisis you can learn to 'switch off ' and recuperate.

You can sleep well…

      Stretching muscles and ligaments helps them to relax. Deep relaxation is a key ingredient of yoga and is conducive to deep, refreshing sleep.

You can perform better, faster and for longer…

Yoga can improve agility in sport and helps prevent injury.

  You can have more energy and vitality…

      Many forms of exercise make you fit but can also be tiring. Yoga practice is energizing. You practice yoga not just to get fit, but also to 'recharge your batteries'.

You can enjoy increased self respect and self esteem…

      To practice yoga is to be kind to yourself, to nurture yourself, to 'treat your body as your temple'. When you realize that you are beginning to transform your health and sense of well being through yoga you grow in self respect and self esteem.

You can live longer and remain healthy and vigorous, well into old age…

      Many people work hard and save for a comfortable retirement, only to find that when the time comes, failing health prevents them from enjoying it. With yoga, your 'prime of life' can last into your seventies and eighties. Taking up yoga is the very best investment you can make towards a long, healthy and active life.

You can suffer less from illness and unpleasant symptoms…

      The energizing, relaxing and balancing effect of yoga all serve to boost the autoimmune system, helping it to prevent and fight illness and disease.

      The list of illnesses acknowledged by the medical profession as 'psychosomatic' grows every year. The peace of mind which yoga brings serves to heal and prevent these illnesses and symptoms.

      Yoga exercises massage and tone the internal organs and balance the glandular and endocrine systems. They thus serve to regulate the chemistry of the body helping it to remain free from disease.

You can be more relaxed and live comfortably in your body…

      Deep relaxation, so central to yoga, feeds into your daily life, reducing your stress level and making you more relaxed generally. One of yoga's prime rewards is a sense of feeling comfortable in your body; a sense of lightness and transparency, which is not just an absence of discomfort but a positive sense of well being.

You can breathe smoothly and efficiently…

      Yogic breathing strengthens the diaphragm and encourages deeper, freer breathing. 'Breath is life' and as correct breathing, learned through yoga, becomes more and more habitual your energy levels and your health improve radically.

Breathing effectively increases the amount of oxygen moving to the brain, therefore improving concentration, learning, and vocal support (speech and voice), as well as encourages deep relaxation which helps calming and self-regulating techniques.  Additionally, effective breathing enhances postural stability, as the same muscle groups are necessary for both activities.

 You can have less accidents…

      Yoga practice calms you. It brings poise, balance and mindfulness and helps you to live in the present. When you are calm and aware you are less likely to have accidents than when you are agitated and preoccupied.

You can move gracefully…

 The postures are beautiful to look at and encourage grace of movement.

 You can have good posture…

      The postures work on a deep level realigning the skeletal structure of the body. People who take up yoga often grow noticeably taller because their  spine stretches and they learn to hold themselves properly