YOGA

YOGA was developed in India over 5000 years ago. It is not a religion, but rather a way of life that integrates the body, mind and spirit. If practiced regularly, yoga calms the mind and creates balance in our lives.

Classes are designed to relieve stress, improve posture and concentration, tone muscles, and increase flexibility and body awareness through physical postures and breathing techniques.

Breath is what makes yoga different from any other form of exercise. Deep, slow diaphragmatic breathing through the nose allows our bodies and minds to release and relax into the physical postures. We refine our bodies and calm our minds from the inside out.

Yoga is non-competitive and teaches us to honor our bodies and live fully in the present moment. There are no levels as we are all built differently and poses must be done within our comfortable capacity.

Every class begins with a 5-7 minute centering and ends with a 10-minute relaxation. This time is equally as important as the physical postures because the centering prepares our bodies and minds to exercise, while the relaxation integrates all that we have done.

Slimming

The Complete Book of Yoga by James Hewitt - "People who take up Yogic breathing may be surprised to find superfluous fat melting away from the waistline, hips and other places where it is prone to gather. It seems likely that the link between breathing and burning up foodstuffs for energy partly explains this result. Pranayama improves metabolic efficiency. The combined practice of asanas and pranayama also fosters a muscular feeling tone (kinesthesis) that finds the physical effects of overeating uncomfortable and somewhat reprehensible. This too has a bearing on the way Hatha Yoga slims and reshapes the figure. The postures also break up fatty deposits and streamline the body."

 

YOGA IS A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION.