Health Benefits

Yoga affects your body physically and mentally through increased fitness, flexibility and rejuvenation. From your early twenties, you may have become less energetic, less resilient to illness or injury. It is a slow and subtle change and you may have noticed it gradually. As this natural process occurs and your body tightens, the body literally becomes its own worst enemy by constricting the circulatory system of your blood and fluids! A poor circulation system results in undernourished food supply for the blood and cells. Nerves, glands and muscles as well as the different energy networks in the spine become subject to degeneration.

Yoga impacts positively on all the internal organs, nerves, muscles, glands and joints. This includes the nervous system, where yoga practice purifies the central nervous system which in turn stimulates our vision, audio, olfactory and sensory senses. When this occurs the senses and awareness are heightened, hence we experience our true self and the world around us in a more intimate and rewarding way.

Yoga plays an important part in stabilising our minds as it bring about stillness to our overloaded thoughts. Through Yoga the mind becomes rested and free from the burdens of our anxieties, doubts, fears and other negative emotions. It brings about total relaxation whereby our physical, mental and emotional tensions are dissipated and replaced by a stable nervous system and clear mind.

Ashtanga Yoga is a cardiovascular excercise that combines breath control and physical postures. The result is a powerfully transformative experience that produces deep internal healing.

Just some of the health benefits are improved circulation, a cardiovascular workout that can affect weight loss, improved strength, flexibility and endurance, a calmer mental state and improvement of your general health and wellbeing. The focus on breathing helps to develop concentration and co-ordination.