Why should I do yoga?
Yoga Hand to Floor pose
Here are our top five reasons why you should practise yoga.
Physical health
Power yoga is specifically designed to help you lose weight, as well as strengthen and tone your body. Practising intensive forms of power yoga, such as Vinyasa, Hot Vinyasa and Ashtanga will improve your physical health in ways you never thought possible. As your body grows stronger, your mind will expand. This will help you develop better focus, patience and self-awareness.
Relieve stress
When practising yoga, you learn to breathe differently. You will understand how breathing gives you power to control your emotions – particularly in highly stressful situations. Before long, you’ll be breathing before you have a chance to react, resulting in fewer arguments and increased emotional clarity.
Relieve pain
When practised under the guidance of experienced teachers, yoga can serve as an effective pain management method. Along with easing the pain of arthritis, back pain, headaches and more, yoga will relieve tension in parts of your body you weren’t even aware of. Yoga will energise and cleanse your digestive system, improve circulation and enhance joint strength.
Connect to your divine source
Yoga gives you the opportunity to explore your spiritual side. Spirituality can mean different things to different people. To some, it means being more in touch with your inner self; to others, it means a greater connection to the universe. Or, being spiritual can simply mean being reverent with nature, your faith or your time – everything that holds meaning to you.
Get some “me time”
Practising yoga gives you a chance to carve out some quality time for yourself. Yoga allows you to take an hour out of your busy day, to let everything go. Before you know it, your yoga sessions will become the highlight of your day, as you build physical, mental and emotional strength.
Is your yoga teacher right for you?
Deciphering whether your yoga teacher is helping you or holding you back can be a tricky process, so we’ve listed some questions to ask yourself to help you start. Is your yoga teacher helping or hindering you? As with anything, choosing the right yoga teacher for you is pivotal to success and growth, both physically and mentally.
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What's the difference between Restorative + Yin Yoga?
In a pose it’s encouraged to let go of muscular involvement to target the deeper connective tissues of the body such as fascia Some schools of Yin will teach Yin as a ‘cold’ practice, done without a warm-up as a way to protect students from going in to the held stretches too deeply In poses, you might be guided through mindfulness techniques to draw your awareness to letting your muscles relax, to target your ligaments, fascia and joints instead Yin might be considered a useful practice for building bone density
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