Yoga exercises will relax, vitalise and renew you.
Yoga will help you balance your mind and experience inner joy.
What is yoga all about?
Yoga is a self-healing method dating back over 6000 years to India. The traditional Hatha Yoga uses yoga exercises, breathing and relaxation practices as well as silence practices, in other words, meditation, as methods to restore and maintain good health.
Yoga is a gentle but effective method to balance the body and the mind, and it is suitable for all ages and fitness levels, both men and women.
Yoga exercises:
• Yoga exercises enhance your physical performance, flexibility and mobility as well as firm and strengthen your muscles
• Standing pose exercises will help rectify structural posture errors or changes in posture and strengthen the spine
• Forward bends lower your blood pressure and relax the nervous system
• Twist poses massage the internal organs
• Inversion yoga poses help purify the lymphatic circulation
•Yoga exercises and breathing practices strengthen and balance the immune system, hormone production as well as digestive and nervous systems
Breathing practices:
• The proper way of breathing forms the foundation of your daily yoga practice. Combined with yoga exercises, the breathing will intensify the effectiveness of the practice.
• Special breathing practices are used to improve the general state of health, promote digestion as well as to soothe the mind and relieve stress.
• Relaxation practices intensify the effectiveness of yoga exercises.
• When the body is relaxed, the mind will be relaxed, too, and vice versa.
• After a relaxation practice you feel renewed, at deep levels of both your body and mind.
• Deep relaxation of the body recharges you both physically and mentally. When you are relaxed, you feel well and are better equipped to cope with stressful situations.
• Meditation is an excellent stress reliever.
• At the physiological level, meditation lowers your blood pressure and increases your breathing capacity. In 1984, the US Government’s National Institute of Health (NIH) recommended meditation as the primary form of treatment for mildly elevated blood pressure, preferred to medication.
• At the psychological level, meditation leads you into a peaceful state of mind, without sleep, and helps you connect with your inner self.
• After meditation you will notice that your concentration has improved and that your mind is clear and peaceful. Regular meditation sessions will accumulate the effects so that you will feel the positive impacts throughout the day.
• Moreover, meditation is an excellent method for managing pain.
• During silence practice/meditation the mind becomes calm and peaceful. Silence creates inner peace and balance in your daily life. This helps you find inner happiness and the joy of life.