For over 5,000 years, people around the world have enjoyed the restorative and strengthening benefits of yoga. Through physical postures, proper breathing, and meditation, the yoga practitioner strives to create peace and unity between the mind and the body. The term ‘yoga’ derives from the Sanskrit word that loosely translates to “join together,” emphasizing the focus on mental and physical harmony. 

Although there is a rich spiritual tradition behind yoga, not all yogis subscribe to it. People practice yoga for many reasons, whether to heal their body, improve their fitness, or quiet their mind. Others, however, pursue more traditional goals: mastery over their body or expansion of their consciousness. Whatever the goal, many people consider yoga not only an exercise, but a way of life.  

Here are a few of the benefits of yoga...

• Teaches you to breath fully and correctly, improving lung function.
• Builds strength, flexibility, balance and tremendous endurance.
• Prevents/reduces chronic illnesses and injury.
• Promotes better sleep.
• Promotes a deep sense of wellbeing and peaceful mind.
• Weight loss / toning.
• Improves posture.
• Maintains youthful appearance, as the oxygenation and cleansing
• improves skin tone.
• Works every system of the body; cardiovascular, nervous, lymphatic,
• endocrine, immune, digestive, reproductive, muscular and skeletal.
• Works every organ, gland, muscle, tendon, ligament, in the body.
• Reduces stress.
• Improves heart and lung capacity.
• Reduces back pain.
• Promotes great flexibility of your spine in its full range of motion, allowing the central nervous system to function optimally, resulting in high levels of energy.
• Integrates the left and right hemispheres of the brain which improves memory, learning, co-ordination and balance.
• Builds mental strength by holding your mind in a focused, meditative state.