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Physical & Mental Health

Yoga helps you to improve, maintain or develop your fitness levels through asana practice focusing on strength, balance and flexibility for optimal performance. It can also improve your mood by boosting the hormone serotonin in your body. Simply put, yoga can make you feel happier.

Mindfulness

Yoga helps to focus attention to sensations, thoughts and emotions bringing stillness to a wandering mind. By drawing oneself inwards one may experience calmness and relaxation and consequently less stress and anxiety.  With this awareness comes higher levels of energy and enthusiasm, more self-confidence and self-acceptance.

Calming & Nourishing

Heart rate variability (HRV) can be better regulated through a regular practice of yoga asanas, meditation and breathing techniques.  If your heart rate is lower, the body can respond to stress in a more flexible way.  

Improved Cognitive Function

The combination of poses, breathing, and meditation produces structural changes in your brain. This not only causes certain areas of your brain to increase or decrease in size but also affects your cognition as well as how you process your emotions, stress, and anxiety. All of which help you live a happier, healthier life.

Efficient Breathing

The process of observing the breath aids mental stability, with improved concentration and clarity of thought.  An organised, decluttered, peaceful clear mind allows us to think more freely helping to feel refreshed and content.

Strength & Flexibility

Certain types of yoga practice can be considered valuable for cardio and strength training.  A regular practice involving using your own bodyweight to support yourself, can tone your muscles and even help you discover muscles you didnt't know you had.  Plus yoga helps you to stretch and relieve tension and enhance flexibility without adding stress on the joints.

Happiness

You can improve your mood by boosting the hormone serotonin in your body. Simply put, yoga can make you feel happier. 

Weight Management

Yoga aids weight loss by fuelling the metabolic system thus helping to burn fat.  By restoring hormonal balance to the body yoga serves to normalise body weight.  By lowering levels of cortisol (the hormone that is released in response to stress and low blood glucose concentration) yoga strengthens the mind body connection.