Introduction
Whether you have practiced yoga for years or are completely new to exploring any kind of physical practice or yoga programme, we are committed to providing a safe and fun environment as we assist you in achieving your own personal goals to support your overall health and well being.
As we race to keep up with our fast paced, technology driven lives, the regular practice of YOGA provides us with a haven from speed and stress. By moving and stretching the body into specific positions (asanas), tension and toxins held in the muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints, are released and pain and inflammation is reduced. The slow rhymthic breathing (pranayama) promotes increased circulation throughout the body, bringing much needed oxygen into every fibre of our being. YOGA allows us to slow down so we can breathe fully, declutter and calm our minds, “let go “of anxiety and stress, and relax, restore and recharge our batteries.
As we begin to make YOGA a part of our everyday lives, we are able to slow the aging process by creating and maintaining more energy, flexibility, mobility and strength. In turn, we can approach our responsibilities in a more grounded, balanced, and harmonious way, with a little more loving energy for ourselves, and those around us.
&Wellness Center , the focus is on you. Each practice is crafted to meet your needs and quest for inner peace and happiness.
Why Yoga Therapy?
Yoga is a scientific discipline designed to eliminate stress and tension physically, emotionally and mentally. People who practice yoga regularly not only feel better physically but also report an increased sense of happiness and peace within themselves and with the world around them.
Yoga Therapy directly address stress at all levels.
From the very first session, deep breathing and stretching will do much more than just release stress and tension, the effects will start to permeate into your everyday life to translate into a more fulfilling and conscious lifestyle.
The classes offer simple, safe, and practical techniques that quickly reduce tension and stress at any time and place.
What does Yoga therapy include?
Yoga Therapy consists of a combination of:
Physical postures: Simple yoga postures gently stretch and strengthen muscles, improving mobility, flexibility, respiration, circulation, digestion and elimination. These consist of both simple movements and held postures, which promote a general sense of health and well being. These postures train the practitioner on stability, alignment, motor sequencing, strength and mental focus. There is coordinated action between muscles and joints creating muscle tone and control, mental focus and breath control. This maintenance of postural position and breath works with the autonomic nervous system. Postures can work on muscles, ligaments, joints, internal organs and smooth muscle glands.
Breathing techniques: Yoga breathing exercises can be practiced anywhere and at any time. Awareness of the breath is central to all forms of yoga and promotes calmness, helping to focus the mind, and relieving stress and mental fatigue.
Relaxation methods: Learning how to relax is a central element of Yoga Therapy. Relaxation is the body’s way of recharging, and helps to ease physical and mental tension. Relaxation techniques encourage us to step back and look objectively at our habitual patterns of behavior, helping us to cope better with situations that put our body and mind under strain.
How Does Yoga Therapy Benefit us? Yoga serves the body in the following ways:
Relax and refresh after daily activities.
Enhance quality of life and improvement of relationships.
Increase attention and focus in children and adults.
Improves personal and professional productivity.
Reduce stress and stress-related problems.
Stabilize mental and emotional challenges - depression, anxiety, etc.
Alleviate a wide range of physical ailments - back pain, arthritis, etc.
Help in the recovery from illness - post surgery, injuries etc.
Maintain vitality from youth through old age.
Support women through many life changes, including PMS, pregnancy, and menopause.
The goal in yoga is to restore the body-mind to its fundamental state of well-being, ease and alertness. Yoga can heal, strengthen, stretch and relax the skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, digestive, glandular and nervous systems.
Some of the mental and emotional benefits include:
Improved cognitive function and concentration Improved learning efficiency Improved memory.
Stress relief - More energy - Ability to relax at will.
Who can enroll for Yoga Therapy?
We design a session especially for you that will fit into your lifestyle, whether you are a homemaker, student , employee, business owner, retiree, challenged by illness or relationships or just plain seeker.
Unlike many other activities, yoga is non-competitive – you work with yourself as you are.No matter your age or physical condition, practicing yoga will leave you feeling healthier and more centered within yourself and the world around you. We invite you to practice with us and discover why yoga has survived for over 5000 years.
