Yoga and Benefits

What is Yoga?

Take a deep breath, sigh out. Repeat and as you sigh out, let go of worries… close your eyes and continue the breathing… feel the present moment, feel all around you…within you.

Yoga brings health, relaxation to the mind and nerves. It has the ability to release tension, as well as teach us how to deal with tension in daily life. Yoga is union (yoking) of mind, body and spirit. Utilising the power of the breath. It clears the mind and brings the mind to focus.

Union within self opens us up to self-love, trust, respect which then in turn radiates to other aspects outside oneself. Yoga is a spiritual practice of self mastery. Practice to drop the thoughts or to focus the mind. The thoughts are keeping us trapped in limitation and illusion, practice is to keep the mind focused on truth. Your truth. It is not a religion, it is a way of being. No intermediate between you and God. It is only between you and your God. It is an inner journey and self discovery of true essence. It is a practice to hold your consciousness in a state of what is.

When starting to practice yoga is often works from gross to subtle. The more pin-pointed the mind becomes the deeper one goes. Finding the infinite nature of self, perhaps answering the question ‘who am I’, which was the origin of yoga.

Yoga - movement, breath, mantra, focus, relaxation, mindfulness, intent, stillness, awakening, transforming, meditation, surrender, release.

+ The stretches and heating of the muscles creates a detox of the body
+ Aids in blood circulation and lymph drainage
+ Brings oxygen to parts of the body, before neglected through respiration, Increases lung capacity
+ Improves posture and energy flow
+ Energising - increasing energy availability and vitality
+ Healing
+ Relaxation, releases tension and stress
+ Peace of mind
+ Balances emotional imbalances
+ Relaxes the nervous system and strenghtens the auric field
+ Massages the glandular system, aids metabolism
+ Hormonal balance
+ Strengthens the physical, mental, emotional and auric bodies. + Assists insomnia
+ Tones the organs
+ Correction of digestion and respiratory problems
and so much more...