Relax Your Mind and Body with Yoga

[Jennifer M. Duong]

Deep relaxation is of course a major feature as is meditation and the breath.

Research suggests it may work like other mind-body therapies to reduce stress. While others believe that yoga promotes the release of endorphins (natural painkillers and mood elevators) from the brain. The mind and the body are one, and that if it is given the right tools and taken to the right environment, it can find harmony and heal itself. Yoga therefore is considered therapeutic.

The session will relieve tension from the body and sooth the mind, leaving you feeling alive and with a sense of peace and inner calm. Mats and blankets provided. We work closely with the breath and use the yoga postures to bring subtleness to the body and mind. Come and explore for yourself the depth and richness yoga can bring to your life. Balance your mind, body and breathe.

Yoga promotes the release of endorphins, as it relaxes the central nervous system and calms the mind. Endorphin levels rise in late pregnancy, as the body prepares for childbirth, and peak from 38 weeks onward and into labor. Here the participant learns the settle the mind and develops greater self-awareness overall. In a general class everyone can expect more challenging asanas (postures), combine pranayama (Breathing) techniques, and use other yogic methods such as chanting and visualizations methods. It allows us to become more detached from what is going on around us and helps us still the constant chattering in our mind. In Yoga, meditation techniques are taught very systematically, and over a course of sessions cover body awareness, breath awareness, inner observation and mantra (sound).

In this style of class the emphasis is on postural realignment, coordination of movement and breath, breath regulation, and allowing the mind to focus and the body to strengthen and open. We encourage students at all levels to build flexibility, strength and stamina of body, mind and spirit. Yoga philosophies, such as ahimsa (non violence), are threaded throughout our classes. All of the yoga positions are designed to provide benefits for both the mind.