What Is Yoga?
Simple question – many answers…
Yoga is for everyone regardless of age, level of flexibility, strength or balance, gender, culture or religion.
Yoga is an ancient system of Indian philosophy and the modern application is as relevant today as it was 1000’s of years ago, providing support for vitality and health as well as offering a path for self discovery. It incorporates a range of practices that work on many levels, combining physical postures (asana), breath control (pranayama), sound and meditative techniques (dhyana), to assist concentrating the mind and promote self study.
Yoga provides us with an inner toolkit to offer support and strength and through this to allow openness, space and reintegration in your life. Using these tools wisely, supports an increased sense of mental and physical wellbeing, and can alleviate dis-ease in the body be that injury, illness or emotional disturbance.
Yoga is for everyone regardless of age, level of flexibility, strength or balance, gender, culture or religion.
Yoga is an ancient system of Indian philosophy and the modern application is as relevant today as it was 1000’s of years ago, providing support for vitality and health as well as offering a path for self discovery. It incorporates a range of practices that work on many levels, combining physical postures (asana), breath control (pranayama), sound and meditative techniques (dhyana), to assist concentrating the mind and promote self study.
Yoga provides us with an inner toolkit to offer support and strength and through this to allow openness, space and reintegration in your life. Using these tools wisely, supports an increased sense of mental and physical wellbeing, and can alleviate dis-ease in the body be that injury, illness or emotional disturbance.
Why Practice Yoga?
The regular practice of yoga can have a profound effect on your physical and mental state. Practicing yoga can help:
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Yoga has also been shown to help alleviate many common complaints such as insomnia, anxiety, IBS, digestive disorders, PMS, stress, backache and headaches.
By choosing to explore yoga in a way that is right for you, it can offer you freedom to enjoy modern life and recognise and reject what does not work. So we soon discover that yoga becomes the perfect antidote to the rapidly changing pace of our busy lives, as it begins to provide support for vitality and health, as well as offering a path for continued self discovery.
By choosing to explore yoga in a way that is right for you, it can offer you freedom to enjoy modern life and recognise and reject what does not work. So we soon discover that yoga becomes the perfect antidote to the rapidly changing pace of our busy lives, as it begins to provide support for vitality and health, as well as offering a path for continued self discovery.
The Style
The teachings are offered with the greatest of respect to the late Prof T Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar and grateful thanks to the inspiration of my teachers. The hallmark of this tradition/style is the wise application (Vini) of yoga, appropriate to the person and their situation.
| 'The whirlpools of the mind can be stilled by the breath' ~ (Yoga Sutra 1.2, Patanjali) |
Student Testimonial
'I started Yoga about 14-15 years ago after stress and depression in my life and have never looked back. Once recovered I never looked back but it gave me a whole box of life tools to use as you say. I can't imagine how people cope without it'. ~ Fay
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