YOGA

Imagine a place where  you can have an immediate spa, relaxation and rejuvenation experience. Imagine a place where you don’t have to think or worry about anything. A place where you can just breathe and learn how to choose thoughts and positivity.

 I’d like to invite you to that place right now, that place is made real through a practice called yoga.

  1. Yoga and it’s meditation is an ancient practice that is taught and studied in a variety of ways in every culture in every part of the world.
Yoga, consists of the eight limbs of yoga (universal ethical principles, individual self-restraint, physical poses, breath work, quieting the senses, concentration, meditation, and emancipation), is believed to bring balance and health to the body, mind, and spirit

Hatha, Kundalini, and Gentle yoga are what I practice and are my certification specialties.
The benefits of the yoga and meditation practice are numerous for physical, mental and spiritual health.
     
Physical benefits of practicing yoga are numerous (personal story), and according to, The Surgeon General’s Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation, Yoga improves symptoms associated with a number of chronic health conditions including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and cancer. Yoga decreases inflammation and improves immune system function as well as upper body and trunk dynamic muscular strength and endurance and flexibility.
    
Mental benefits occur within the meditation portion of the yoga practice. Allowing the  brain and body a chance to have a break while alert has proved to reduce stress. 
According to Saper and Streeter in THE EFFECTS OF YOGA AND THE AUTOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM say that yoga favorably affects mental health, reducing depression and anxiety. 

Evidence suggests yoga exerts its therapeutic benefits by increasing vaginal stimulation and turning off the Hypothalamic-Pituitary- Adrenal axis as well as the Sympathetic Nervous System response to stress.  

Yoga also corrects low activity of the nervous system and the damage that occurs when the stress response system becomes overtaxed. Yoga begins to help the nervous system function properly. With regular yoga practice and a well balanced emotional and nutritious diet the nervous system can maintain full balance on a regular basis.

How to get started and stay safe.
Materials needed to practice yoga are comfortable stretchy but fitted clothing, a textured yoga mat modified in diameter based on your comfort. A yoga block and band will help with differing levels of yoga from beginners to advanced. It is important as well to drink sips of water during practicing as well asa lot of water to after.

Have a realistic expectation and intention for your practice. For instance perhaps you want to stretch hamstrings as your intention and the realistic expectations would be to gain 1/2 to 1 in of a stretch gain by the end of a practice. Whereas someone who regularly practices may gain 4 inches in stretch gain by the end of a practice. Follow your breath with your movements. The breath is the most important aspect of the yoga practice, as breath is life.

Modification is your friend. There is always an alternative version of a yoga pose. Start 
with the modified form within your practice.

In yoga you don’t have to think or worry about anything. Breathe in and breathe out. Enjoy your mini “daycation”



Streeter C, Gerbarg P, Saper R, Ciraulo D, Brown R. Effects of yoga on the autonomic nervous system, gamma-aminobutyric-acid, and allostasis in epilepsy, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Medical Hypotheses. 2012;78:571–579. [PubMed]
USDHHS. The Surgeon General’s Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation. Rockville, MD: 2010.

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