Benefits of Yoga

There are so many!! 

Flexibility: Stretching your tight body in new ways will help it to become more flexible, bringing greater range of motion to muscles and joints. Over time, you can expect to gain flexibility in your hamstrings, back, hips and more. Yoga offers excellent benefit to everyone no matter what their physical training background is.

Strength: Many yoga poses require you to support the weight of your own body in new ways,. Some exercises require you to move slowly in and out of poses, which also increases strength.

Muscle tone: As a by-product of getting stronger, you can expect to see increased muscle tone. Yoga helps shape long, lean muscles.

Detoxification: By gently stretching muscles and joints as well as massaging various organs, yoga practice ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body. This helps flush away toxins.

Better Breathing: Most of us breathe very shallowly into the lungs and don't give much thought to how we breathe. Yoga breathing exercises teach us how to better use our lungs. Certain types of breath can also help clear the nasal passages and even calm the central nervous system offering physical and mental benefits.

Mental Calmness: Yoga also introduces you to meditation techniques, such as watching how you breathe and disengagement from your thoughts, which help calm the mind.

Stress Reduction: Physical activity is good for relieving stress, and this is particularly true of yoga. Because of the concentration required, your will escape your daily troubles, and leave the class feeling less stressed.

Body Awareness: Doing yoga will give you an increased awareness of your own body. Claire takes a hands on approach and will often make small, subtle movements to improve your alignment. Over time, this can lead to improved posture and greater self-confidence.