FREE YOGA CLASSES EVERY MONDAY & WEDNESDAYS (donations accepted)
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and found time to do something for yourself, or spent quality time with friends or family!
Don’t forget about YOGA MONDAY NIGHT at 7pm!!! I Look forward to seeing all my yoga friends and meeting new ones to!!! Come and see how fun, relaxing and rejuvenating it can be….and make new friends!!!
Practicing yoga is a personal reboot. By carving out a specific time from our day to quiet the mind (which is usually on overdrive processing, calculating, figuring, and discerning), we can instead increase focus and concentration, minimize stress and anxiety, find mental clarity, and actually increase our productivity.
In addition, the philosophy and practice of yoga encourages a sense of contentment and gratitude, rather than escalating the tendency to grasp for more than we already have, and confirming the belief that we will be happy only when we have those things.
On a physical level, yoga helps to increase flexibility, strength and muscle tone and to realign the body for better posture. Sitting for prolonged periods of time places pressure on the lower back, causing overall tightness, poor circulation and constricted energy flow. Sitting in your office chair all day exacerbates the effects of gravity, causing a rounded upper back and shoulder area, as well as strain on the lower back and tightness in the back of the legs (also known as "computer hunch"). Yoga is also beneficial for sufferers of chronic pain, helping to release tension by pairing gentle movements with breathing techniques. Yoga contributes to more graceful aging and longevity.
Whether you practice Hatha Yoga (basic physical poses and breathing methods), Vinyasa (flowing sequences), Ashtanga (heat-building, more intensive yoga with particular sequences) or Iyengar (emphasis on proper alignment and physical inversions), all forms of yoga emphasize concentrating on your breath. By learning to follow the simple rhythmic inhale and exhale with the focus of the mind, we can pull our thoughts and perception out of warp drive and learn to be– dare we say it? – a little more laid-back.
Here is a yoga video that will help you get out of bed in the mornings………..practice as often as you feel you need it, it only takes a few minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qeyE3ZjqB8
