Yoga has many benefits - physiological, mental and spiritual. Yoga can mean a lot of things to different people. Yoga can be any or all of the following, depending on WHY you want to take it and HOW you incorporate Yoga into your life:

HEALTH BENEFITS

Yoga, working in conjunction with your regular health care program and diet, can provide tremendous benefits. A regular yoga practice can benefit the following conditions: menopause, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, migraines, insomnia, arthritis, sciatica, respiratory ailments, digestive disorders, and diabetes. It benefits many other conditions also.

SPIRITUAL BENEFITS

Integrating yoga into your life allows you to appreciate more. You develop a great openness to sensation, and a softening occurs. Intimacy, with yourself or others, thrives in an environment of exploration. Yoga can transform your life.

PHYSICAL BENEFITS

• improved flexibility of muscles and joints.
• improved muscular strength.
• improving overall tone and suppleness of your body.
• becoming much more aware of the way your body works and moves.
• learning to recognise where tension and tightness is in your own body and understanding the exercise which release or reduce that tension or pain.
  
• improved sense of balance and co-ordination.
  
• improved posture, regaining natural poise and feeling of youthfulness.
  
• learning how to breathe more deeply and release restrictions around the chest.
  
• toning, activating, massaging and strengthening of all the body's systems including digestive system, glands such as the pituitary and thyroid and the immune system.
  
• improves the health of your back - elongates the spine, better posture.

EMOTIONAL BENEFITS

• learning different relaxation techniques and experiencing deep relaxation.
  
• improved concentration.
  
• learning to let go of negative emotions or thoughts.
  
• improving self worth and confidence.
  
• staying calm under pressure.
  
• learn to have a calm and non-reactive mind.