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So many of us feel exhausted by the excessive demands of modern living. We often feel torn between family, work and social commitments. The relentless pace of our lives often leaves us feeling lost and even in the chaos.

Is this you?

 

 

Despite the endless offers of remedies that promise better health or miraculous cures, there is an increasing number of people suffering from diseases such as:

• Obesity.
• Stress.
• Heart Disease.
• Cancer.
• Asthma.
• Auto Immune Diseases.

How do you feel?

Are you looking for answers?

Yoga provides answers and solutions to the stresses and pressures of modern living.

There are many benefits of yoga. Yoga vitalizes our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Yoga improves life and living. As we gain more knowledge of how to be in the world and more awareness of who we are, we grow toward health and happiness.

Yoga is a powerful vehicle that connects us with the higher forces of existence.

When studied and practiced correctly, the benefits of yoga include:

• improved awareness
• better physical health
• a calm, strong mind 
• emotional resilience
• stress management*
• a sense of taking conscious control of our life
• the energy and ability to use life more fully
• a sense of purpose
• more conscious intuition
• the ability to unite head, heart and hands
• the ability to relate more from the heart
• intellect integrated with heart and intuition
• greater selflessness (less self-obsession)
• self-mastery of the body-mind
• achievement of exalted states of being
• spiritual connection and self-realization

*See the Stress Management page for more information and techniques to manage stress in your life.

The more of yourself that you bring to this vast and deep study and the more you engage with the powerful practices found in yoga, the more benefits you will receive back from yoga.

The Health Benefit of Yoga

Yoga can be defined as a science of total health. The power of yoga is that it simultaneously improves the health of body, mind and spirit (consciousness).

The health benefit of yoga is its capacity to remove impurities and to liberate vital healing energy.

Yoga provides us with the knowledge, wisdom and strength to build health, and manage illness.

Yoga has three main levels of healing action:

1. Therapeutic – yoga allows us to deal more effectively with illness, especially chronic illness.
2. Preventive – yoga can prevent many illnesses from forming. If they have already formed, then yoga can prevent or slow down the progression and complications of illness.
3. Promotive – yoga promotes good health.

For thousands of years, wholistic medical practitioners have used Yoga Therapy in treating their patients, knowing that regular yoga practice can support the complete cure of certain conditions and illnesses.

In other cases, yoga helps us to manage chronic conditions so that they become less troublesome. We can often reduce the severity of illness and reduce the amount of medication required.

Western doctors may employ Yoga Therapy by encouraging their patients to attend yoga classes to promote health and aid in disease prevention.

Most people who regularly practice yoga have a sense of wellbeing much of the time. The converse is true, that many people who do not practice yoga (or a similar body-mind health routine) feel the stresses and tensions of life build up. These stresses eventually erode their wellbeing and diminish the quality of their lives.

There is no limit to the holistic health benefits of yoga, if we are willing to apply ourselves and create the correct conditions for practice.

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