About Yoga

Yoga makes you feel better. Practicing the postures, breathing exercises and meditation makes you healthier in body, mind and spirit. Yoga lets you tune in, chill out, shape up -- all at the same time.

Yoga is good for you. Specifically, research shows that yoga helps manage or control anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, headaches, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stress and other conditions and diseases. Other benefits of yoga include:

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• Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
  
• Reduces stress and tension.
  
• Deepens your connection to your body and your baby.
• Improves concentration and creativity.
  
• Teaches you valuable breathing techniques that help in labor.
• Lowers fat
  
• Improves circulation
  
• Stimulates the immune system
  
• Creates sense of well being and calm. 
  

Let your practice be a refuge from the need to control. Get out of the driver's seat for a while and enjoy the scenery. Let the river of yoga take you where it will. If you hit whitewater, stay in the canoe and keep paddling. When you enter calm pools, do the same
- Meditations from the mat -