The Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Yoga at The Yoga Shed

At The Yoga Shed you will experience a personalised yoga practice which means you’ll see more of the benefits more quickly. The most important part about a yoga practice is consistency. Yoga is not like normal fitness in that it can adapt to give you whatever you need at any one time. Yoga can be sweaty, strong, soft, difficult, intense, calming, grounding, exciting, challenging, fun, blissful!

Some of the many benefits of a regular yoga practice:

• Increased flexibility and strength of mind AND body

• Improved balance of mind AND body

• Improved ability to tune into your body - you’ll get to know your bodily strengths and weaknesses better so you can take better and better care of yourself as you change

• Increased muscle tone

• Improve the funtionality of all 11 bodily systems (eg, increase respiratory capacity through breath work, improve digestion through movement, building skeletal strength, improve lymphatic drainage etc)

• Better circulation - the twisting and pressure put on the circulation makes it works more efficiently

• Healthier joints - the pressure and wider-than-normal range of motion improves the tone and fluidity of the joints

• Learn to cope with or cure chronic conditions - yoga practice can be adapted to help with particular conditions (eg, breath work to help with asthma)

• Mindfulness practice makes you more self-aware

• Meditation practice allows the mind to rest and people report greater creativity and ideas generation

• Improve mental focus

• Learn to regulate your nervous system responses

• Uncover peacefulness beneath the (mind) noise of daily life

• Learn techniques to manage overwhelming emotions or sensations (stress/anger/pain/grief/boredom/doubt/anxiety) when it shows up