Experience the Amazing Benefits of Yoga

Increase your energy, feel more relaxed, enhance your muscle tone, lose weight, discover the joy of movement, improve your range of motion, release tension, lift your spirits and feel younger with Yoga!

My name is Marleen and I am a certified Yoga Instructor. I can help you experience all of the above! Yoga is wonderful system that works on both the mind and the body, fostering a sense of well being in both. It strenghtens the awareness of our body, our breath and the stuff that clutters our minds. You CAN feel better, even after just one session! And no, yoga is not just for young and flexible people. Yoga encourages you to enjoy your practice wherever it is at, gradually building on your increasing strength and flexibility. Feeling old, stiff and/or tired? Yoga is just the thing for you!

Here are some of the things that yoga can do for you:

• Release tension and pain.  Deadlines, financial worries, relationship issues, traffic, the holidays, getting your kids to school on time: it’s all stress. Stress is stored as tension and pain in our musculature and disrupts our hormonal balance. By reducing muscle tension you can reduce your stress levels, stimulate hormone production and feel like a new person.
  
• Increase your mobility in shoulders, hips and other joints. Your range of motion tends to decrease, as you get older. It’s: use it or lose it. Yoga takes all your joints through their full range of motion, increasing your mobility over time. You’ll be amazed at how much easier and enjoyable everyday activities like walking or running can become when you increase the range of motion in your joints. 
  
• Improve your energy level. You’ll feel the energizing effects of yoga immediately.
  Experience the ‘Yoga High’. For hours or even days afterwards you’ll feel calmer, more joyful and at peace with the world around you. Slowly your yoga practice will transform your life!
  
• Lose weight, permanently.  One study has shown that people who do yoga in their 50’s lose weight as opposed to their non-yoga counterparts who tend to gain weight. Yoga can help you lose weight in more ways than just by burning calories. It helps your hormonal balance, reduces food and alcohol cravings, and builds muscle.
  
• Strengthen, lengthen and tone your muscles. Yoga creates long, strong and lean muscles, from head to toe. Enjoy powerful muscles without adding bulk!
  
• Step right in. You don’t need to be flexible, strong, thin, young, beautiful or in shape to do start doing yoga. Yoga will benefit any body and the further you are from that ideal body, the greater the benefits you are going to reap! If you can breathe you can do yoga. Promise.

In our space at the Benicia Ballet Studio we offer 3 evening and 3 morning classes per week to fit your schedule. The schedule and calendar can be found here.

For many people, especially those with health challenges, private yoga sessions are the best way to benefit from yoga. To learn about private yoga sessions, click here or call me at 707-246-2331.

"You couldn’t have given me a better gift than your yoga instruction. I thank you for helping me stay healthier"

- Kimberlee (breast cancer survivor

I started practicing yoga with Marleen about 6 years ago. She is the best! I've tried other yoga instructors because of moving and or travel and still find myself eagerly returning to her classes. She's even worth the proposed $5 Benicia Bridge toll! She explains the movements and postures in clear easy language. I can finally reach my toes in a forward bend. Her classes are challenging, fun and different every time. I've learned so much from her and am a more peaceful wife and mother since starting her classes. I'm hooked for life.

- Sue D.

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