The 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!
Yoga is not just for young and flexible people. 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.
I offer Private Yoga Lessons and Group Classes for every budget!
MarleensYoga@gmail.com or 707-246-2331.