• Reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Deadlines, financial worries, relationship issues, traffic, the holidays, getting your kids to school on time: it’s all stress. Stress is stored in our musculature and other body tissues (i.e. irritable bowel) and disrupts our hormonal balance. By reducing muscle tension you can reduce your stress levels, stimulate hormone production and feel like a new person.

• 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. Yoga has helped me lose 25 pounds and it can do the same for you! For more information on how yoga can help you lose weight click here.

• 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 everyday activities like walking or running can become when you increase the range of motion in your joints. 

• Improve your energy level. You have to expend energy to gain more energy. But some types of exercise can get you feeling more energized immediately and this is one of them!

• 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 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.

My name is Marleen Stam-Gibbs and I am a Registered Yoga Teacher ®  teaching private yoga sessions in the San Francisco East Bay Area and group classes in Benicia and Vallejo.

To get the most out of your time spent working with me I recommend letting me bring one-on-one instruction to your home or office in the East Bay.  

Or join me for evening and weekend group classes in Benicia.

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- Kimberlee (breast cancer survivor)

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