Yoga provides many benefits including;
- Encourages relationship and understanding between the mind and body.
- Improves body coordination and therefore efficiency in the way we move and think.
- Increases strength, flexibility and stamina, allowing for greater physical and mental performance and a
- reduction of physical injuries and mental fatigue.
- Develops mindfulness, improves concentration and enables students to sit and study more efficiently for longer periods of time.
- Improves the ability to listen and cope with feelings.
- Enhances student receptivity to teaching and learning.
- Promotes improved attention, understanding and memory.
- Improves self confidence and awareness.
- Calms the nerves, Improves self discipline and patience by grounding in the present moment.
- Helps us to prioritise.
- Enables the student to reclaim energy invested in negative patterns of thinking and behaviour.
- Develops sensitivity to feelings and emotions of both self and others.
- Repetition of yoga sequences and breathing patterns provide a secure boundary that expands as our inner awareness develops, helping us to perceive a greater awareness of our surroundings.
- Promotes self respect and improves family and social awareness.
- Enhances the individual’s understanding of their unique role within our society and promotes them to find the strength within to channel their energy accordingly.
- Provides the tools for overcoming obstacles, learning to adapt with change and accepting and working with weakness or difficulty.
- Improves the individual’s ability to minimize and deal with stress, loss and failure and helps them to see that success is not always immediate yet always fulfilling.
- Improves the individual’s ability to communicate, complete tasks and multi task.
- Promotes inward reflection and self guidance.
- Provides the tools for learning to breathe correctly and relax effectively.
- Balances left and right cerebral hemispheres which promotes a harmony between the logical-rational and the creative-intuitive.
- Helps regulate the nervous, endocrinal, respiratory and digestive systems.
- Boosts the immune system, thereby reducing the risk to disease, viruses, common colds, etc.