Yoga improves posture and increases flexibility, stamina and strength. It also helps improve the function of the respiratory, circulatory, digestive and hormonal systems. Yoga can help to relieve and reduce stress, and promotes deep relaxation, helping us to access our inner calm and self-confidence, and to live more fully in the present. It helps us get in touch with our inner resources to realise how we can live in harmony with ourselves, others and the environment. In short Yoga is one of the oldest systems of personal development in the world.
Today most students through their yoga class, study one of the eight parts of yoga called asana or postures. The yoga postures promote good health in both body and mind. Whilst the body gains strength and flexibility through the practice of the postures, both the body and the mind are refreshed. There are large variety of postures, each one having a slightly different effect on the physical, physiological and the psychological aspects of our being.