BENEFITS

The practice of Yoga not only works in the physical body, keeping it fit, strengthen and elongated the muscles; it also works in the nervous and circulatory systems, purifying and balancing them.

In the past, traditional healers used these postures as a method for healing emotional disorders and illnesses. As a result of a regular practice many health benefits will occur, such as greater endurance, flexibility, deeper breathing, and in general improvement in mood and emotional well being.

The traditions of Hatha Yoga provide powerful physical results and are intended to serve as a foundation for the mental and spiritual dimensions of Yoga. Hard work can silence the mind, but has no power to alter or transcend emotional and karmic patters held in the unconscious.

The practice of Asanas, promotes flexibility of the muscles, and strength of the bones and tissues; massages the organs, brings balance to different internal and glandular functions; promotes the flow of vital energy, prana (also known as qi in Chinese, or ki in Japanese), balances the physical and metaphysical parts of the body, or koshas.

Asanas are techniques that promote awareness, concentration, meditation, and relaxation, through the physical body. As the practice becomes more regular it results in good mental and physical health through the stretch, massage and the stimulation of the energy channels and internal organs.

Scientific studies have shown that the practice of Yoga have curative abilities an can prevent disease, by promoting energy and health. That’s why more and more professionals have start using Yoga techniques in patients with different mental and physical symptoms, such as psycho-somatic stresses and different diseases.

Our bodies have a tendency to built up and accumulate poisons like uric acid, calcium crystals, just to mention some of them. The accumulation of this develops in diseases, and makes our bodies stiff. A regular Yoga practice can clean the tissues by muscle stretching and massaging of the internal organs. This brings the waste back into circulation so that the lungs, intestines, kidneys, and skin are able to remove them in a natural way.