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Benefits of Yoga:
For Beginners
Yoga is a great way to get in touch with nature, your body, and your surroundings. The art of yoga has been practiced for thousands of years, and it’s endured this long because of the incredible benefits it offers. When you regularly practice yoga, you can enjoy improved strength coordination, and balance, as well as a sense of inner peace and connection to those around you.
Are you interested in yoga but don’t quite know where to start? Our Yoga-Basics class for beginners, is a great place to begin. Whether you’re young or old, in great shape or not as fit as you’d like, you’ll find our classes to be accessible and enjoyable.
First Responders, Veterans, Active Military
We have great respect for those who dedicate themselves to serving others. For this reason, we’ve affiliated ourselves with the Veterans Yoga Project. For First responders, Veterans, Active Military and their families, we have discounted rates on yoga classes.
Yoga can help address physical and emotional trauma, and if in active service, it will help you stay sharp and healthy so you can perform as well as possible in your chosen career.
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Benefits of Yoga - Corporate - Weight Training - Running
Corporate Yoga Sessions
You had heard of yoga, but what, pray, does corporate yoga mean, you ask?
It is, simply put, the method of integrating yoga at work, enabling more stress-free work environs. Moreover, it has multi-faceted benefits. Read on to know more.
1. Relieved Stress
Yoga at work can do wonders when it comes to relieving stress built as a result of work pressure. A session of yoga during work hours can do wonders for any corporate work force.
2. Enhances Productivity
With exercise taken care of while at work, the human brain is certain to reap the benefits of the relaxation. Energy is also, as a result, likely to get channelized into more productive streams, such as better work output, enhanced productivity and a host of other advantages.
3. Lessens Absenteeism
It is obvious that a body that gets its equal share of workout, while it endures heavy levels of stress, is also a healthier one. The corporate world would have lesser cases of absenteeism if all offices make yoga at work mandatory. Not only would fewer employees fall sick, they are also more likely to enjoy the work environs this way.
4. Helps Maintain Focus
A session of yoga during the rigorous corporate regime can do wonders to the burdened professional’s routine. While it enables physical well-being, it also lets your mind be better focused, allowing you to complete your tasks faster and more efficiently.
5. Enables Better Analytical Skills
A sharp and focused mind is one that experiences a balance when it comes to analysis and well-crafted decisions. And a mind can get this razor sharpness if it gets its adequate dose of physical exertion. What better way to render it than within the confines of the office itself?
6. Inter-Personal Communication
Drowned with respective workloads, employees seldom find the opportunity to interact with members of other teams apart from on work-related issues. Yoga at work offers the chance to interact with peers on a different platform, leading to better communication amongst work groups.
7. Employee Retention
Including yoga at work is not only a method of inducing better productivity, but it is the integration of a completely new kind of work culture. When employees find an element of enjoyment, relaxation and catering of other needs at their current place of work, the likelihood of looking for greener pastures tends to be lesser.
The ideal time for corporate yoga is around the first tea break, that is, a couple of hours after the workday has begun. It can also be implemented during the evening tea break, a period wherein employees require a breather from work. Either way, the end result is fresher minds and a more motivating corporate environment.
Why Weight Lifters Should Do Yoga
If weightlifting is part of your life, this is for you. We are not trying to convert you to be a yogi; we want you to add yoga to your fitness routine. Having a weightlifting routine and a consistence yoga practice can have a profound effect on your physical fitness efforts.
There are endless ways yoga can improve your weightlifting routine, but here are what we think are the four most important ways:
Increase Range of Motion
In general, strength training shortens and tightens muscle tissue. In yoga class, you flow through a variety of poses that encourage mobility and decompress tight areas of the body. Holding postures in class helps release tight muscles, encouraging flexibility.
Reduce Soreness
It’s no secret that muscle cells accumulate lactic acid from heavy weight training. While we all love a freezing cold ice bath, yoga can be quite beneficial to flushing out lactic acid in over-worked muscles. Yoga draws oxygen into muscles, helping them perform better and more efficiently.
Reduce Risk of Injury
If your workout consists of weightlifting only, you may be putting your body at risk for injury. If you focus on the larger muscles groups and ignore the smaller stabilizer muscles, you’ll have muscle imbalance. Muscle imbalances can cause injuries such as dislocations and muscle tears. Through a consistent yoga practice, you will be able to balance and strengthen joints and smaller stabilizing muscles, which helps prevent injury.
Correct Posture
Working larger muscles through solely weightlifting not only puts you at risk for injury, but also can have a negative affect on your posture. Have you ever seen a buff guy have huge chest, shoulder, and bicep muscles but hunched forward? This happens a lot due to neglect of the opposing muscle groups in the back. Through a consistent yoga practice, your posture may be greatly improved. Chest and shoulder opening postures combined with core strengthening poses and exercises in yoga class are key to improving posture.
To sum up, a consistent weight lifting routine can cause tight muscles that reduce your range of motion and leave your feeling sore. Additionally, weightlifters who ignore smaller stabilizer muscles can develop poor posture and be susceptible to injuries. The good news is that all of these side affects of weightlifting can be avoided with a consistent yoga practice. There are many additional benefits of adding yoga to your weightlifting routine, but these are the main four you should be concerned about. If you found these tips to be of benefit, share this with your gym buddy!
7 Reasons Every Runner Needs to Try Yoga
You'll Gain Strength and Stability
Because yoga moves you through different planes of your body (front, back, top-to-bottom, and side-to-side), it strengthens muscles runners need for efficient and effective gait. Yoga poses emphasize mobility and stability. When you're in a lunge or warrior II pose, you're learning how to bend the knee and keep the pelvis stable. Mastering these fundamentals in a calm, quiet space proves important, particularly considering the dynamic, ever-changing settings runners face. (Stoplights, dog walkers, and 80 percent humidity, anyone?)
You'll Slow Down and Unwind
Yoga is not a competitive sport. There are no splits, nobody comes in first or last, you're not trying to beat your previous down dog. Resting that side of your brain—you know, the one that pushes you to nail each mile repeat on a run—can be downright soothing.
You'll Conquer Negativity
We all have limited mental and emotional energy when we go into a race. Yoga trains you to deal with negative thoughts that crop up during a tough finish. Don't be mistaken, yoga isn't teaching you that everything's all sunshine and rainbows. Instead, think of it as an instruction manual for your mind. You'll learn how to toggle between your breath, body, and brain—and you'll become more aware of exactly what's happening mid-bonk or when you feel like quitting.
You'll Find an Off-Day Routine That Works for You
Imagine a floor-to-ceiling wall of running shoes of every style, height, and brand. That's sort of what you get in yoga: There's a practice for everyone. Incorporating yoga on a day off or easy run day, and finding a community-based studio with smaller, alignment-based yoga classes where you can talk to the teachers. Tell them about your running and they'll be able to help you incorporate yoga into your training.
You'll Learn to Breathe Better
And you thought your Garmin was precious. "Your breath is your inner GPS. Some peoples' bodies don't know if they're running from a bear or running for fun. Breathing is king (or queen!) in yoga classes, so you'll learn how to stay aware of your breath while running. This comes in handy when conquering anxiety or pre-race jitters, too.
You'll Find Your Strong (and Weak) Spots
Runners are constantly moving forward in space, and one of the biggest physical benefits yoga provides is quite simply moving your running-obsessed body along a different plane. On the mat, you'll twist, turn, and move up and down. Most importantly, you'll cross your midline by moving from right to left, helping familiarize yourself with muscles you never knew existed.
You'll Learn New Tricks
Schedule packed? Just a day of "om" a week can lead to substantial benefits. Plus, you'll learn what is called "yoga multivitamins"—quick little stretches or movements that you can do every day after you run (even if you can't make class). After all, figuring out how to treat your hot spots (IT band, we're looking at you) is half the battle, right?
