About Practicing Yoga

  We practice a personal yoga style, suitable for anyone beginning with yoga or having an active practice. Mindful stretching, balance and breath awareness, considering individual limitations, with modifications for challenging postures. Encouraged to test our abilities through physical effort and mental focus, classes are taught with humor, able to smile at ourselves, without being judgmental or competitive.

What do we need to start?

      Yoga is adaptable to many circumstances, including moving from a chair. There are no contraindications to practicing yoga.

Doctors, mental health professionals and physical therapists all recommend an appropriate level yoga practice.

      Wear comfortable clothes. Class movements are within our ability. We breathe with a slow easy breath and the chance to let go within a stretch.

from Dr Loren Fishman

STUDY: Research Reveals the Molecular Link Between Meditation and Well-Being.

Meditation helps activate the human immune system. Medical school researchers from 4 U.S. universities and yoga and meditation centers, were involved in a novel, comprehensive genomic study of how meditation affects the biological processes directly involved in disease development and discovered a immunity-boosting molecular mechanism underlying yoga practices. “We show that yoga and meditative practices enhance immune function without activating inflammatory signals. The study demonstrates that non-pharmaceutical interventions like yoga and meditation can voluntarily influence the immune system.” ~Vijayendran Chandrana, Professor of Pediatrics & Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Key immune systems and related pathways are dramatically upregulated without activating the inflammatory signals. Plus, the response to oxidative stress, detoxification, and cell cycle regulation pathways was downregulated. Oxidative stress plays an essential role in causing chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Suppression of oxidative stress, as well as inflammation, is one of the central strategies for treating these diseases.