Family Fitness Magazine

Yoga has something to offer everyone from all walks of life, gender, age, level of health or fitness ability. It is a powerful yet gentle practice of self-care allowing you to take from it what you need at the time that you need it.

What does yoga involve?
Yoga involves working gently through a variety of poses including movements that develop strength and flexibility and bring balance to your entire body and mind. Yoga is practiced with breath awareness and relaxation, some classes will also teach concentration or meditation.

What do I need to do yoga?
You’ll need a non-slip yoga mat and may need blocks, cushions, blankets to help you during your practice. Practice in bare feet and clothes you can move easily in.

Yoga can help improve balance, breathing, concentration, digestion, energy, mood, muscular or joint discomfort, flexibility, strength, stress, vitality and weight

Yoga in Pregnancy:
Enjoy your pregnancy by staying healthy, strong and comfortable with yoga whilst bonding with your bump!. Help baby into the best postion for birth and practice breathing and concentration techniques to help aid a natural labour.

Mother and Baby Yoga
A lovely way of creating a bond between baby and mum and helping you regain your shape, pelvic floor strength and realign your body after pregnancy. Babies love participating with you in yoga and delight in discovering all that their bodies can do!

Children’s Yoga
Yoga is a perfect way to keep growing bodies happy and healthy and is becoming extremely popular. Yoga develops motor skills, balance, strength & flexibility and teaches concentration. Quiet times are hard to come by for children (and us parents!) so yoga offers some much needed relaxation!

Teenage Yoga
Following the growth spurt in early adolescence many teens find they are no longer as flexible as they were a few years earlier. With the additional pressure from school to perform well in exams, teenagers respond well to yoga as it teaches them concentration skills, boosts memory and offers the same stress reducing benefits as for adults whilst aiding with physical and mental adaption of child into adult.

The benefits of yoga are greatly increased when practiced regularly even if just 5 minutes a day

Adult Yoga
Treat yourself to some YOU time with yoga…Yoga gives you the opportunity to put your energy back into yourself, restoring health, vitality, and happiness. It is a great chance to learn breath and self awareness, releasing tension, reducing stress levels, and touching down with some much needed relaxation.

Senior Yoga
It has been said that you are as old as your spine (or as young as you are at heart!)
so maintaining flexibility, mobility, strength and cardiac health is important to your every day wellbeing. Yoga’s gentle dynamic approach means it an ideal way of keeping healthy and strong as we become older.

Extra Care:
Care should be taken If you have high blood pressure, are pregnant or are recovering from an injury. This will not exclude you from practicing yoga but ensure you let your teacher know so that your needs can be catered for within your class.

Where can I learn yoga?
Depending on what you are looking for will influence your choice of yoga teacher or class.. There are many teachers in the area running classes or in clinics. Ask people who do yoga who they’d recommend or the Online Directory > Category YOGA