Yoga is good for maintaining your flexibility and stability. You gain balance and become physically and mentally stronger. Stress reduction and inner peace are well-known benefits. In addition, yoga also contributes to better digestion, weight loss, greater stamina, less muscle tension and last but not least an improved immune system.
The breath is the central focus. By focusing on this, you learn to use the breath so that you get more benefit from your yoga exercises. Although you may think otherwise, yoga is a vigorous class that burns calories and builds muscle.
Yoga makes strong and flexible and gives inner peace and focus. If you are busy in everyday life, yoga helps 100%. By the way, for yoga you don't have to be limber or strong, you will become so automatically!
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Read more about the different forms of yoga offered by our teachers.
Yin yoga is a slow, soothing form of yoga. Asanas (postures) are held for an extended period of time. About three to five minutes, in reclining and seated poses. These postures focus on strengthening and loosening the muscles and deeper connective tissue. Because you sit in one position for a long time, the connective tissue is slowly stretched. During the postures there is much attention to breathing in order to further release muscle tension.
Ying yoga provides rest and relaxation. It reduces stress. In addition, it promotes blood circulation. With Yin yoga there is no "goal," it is an exercise in letting go. Yin is good to combine with a Yang form, such as Hatha, Poweryoga or alongside your strength training.
Hatha is perhaps the best-known form of yoga. During a class you hold the asanas, postures, for longer periods of time while focusing on the breath. In it you seek the balance between body and mind and try to find peace in both.
A class usually has a balance of physically challenging poses, focusing on both strength and flexibility, as well as relaxing poses in which you have the opportunity to get closer to yourself. In addition, the bowels, circulation and joints also benefit from these postures. Hatha yoga provides more balance in the body, mind and energy.
Vinyasa yoga is a dynamic form of yoga. Vinyasa is also known as Flow yoga: a coordination of a flow of certain postures on the movement of breathing. You move from one posture to another in a sequence, think surya namaskar (the sun salutation). Also known as meditation through movement.
That constant movement makes this form of yoga intense and immediately trains your stamina. The vinyasa gives rhythm to the exercise, maintains heat, builds upper body strength and acts as a counter pose to stretch the legs and return the spine to neutral for the next sequence.
As the name suggests, this is a powerful form of yoga where you are physically challenged. Both your endurance and strength play a role here. During a power yoga class, you focus mainly on the physical aspect of yoga.
By using muscles that are not used to it, or by using muscles in a different way than they are used to, you cause your muscles to be stimulated to become stronger and/or more flexible.
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