While its origins stem from ancient India, yoga fitness has become widely popular all over the world for its ability to heal and bring peace of mind while building strength and toning muscles. Our experienced yoga instructors will take you through a series of stretches, positions and routines that will help you regulate and control your breathing. Whether you’re a regular Yoga are just starting out with the basics, Fitness Lifestyle yoga classes are a great way to unwind and develop your mind and body.
The benefits:
- Increase your energy and calm the mind with gentle stretches postures and poses.
- Learning how to breathe can calm your mind
- Increase your mobility and flexibility
- Yoga also increases muscle strength and builds stamina
Goals
The ultimate goal of Yoga is Moksha (liberation), although the exact form this takes depends on the philosophical or theological system with which it is conjugated. In the classical Astanga yoga system, the ultimate goal of yoga practice is to achieve the state of Samadhi and abide in that state as pure awareness.
According to Jacobsen, Yoga has five principal traditional meanings
- a disciplined method for attaining a goal;
- techniques of controlling the body and the mind;
- a name of a school or system of philosophy (darśana);
- with prefixes such as “hatha-, mantra-, and laya-, traditions specialising in particular techniques of yoga;
- the goal of Yoga practice.