Asanas
Asanas are postures performed to promote a healthy body and mind. Yoga asanas increase flexibility and improve alignment. Yoga poses act like lubrication for the joints, muscles, ligaments, and other body parts, increasing circulation and flexibility. Yoga asanas are mainly performed in sync with the breath.
Benefits
- Strengthen the immunity system
- Promotes blood circulation
- Improves digestion
- Relieves joint pain, body pain, back pain and muscle tension
- Strengthen the spine
- Improves posture
- Enhances balance and flexibility
- Promotes calm and manages stress
- Boosts physical energy
Body Alignment
Alignment is the term yoga describes the exact way to perform a particular pose to maximize its effectiveness and minimize the risk of injury. It is about aligning each pose, utilizing the body's physical abilities, and using props (yoga straps, blocks, etc.)
Benefits
- Improves posture
- Strengthens the mind and body connection
- Increases awareness
- Enhances the affectivity of the practice
- Ensures safety
Chakra Meditation
Chakras are energy centres, physically imperceptible, belonging to the subtle spiritual body and connecting it to matter. There are seven major chakras, each representing a specific colour. The seven major chakras are located along the spine from the lower sacrum to the crown of the head. Chakra meditation is a meditation aimed at activating, opening and balancing the seven chakras. It is incorporated into a broader range of energy healing practices.
Benefits
- Increased awareness
- Induces good quality sleep
- Unblocks energy centres
- Balances the body and mind
- Enhances positivity in life
- Promotes self-healing
Counseling
Counseling promotes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive modifications. Counselors help clients identify possible solutions to emotional problems and learn coping skills. Counseling and yoga can be used as a holistic approach to exploring how the teachings of yoga philosophy can help change the unconscious patterns of thoughts and other aspects of life.
Benefits
- Increases self-awareness
- Promotes mental peace
- Enhances coping skills
- Improves lifestyle and relationships
- Eliminate negative emotions
- Reduces stress, anxiety and depression
- It brings clarity of mind
- Enhances communication skills
Kriya
Kriya means Action. An ancient technique that uses pranayama (breathing exercises), mantras (chanting) and mudras (mental hand gestures) to accelerate spiritual growth. It is an effective yogic practice for personal growth, breaking down limitations, expanding consciousness and self-realization. Kriya works by enhancing access to energy and channeling the energy in various ways.
Benefits
- Increase awareness
- Develop focus and concentration
- Rejuvenate the mind, body and soul
- Calms the mind
- Activates kundalini energy
- Enhances brain functioning
Meditation
Meditation is a psychological exercise that promotes relaxation, concentration and awareness. It mainly involves the stillness of the body is aware of the present moment without focusing on anything specific. Meditation is performed in groups or individually.
Benefits
- Enhances awareness
- Reduces stress, anxiety and depression
- Lowers blood pressure
- Improves sleep quality
- Relieves asthma, headache
- Improves cardiovascular health
- Increases creativity/li>
Pranayama
'Prana' means breath, and 'Ayama' means extension, length, or exaltation. Pranayama connects the body and mind. It includes techniques to control and hold each breath's timing, duration and frequency. Pranayama practice consists of three components: inhalation, exhalation and retention.
Benefits
- Enhances lung function
- Cures asthma
- Promotes digestion
- Increases mindfulness and focus
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Improves cognitive performance
- Boosts immunity system
- Decreases high blood pressure
- Improves the quality of sleep
- Helps to manage sinus and asthma
Relaxation
Relaxation in yoga refers to the release of physical and mental tension. Conscious relaxation engages your muscles and frees up your grip when you're not using them. This relaxation allows the muscles to contract in response to signals from your brain, allowing you to perform all the myriad tasks of a busy day. Restorative yoga is a type of relaxation practice in yoga that focuses on slowly opening the body through passive stretching. It involves holding yoga poses (asanas) for extended periods using props such as yoga blocks, blankets, and bolsters. It induces deep relaxation that emphasizes the meditative aspect of yoga, the union of mind and body.
Benefits
- Balances the nervous system
- Uplifts mood
- Enhances sleep quality
- Promotes calmness
- Reduces stress, anxiety and depression
- Encourages mindfulness
Stretching
Stretching lengthens the muscles until they reach their maximum stretch. It Squeezes the body to a certain point of discomfort, which leads to relaxation. They are usually performed before starting an exercise program as a warm-up or even after a workout to cool down and prevent muscle tension.
Benefits
- Promotes physical relaxation and mindfulness
- Reduce the risk of injuries
- Increase flexibility
- Enhance the functioning of joints and muscles
- Promote blood circulation
- Improves posture
- Reduces stress
Surya Namaskar
The Sun is regarded as the source of energy and vitality. Surya Namaskar is a form of paying respect to the Sun for its essence. It includes a cyclic sequence of 12 poses designed to harmonize the mind, breath and body. The poses stimulate the muscles and the organs.
Benefits
- Promotes calmness and focus
- Improves blood circulation
- Enhances the digestive system
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Strengthens joints and muscles
- Improves cardiovascular health
- Enhances cognitive functioning
- Promotes weight loss
- Boosts the functioning of the lungs
- It helps in the regulation of hormones
- Balance the chakra system
Yoga Therapy Program
Yoga therapy is the specific application of the tools of yoga (postures/exercises, breathing techniques, meditation techniques, etc. to improve a person's physical, mental and emotional needs. Modern yoga therapy includes a wide range of treatments that include elements of both physiotherapy and psychotherapy.
Yoga therapy helps to manage symptoms and improve the functioning of health conditions such as:
- Insomnia
- Hypertension
- Digestive issues
- Arthritis
- Trauma
- Asthma
- Scoliosis
- Diabetes
- Depression
- Anxiety