Different Types of Yoga

There are many different types of yoga to target what exactly you are trying to get out of the experience and what level of yoga you are working with. A few options that both beginners and more advanced individuals can enjoy are:

Anusara: Seeks to use the physical practice of yoga to help students open their hearts, experience grace, and let their inner goodness shine through. This practice is perfect for beginners.

Ashtanga: Always performs the exact same poses in the exact same order. This is a hot, sweaty, physically demanding practice.

Hatha: A generic term that refers to any type of yoga that teaches physical postures. This is a relaxing and less vigorous style of yoga.

Examples of sun salutations:

Benefits of Yoga: Mind, Body, and Soul

Yoga has many benefits that can relate to everyone. Yoga encourages health and wellness as well as strength and flexibility.

Some benefits of yoga include:

• Mental endurance and physical stamina are tested through holding postures for extended breaths.
• Mental illness such as ADHD, depression and anxiety because yoga aids in mental clarity.

• Arm and shoulder strength is multiplied as you use your own body weight for resistance.

• Lats and other back muscles begin to support the spine better than before.

• Abdominals and obliques are refined and sharpened through building core muscles.

• Poor and average posture begins to correct itself over time.

• Hip flexors are stretched and rebuilt.

• Glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves are tightened and lengthened where they need to be.