Yoga

Feel taller, centred, calmer, tingly, warm, balanced, alert, happy and vibrant.

Yoga is an age old science or system which aims to integrate, or make whole, the many aspects of ourselves – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. This process of bringing the total ‘body’ into balance and harmony is achieved through the practice of various postures by learning to breathe fully and rhythmically and by the practice of concentration and relaxation.

 

Health benefits from the regular practice of Yoga:

  • Flexibility of the spine is increased
  • The joints become more mobile
  • The muscles are relaxed, toned, and receive a plentiful supply of blood
  • Organ and glandular activity is stimulated and regulated
  • The lymphatic system and metabolism are stimulated
  • The immune system is strengthened
  • Circulation and blood pressure are normalized and stabilized
  • The nervous system is calmed and strengthened
  • The skin becomes clear and fresh.

Yoga can assist with the following health conditions:

  • Lower back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Fatigue & General Tiredness
  • Insomnia
  • Stress – Chronic or Acute
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • High/Low blood pressure
  • Sciatica
  • General stiffness in the body
  • Digestive Complaints

 

Resonate Yoga - Bonnie Russell

Resonate Yoga as a style of yoga pulls knowledge and experience from all other styles of yoga. We look at posture and alignment, working from the inside out so that you find a way of standing and moving that works for your individual physical body not the kind of posture and alignment that is copied from a picture or an external source. We do this by using knowledge in western anatomy and physiology as well as a grounding in eastern traditions. We teach effective and efficient ways of breathing and tools to help you relax on and off your yoga mat. Find out more about Bonnie

 

Anne Maree Hone

Special Monday Night Class 7.45 - 8.30pm

This 45 minute class is made up of 3  15 minute components:

  • Pranayama (breathing practices both seated and standing)
  • Meditation (seated on floor and/or with wall support)
  • Relaxation (lying)

This class is  gentle and quiet with an emphasis on stillness and deep relaxing of both mind and body. The breathwork is dynamic and aims to increase prana (lifeforce) and move and rebalance qi/prana. I am designing this class to appeal to those persons who

a)  feel they cannot physically achieve hatha yoga
b)  have particular anxiety or tension issues, and
c)  those hatha yoga students who would like to extend their practice to experience more of these 3 powerful modalities.
 
Blankets, mats, cushions supplied.

Anne Maree's is a traditional chinese medicine practitioner and a yoga teacher.

Through my passion for yoga and how it made me feel (taller! centred, calmer, tingly, warm, balanced, alert, happy, vibrant) I gravitated towards teaching and passing these jewels onto others!  There are many forms of wonderful rejuvenating exercise, but I feel yoga has it all in a nutshell - alignment to give steadiness and improve posture, asanas to increase flexibility and
strength and to balance hormones via the endocrine system. The stretching and releasing allows blood and lymph to circulate and flow delivering nutrients to tissues and organs and ridding our body of built up wastes efficiently. Yoga discipline includes stillness too, an antidote to the busy lifestyle we are all so apart of in these hectic times, and breathing techniques that cleanse, and calm us, while increasing our lifeforce/prana/energy. Meditation aims to still the mind, a clearing that rests our mental faculties, recharges our whole nervous system, and reduces blood pressure. 

 

Prenatal Yoga

Prenatal YogaAnne-Maree's prenatal yoga programme is a blend of active and quiet yogapractice suitable for either mothers-to-be wishing to continue yoga into their pregnancy, or those new to yoga as a way of birth preparation. This class is designed to compliment childbirth training through a greater connectionwith your body at this unique time-  mind/body/spirit. 

Breathing and relaxation techniques created and explored more fully for the prenatal yoga student reduce anxiety and calm both mother and baby. Selected asanas help stretch and align thepregnant woman, increase strength and resilience, allow more space for her baby,
plus improve posture which alleviates any pain or strain. 

Giving birth is a huge physical and emotional challenge - yoga is a superb training tool for this wondrous event and also for the new role of parent andthe road ahead.  Prenatal yoga aims to increase that connection with the body's innatewisdom and power in a gentle and natural way, bringing your whole being into balance.

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