Why Yoga?

Health • Fitness • Stress Relief

There's nothing like watching the benefits of yoga change your life!

Watch yourself grow stronger, more flexible and more at ease as you attend yoga classes week after week and learn from highly trained yoga teachers!

What are the benefits of yoga?

 Toned, Strong Body - Improved Energy and Vitality - Pain Relief - Improved Athletic Performance - Weight Loss - Balance - Stress Management - Quiet Mind  - Focus - Relaxation - Self-Acceptance - Mental Clarity - Healing - Bliss

O~MYOGA isn't just  Benicia's only fully equipped and specialized yoga studio - we are a learning center. Beginning with yoga, you can dramatically improve your health and fitness and extend your physical wellness to mental and spiritual wellbeing...take your time and follow the links you'll find on this page to a host of websites that share the most recent science and evidence about the wide benefits of yoga.

Follow these links to find out more about the science behind the benefits of Yoga! For a general overview of benefits: American Yoga Association International Yoga Teachers Association   A few good articles on specific benefits: Prevention Magazine hosts a decent collection of general articles on yoga. The Scientific Basis for Yoga Therapy - an article from the Yoga Journal website written by Yoga as Medicine author, Timothy McCall.   Don't miss these encouraging studies conducted in recent years:   Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center focuses on the benefits of yoga, particularly for those who suffer from arthritis. Daily News Central shares a summary of scientific evidence - including significant health gains for breast cancer patients and significantly reduced weight gain for middle-aged yoga practitioners! The Seattle Post on a study that finds yoga reduces back pain. Two articles on the Prevention Magazine's yoga site: Yoga’s Got Muscle cites a study showing greater weight loss for those practicing yoga than those weight lifting or walking! Yoga Cures focuses on recent studies that show that “yoga can increase lung capacity and reduce asthma attacks, help manage diabetes…relieve lower back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome”—and decrease cellulite, too!

This is what we know to be true

With regular practice yoga builds muscle strength, increases flexibility, and  improves overally fitness and health. In fact, yoga is known to optimize function of the many systems of the human body. For instance, yoga can improve circulation, build lung capacity, aid healthy digestion, and balance metabolism!

And if you experience limited mobility such as in the lower back — or even disease — there is growing evidence that yoga can also heal.

Benefits Deeper Still

But of course, ask any yoga practitioner and they will tell you that yoga is great for your body, but its real power goes even deeper inside: to what it can do for your mind — and your heart.

Today, possibly more than any other time in human history, most of us live over-stimulated, over-burdened and imbalanced lives.  We’re stressed! With regular practice of yoga,  which includes physical postures (asanas), breathing (pranyama) and meditation, you can cultivate greater clarity and balance, less stress and more joy. What begins on the mat can lead off the mat and into your daily life!

 Why Yoga?  Simply because there’s nothing else like it – and you deserve to live well!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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