Yoga allows for the body to learn to connect breath to movement. It is a form of meditation. Meditation has been shown to be helpful for overall mood and stress management. It is also helpful for grounding yourself in times where you feel like you have no control, and allowing yourself to have a way to change your perspective. What we focus on expands and gets larger. If we can change our focus, we can effectively change our life.

Yoga is also exercise. By regularly practicing yoga you can improve your level of endurance, your strength and your flexibility. It can also be helpful for your balance which can be very important as we age, to help us prevent falls.

Yoga can improve not only your physical body, how you feel and even reduce your weight, it can also help with reducing your blood pressure, it can improve you blood sugar control, it can improve your cholesterol numbers, and meditation has been shown to elongate the telomeres of your DNA, which means longer and more youthful LIFE!