"What is the secret of transformation? Sermons? No. Admonitions? No. Release of tension, relaxation and peace of mind are the secret of transformation."
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
FAQs on:
" IS YOGA RIGHT FOR ME?"
Am I too old to start yoga?
Never too old. You are probably exactly about the right age you need to be to start yoga! The gentle yoga approach will help you regain good posture, relieve aches and pains and make you feel years younger.
With a Private Yoga session in the West London area, you can have a personal and friendly experience in the comfort of your own home.
I am on a wheelchair, can I benefit from yoga?
Yes. Even if you might think of Yoga as impossible contortions of the body for most people and even more impossible if you cant move your legs or if you have lost any of your limbs, I can assure you yoga exists for anyone and will help to improve your range of movement.
A One to One Yoga session in the comfort of your own home can provide you with a Yoga experience fully tailored to suit your special needs.
Can Yoga help my memory?
Yes, Yoga is physical movement as well as breathing exercises and less well known to the public, concentration training.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
THE BODY: COPING WITH EXHAUSTION, ACHY JOINTS AND LOSS OF TONE
THE MIND: COPING WITH RESTLESSNESS, INSOMNIA AND STRESS
If you feel exhausted and achy it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that what you need is to go home, put your feet up, and watch television. Physical exercise makes you think of sweaty gyms and more effort that you think you have left in you. Well hear me out here, because there is some news.
There is a form of physical exercise, which is kind to your mind and body, it feels good when you do it and afterwards gives you energy rather than takes it away from you. Restorative Yoga, as the words indicate brings you back to an original state of wellbeing. It restores your healthy self back!
Feeling tired is often linked to the presence of blockages, caused by the build up of toxins in the body. Organs such as the liver, kidneys, lungs and skin – when fully functioning, manage to effectively eliminate the toxins in our body but when toxins are in excess, they spill over into the joints, where they create stiffness, discomfort, loss of movement and ultimately, the pain and immobility of arthritic conditions.
Moving our joints through restorative yoga practice helps to get rid of toxins and allows you to regain lost mobility. Simple movements practiced in synchronization with the breath, remove blockages in the body as well as have a deep and positive impact on our emotions.
Yoga not only works on the muscle-skeletal and cardiovascular systems but also stimulates the digestive and excretory functions and maintains the circulatory and respiratory systems at optimum level. It regulates the endocrine system and the secretion of hormones, balancing the sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system.
So we are healing with the body but we are also healing our mind too...
Let's begin here. You may wonder, "how does my mind get rest? Is it only through sleep?”. Well, for sure sleep is needed and it should be quality sleep, but this is not the only way to rest your mind. In fact, when our minds are very active, worried, restless, we will often wake up feeling just as exhausted as when we went to bed.
Insomnia is an exacerbation of that restlessness that doesn't even allow us to fall asleep, or fall back to sleep. Whether we have a disturbed pattern of sleep, we do not manage to sleep at all, or we feel shattered during the day time and are unable to concentrate, we need to find a way to rest the mind and regain control.
The mind should be a tool that we use when we need to and we turn off when we don't need it. Often the opposite happens and the mind takes charge and we watch, without questioning, the myriad of thoughts that are passing by without any direction or rationale.
The key to pacifying the mind is to reduce that fast and furious chit chat that often goes whirring around in our heads. "Chitta Vritti Nirodha", is in fact, the very definition of Yoga, as given By Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. It means, "the restraint of the modifications of the mind stuff ".
Yoga can help you create a bit of silence in between thoughts and enable you to stretch out this silence a little bit at the time. By shutting our minds off, even if for a short time, we can begin to enjoy what's out there without bringing negative thoughts along to disturb the party.