Yoga for Mind- Body Wellbeing
Yoga to help balance the physical, mental and emotional stresses created by modern day lifestyles
Yoga is inherently therapeutic and the benefits of practicing are extensive. Yoga for mind- body well-being uses traditional yoga, mindful movement and contemplative practices to help balance the stresses created by our modern lifestyles. Integrating these simple tools into a yoga practice can help boost energy, improve flexibility and strength, activate the relaxation response, soothe the emotional body, reduce anxiety and stress, improve depression, stimulate restful sleep and enhance immunity.
About Gail
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I have been in the health and wellness industry for around 30 years and teaching yoga for 20+ of them. As a senior yoga teacher with well in excess of 3000 hours teaching experience I have watched and worked with hundreds of different bodies and the patterns those minds and bodies have adapted.
My passion is to teach yoga in a way that reduces the dependency on the teacher/ expert and empower the individual. I fuse anatomy and evidence based research with traditional wisdom, to create purposeful yoga practices to support holistic wellness. Practices that support my students understand how they can be an active participant in their total wellbeing . Practices to move, feel and live better . My story : ' I bend so I don't break" I took up yoga to manage a back injury. It helped but I was never really without pain or some kind of discomfort until in 2012 I was drawn to Integrative Yoga Therapeutics. This style of yoga set me on the path to deepen my studies of the mind - body connection. Our stories and our patterns forge who we are physically, mentally and emotionally. Sometimes those patterns no longer serve us well and can lead to pain, injury, illness, anxiety, depression and low self esteem. Thankfully we all have an inbuilt ability to change, to learn new patterns. Research has revealed that the brain never stops changing, creating new neural pathways and altering existing ones in order to adapt to new experiences, learn new information and create new memories. My yoga practice is now about listening and feeling how I am inside and making choices to do things differently - not only new things but also the familiar in a different way - to be mindful, breathe & move. This approach helps bring balance to my body and mind" I bend so I don't break" This empowering way to practice yoga doesn't need to stop on the mat, The tools and techniques can be brought into our day to day life where the real opportunity for transformation can happen., |
Six reasons why I practice yoga
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