2018
The Benefits of Yoga
Yoga has become a popular workout option for those looking to increase fitness, reduce stress, and achieve overall well-being. There are many styles of yoga and each aim to balance your mind, body, and spirit. Ferraiolo Fitness now offers a variety of yoga classes as an option for all interested in enhancing their physical and mental health outside of our personal training sessions.
What is yoga?
Yoga is a 5,000-year-old discipline from India, developed as a practice to unite the mind and body. The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj which means “to join” or “to unite.” While yoga originated as a Hindu spirtual exercise, it has become a popular form of physical excercise for people of all religious affiliations.
Yoga can make you stronger and more limber. It’s makes you more calm and relaxed, as well more focused and alert. Yoga can help you feel great and function better in your daily life.
Physical benefits of yoga
Yoga can improve the following:
- Flexibility
- Circulation
- Muscle strength and tone
- Respiration
- Blood pressure
- Lower back pain
- Mobility
- Metabolism
- Posture
- Balance and stability
Mental benefits of yoga
Yoga can improve the following:
- Energy levels
- Stress and tension
- Depression
- Concentration
- Clarity
- Awareness
Yoga can be taught to each individual’s fitness level and our classes welcome beginners and experts alike.
Ferraiolo Fitness currently offers the following yoga classes:
- Slow Flow Yoga with Helen Lightner
- Thursdays from 9:30am to 10:45am
- Crescent Place Studio
- Vinyasa yoga focuses on connecting breath with movement. This class will slowly flow through yoga poses to increase strength, flexibility, and balance.
- Save 10% by signing up for 6 weeks!
- Contact Helen.Lightner@gmail.com to book.
- Teen Yoga with LeAnne Grammo
- Sundays from 10:30am to 11:30am
- Crescent Place Studio
- Contact leanne@ferrfit.com to book.