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Monday 9.30am & Thursday 6pm - beginners welcome of all ages. In addition we have a special needs course each term: Monday 11.00-1.00pm This course is for generally healthy yoga students that have common injuries: Knee, back, neck & shoulders etc.
If you were born before 1968 the following article might be of interest to you. Do you find yourself exhausted at the end of the day? Do you find it harder to bounce back the next morning, despite a reasonably good nights sleep? If you struggle to have enough energy to take you through the week, maybe you need to consider yoga.
Yoga? But I’m not flexible enough...
Yoga
isn’t all about flexibility, or about strength.
It’s about increasing the lubrication between the joints, ligaments and
tendons
of your body. Over the years, your body has become extremely rigid. With
gentle
asanas (yoga poses) you can release
the tension built up in your body. As your body relaxes and becomes more
agile,
you have more energy to tackle the pressures of each day.
Yoga
helps tremendously, because yoga is perhaps the only form of activity
which
massages all the internal glands and organs of the body in a thorough
manner,
including those that hardly get externally stimulated during our entire
lifetime! Yoga acts in a wholesome manner on the various body parts.
This
stimulation and massage of the organs, in turn, benefits us by keeping
away
disease and providing a forewarning at the first possible instance of a
likely
onset of disease or disorder.
Introducing Injury-Free Yoga
It’s
important to learn how to do yoga and not injure
yourself. As we get older, we injure ourselves easily and it takes far
longer
to recover. At Four Winds Yoga, we specialise in Injury-Free Yoga. Each
class is structured in a way that you
don’t over-stretch or harm yourself. When you attend Four Winds, you’ll
see the
classes are small with specific instruction to help you get the best out
of
yoga.
Here are some testimonials:
Yoga has helped me reduce pain and stiffness
in my knee and hip; I feel so much better after a class. For me,
practicing
yoga is a positive way to deal with the physical effects of ageing and
re-energise my capacity to make the most of my life.
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As I get older yoga gives me mind and body
support, giving me something proactive, that I can do, to help
counterbalance
the event of ageing. I feel more confident and like the guidance I
receive at
Four Winds Yoga. Yoga is time for myself...take that time.
-Jo Goffe
I started yoga at 47, now I’m 61; I try to
practice three/four times a week, and I still love/hate it. I love it
because
it works every time; I hate it because I know I have to do it and it is
just so
hard to step out of life and into a practice. But after every session I
know
that the only thing worse than doing yoga is not doing it. -Al Robertson
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