Benefits of Yoga
Gary’s Power Yoga is an exciting, energizing, and empowering sequence of yoga poses specifically designed to work the whole body and improve the mind and spirit. This type of hot vinyasana yoga promotes upper and lower body strength, balance, and flexibility. Through this dynamic exercise students not only improve physically but also benefit from the strong mental/spiritual effects of the classes. Students regularly speak of their experience as being brought into the desired yogic state of “union with oneself”- one of profound relaxation with an open empty mind.
Combined with Gary’s unique sequence, practicing hot yoga can offer amazing health benefits:
The heat produces a fluid-like stretch allowing for greater range of movement in joints, muscles, ligaments, and other supporting structures of the body.
Sweating promotes detoxification and elimination.
Capillaries dilate in the heat, more effectively oxygenating the tissues, muscles, glands and organs.
Your cardiovascular system gets a thorough workout.
Just as when your body raises its temperature to fight infection, the raised temperature in the room will assist in improving T-cell function and the proper functioning of your immune system.
Metabolism improves in your digestive system and in the body’s cells.
The benefits of hot yoga are endless. Yoga works on many different levels, both physically and psychological. The deeper, lasting benefits are more noticeable over time and with regular practice. But even just one hot yoga session will leave you feeling relaxed, energized, and renewed, and will fill you with a wonderful sense of accomplishment.