Hatha Yoga
Hatha yoga is the most popular yoga style to get fit and encourage a healthy mind-body connection. One of the main benefits of hatha yoga is to control breathing to help improve oxygenation of the body and alleviate stress in some forms. Hatha yoga also helps with relaxing the body and cope with everyday stress that makes people unwell.
Iyengar (Anusara)
The name comes from the legendary yoga master Yogacharya Iyengar. Iyengar yoga is meant for all and is a way of life. Iyengar yoga cultivates strength, stability, flexibility, and awareness. Regular practice of ‘Iyengar Yoga’ integrates the body, mind, and emotions.
Vinyasa
Vinyasa yoga is a series of poses that will move you through the power of inhaling and exhaling. Vinyasa movements are smoothly flowing and almost dance-like. One of the most comfortable yoga types, it makes it great for beginners and seniors.
Bikram (Hot Yoga)
Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 Yoga postures and breathing techniques designed to provide a challenging, rejuvenating, and beneficial yoga experience. 26 posture sequences are performed in a room heated to 105 degrees to accelerate the rate of change within the body and allow the body to stretch and detoxify safely.
Kundalini
Kundalini Yoga is an ancient art and science dealing with the alteration and expansion of consciousness, the awakening and raising of Kundalini Energy up the spine through energy centers called Chakras, activating them.
Kundalini Yoga strengthens the nervous system, balances the glandular system, and harnesses the energy of the mind and emotions so you can control rather than be controlled by your thoughts and feelings.
Ashtanga
Ashtanga is the path of internal purification for revealing the universal self and consists of eight spiritual practices. Flexibility, mental rejuvenation, and openness of the soul are the main benefits of this yoga type. It is one of the most challenging yoga practices, so proper form is required to prevent injuries.
Jivamukti
Jivamukti is a form of Hatha Yoga taught in a vinyasa style where each movement is linked to the breath, chanting and listening to elevating music. It is one of the most potent and structured practices for one to experience yoga, mainly practiced in New York City.
Kripalu
Kripalu Yoga is a form of hatha yoga using inner focus, meditation, standard yoga poses, breathwork, and relaxation. Kripalu yoga has a compassionate approach and emphasis on physical healing and spiritual transformation that overflows from the yoga mat into daily life.
Power Yoga
You can figure out from the name; power yoga is a series of postures designed to improve strength, balance, and flexibility. Power yoga helps you achieve a beautiful body, and it will also help to develop a brilliant mind.
Benefits of power yoga include; gaining energy, muscle tone, decreasing back pain, and losing weight. Power yoga is also beneficial for sports that can combat the tremendous stress professional athletes, and amateur athletes place on their bodies.
Restorative
Restorative Yoga balances the fast lifestyle and has an enormous capacity to heal psychical and mental symptoms that are stress-related. During restorative yoga, you relax fully in the stretch so that tension can slowly be released.
Restorative Yoga slowdowns the pace of life profoundly relaxes the body encourages mindfulness and balances the nervous system.
Sivananda
Sivananda Yoga is a classical and holistic approach to Hatha Yoga that stretches and tones the whole body. It is a complete healing system designed to help the body maintain a healthy, natural state.
Swami Sivananda developed a yoga sequence of 12 basic asanas. The 12 basic poses or asanas are much more than just stretching. They open the energy channels, chakras and psychic centers of the body while increasing flexibility of the spine, strengthening bones and stimulating the circulatory and immune systems
Tantra
Tantra means you can use your energies to make things happen Tantra is about building our energies to the uppermost dimension of the energy system so that one’s energies spill from the top. Sexual Health can be improved naturally through the practices of Tantra Yoga and tantric sex.
Tantric sex has a rejuvenating effect, improving men’s and women’s sexual health by stimulating blood circulation, detoxifying the body through the breath, strengthening the cardiovascular, endocrine, nervous functions, leading to improved sexual health, rejuvenation and longevity.
Yi
Yin Yoga is based on the Taoist concept of yin and yang, opposite and complementary principles in nature. Yin is the stable, unmoving; yang is the changing, moving, revealing aspect.
Yin Yoga is a perfect complement to the dynamic and muscular styles of yoga that emphasize internal heat, and the lengthening and contracting of your muscles. A Yin Yoga class usually consists of a series of long-held, passive floor poses that generally targets the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis, and lower spine.
Prenatal
Prenatal yoga is a way to relax and stay fit during pregnancy. It also helps you to prepare for labor and promote your baby’s health. You’ll be encouraged to gently move different areas of your body, such as your neck and arms, through their full range of motion. It can help you sleep better and relieves stress.
Avoid practicing yoga on full stomach to prevent indigestion and stomach discomfort.
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