There are several types of Yoga Practice that one can try.  With all the types of Yoga practice, there are two similar features: the breath and asana (poses).  The breath of Yoga is termed Pranayama and helps to connect the mind to the body.  Pranayama can be used as a seated practice on its own or in combination with Yoga asana practice.  There are approximately twelve kinds of Yoga breathing that can energize, calm, help insomnia, anxiety, and depression.  The Yoga asana’s are designed to increase fluid movement, flexibility, and strength in the body.

Living Movement Yoga Practice is a fusion of Yoga, sound, breaths, and movement that stimulate the fluid within the tissues, internal organs and cerebral spinal fluid to move healing where it’s needed using the body’s natural bio-intelligence.  This is a creative practice that literally unwinds the body and mind to produce a pain free, healthy body.   

Yin Yoga is often termed Restorative yoga that can include supported postures and movements that help to open and strengthen the body, at the same time can encourage breath awareness and guided meditative focus.  Using readily available props such as pillows and blankets to gently support the body, the benefits of Yin Yoga are accessible even to those recovering from injury or illness.  This Yoga is a mindful systematic practice to balance the body and ease the mind.   

Flow Yoga is commonly referred to as Vinyasa or Power Yoga.  This Yoga includes a series of yoga postures linked together through fluid movement and steady breath.  Flow tends to be an invigorating practice that strengthens all the systems of the body.  When Yoga postures are linked together there is a strong movement of healthy energy that flows throughout the body and raises the overall energy level.   

Meditation for as little as eight to twenty minutes daily will increase the brain’s ability to stay in what is termed a Theta brain wave state, which helps the body’s natural healing responses.  Theta brain waves are typically present during the period just prior to sleep, when the brain and body resonate at a more balanced state.  Brain cells begin to reset their sodium and potassium ratios when the brain is in the Theta state.  Majority of the time spent awake the brain is in a Beta state that disrupts this sodium and potassium ratio.  This is one of the main causes of what is known as “mental fatigue”.

Benefits of Yoga include: