Adult Yoga or Pilates classes - NinjaNation

Summary

Duration:
45 minutes

Time and Dates:
Check timetable for current availability

Ages:
16 +

Skill Level:
Beginner to intermediate

Western sports science is starting to establish great researched evidence as to how yoga works to improve health, heal aches and pains, and keep sickness at bay. Once you understand them, you'll have even more motivation to step into one of our Ninja Nation Adult Yoga classes and onto your mat.

What this class will teach you

For thousands of years yogis have been touting yoga's mental and physical powers. Luckily, you don't have to be an expert to reap the benefits — adding just a couple of our specialised yoga classes to your weekly routine can help your health in all kinds of unexpected ways. From a physical perspective, yoga may help improve flexibility, strength, balance, and endurance. from a psychological viewpoint, yoga can help you cultivate mindfulness as you shift your awareness to the sensations, thoughts, and emotions that accompany a given pose or exercise." There is an increased amount of scientific research that suggests, regular yoga practice may benefit people with a host of chronic health conditions, including asthma, heart disease, and MS.

This is a great opportunity to increase flexibility and reduce aches and pains. Come to this class to learn from our skilled instructors. class to learn all this.

Flexibility: Improved flexibility is one of the first and most obvious benefits of yoga. During your first class, you probably won't be able to touch your toes, never mind do a back-bend. But if you stick with it, you'll notice a gradual loosening, and eventually, seemingly impossible poses will become possible.

Builds Strength: Strong muscles do more than look good. They also protect us from conditions like arthritis and back pain, and help prevent falls in elderly people. And when you build strength through yoga, you balance it with flexibility.

Improves Posture: Poor posture can cause back, neck, and other muscle and joint problems. As you slump, your body may compensate by flattening the normal inward curves in your neck and lower back. This can cause pain and degenerative arthritis of the spine.

Relaxes Your Body: Yoga encourages you to relax, slow your breath, and focus on the present, shifting the balance from the sympathetic nervous system (or the fight-or-flight response) to the parasympathetic nervous system. The latter is calming and restorative; it lowers breathing and heart rates, decreases blood pressure, and increases blood flow to the intestines and reproductive organs

Increases Blood Flow: Yoga gets your blood flowing. More specifically, the relaxation exercises you learn in yoga can help your circulation, especially in your hands and feet. Yoga also gets more oxygen to your cells, which function better as a result. Twisting poses are thought to wring out venous blood from internal organs and allow oxygenated blood to flow in once the twist is released. Inverted poses, such as Headstand, Handstand, and Shoulderstand, encourage venous blood from the legs and pelvis to flow back to the heart, where it can be pumped to the lungs to be freshly oxygenated. This can help if you have swelling in your legs from heart or kidney problems.

Bookings Essential

This is a great opportunity to stretch, release and also gain active flexibility.

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716 Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully, Vic