Anyone can practice yoga. 
Its physical and mental health benefits are available to young and old, strong and weak, the athletic and the sedentary. Centuries old, yet perfect for today’s busy lifestyle, yoga encourages the mind body connection and helps to develop focus, balance, strength, and flexibility.

The proliferation of yoga classes and centers throughout the Western world is a tribute to yoga’s indisputable power to enliven physical well being and enhance fitness.  Yoga postures can increase your flexibility, strengthen your muscles, improve your posture, and rejuvenate, revitalize, and balance all systems of the physical body:  muscular, skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, nervous, digestive, immune, endocrine and reproductive systems.  Yoga also affects many layers of our lives, emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.

Yoga is a philosophy and ancient tradition and a way of life which originated in India more than 5,000 years ago.  The word “yoga” comes from the ancient language of Sanskrit and, literally translated means “to unite”.  Yoga is the “union” of all aspects of our being.  When your physical, intellectual, and spiritual selves are working in union, your life becomes balanced.  The practice of yoga enables you to achieve calmness, clarity, a sense of well-being, enthusiasm towards life, and peace of mind.

In our fast paced society we need inner resources more than ever. Stress will always be a part of life.  Yoga does not eliminate stress from our lives – rather, it teaches us how to deal with our stresses, to “walk calmly amidst the chaos,” just as the eye of a hurricane is the calm at the center of the storm.

Kay is a Chopra Center certified Yoga Instructor, and a Registered Yoga Alliance Teacher (RYT200).  Chopra Center Yoga integrates a spiritual yoga practice with modern western fitness ideals designed to increase your strength, balance, and flexibility while deepening your connection to your inner being.  Chopra Center Yoga offers students a broad range of experience from that of deep silence to dynamic activity. To learn more about how to join Kay for an integrated yoga experience that will enliven all areas of your life click here.

“Any reason for practicing Yoga is a good reason.  Enhancing flexibility and releasing stress are as noble a purpose for performing yoga as the awakening of spirituality.  This is the great gift of yoga – it serves and nourishes us at every level of our being and spontaneously contributes to greater well being in all domains of life. Yoga will help you discover gifts within yourself that have remained unopened since your childhood – gifts of peace, harmony, laughter, and love.”

- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga
By Drs. Deepak Chopra & David Simon