WYC - Benefits

- What is Yoga?
- What is Meditation?
- Time-Tested Solutions
- Who Benefits from Yoga & Meditation?

TRY THIS

Close your eyes. Take longer breaths, bringing them deep into your belly. Concentrate on breathing slowly and evenly. As you breathe out, consciously drop tension from your neck, your shoulders… all over your body. Do this for several minutes. Do you feel accumulated stress drain away? Do you experience a glimpse of profound calmness?

Professional instruction in yoga and meditation offers techniques to relieve the stress in your life through simple breathing & mindfulness.

WHAT IS YOGA?

The practice of yoga postures, called hatha yoga, calms the mind by centering our full attention on relaxing the body and breathing correctly. We perform a series of gentle stretching movements that tone and limber the body without strain and increase circulation. The result: a body filled with health & vitality and a peaceful mind.

WHAT IS MEDITATION?

Through meditation, we discover who we are other than our thoughts: calmness, profound peace and infinite joy. By centering the attention on the breath, we learn to quiet our restless minds and experience the stillness of our true nature. With regular practice, we become grounded in this state of awareness and remain calm and peaceful throughout the tumult and crisis of modern life. Having accessed inner peace we bring forth a healing of the physical body from within.

During meditation, the body enters a deeper state of relaxation than during sleep. This is evidenced by profound reductions in oxygen consumption, metabolism, heart rate, and blood pressure.

TIME-TESTED SOLUTIONS
To Today's Challenges

Current research shows that there are many benefits to practicing yoga and meditation. The medical community recognizes that these ancient techniques are effective tools for managing stress and enhancing your health.

Daily yoga & meditation can help control and sometimes reverse a range of physical problems, including:

Chest pain (angina pectoris)
Cardiac problems
Neuropathy
Hypertension
High cholesterol
Chemotherapy side effects

Meditation Improves Health, Slows Aging

In 1986, Blue Cross-Blue Shield studied 2,000 meditators in Iowa and found that the group was much healthier than the U.S. population as a whole. The meditators were hospitalized 87% less often for heart disease and 50% less often for tumors.

Because the practice of yoga postures involves a meditative attitude, yoga provides many of the same benefits as meditation.

WHO BENEFITS FROM YOGA & MEDITATION?

Teenagers and Young Adults

Increase concentration (for studying and taking exams).
Increase self esteem, sense of belonging and sense of community.
Decrease attraction to recreational drugs and alcohol by allowing the young person to access his/her own inner peace and contentment.

Middle Agers

Enhanced decision making ability and efficiency resulting from meditation empower the individual to make healthy choices and balance the responsibilities of life.
Middle agers find the daily period of meditation to be the quiet oasis of peace in the midst of a busy day.

Seniors

The enhanced sense of belonging and community meditators experience helps the senior combat feelings of isolation and loneliness.
Meditating keeps the mind peaceful and content, strengthening the immune system and physical body.
Meditation slows the aging process.

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