Lower Stress and Anxiety When there’s no competition, no mirrors, and no pressure to perform, your nervous system has room to soften. Yoga encourages deep breathing, which activates the parasympathetic (rest and digest) state reducing stress and improving sleep and mood. Building Body Neutrality You don't have to love your body to start yoga. But many students find their relationship with their body improves over time. Instead of focusing on appearance, they begin to value wh

When you picture yoga, do you imagine a lithe, flexible body folded into a complex pose? For many, media portrayals have shaped this image, but it’s far from reality. At Help Yourself Yoga, I believe yoga is for everyone, regardless of shape, size, age, or ability. It’s not about achieving a specific look. It’s about feeling better in your body, mind, and breath. Breaking the “Perfect Yoga Body” Myth The Harmful Stereotype of the Young, Flexible Yogi For too long, yoga has be

Yoga is good for you! It's official. There have been numerous studies done of the goodness that yoga bestows and it is now well established that it brings so many benefits, it's amazing that it isn't compulsory. Here are a few of the benefits of yoga: yoga improves your strength, posture and flexibility yoga improves your balance yoga improves your muscle definition and tone yoga improves the health of your heart yoga improves your circulation and lowers blood pressure yoga i

Thank you so much for visiting my website . It is a new thing for me and a work in progress. As you might have already noticed, I'm not a classic yoga shape. Solid rather than lithe and short rather than statuesque, I don't fit into the stereotypical image of a yoga teacher. But then, most of the population do not fit into this stereotypical image either and there are millions of people doing yoga every day. It does bug me that most of the literature and images of yoga today