Post subject: Types of Yoga
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:25 pm
You can find different versions of yoga classes throughout your community. Some different types of yoga and their descriptions are below, for your convenience.
Chair Yoga
This is a type of Yoga modified in a chair. It helps with flexibility, balance, and relaxation.
Gentle/Hatha Yoga
Gentle Yoga is designed to focus on increasing your flexibility with various stretching methods. Progressive relaxation and breathing techniques are also a focus. It is a beginning yoga class using traditional yoga poses to enhance strength, balance and flexibility.
Hot Yoga
An exhilarating practice done in a heated room to help the muscles stretch safely and detoxify the body through sweating. Regular yoga practice stimulates and balances the endocrine, nervous, immune, and cardiovascular systems.
Fitness Yoga
A combination of Yoga poses to increase strength and flexibility.
Yoga-Lates
A combination of Yoga and Pilates
Yoga Mediation
Provides guiding energy withing your body, breathing control for inward tranquility, relaxation for your life and fortification of different areas in your life.