Yoga is a resourceful way to help many who are stressed find their inner peace, spirituality, and awareness to themselves and other living things around them. This form of exercise teaches you discipline within your body as it does help you find ways to balance and strengthen your body and mind.
Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, as it is acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations which is often used as a therapeutic technique.
Why yoga and mindfulness?
Yoga is a relaxing way to help relieve stress and tensions your body may be feeling at the moment. Whether you are feeling physically, mentally, or emotionally stressed, yoga is beneficial for your health as it does provide the following physical benefits:
Mindfulness is a beneficial way to help find your inner peace, strength and balance to your mind. As mindfulness exercises are known to being silent, you become more aware of yourself and your surroundings. If you may be feeling stressed or overwhelmed, mindfulness provides the following mental benefits:
Resources:
- http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-health/health-conditions-library/general-health/Pages/yoga.aspx
- https://nau.edu/research/feature-stories/mindfulness-training-has-positive-health-benefits/%60/
Group Description:
My group consists of myself (Paloma Arceo-Valencia) and my partner Reyna Nava. We built up our unique yoga routine that targets the places where you may be feeling tension. Through our yoga routine, we aim to relieve stress and tension your body and mind may contain. As our yoga routine may have some challenging poses, we offer other poses that are easier to do but still targets the same places your body is most tense. Through our yoga exercises, our goal is that students will feel more relaxed, challenged and less tense in the end of our routine.
- It strengthened immune system and physiological responses to stress and negative emotions.
- It improved social relationships with family and strangers.
- It reduced stress, depression, and anxiety and increased well-being and happiness.
- It increased openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness and reduced negative associations with neuroticism.
- It led to greater psychological mindfulness, which included an awareness that is clear, nonconceptual, and flexible; a practical stance toward reality; and present attention to the individual’s consciousness and awareness.
Resources:
- http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-health/health-conditions-library/general-health/Pages/yoga.aspx
- https://nau.edu/research/feature-stories/mindfulness-training-has-positive-health-benefits/%60/
Group Description:
My group consists of myself (Paloma Arceo-Valencia) and my partner Reyna Nava. We built up our unique yoga routine that targets the places where you may be feeling tension. Through our yoga routine, we aim to relieve stress and tension your body and mind may contain. As our yoga routine may have some challenging poses, we offer other poses that are easier to do but still targets the same places your body is most tense. Through our yoga exercises, our goal is that students will feel more relaxed, challenged and less tense in the end of our routine.
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